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A pile of drying dung cakes sits beside trees and a paved road.
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Burning Cow Dung Emits an Inordinate Amount of Air Pollution in India

by Tom Brown 9 December 20249 December 2024

Dried cow dung, a main source of household cooking fuel for many in rural India, releases more particulate matter across the country than wood and other biofuels.

Seen from below, a group of bats hang from a rocky cave ceiling. One has its mouth wide open in a yawn.
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Bat Poop Records Fire History

by Rebecca Dzombak 31 October 20244 November 2024

Charcoal stored in preserved guano gives researchers a new way to reconstruct regional fire histories.

在这张江错的照片中,多云的天空在背景中的低矮山丘上投下阴影。中景的湖水呈现灰蓝绿色的色调。前景中,湖岸上生长着一簇簇棕褐色的小草,红色沙地上点缀着棱角分明的深色鹅卵石。
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哺乳动物的粪便保存了青藏高原的人类和气候历史

by Alka Tripathy-Lang 27 September 202427 September 2024

沉积物中的地球化学标记,包括来自人类和动物粪便的有机分子,帮助科学家们追寻吐蕃帝国的兴衰。

In this photograph of Jiang Co, a cloudy sky casts shadows over low hills in the background while the lake water, in the midground, features gray-blue-green tones. Spiky tufts of brown grass grow on the shores in the foreground, with dark angular cobbles studding reddish sand.
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Mammal Droppings Preserve Human and Climate History on the Tibetan Plateau

by Alka Tripathy-Lang 11 December 202327 September 2024

Geochemical signatures in sediment, which includes organic molecules from human and animal poop, help scientists track the rise and fall of the Tibetan Empire.

A scientist wearing a safety vest and a blue hard hat squats alongside a stream, taking notes in a notebook. The stream cuts through a glacier covered in dark gray sediment.
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Microbe Goo Could Help Guide the Search for Life on Mars

by Grace van Deelen 8 December 20238 December 2023

Sticky substances secreted by microbes may help create landforms on Earth. And new research shows that these substances are more preserved in iron-rich sediment. Mars is decidedly iron-rich (it’s the Red Planet, after all), so the new study adds to evidence that microbe goo could help researchers explain landform creation there. “I think this is […]

Llamas walking along a rocky landscape in front of a retreating glacier in Cordillera Blanca, northern Peru.
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How Llama Poop Is Helping an Andean Community Adapt to Melting Glaciers

by Sofia Moutinho 9 November 202317 November 2023

Reintroducing these animals can enrich barren soils and potentially reduce water contamination, a study shows.

A group of penguins stand on ground streaked with yellow-white droppings. The sea is in the background.
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Penguin Poop May Flush Iron into the Southern Ocean

by Carolyn Wilke 23 May 202323 May 2023

Nutrients from the seabirds’ guano fuels the growth of carbon-storing phytoplankton, but penguin populations have plunged in the past 4 decades.

A photo angled from above of a small white bird and a white egg in a nest of twigs.
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Harpy Eagles Concentrate Precious Nutrients in the Amazon

Adityarup Chakravorty, freelance science writer by Adityarup Chakravorty 10 May 202325 May 2023

Amazon soils are usually low in the nutrients that plants covet, but harpy eagles can create local hot spots with their poop and prey.

Bright yellow beach closure sign that says “Keep out. Sewage contaminated water. Exposure may cause illness.” The sign is leaning against a gate outside of Border Field State Park, which is located in Imperial Beach, Calif.
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Spring and Sewage Are in the Air Near San Diego

by Krystal Vasquez 5 April 20235 April 2023

Sea spray can transport sewage-contaminated waters inland, potentially exposing those living kilometers from the beach.

A group of sheep graze in a green field.
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Veterinary Antibiotics Reduce Soil Carbon Sequestration Capacity

Rishika Pardikar, Science Writer by Rishika Pardikar 21 March 202321 March 2023

Livestock grazing areas sequester less carbon than those under wild herbivores.

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