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Oceans

White bubbles in water next to corals
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Corals Are Simplistic When Conditions Are Acidic

by Anupama Chandrasekaran 16 August 202416 August 2024

Increasing ocean acidity could spell trouble for fish that depend on corals’ many branches for protection.

A curved tornado kicking up a brown plume of dirt beneath a dark gray sky
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The Surprising Factor Making the United States a Tornado Hot Spot

by Sushmita Pathak 16 August 202414 August 2024

The roughness of terrain far upstream of where tornadoes occur can affect their formation. It could be what drives the contrast in tornado activity between North and South America.

An aerial view of Malé, the capital of the Maldives
Posted inResearch Spotlights

A Path Toward Understanding Regional Sea Level Rise

by Nathaniel Scharping 13 August 20244 November 2024

Finer-resolution models, as well as an improved understanding of ocean shelf–sea processes, are key to understanding the way different coastlines will be affected by rising waters, extreme storm surges, and waves.

Placid image of the fjord of Doubtful Sound in New Zealand
Posted inFeatures

Exploring New Zealand’s Remote Fjords

by Kate Evans 12 August 202424 September 2024

Doing research in Fiordland—a vast territory of mountains, forests, and fiords in southwest New Zealand—takes ingenuity, collaboration, and a really good raincoat.

Satellite image of the Barents Sea in the Arctic, with a blue phytoplankton bloom curving across the ocean
Posted inResearch Spotlights

The Many Adventures of Nitrogen in the Arctic Ocean

by Emily Dieckman 9 August 20248 August 2024

New research reviews how our atmosphere’s most abundant element cycles through the Arctic Ocean—and how climate change could affect the process.

A coral reef spotted with bone-white patches where the corals have bleached
Posted inNews

Some Reefs Could Bleach Year-Round by 2080

by Elise Cutts 9 August 202412 August 2024

Cutting greenhouse gas emissions could protect some reefs more than others.

Participants in a research cruise for 2-year-college faculty use microscope lenses attached to smartphones to look at samples of plankton on a table in a lab aboard a research ship.
Posted inOpinions

The Benefits of Empowering Community College Geoscience Faculty

by Tess Weathers, Sheldon Turner and Kusali Gamage 6 August 202414 November 2024

Creating spaces and partnerships tailored to 2-year-college faculty can improve perceptions of how they fit into the geoscience community and boost diversity in the discipline more broadly.

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Metallic Nodules Create Oxygen in the Ocean’s Abyss

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 30 July 202424 April 2025

These nodules, a focus of seabed mining interests, could be natural “geobatteries” and play a larger-than-expected role in the deep-sea ecosystem.

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Aliyah Griffith: Ocean Scientist, Explorer, Mermaid

by Nathaniel Scharping 25 July 202425 July 2024

A marine biologist is studying coral reefs and making ocean sciences more tenable for young explorers.

A dark body, which is one of the seas on Titan, is outlined by golden, jagged material on the coastline.
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Waves May Be Crashing on Titan’s Shores

Damond Benningfield, Science Writer by Damond Benningfield 24 July 202424 July 2024

A new study suggests that wind-driven waves could be sculpting the coastlines of the lakes and seas on Saturn’s largest moon.

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