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Aerial photo of blue water dotted with tall, green islands
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Some Corals Are More Heat Resistant Than Thought

by Nathaniel Scharping 6 February 20236 February 2023

The vast genetic diversity of corals means there are some that may survive warming waters. Now scientists just need to find them.

Two graphs from the paper with temperature on the x-axis and pressure on the y-axis.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Unprecedented Constraint on the Martian Mesopause Temperature

by Jun Cui 11 January 202318 January 2023

The middle atmosphere of Mars is a critical region influenced by both waves from below and solar radiation from above, but until now there have been very few observational constraints on this region.

On the right is the first stratigraphic section of the Grand Canyon, from Powell’s 1875 report, showing what would later be termed the Great Unconformity. A is the metamorphic basement—the oldest rocks that have been contorted. B is the Precambrian Grand Canyon Supergroup, which is composed of tilted sedimentary rocks that lack fossil assemblages. C indicates flat-lying Paleozoic rocks, which contain fossils marking the explosion of life. Two unconformities can be seen at x and y, with the former marking the Great Unconformity. The image on the left is a recent photograph of the Grand Canyon from Walhalla Plateau, with the red line showing the Great Unconformity. Blue lines trace the tilted layers below the famed surface, and yellow lines trace the flat-lying sedimentary rocks on top.
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The Great Unconformity or Great Unconformities?

by Alka Tripathy-Lang 23 December 202231 January 2023

Some scientists think the Great Unconformity was caused by Snowball Earth’s glaciations. Recent work suggests these phenomena might not be related.

A map of land surface temperatures across the Pacific Northwest. Temperature is shown as a color gradient from blue to red.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Far-Flung Forces Caused the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Wave

by Saima May Sidik 23 December 202223 December 2022

Air from thousands of kilometers away spiraled down to drape the Pacific Northwest in blistering heat.

Two people, flanked by two observers, stand among a field of boulders, guiding a large hand drill through the length of a white fossilized coral.
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El Niño Varies More Intensely Now Than in the Past Millennium

by Luis Melecio-Zambrano 15 December 20221 February 2023

Researchers found evidence for a strengthening El Niño in living and fossilized Galápagos corals.

Swirling cloud bands in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere
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Could Jupiter’s Heat Waves Help Solve a Planetary Energy Crisis?

by Tim Hornyak 9 November 20229 November 2022

Infrared observations reveal that Jupiter’s upper atmosphere is much warmer than models predict. The discovery may be a clue to finding missing heat sources in other giant planets.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Respiration Quotient Variability and Ocean Oxygen Levels

by Eileen Hofmann 1 November 20221 November 2022

Respiration quotients in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans reflect different water temperature, nutrient stress and phytoplankton community structure, important for regional carbon and oxygen cycling.

Aerial view of an agricultural field with some plots in temperature-controlled conditions
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Warmer Winters Keep Crops Sleepy into Spring, Hurting Yield

by Elise Cutts 21 October 202228 October 2022

Annual crops go dormant during winter. Frosty temperatures cue them to wake up—but the warmer winters brought on by climate change scramble the cold signal, hurting yield.

Photograph of a seagrass meadow
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Warming and Agitation Intensify Seagrass Meadow Carbon Fluxes

by Jorge Villa 17 October 202212 October 2022

Carbon dioxide emissions surge in sediments when temperature and agitation increase, both of which are likely to continue rising in degraded Mediterranean seagrass meadows.

A person stands amid tall trees on a lush green mountainside.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Amazon Basin Tree Rings Hold a Record of the Region’s Rainfall

by Rachel Fritts 11 October 202211 October 2022

New research provides a 200-year reconstruction of interannual rainfall in the Amazon basin using oxygen isotopes preserved in tree rings in Ecuador and Bolivia.

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