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Rebecca Owen

Two modeling images show plumes, blobs, and slabs beneath Earth’s surface.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Seismic Anisotropy Reveals Deep-Mantle Dynamics

by Rebecca Owen 21 October 202523 October 2025

A new study offers insight into the viscous BLOBs at the base of Earth’s mantle.

A map of Chicago shows a grid of different neighborhoods colored in shades ranging from yellow to purple.
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Chicago Soil Maps Childhood Lead Exposure Risk

by Rebecca Owen 15 October 202515 October 2025

Researchers combined soil measurements and public health data to identify areas where children may be exposed to unsafe levels of lead in the dirt.

两个人站在靠近冰水和冰川的雪景中,举着一根大约是他们两倍高的黑色杆子。
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微生物能在地球大气中繁衍生息吗?还是仅能勉强存活?

by Rebecca Owen 25 September 202525 September 2025

一种自下而上的建模方法让科学家得以更深入地了解大气中的微生物群落。

Bison graze on green grass at Yellowstone National Park near a wire exclosure used to measure grasses.
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Free-Roaming Bison Graze Life into Grasslands

by Rebecca Owen 24 September 202524 September 2025

A new study suggests that Yellowstone’s herd of bison accelerates nutrient cycling, offering a glimpse into the North American plains of yesteryear.

A shallow green-blue river with large brown-gray rocks.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Droughts Sync Up as the Climate Changes

by Rebecca Owen 18 September 202518 September 2025

A new study reconstructs roughly 800 years of streamflow history in India’s major rivers, showing an increase in synchronous drought linked to anthropogenic climate change.

The Sun rises over the ocean. Purple clouds are in the sky above.
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Paleoclimate Patterns Offer Hints About Future Warming

by Rebecca Owen 15 September 202515 September 2025

A new study examines 10 million years of sea surface temperature data to offer predictions about how future warming may unfold.

Two people wearing waders stand in a river holding orange trash bags. Between them is a cage flanked by two lines of buoys, which have funneled trash into the cage.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How North Carolina Trash Traps Could Help Inform Policy

by Rebecca Owen 11 September 202511 September 2025

Staff and volunteers at Waterkeepers collected and categorized more than 150,000 pieces of trash from the state’s waterways, the vast majority of which were plastic.

Dos personas se encuentran en un paisaje nevado, cerca de aguas heladas y glaciares, sosteniendo un poste negro que tiene aproximadamente el doble de su altura.
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¿Pueden los microorganismos prosperar en la atmósfera terrestre o simplemente sobreviven allí?

by Rebecca Owen 9 September 20259 September 2025

Un enfoque de modelización ascendente podría acercar a los científicos a la comprensión de las comunidades de microbios en la atmósfera.

A cluster of small, shiny red objects is attached to the roots of a plant.
Posted inNews

Nitrogen Needs Could Be Limiting Nature’s Carbon Capacity

by Rebecca Owen 25 August 202525 September 2025

A new study suggests that past calculations of biological nitrogen fixation were overestimated by up to 66%—and that farms growing nitrogen-fixing crops may be filling in the gaps, for better or worse.

卫星图像显示了一条辫状河。
Posted inResearch Spotlights

布拉马普特拉-贾木纳河的迁移并非无规律可循

by Rebecca Owen 12 August 202512 August 2025

辫状河流系统中的河道线可能比以前认为的更容易预测。

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