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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
A woman outfitted in climbing gear stands on a dirty glacier.

News 18 November 2019

Podcast: A Nuclear Legacy Buried in Ice

The radioactive remains of nuclear testing during the Cold War and from nuclear disasters like Chernobyl are still with us and can be found in some of the remotest glaciers on Earth.
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Geohealth
Black oil pool on wet grassland

News 8 November 2019

Keystone Pipeline Spills 9,120 Barrels of Oil in Dakota Wetlands

The leak took place along a preexisting section of the Keystone Pipeline. This is the pipeline’s fourth spill in 9 years.
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Biogeosciences
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News 12 September 2019

Is Chicago Water Pollution Halting a Silver Carp Invasion?

Pollution is definitely not the solution to stopping invasive silver carp, researchers assert. But cleaner waters could affect the invasion front.
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Biogeosciences
A restored fen wetland in Ovando, Mont.

Research Spotlight 5 September 2019

Solving the Global Nitrogen Imbalance

Excess nitrogen causes serious environmental problems, but too little can lead to food insecurity and unrest. A team of researchers proposes a five-pronged solution to our planet’s nitrogen woes.
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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
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News 9 August 2019

Rivers Are a Highway for Microplastics into the Ocean

New research shows that rivers are the main road for all the plastic pollution that gets into the ocean, including microplastics.
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Climate Change
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Opinion 17 July 2019

Uncontrolled Chemical Releases: A Silent, Growing Threat

Uncontrolled releases of household, industrial, and agricultural chemicals during natural disasters pose an underappreciated hazard to humans and ecosystems. Here’s what we can do.
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Geohealth
Mushroom cloud from a nuclear test over the Pacific Ocean

News 16 July 2019

Marshall Islands Nuclear Contamination Still Dangerously High

Today’s radiation levels at some locations were higher than in areas affected by the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters.
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Geohealth
A manmade lake in front of a power plant sits behind a chain link fence designed to keep boats away from the site.

News 8 July 2019

A North Carolina Lake’s Long Legacy of Coal Ash Spills

A new case study suggests that Sutton Lake has been contaminated by multiple coal ash spills, most of them apparently unmonitored and unreported.
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Ocean Sciences
Fishes swim in a coral reef

News 31 May 2019

Damselfish in Distress?

Noise pollution may be changing how some species of fish develop.
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Geohealth
A kneeling scientist extracts a sample from a glacier.

News 18 April 2019

Plastic Fragments Found for the First Time on a Glacier

The discovery, made in the Italian Alps, confirms the ubiquity of plastic pollution worldwide.
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