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Dynamic topography in the Banda arc and Weber Deep.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Transient Mantle Flow Triggers Morphotectonic Activity in Asia

by Claudio Faccenna 8 April 20228 February 2023

Changes in mantle dynamics following the Australian collision in southeast Asia triggered fast and intense morphotectonic activity at the surface.

A photograph from a commercial flight showing a pyrocumulonimbus cloud forming over the 2019–2020 Australian bushfires.
Posted inNews

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.

A river in Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Tree Rings Reveal a Puzzling Trend in Monsoon Intensity

by Saima May Sidik 31 March 202221 July 2022

Tree rings confirm that in northern Australia, the past 40 years have experienced more rain than any similar length of time in the past 600 years.

Biocrust in Australia’s Diamantina National Park
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Biological Crusts Affected by Drought Can Still Stabilize Soils

by Terri Cook 17 March 202225 May 2022

Results of in situ experiments on natural microbial communities suggest that biological crusts can protect soils from erosion, but their protective role could be compromised under predicted future climate scenarios.

Artist’s rendering of a planet covered in magma
Posted inNews

Layered Zone Beneath Coral Sea Suggests Ancient Magma Ocean

by Alka Tripathy-Lang 4 February 202225 May 2022

Scientists studying South Pacific earthquakes suggest that an ultralow-velocity zone at the core-mantle boundary may be a remnant of a molten early Earth.

Air pollution from an Australian megafire on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia, in January 2020.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Health Impacts of Air Pollution from Australian Megafires

by Saima May Sidik 10 January 202222 February 2023

Models suggest that thousands of Australians experienced dangerous levels of air pollution for several months, leading to more than a hundred deaths.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Tracking from Space how Extreme Drought Impacts Carbon Emissions

by Susan Trumbore 12 December 202112 December 2021

Carbon dioxide emissions from wildfires combined with reduced carbon uptake by intact ecosystems during the 2019-202
0 fire season to approximately double Australia’s annual carbon emissions.

The meeting point of the Pacific Ocean and the Tasman Sea
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Current History: Exploring the Past of the Tasman Leakage

by Elizabeth Thompson 17 November 20211 February 2022

A new study sheds light on an important Pacific-to-Atlantic connecting current, including the global changes that led to its flowing that ushered in near-modern ocean circulation.

An Australian farmer looks out over dry land
Posted inOpinions

Australia’s Unfolding Geoscience Malady

by S. Boone, M. Quigley, P. Betts, M. Miller and T. Rawling 27 September 202116 December 2021

Brutal university cuts are putting at risk an industry crucial to addressing climate change Down Under and around the world. Saving geoscience will require a community reckoning.

A close-up photo of Parthenium hysterophorus, or famine weed, showing a deep green plant with frilly leaves and small white flowers
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Famine Weed Becomes More Toxic, Invasive in Carbon-Rich Atmosphere

by Fionna M. D. Samuels 22 September 202121 March 2022

A noxious weed’s success in Australia could indicate that some plants are benefitting from our carbon-rich atmosphere, becoming more invasive, competitive, and toxic.

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