A new measurement technique has revealed that turf algae communities colonizing dead reefs have a dual role, adding new mineral material to the reefs during the day and taking it away at night.
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Are Beavers Nature’s “Little Firefighters”?
It’s about dam time: Beavers are acknowledged for their firefighting skills in five recent blazes.
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Human Brains Have Tiny Bits of Magnetic Material
Here’s the first map of the magnetic mineral magnetite in the human brain. Turns out that our brain stem may be full of it.
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Watching Earth’s Interconnected Systems at Work
Surface Biology and Geology, a new NASA Earth observation effort, is developing a path forward for monitoring the Earth system from space.
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A Key to Coral Bleaching Events? Location, Location, Location
New research indicates that longitude, as well as warming waters, may be a key predictor of coral bleaching events.
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Integrating Landscape Terrestrial and Aquatic Carbon Fluxes
Workshop on the Integration of Aquatic and Terrestrial Carbon Fluxes across landscapes; Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 9–10 May 2019
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Is the Northern Permafrost Zone a Source or a Sink for Carbon?
Thawing permafrost could release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, but finding out how much requires better collection and curation of data.
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Extreme Life and Where to Find It
Life finds a way in the most extreme environments on Earth and sparks the imagination about far-off places where we may yet find it.
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Satellite Data Reveal Growth and Decline of Sargassum
High nutrient levels in 2018 resulted in a nearly 9,000-kilometer belt of Sargassum, a seaweed critical to many marine animals but also a nuisance when it washes up on shorelines, new results reveal.
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Elephants Boost Carbon Storage in Rain Forests
Forest elephants are the “gardeners of the Congo.” How might their dwindling population affect carbon storage in the world’s second-largest tropical forest?