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Six common plastics are not chemically inert once they sit in water as small particles, chemists at Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley report. In a paper published Oct.…
Satellite measurements of Earth's gravity show the Upper Colorado River Basin lost more groundwater than the Lower basin during the drought of 2020 to 2022. E. O. Oyedele of Virginia Tech's…
New climate simulations find the tropical Pacific does not return to its earlier state after greenhouse gas emissions stop. In runs that continue for centuries past the point of net zero, the region…
Oil and gas operations in the contiguous United States released less methane for each unit of energy they produced between 2019 and 2024, even as production grew, according to a satellite-based study…
A team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory reports that depth through the soil profile, not temperature, drove what carbon-cycling microbes were doing in a California forest soil kept 4 °C…
The hottest hour of a summer day in a Chinese city tends to arrive around lunchtime, which is also the hour when several million people decide what to eat. For a growing number of them the answer is…
Agriculture has raised calcium inputs to cultivated Mollisols in the United States four- to five-fold, according to a geochemical model of US soils published Oct. 13, 2026, in Communications Earth &…
Summers across the semiarid grasslands of western Eurasia have shifted abruptly into a hotter, drier regime, and the drying is now stronger than anything the region's observational record attributes…
From an airplane over the Rocky Mountain West, a glacier does not look much like a glacier. It looks like a small patch of white tucked into a fold in the landscape, with a band of gray-blue bare ice…
Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Lincoln have measured how stiff the inside of a sinking ocean particle is, and report that the stiffer ones hold bacteria…
An ice sheet model reproduces nearly three decades of Thwaites Glacier's retreat only when seawater is allowed to seep 2 to 5 kilometers beneath ice still resting on the seafloor, according to a…
Researchers at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Democratic Republic of the Congo's national agronomic research institute have published more than 1 million temperature and rainfall readings from 37…