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A coral reef in the northern Red Sea has massive Porites colonies that are often used in paleoclimate research.

Meeting Report 9 April 2018

Reconstructing Climate and Environment from Coral Archives

Tropical Coral Archives—Reconstructions of Climate and Environment Beyond the Instrumental Record at Society-Relevant Timescales; Bremen, Germany, 28 September 2017

Biogeosciences

Researchers use radar imaging to examine how snow temperature influences avalanche behavior

Research Spotlight 6 April 2018

Peering Beneath the Powder: Using Radar to Understand Avalanches

High-resolution radar images from Switzerland’s experimental test site show that snow temperature is a key factor in classifying avalanche behavior.

Biogeosciences

A new project is compiling and synthesizing a database of natural archive isotope records to study the hydroclimate.

Project Update 6 April 2018

Piecing Together the Big Picture on Water and Climate

A new database brings together water isotope data from many sources, providing an integrated resource for studying changes in Earth’s hydroclimate over the past 2,000 years.

Atmospheric Sciences

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