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Does Soil Sound Different After It’s Burned?

by Emily Dieckman 3 May 20243 May 2024

Yes, but not quite the way researchers expected it to.

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Ants Aren’t Adapting to Warmer Temperatures

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 17 February 202317 February 2023

Foraging in hotter-than-desired temperatures could negatively affect ants’ biology and the forest ecosystems that they support.

Worker ants drag a leaf back to the colony.
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Leaf-Cutter Ants Boost Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Soil

by E. Underwood 4 January 201911 January 2022

Leaf-cutter ant nest openings emit up to 100,000 times more carbon dioxide than surrounding soil, a new study shows.

Researchers studied ant species interactions in response to experimentally simulated warming climate.
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Ant Populations Destabilize Under Warming

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 4 November 201611 January 2022

In forest experiments in which artificial warming mimicked future climate conditions, heat-tolerant ants thrived, leaving other populations unstable.

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