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The Colorado River Disappeared From the Geological Record for 5 Million Years. Scientists Now Know Where it Went

When drought grips the African savanna, an aging elephant matriarch leads her herd to water she remembers from decades past.

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Better Weather Forecasts and Climate Models Could Come From New Desert-Dust Research

Atmospheric dust plays a dual role in Earth’s climate: it reflects some sunlight back into space while also absorbing and retaining the planet’s heat like an insulating blanket.

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Deep-Ocean Heat has Been Marching Closer to Antarctica, Study Reveals

The study, led by the University of Cambridge with collaborators from the University of California and published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, compiled long-term ocean measurements collected by ships and robotic floating devices to show that a warm mass called circumpolar deep water has expanded and shifted toward the Antarctic continental shelf over the past 20 years.

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Amazon Understory Forests Show Short-Term Boost in Co₂ Uptake – But This Comes at a Cost

Experimental increases in CO₂ stimulated plant growth are facilitated by re-distributed root systems to extract nutrient resources more efficiently.

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In Eastern Africa, the Cradle of Humankind Is Tearing Apart

Eastern Africa’s Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of volcanic activity caused by shifting tectonic plates. 

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To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi

For the last two decades, conservationists on the remote Pacific atoll of Palmyra have been working to uproot invasive palm trees and restore native wildlife. 

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Warmer Winters and Snow Drought May Threaten Western U.S. Water by Speeding Flows, Study Finds

As future shifts in climate lead to more rain and less snow in the western United States, new research finds that water will move faster through a landscape, likely leading to negative impacts on summer water levels and water quality.

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Older and Wiser: How Elder Animals Help Species to Survive

When drought grips the African savanna, an aging elephant matriarch leads her herd to water she remembers from decades past.

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Rusting Rivers: Alarm Grows Over Uptick in Acidic Arctic Waters

When ecologist Patrick Sullivan flew into the Salmon River in Alaska to conduct a vegetation study in the summer of 2019, he was excited about paddling down the pristine Arctic river. Before he and his colleague got there, however, the pilot warned that they might not see what John McPhee had described, in his best-selling book Coming Into the Country, as the “purest water I have ever seen.”

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Cheaper, Longer-Lasting Batteries Are Closer Thanks to a Pinch of Sodium and a Supercomputer

The Expanse supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences has played an important role in helping researchers design the next generation of batteries that could make large‑scale energy storage cheaper and more sustainable. T

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