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A woman in profile kneels, looking out over Indigenous land in Arizona.

News 9 December 2020

Contamination of Medicinal Plants: Implications for Indigenous Health

A new study will trace the legacy of uranium mining on commercially available medicinal plants.
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Geohealth
The Sun sets over a rice field in Cambodia.

News 9 December 2020

Will Rising Temperatures Make Rice Too Toxic?

Greenhouse experiments reveal how higher temperatures act to elevate arsenic levels in rice and may help focus efforts to solve a crisis threatening food systems around the world.
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Geohealth
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News 8 December 2020

El Oleoducto Keystone Derrama 9,120 Barriles de Petróleo en los Humedales de Dakota

La fuga tuvo lugar en una sección pre-existente del oleoducto Keystone. Este es el cuarto derrame del oleoducto en 9 años.
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Geohealth
Smoke rises from a singed landscape, meeting the clouds above a swath of boreal forest punctuated by lakes.

News 8 December 2020

Feedback Loops of Fire Activity and Climate Change in Canada

New research documents how a warming climate contributes to patterns in wildfire severity and frequency and how the fires contribute to climate change.
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Geohealth
Black-legged ticks, also known as deer ticks, are responsible for transmitting Lyme disease in the United States and Canada.

News 8 December 2020

Lyme Disease and the Dangers of the Forest Edge

Living near a forest edge may be an important risk factor for Lyme disease; these liminal spaces provide the perfect habitat for one of the black-legged tick’s favorite hosts.
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Biogeosciences
A Candidatus Magnetobacterium casensis cell containing magnetite crystals

Research Spotlight 4 December 2020

Chemical-Shuttling Bacteria Follow Earth’s Magnetic Field

Magnetotactic bacteria shunt sulfur, nitrogen, and other important elements between oxygen-poor and oxygen-rich waters.
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Biogeosciences
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News 4 December 2020

Our Food Systems Are Complicated. Food Data Don’t Have to Be

Researchers made a “Google Maps” for global food systems. Could it help us tackle food’s thorniest problems?
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Biogeosciences

Editors' Highlights 1 December 2020

High Climatic Response of High-Latitude Forests

The seasonal amplitude of atmospheric CO2 is increasing, partly due to boreal forest responses to warming. Photosynthesis and expansion of boreal forests are shown here to be temperature-limited.
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Biogeosciences
A farm field in southern Alberta, Canada, is irrigated

Research Spotlight 1 December 2020

Can Satellites Fill Gaps in Agricultural Water Monitoring?

Past studies that have estimated irrigation water usage based on satellite remote sensing have had large uncertainties that could hamper effective water management.
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Biogeosciences
Kelp in Monterey Bay, Calif., is seen from below the water surface

Research Spotlight 30 November 2020

Acidifying Oceans Could Get Help from Kelp

Forests of fast-growing kelp influence the chemistry of the water in which they live. A new study evaluates their potential to ameliorate ocean acidification in sensitive coastal ecosystems.
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News 23 December 2020

To Make Better Hurricane Models, Consider Air Pollution

Feature 21 December 2020

The Herky-Jerky Weirdness of Earth’s Magnetic Field

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Research Spotlight 14 January 2021

Juno Maps Water Ice Across Northern Ganymede

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