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Refugia dot a hillside in the western Cascades after the 2020 Holiday Farm Fire, one of the largest blazes in Oregon’s history.
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Last Tree Standing

by Robin Donovan 22 December 202222 December 2022

Refugia repopulate forests after fires, but climate change is making these woodlands increasingly unpredictable.

Researchers study banded iron formations in Karijini National Park, Western Australia.
Posted inNews

A Day in the Life Used to Be 17 Hours

by Emily Shepherd 10 November 202211 November 2022

The Moon was a lot closer to Earth 2.46 billion years ago, and the shorter distance contributed to shorter days.

Australia’s remote Nullarbor Plain.
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A Mysterious Dome Reveals Clues to Australia’s Miocene History

by Nathaniel Scharping 17 October 202226 January 2023

The Nullarbor Plain has been relatively untouched by geological forces, leaving traces of the continent’s deep past.

View of a lake in the distance with mud cracks in reddish soil in the foreground.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Surprise Hydrological Shifts Imperil Water Resources

by Sarah Stanley 15 September 202213 October 2022

Mounting evidence suggests the need for improved water planning strategies and revamped hydrological models.

Illustration of wildfire and wetland forest during the end-Permian extinction interval.
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A Spike in Wildfires Contributed to the End-Permian Extinction

by Jackie Rocheleau 2 August 20222 August 2022

An upward trend in fossilized charcoal indicates that wildfires may have contributed to extinctions during the Great Dying.

The Daintree Rainforest located in North Queensland, Australia
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Tree Mortality Risk Surges in Australian Rain Forests

by Rishika Pardikar 14 July 202214 July 2022

Researchers link vulnerability to “atmospheric drought” associated with climate change.

Graph showing contribution of each large-scale atmospheric variable on the y-axis to predicted total convective area.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Using Artificial Intelligence to Study Convection

by Minghua Zhang 8 June 202223 January 2023

Machine learning techniques are used to examine relationships between the large-scale state of the atmosphere, the convection total area, and the degree of organization in northern Australia.

View over open ocean water with clouds tinted pink by a sunrise and a distant, lone mountain on the horizon
Posted inScience Updates

“Landslide Graveyard” Holds Clues to Long-Term Tsunami Trends

by Suzanne Bull, Sally J. Watson, Jess Hillman, Hannah E. Power and Lorna J. Strachan 3 June 20221 August 2022

A new project looks to unearth information about and learn from ancient underwater landslides buried deep beneath the seafloor to support New Zealand’s resilience to natural hazards.

Microscopic image of a mucosphere with microbes trapped inside it.
Posted inNews

The Ocean Is Still Sucking Up Carbon—Maybe More Than We Think

by Nancy Averett 3 May 202214 September 2022

Recent studies looking at carbon-sequestering microbes suggest we still have a lot to learn about the ocean’s biological carbon pump.

A photograph from a commercial flight showing a pyrocumulonimbus cloud forming over the 2019–2020 Australian bushfires.
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Australian Wildfires Linked to Ozone Layer Depletion

by Krystal Vasquez 4 April 20226 April 2022

New research shows that the Black Summer bushfires damaged the ozone layer, eliminating a decade’s worth of progress.

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