New low-cost monitoring and mapping techniques can identify multiple pollution sources and reduce related human disease and death.Read More »Biogeosciences
For more than a century, carbon burial rates have been increasing on some southern Florida coasts. Scientists now verify this trend and propose an explanation.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
Satellite data helped scientists locate the volcanic source of a pumice raft floating in the South Pacific Ocean, illustrating their promise in locating and monitoring undersea eruptions.Read More »Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology
Researchers validated some steps in the standard sequential chemical technique used to extract different forms of iron from rock samples but found inconsistencies in other steps.Read More »Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology
The water-rich plumes erupting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus show the chemical signs of water-rock interactions deep within the moon, further implicating Enceladus as a potential habitat for life.Read More »Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology
This giant in geochemistry also pioneered early high-pressure, high-temperature studies that launched the field of mineral physics.Read More »Natural Hazards
Forty years after the explosive eruption of Mount St. Helens, scientists, communities, and civic officials are evaluating plans to best protect public health before, during, and after an eruption.Read More »Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology
Using beryllium isotopes to track in situ formation of clays in the ocean, known as reverse weathering, will improve global models of atmospheric carbon dioxide and ocean alkalinity.Read More »Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology
Volcanoes can warm as much as they cool. Prior simulations have neglected the important warming effects of sulfur dioxide emissions, making some results colder than they should be.Read More »
