A two-year field experiment conducted in the world’s northernmost cultivated peatland, in Pasvik in Finnmark, found that greenhouse gas emissions can be sharply reduced by raising and maintaining the water table between 25 and 50 centimeters…
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A Simple Water Fix May Be One of the Arctic’s Strongest Climate Solutions
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Scientists Uncover Unusual Origins of Mysterious Ocean Trench Bigger Than the Grand Canyon
How moving tectonic plates and rising heat from deep within Earth created one of the ocean’s largest canyons. On land, giant canyons like the Grand Canyon are usually the slow handiwork of rivers that grind rock into sediment over vast spans of…
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Two Enormous Blobs of Superheated Material Help Shape Earth’s Magnetic Field
Two immense, ultrahot rock structures located at the base of Earth’s mantle, around 2,900 km beneath Africa and the Pacific, have been shaping Earth’s magnetic field for millions of years, according to a new study led by University of…
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Bacteria Form Stronger Mars Bricks Despite Toxic Soil
How can engineers design bricks on Mars for future habitats despite the toxic Martian regolith, also called perchlorates? This is what a recent study published in PLOS One hopes to address as an international…
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Why Planets Around Two Suns Are Surprisingly Uncommon
Why is it so rare to find exoplanets orbiting two stars, also called circumbinary planets (CBPs)? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of…
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How the “Atlantic Grand Canyon” Came to Exist
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On land, most canyons are carved by erosion from rivers over millions of years….
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This Breakthrough Lets Scientists See Arctic Ice Loss Coming
Scientists have unveiled a powerful new method for predicting Arctic sea ice months in advance, just as climate change drives rapid ice loss. Arctic sea ice plays a powerful role in regulating Earth’s climate. By reflecting sunlight and cooling…
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New model predicts the melting of free-floating ice in calm water
A pair of US researchers have developed a new model to tackle a deceptively simple problem: how a small block of ice melts while floating in calm water. Using an advanced experimental setup, Daisuke Noto and Hugo Ulloa at the University of…
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Something Massive Deep Inside Earth Is Steering the Planet’s Magnetic Field
Hidden mega-structures deep inside Earth may have been quietly steering our planet’s magnetic field—and rewriting what we thought we knew about Earth’s past. Peering into Earth’s interior is far more difficult than exploring space. Humans…
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Destination Earth digital twin to improve AI climate and weather predictions
An agreement on the third implementation phase of Destination Earth (DestinE), the European Commission’s initiative to develop a highly accurate digital twin of Earth, has been signed between the European Commission and the European Centre for…
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