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Coral reef
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Understanding Alkalinity to Quantify Ocean Buffering

by J. J. Middelburg, K. Soetaert and M. Hagens 29 July 202022 December 2021

Ocean alkalinity plays a major role in ocean’s carbon uptake, in buffering, and in calcium carbonate production and dissolution, and it impacts and is affected by various biogeochemical processes.

Illustration of submerged aquatic vegetation with molecules of calcium carbonate
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Aquatic Plants May Help Chesapeake Bay Resist Ocean Acidification

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 9 July 202031 March 2022

In freshwater vegetation flats upstream of the Chesapeake, chemical reactions create molecules that raise pH levels in the bay.

Metal and concrete salmon pools at Oregon’s McKenzie River Hatchery
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Internal Compass Guides Salmon’s Incredible Journey

Mary Caperton Morton, Science Writer by Mary Caperton Morton 9 June 202019 July 2022

New study finds evidence that magnetite particles play a role in fish navigation.

Charts showing relationship between catchment-averaged erosion rate and landscape steepness index
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Meteoric 10Be Reveals Lithological Control on Erosion Rates

by Mikaël Attal 1 June 202026 January 2023

New meteoric 10Be data quantify fast erosion of slates in the Zhuoshui River catchment in Taiwan and demonstrate the influence of lithology on landscape steepness.

Herd of wildebeests descends from a low cliff into a river.
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Geology and Chemistry Drive Animal Migration in the Serengeti

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 27 May 20206 September 2022

Fieldwork in Tanzania suggests that soil chemistry—influenced by local volcanism and tectonic activity—might help dictate the record-setting migration of over a million wildebeests.

Maps showing observed (left) and simulated (right) subsurface ocean heat content changes in the Southern Ocean
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Explaining Cold and Fresh Southern Polar Ocean Surface Waters

by P. Rizzoli 6 May 202017 August 2022

Global climate models do not reproduce observed trends of the Southern polar ocean surface, but an increase in wind-transported sea ice that melts and inhibits mixing may account for the disparity.

An aircraft releases chemical dispersant on 5 May 2010 over oil floating on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico
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Why Sunlight Matters for Marine Oil Spills

by Collin P. Ward, C. M. Reddy and E. B. Overton 28 April 202018 May 2022

A decade of research since the Deepwater Horizon disaster has revealed how sunlight—its importance long understated in oil spill science—substantially alters petroleum floating at the sea surface.

Illustration of the geological evolution of Earth
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Looking Back at Our Pale Blue Dot

by C. Fogerty 23 April 20208 April 2022

Astronomers model changes in Earth’s chemical signature over the past 4 billion years to improve the search for Earth-like exoplanets.

Research vessel in the Arctic Ocean
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The Arctic Ocean May Not Be a Reliable Carbon Sink

Hannah Thomasy, Science Writer by Hannah Thomasy 7 April 202025 January 2023

The rapid changes happening in the Arctic Ocean, including increasing freshwater input, could dramatically affect its ability to store carbon.

Taro Takahashi (right) and two students in Takahashi’s mineral physics laboratory at Alfred University, circa 1960
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Taro Takahashi (1930–2019)

by W. A. Bassett 12 March 202021 October 2021

This giant in geochemistry also pioneered early high-pressure, high-temperature studies that launched the field of mineral physics.

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