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Houston's skyline seen from above
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33.8 Million People in the United States Live on Sinking Land

by Grace van Deelen 8 May 20258 May 2025

The most populated cities in the country are slowly subsiding, posing risks to infrastructure and exacerbating flooding—and not just on the coasts.

Pilares de tierra marrón que sobresalen de una llanura cubierta de hierba con árboles y arbustos.
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Investigadores cuantifican el impacto de los animales en la transformación de la Tierra

by Carolyn Wilke 21 April 202521 April 2025

Los animales salvajes utilizan 76,000 gigajulios de energía—el equivalente a cientos de miles de monzones o inundaciones—moldeando los ecosistemas terrestres y de agua dulce de nuestro planeta.

A desert landscape with a river valley
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Climate Shifts Drive Episodic Drainage Changes

by Caroline Hasler 14 April 202514 April 2025

Drainage divide migration is influenced by tectonics and climate over long periods. New research in Israel shows that even shorter-term wet-dry cycles can move divides.

Photo of a caldera
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Deflected Dikes Perturb the Plumbing System

by Thorsten W. Becker 11 April 202510 April 2025

A multidisciplinary synthesis of the Campi Flegrei, Italy volcanic setting highlights the importance of sub-caldera layering for magma dynamics.

Brown dirt pillars sticking up from a grassy plain with trees and bushes.
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Researchers Put a Number on Animals’ Earth-Shaping Effects

by Carolyn Wilke 27 March 202521 April 2025

Wild animals expend 76,000 gigajoules of energy—the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of monsoons or floods—shaping our planet’s terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems.

Sketches of mountains with distributions of different plants on each.
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Topography and the Terrestrial Water Cycle

by Sebastian Gnann, Jane W. Baldwin, Mark O. Cuthbert, Tom Gleeson, Wolfgang Schwanghart and Thorsten Wagener 12 March 202512 March 2025

The relationship between topography and the terrestrial water cycle has been documented for thousands of years, yet there is still much to learn about Earth’s complex dynamics – both above, at, and below the surface.

Map from the study.
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Skewed Subduction Shear Zones

by Thorsten W. Becker 20 February 202519 February 2025

A global reanalysis of both short- and long-term deformation clarifies how obliquity affects strain partitioning in convergent plate boundaries.

Aerial photo of a glacier.
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The Pulsed Pace of Glacial Erosion

by Marisa Repasch 14 February 20257 February 2025

New data from Lago Argentino, Patagonia reveal that glacial erosion occurs in discrete pulses, which challenges previous ideas that erosion rates have increased over time due to climate change.

The summit of Mount Everest soars above other peaks of the Himalayas.
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How to Build the World’s Highest Mountain

by Nathaniel Scharping 13 February 202513 February 2025

The rocks of Mount Everest’s peak made an epic journey from seafloor to summit.

Diagram from the study.
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How Rock Type Shapes River Networks and Influences Landscape Evolution

by Marisa Repasch 10 February 20256 February 2025

A new study in Chile shows how small differences in rock type can drive large differences in erosion, vegetation, and river networks, illuminating the role of mineralogy in shaping landscapes.

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