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Two short stretches of fencing beside piled snow amid an open stretch of land, with mountains in the distance.
Posted inScience Updates

Simulating Arctic Carbon Emissions in a Warming World

by Jeralyn Poe, Jon Wells, Christina Schädel, Deborah N. Huntzinger and William J. Riley 2 October 20242 October 2024

Not all climate models include carbon from thawing permafrost, and those that do often disagree. Scientists are working to better inform models and assess how these crucial materials are simulated.

Cientifico preparando muestras en el laboratorio
Posted inResearch Spotlights

¿El secreto para imitar fallas naturales? Plexiglás y teflón

Sarah Derouin, Science Writer by Sarah Derouin 13 June 202413 June 2024

Investigadores encontraron una manera eficaz para producir un comportamiento de fallas natural en el laboratorio.

Two rectangular CubeSats shortly after being ejected from a satellite deployer. Earth’s horizon is in the background.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Tiny Satellites Can Provide Significant Information About Space

by Rebecca Owen 10 May 202410 May 2024

Students and faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder use CubeSats to learn more about the near-Earth environment.

A young man wearing glasses operates an earthquake experiment setup. Four yellow cylinders attached to metallic tubes sit beside a layer of plexiglass held up by wooden columns.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

The Secret to Mimicking Natural Faults? Plexiglass and Teflon

Sarah Derouin, Science Writer by Sarah Derouin 10 May 202413 June 2024

Researchers found an effective way to produce natural fault behavior in the laboratory.

An open-top chamber in the Amazon forest
Posted inNews

Extra Carbon Dioxide Helps Lower Layers of the Amazon Thrive—for Now

by Sofia Moutinho 29 April 202429 April 2024

Plants living in the shadows grew faster when exposed to excess carbon dioxide. But this short-term effect could vanish in a high-emission-induced warmer future, making the forest a carbon source.

Close up cross-sectional view of a soil profile right below grass on the ground surface
Posted inScience Updates

How Are Deep Soils Responding to Warming?

by Fabrizzio Protti Sánchez, Avni Malhotra, Michael W. I. Schmidt, Cornelia Rumpel and Margaret S. Torn 17 April 202417 April 2024

Scientists aim to integrate observations from deep-soil-warming experiments worldwide to better understand how ecosystems vital to food security and environmental health will react to climate change.

Two glass enclosures among a forest of spruce trees in the snow
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Warming Experiment Explores Consequences of Diminished Snow

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer by Aaron Sidder 1 April 20247 August 2024

The SPRUCE ecosystem in northern Minnesota offered a setting to research exactly how a snowy environment responds to rising temperatures.

Posted inNews

التربة المكهربة تزيد نمو النباتات

by Saugat Bolakhe 8 March 20248 March 2024

خمسة أيام من الكهرباء المنخفضة الجهد الموجهة إلى جذور النباتات الناشئة عززت نموها بأكثر من 50 بالمئة.

A large plume of gray-brown smoke and ash covers most of the sky above the waterfront in Hobart Harbor, Tasmania, Australia.
Posted inScience Updates

The Open Ocean, Aerosols, and Every Other Breath You Take

by Rachel Shelley, Morgane M. G. Perron, Douglas S. Hamilton and Akinori Ito 1 March 20241 March 2024

Phytoplankton and other marine plants produce half of Earth’s atmospheric oxygen and have big effects on food webs and climate. To do so, they rely on nutrients from the sky that are hard to quantify.

Wide-angle view showing green, ribbon-like aurorae as well as glowing blue, purple, and white cloud-shaped features in the night sky.
Posted inScience Updates

Ionospheric Fireworks Illuminate Auroral Science

by Tima Sergienko, Yoshihiro Yokoyama, Urban Brändström, Masatoshi Yamauchi and Anders Tjulin 28 February 202428 February 2024

A sounding rocket experiment set off a spectacular nighttime light show over Scandinavia as it produced new insights into ionospheric behavior near an aurora.

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