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A flooded soybean field in central Iowa in July 2018.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Soil Wet Spots Drive Agricultural Nitrogen Gas Emissions

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer by Aaron Sidder 16 April 201920 October 2021

A new study offers novel insights into the mechanisms driving gas releases in agricultural regions.

A false-color satellite image of melting glaciers in the Russian Arctic
Posted inNews

Fast-Melting Mountain Glaciers Speed Up Sea Level Rise

Mary Caperton Morton, Science Writer by Mary Caperton Morton 16 April 20192 September 2022

Satellites spy on remote alpine glaciers, producing more accurate—and higher—estimates of ice loss over time.

Satellite and ocean sensors
Posted inScience Updates

Progress in Ocean Salinity Science

by J. Boutin, G. Reverdin and S. Mecklenburg 16 April 201915 November 2021

2018 Ocean Salinity Science Conference; Paris, France, 6–9 November 2018

Posted inEditors' Highlights

3D Radiation-Topography Interaction Warms Up Tibetan Plateau

by Z. Li 16 April 20196 December 2022

3-D radiation-topography interaction, which can increase the sunlight absorption by the surface, is missing in all climate models, causing strong cold biases over the Tibetan Plateau.

Martian Polar Layered Deposits
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How Do Intergranular Particles Affect the Flow of Ice?

by Terri Cook 15 April 20198 August 2022

Laboratory experiments that indicate rock particles can impede sliding along grain boundaries in ice may help researchers more accurately determine the composition of planetary ice masses.

Nuns pose with a snowman at the Vatican in Rome on 26 February 2018.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Using Multiple Models to Improve Seasonal Forecasting

by Terri Cook 15 April 201929 March 2022

The first study to examine the ability of a suite of general circulation models to predict sudden warmings in Earth’s stratosphere highlights the potential for improving Northern Hemisphere forecasts.

A plastic bag drifts in a shallow sea.
Posted inNews

Satellite Imagery Reveals Plastic Garbage in the Ocean

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 15 April 20193 March 2023

Using high-resolution satellite data, scientists pinpoint discarded plastics floating off the coasts of Canada and Scotland.

A 1970 nuclear test at Mururoa atoll, French Polynesia
Posted inEditors' Vox

Measuring Explosive Events on Earth from the Ionosphere

by C. Y. Huang, J. F. Helmboldt, J. Park, T. R. Pedersen and R. J. Willeman 12 April 201919 October 2021

Natural and manmade explosive events occurring on or below the Earth’s surface can be measured remotely in different ways and different places from the ionosphere.

Drone photo of a shoal in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Old Idea Spurs New Research into Origins of Carbonate Mudstones

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer by Aaron Sidder 12 April 201926 October 2022

Using modern techniques, scientists tested an old hypothesis about carbonate mud production to shift the thinking about rocks that are used as seawater archives and a source of petroleum.

The Bas Glacier d’Arolla in Valais, Switzerland
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Decadal Changes in Glacial Discharge in the High Alps

by Terri Cook 12 April 20199 February 2023

A new statistical analysis of daily, glacial runoff cycles offers a unique way of examining how Alpine glaciers have responded since the onset of rapid regional warming in the 1980s.

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