New research shows that rising salinity in coastal lagoons is reshaping ecosystems, but restoring freshwater flows could swiftly reverse the damage. New research from the University of Adelaide reveals that coastal lagoons are becoming saltier…
Category: Earth
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Coastal Lagoons Are Getting Turned Into Toxic “Salty Soup” – Scientists Reveal Why
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Water-Seeking Plant Roots Defy Gravity in a Drought
Plants are able to respond to their environment and changes in conditions. In the phototropism phenomenon, for example, plant parts will turn towards the sun. And gravitropism refers to the ability of plants…
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How Robots Solved a 280,000-Year Seafloor Mystery Hidden Beneath Big Sur
Researchers studying massive seafloor depressions off the Central California coast discovered that these pockmarks, once thought to be signs of methane eruptions, are actually sustained by ancient, powerful sediment flows. This surprising finding…
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Climate Extremes Drive UV Radiation Shifts in Lake Tahoe
What impact does climate change have on Lake Tahoe, which hosts some of the clearest waters in the world? This is what a recent study published in Limnology and Oceanography Letters hopes to address as a team…
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World’s Largest Cliff-Top Boulder Provides Evidence of Ancient Tsunami in Tonga
Locally known as Maka Lahi, meaning ‘Big Rock,’ this boulder was moved more than 200 m inland by a tsunami around 7,000 years ago.
The limestone boulder Maka Lahi. Image credit: Köhler et al., doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2025.107567.
The Maka…
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Discovery of Planet-Building Materials in Hostile Cosmic Environments
Can planets form and evolve within a protoplanetary disk—a region of gas and dust orbiting young stars—that is exposed to deadly ultraviolet radiation that would typically result in irradicating life on…
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Volcanoes Send Secret Signals Through Trees And NASA Satellites Can See Them
Trees near volcanoes might be the early warning signs scientists have been looking for — and now, they can be watched from space. A NASA-Smithsonian collaboration has revealed that carbon dioxide released from rising magma makes surrounding…
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Scientists May Have Found a Way To Stop Italy’s Awakening Supervolcano
Stanford researchers linked Campi Flegrei’s earthquakes to groundwater pressure, not magma. Managing water flow could reduce seismic risk in the region. Since 2022, southern Italy has experienced increasingly intense swarms of earthquakes,…
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Cracking Mars’ Ancient Water Cycle
How much water did Mars have in its ancient past and when did it disappear? This is what a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters hopes to address as an international team of scientists…
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Microneedle Vaccine Offers Hope for Global Immunization
In a major step forward for global immunization efforts, a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research has developed a microneedle…
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