Only a few hundred Devils Hole pupfish live in an isolated pool in the desert, where occasional floodwaters roil their habitat.
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Steamy Bubbles May Control Old Faithful’s Clock
Scientists built a minigeyser to show why the natural wonder’s water surges so violently between eruptions.
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Beavers Have Engineered Ecosystems in the Tetons for Millennia
Analysis of lake sediment in Grand Teton National Park is helping piece together ecosystem history, with helpful implications for land managers today.
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A Strong Quake (or Two) Rattled Puget Sound 1,100 Years Ago
Tree rings hint that two neighboring faults ruptured within 6 months of each other and suggest that the maximum magnitude of quakes around Puget Sound could exceed previous estimates.
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Grand Canyon Heat May Become More Dangerous
Climate change may double the risk of heat-related illness at Grand Canyon National Park by the end of the century.
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When the Woods Get Noisy, the Animals Get Nervous
New study uses trail cameras and speakers to isolate what human sounds do to animals.
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Wisconsin Stalagmite Records North American Warming
A speleothem has revealed rapid periods of warming across the interior of the continent during the last glacial period, corresponding to similar events recorded in Greenland ice.
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Alaskan Glaciers Advance and Retreat in Satellite Imagery
Researchers tracked 19 maritime glaciers in Kenai Fjords National Park over several decades and found that tidewater glaciers tended to experience less ice loss than other types of glaciers.
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Una nueva perspectiva sobre la vida microbiana en las aguas termales del Parque Yellowstone
Una investigación sobre los rangos de hábitat de microorganismos en las fuentes hidrotermales del parque nacional Yellowstone muestran condiciones ambientales propicias para la interacción entre cianobacterias y algas.
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Climate Change Leads to Decline in Lichen Biocrusts
As summer temperatures continue to rise, important biocrust-forming organisms in the American Southwest may be lost.