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Burned Amazon Forests Stay Hot and Stressed for Decades, Finds New NASA-Supported Study – State of the Planet

Lead author Savannah Cooley standing in an intact forest patch before one of the largest measured trees in the southern Amazon—a magnificent Ceiba pentandra towering 61 meters tall. Photo: Vinicius Silguero, Instituto Centro de Vida Forests in the Brazilian Amazon damaged by fire remain about 2.6 °C (4.7 °F) hotter than neighboring intact or selectively logged stands, and […]
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A Chaotic Mars-Earth Planetary Cycle May Have Contributed to One of Earth’s Major Warming Events – State of the Planet

The Sangonghe Formation in northwestern China, showing periodic variations in sediments caused by climate cycles, where the research team collected samples of Jurassic lake sediments. Photo: Paul Olsen As Earth and Mars orbit the Sun, they pull on each other gravitationally, causing their paths to stretch and relax in a cycle that repeats roughly every […]
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Seismic Study Reveals Hidden Megathrust Earthquake Risk off British Columbia – State of the Planet

Adapted from a release written by Alison Auld for Dalhousie University Lamont’s R/V Marcus G. Langseth. Credit: Anne Becel A new study published in Science Advances has revealed the first detailed images of a newly developing subduction zone off the coast of British Columbia’s Haida Gwaii archipelago. The international team of researchers collected the data […]
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A Disaster Expert Explains Why the Texas Floods Were So Devastating – State of the Planet

Flooding of the Guadalupe River near Kerrville, Texas, on June 5, 2025. Photo: U.S. Coast Guard As the past few weeks have shown, flash floods can develop very quickly in both rural and urban areas, with mild to catastrophic impacts. That’s part of why flash floods are so critical to study, according to Andrew Kruczkiewicz, […]
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Afterwoke: from identity to unity

The book tour for Minority Rule generated the kind of buzz most authors could only dream of. Ash Sarkar’s searing debut illustrates how culture wars keep most of the UK’s population divided.  Buy: Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War by Ash Sarkar.  A prominent left-wing journalist, writer, lecturer and political commentator, Sarkar made headlines […]
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Rivers Choose Their Path Based on Erosion—a Discovery That Could Transform Flood Planning – State of the Planet

Flood damage in Kerrville, Texas. Photo: World Central Kitchen Adapted from a press release written by Harrison Tasoff for the University of California, Santa Barbara. Rivers are Earth’s arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from the mountains to the sea. Some rivers carve out a single pathway, while […]
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83% of Earth’s climate-critical fungi are still unknown

83% of Earth’s climate-critical fungi are still unknown

Mycorrhizal fungi help regulate Earth’s climate and ecosystems by forming underground networks that provide plants with essential nutrients, while drawing carbon deep into soils. Scientists and conservationists have been racing to find ways to protect these underground fungi, but they keep finding dark taxa – species that are known only by their DNA sequences that […]
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From air to stone: The fig trees fighting climate change

From air to stone: The fig trees fighting climate change

Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks – essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new research has found. The team of Kenyan, U.S., Austrian, and Swiss scientists found that the trees could draw carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and store it as calcium carbonate ‘rocks’ in the surrounding soil. The […]
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83% of Earth’s climate-critical fungi are still unknown

83% of Earth’s climate-critical fungi are still unknown

Mycorrhizal fungi help regulate Earth’s climate and ecosystems by forming underground networks that provide plants with essential nutrients, while drawing carbon deep into soils. Scientists and conservationists have been racing to find ways to protect these underground fungi, but they keep finding dark taxa – species that are known only by their DNA sequences that […]
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From air to stone: The fig trees fighting climate change

From air to stone: The fig trees fighting climate change

Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks – essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new research has found. The team of Kenyan, U.S., Austrian, and Swiss scientists found that the trees could draw carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and store it as calcium carbonate ‘rocks’ in the surrounding soil. The […]
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Ancient Texts Decoded by Neural Networks

In a groundbreaking fusion of ancient history and cutting-edge artificial intelligence, researchers have unveiled Aeneas, a sophisticated machine learning model designed to revolutionize the study of Latin inscriptions. This technological marvel aims to assist historians by restoring fragmented texts, dating undocumented carvings, and pinpointing their geographic origins within the vast expanse of the Roman Empire. […]
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