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Carbon Cycles Through Plants More Quickly Than Expected

by Skyler Ware 22 July 202422 July 2024

A radioactive isotope produced by nuclear weapons reveals that plants take up more carbon—but hold on to it for less time—than current climate models suggest.

The shoreline of Little Wolf Lake, Mich., as seen from a bright red kayak on the lake. Lilly pads lie scattered throughout the water. Tall trees stand at the edge of the shoreline and over a small blue house on the shore.
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Motorized Boats Likely Adding Toxins to Michigan Lakes

by Andrea Tamayo 18 July 202418 July 2024

Researchers found naphthalene, an EPA top priority pollutant, in two Michigan lakes.

Satellite photo of the Great Salt Lake
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The Size of the Great Salt Lake Affects Storm Precipitation

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 16 July 202416 July 2024

Utah’s most famous body of water is shrinking, and storms might deliver less precipitation than normal if that trend continues.

Rocks sticking out of the ocean on the shore
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Four-Billion-Year-Old Zircons May Contain Our Earliest Evidence of Fresh Water

by Nathaniel Scharping 16 July 20244 September 2024

Australian crystals hint at fresh water, as well as land rising above Earth’s Hadean ocean.

Two people install a permeable reactive barrier next to open water.
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Reactive Barriers Could Keep Nitrate out of the Atlantic

by Alix Soliman 15 July 202415 July 2024

Microbes in mulch scrub nitrate from groundwater before it flows to the sea.

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How Liquid Is That Lava?

by Rebecca Owen 12 July 202419 August 2024

A new device helps scientists measure lava viscosity during active flows.

A van labeled “Extremophiles” stands next to ladders extending into a small, deep pit dug into the Atacama Desert.
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Researchers Find Bacterial Communities Deep Beneath the Atacama

by Alejandro Pardo 12 July 202411 July 2024

Extremophile microbes exist in the gypsum-rich “fringes” of the driest place on Earth.

A screenshot of a video taken from a deep-sea remotely operated vehicle shows white ash settled on the seafloor near the Hunga eruption in Tongan waters.
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The Tonga Eruption Left Deep-Sea Life Buried in Ash

by Andrew Chapman 11 July 202411 July 2024

When Hunga erupted in 2022, ash “decimated” slow-moving species living on the seafloor. More mobile species were able to hoof it out of harm’s way.

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How Sticky Is It Outside?

by Emily Dieckman 10 July 202423 July 2024

Researchers introduce a new variable to quantify the relative contributions of heat and humidity to humid heat.

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A Sugar Coating for Arrokoth

by Jonathan O’Callaghan 10 July 202410 July 2024

A Kuiper Belt object might contain ribose and glucose on its surface—the same elements that could have seeded life on Earth.

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