Atmospheric waves from a massive 2022 South Pacific volcanic eruption created seismic waves that penetrated Earth to at least 5 kilometers in Alaska, creating an opportunity to employ an unusual method of peering into the state’s deep subsurface.
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Ash Dieback is Triple Whammy for Net Zero Plans
Ash dieback and other tree diseases are resulting in significantly more greenhouse gas emissions than previously thought because a large amount of carbon is escaping from woodland soils, a study has found.
Doctoral Student’s Research Finds Valuable Rare Earth Elements in Toxic Waste
Chemical engineering student’s research extracts rare earth minerals from phosphogypsum — manmade lakes of radioactive, toxic waste.
Industry Managed Forests More Likely to Fuel Megafires
The odds of high-severity wildfire were nearly one-and-a-half times higher on industrial private land than on publicly owned forests, a new study found. Forests managed by timber companies were more likely to exhibit the conditions that megafires love—dense stands of regularly spaced trees with continuous vegetation connecting the understory to the canopy.
UC Santa Cruz-based Survey Uses AI to Spot Explosive Stellar Death by Black Hole
The explosion of a massive star locked in a deadly orbit with a black hole has been discovered with the help of artificial intelligence used by an astronomy collaboration led by the University of California, Santa Cruz, that hunts for stars shortly after they explode as supernovae.
Unified Theory May Reveal More Superconducting Materials
Electricity flows through wires to deliver power, but it loses energy as it moves, delivering less than it started with.