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Microbes Make a Quick Meal of Methane in a Submarine Canyon

by Sarah Stanley 28 December 20153 March 2023

Scientists track the fate of methane released by hydrates in a major canyon off the U.S. East Coast.

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Three–Dimensional Scans Illuminate Wildlife Environments

by K. Klein 28 December 201519 January 2016

Detailed laser imaging of vegetation and landforms where animals live and roam offers revealing new perspectives on interactions between those creatures and their surroundings.

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Geochronology: It's About Time

by M. Harrison, S. Baldwin, M. Caffee, G. Gehrels, B. Schoene, D. Shuster and B. Singer 28 December 201527 January 2022

Chronology is at the heart of all geosciences, but its ubiquity has given it an image of a useful tool rather than a foundational discipline of its own.

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World's Smallest Glaciers Risk Vanishing in Warm Climate

by JoAnna Wendel 24 December 20157 September 2016

Scientists studying tiny glaciers in Switzerland created models to determine how the world's diminutive glaciers would fare under rising temperatures.

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Claude Jaupart Receives 2015 Harry H. Hess Medal

by AGU 24 December 201515 November 2022

Claude Jaupart was awarded the 2015 Harry H. Hess Medal at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 16 December 2015 in San Francisco, Calif. The medal is for "outstanding achievements in research on the constitution and evolution of the Earth and other planets."

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Can the North Brazil Current Help Us Understand Atlantic Water Flow?

by David Shultz 24 December 20153 February 2023

Currents off the coast of northern Brazil can be used to study changes in the larger oceanic circulation pattern in the Atlantic, when variable winds in the regions are properly accounted for.

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Giant Balls of Bacteria Pile Up on Arctic Lake Beds, Ooze Toxin

by E. Benson 23 December 201511 October 2022

Researchers have found cyanobacteria colonies as big as softballs thriving unexpectedly on shallow Greenland lake bottoms, exuding liver-damaging microcystin. Locals dubbed them "sea tomatoes."

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Electric "Tornadoes" in Space Drive Disturbances Down to Earth

by Mark Zastrow 23 December 201516 November 2021

New simulations show how shocks in space can trigger vortexes in Earth's magnetic field, causing magnetic disturbances that are detectable from the ground.

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Günter Blöschl Receives 2015 Robert E. Horton Medal

by AGU 23 December 201523 December 2015

Günter Blöschl was awarded the 2015 Robert E. Horton Medal at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 16 December 2015 in San Francisco, Calif. The medal is for "outstanding contributions to hydrology."

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Interior Water Not Ruled Out for Our Moon, Lab Tests Suggest

by A. McDermott 22 December 201529 May 2016

The experiments mimicked cooling of magma at the lunar surface. They found that any water in interior molten rock might have escaped so fast at the surface that none was left to be measured.

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