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A cracked and deformed rupture in the Earth's surface with a truck in the background.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

New Insights into How Rocks Behave Under Stress

by Yves Bernabé 22 July 202522 July 2025

New 3D imaging techniques show hidden patterns of stress that help explain how and why rocks break.

Photo of karst limestone bedrock.
Posted inEditors' Vox

Groundwater Pollution in Karst Regions: Toward Better Models

by Kübra Özdemir Çallı and Andreas Hartmann 22 July 202522 July 2025

New advances in modeling contaminant transport offer a clearer picture of how to protect karst aquifers.

A satellite image of northwestern Europe at night shows several urban centers that appear as bright clusters of light.
Posted inNews

Artificial Light Lengthens the Urban Growing Season

by Caroline Hasler 18 July 202518 July 2025

New research shows that artificial light at night lengthens the plant growing season in cities, overshadowing the effect of high urban temperatures.

Tall, green marsh grasses at sunrise
Posted inNews

Machine Learning Model Flags Early, Invisible Signs of Marsh Decline

by Skyler Ware 17 July 202517 July 2025

Decreases in underground plant biomass could signal future marsh loss and prompt conservation measures.

A diver, wearing goggles and an oxygen tank, uses a wrench to repair an underwater cable.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

A Transatlantic Communications Cable Does Double Duty

by Saima May Sidik 16 July 202516 July 2025

A new device enables existing submarine cable networks to measure deep-sea movements. It could ultimately help improve tsunami warnings and climate monitoring.

The pinkish-red Sun shines through a dense canopy of tree branches.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How Plants Respond to Scattered Sunlight

by Rebecca Owen 14 July 202514 July 2025

A new study investigates how diffuse light affects evapotranspiration and carbon uptake across forest, grassland, shrub, and agricultural areas.

A green riverbank and a building are visible behind a river.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Tracing Black Carbon’s Journey to the Ocean

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer by Aaron Sidder 11 July 202524 July 2025

Scientists surveyed a trio of estuaries in pursuit of a missing source of oceanic dissolved black carbon.

A pool of brown mud with a large bubble near the center of the image
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Mapping Mud Volcanoes in Shallow Seas

by Meghie Rodrigues 10 July 202510 July 2025

A team of scientists put together a global database of submarine mud volcanoes. Orders of magnitude more are still bubbling, undiscovered, in the deep ocean.

An image depicts a thin layer of sedimentary rock under a microscope. Fragments of fossilized organisms show up as small dark blobs.
Posted inNews

Biomass and Biodiversity Were Coupled in Earth’s Past

by Grace van Deelen 9 July 20259 July 2025

Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff in Earth’s oceans changed alongside the diversity of organisms.

A raging stream in Rocky Mountain National Park in north central Colorado
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Years-Old Groundwater Dominates Spring Mountain Streams

by Mark DeGraff 3 July 20253 July 2025

Alpine rain and snow take much longer to percolate into western U.S. streams than previously thought, adding complexity to long-standing hydrologic models.

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