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Editors' Highlights 4 April 2018

The Long Reach of El Niño’s Broom

Both the El Niño Southern Oscillation and natural variations in tropical Pacific weather conditions impact surface air quality in the Eastern United States.

Biogeosciences

Research Spotlight 4 April 2018

Dust Does Not Control Surface Ocean Productivity

The first continuous comparisons between daily atmospheric dust and ocean productivity measurements indicate that they are not correlated in the Gulf of Aqaba’s nutrient-limited ecosystem.

Biogeosciences

Feature 30 March 2018

Five Weird Archives That Scientists Use to Study Past Climates

When tree rings, ice cores, and cave formations can’t cut it, try your luck with whale earwax or bat poop.

Geohealth

: Researchers conduct experiments in Sweden’s wet heathland to see how the ecosystem might adapt to climate change

Research Spotlight 28 March 2018

The Upside to a “Bad” Ozone Precursor

In Sweden’s wet heathland, scientists see how a sensitive ecosystem adapts to rising global temperatures.

Biogeosciences

Scientists of the LimnoAlp consortium take physicochemical measurements of the water column of Lago Nero, an alpine lake in southern Switzerland, during winter

Meeting Report 27 March 2018

Winter Conditions Are Changing Rapidly in Alpine Lake Ecosystems

LimnoAlp Workshop; Lake Cadagno, Switzerland, 10–15 September 2017

Ocean Sciences

Frequent saltwater incursions make this area inhospitable, but certain microbes thrive in those conditions, creating extensive microbial mats that gradually turn into calcite and dolomite rock.

News 26 March 2018

Images Suggest a Viral Role in Some Rock Formation

Viruses might have helped transform dense bacterial colonies into a type of sedimentary rock that is frequently associated with underground oil reserves.

Biogeosciences

Researchers uncover uncertainty in soil carbon estimates

Research Spotlight 22 March 2018

Major Uncertainty in Estimates of Carbon Trapped in Soil

A new study reveals discrepancies between global databases and field measurements.

Biogeosciences

Research Spotlight 22 March 2018

A Deeper Understanding of Carbon Decomposition in Arctic Soils

Physical parameters may help scientists extrapolate Arctic carbon soil losses from the local to the regional scale, according to the results of a yearlong incubation experiment.

Biogeosciences

A trilobite fossil from the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada.

News 20 March 2018

Rocks with Soft-Tissue Fossils Share a Mineral Fingerprint

Discovering new resting places of these rare and information-rich fossils will be critical to understanding the largest expansion of life in Earth’s history, according to researchers.

Biogeosciences