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Dozens of ice cores—long, thin cylinders—are stored on a metal shelf and seen from the front, so they look like circles.
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When Ice Ages End, Ocean Circulation Fine-Tunes Ocean Heat

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 14 April 202514 April 2025

New Antarctic ice core data bolster model predictions of ocean heat content during glacials and interglacials.

Maps of the study region.
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Nonlinear Dynamics May Lead to Faster Retreat of Antarctic Ice

by Minghua Zhang 14 April 202514 April 2025

The Antarctic ice sheet behaves like a non-Newtonian fluid and may be more nonlinear than previously thought. This impacts its future stability and requires revisions to predictions of sea level rise.

Four seemingly identical, octagonal, disklike structures, each with several various thin antennas extending outward at various angles, appear to be floating in a closely spaced cluster in space. In the background, on the right side of the image, is the round shape of the planet Earth, encircled by translucent, overlapping blue and purple lines.
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New Insights into an Enigmatic Form of Magnetic Reconnection

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 11 April 202511 April 2025

A new study deepens understanding of magnetic field behavior recently discovered by NASA in Earth’s magnetosphere.

Graphs and maps from the study.
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Arctic Sea Ice After CO2 Recovery: Implications for North Atlantic Weather

by Gudrun Magnusdottir 4 April 202524 April 2025

Incomplete Arctic sea ice recovery results in equatorward-shifted winter jets. The North Atlantic jet shift is particularly uncertain due to the ocean circulation acting as an additional driver.

Diagram from the study.
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Peatland Plantations in Southeast Asia are Carbon Hotspots

by Valeriy Ivanov 26 March 202526 March 2025

A new study reports a rare set of data on greenhouse gas production and transport for a tropical peatland plantation showing exceptionally high concentrations of dissolved organic carbon.

4 maps of Antarctica with different model results projected onto them.
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Subglacial Hydrology Under the Antarctic Ice Sheet

by Minghua Zhang 25 March 202525 March 2025

Using simulations of subglacial hydrology, a new study shows the volume and movement of meltwater underneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Una montaña, un glaciar y el cielo azul se ven refleados en un tranquilo lago.
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Los lagos y estanques de Alaska revelan los efectos del derretimiento del permafrost

by Saima May Sidik 21 March 202521 March 2025

Un nuevo conjunto de datos proporciona un método poderoso para rastrear fácilmente los cambios en el permafrost.

Illustration of a spacecraft in space.
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Heating Mechanism at Earth’s Bow Shock Depends on Shock Speed

by Marit Oieroset 24 February 202524 February 2025

A new technique shows that the dominance of gradual versus chaotic electron heating processes at Earth’s bow shock is controlled by how fast the shock is moving.

A mountain, glacier, and blue sky are reflected in the surface of a calm lake.
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Alaska’s Lakes and Ponds Reveal Effects of Permafrost Thaw

by Saima May Sidik 19 February 202521 March 2025

A new dataset provides a powerful method for easily tracking changes in permafrost.

World map showing sea surface temperature with color.
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Three Studies Point to El Niño as Key to 2023 Record Global Heat

by Kristopher B. Karnauskas 28 January 202528 January 2025

Three recent studies reveal how the interplay between El Niño and long-term global warming drove the record-breaking global temperatures of 2023.

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