Mexico’s megadiverse biota challenge observation network design for efficient sampling, but novel methods can provide guidance and tests of representativeness.Read More »Geohealth
New research finds that verifying cryptocurrency produces about the same amount of carbon emissions as the Kansas City metropolitan area.Read More »Biogeosciences
Understanding how temperatures of cold-water streams respond to global warming could help clarify the impacts of climate change on aquatic ecosystems.Read More »Climate Change
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.Read More »Geohealth
Today’s radiation levels at some locations were higher than in areas affected by the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters.Read More »Biogeosciences
Forest elephants are the “gardeners of the Congo.” How might their dwindling population affect carbon storage in the world’s second-largest tropical forest?Read More »Geohealth
A new case study suggests that Sutton Lake has been contaminated by multiple coal ash spills, most of them apparently unmonitored and unreported.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
For Mariana Trench expert Patricia Fryer, an extreme explorer’s record-setting dive was a chance to retrieve some of the deepest samples ever collected.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
Earthquakes in mountain ranges produce a cascade of geological disturbances and hazards, from enormous landslides to climate change.Read More »Biogeosciences
Hot springs that are as acidic as battery acid are home to single-celled microorganisms that may indicate that life could have been sustained on ancient Mars.Read More »
