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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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Seeing Glacier Landscapes in a Different Light – State of the Planet

Co-curated by professors of art and science, “Flows of Reflectivity” brings together these distinct disciplines through recent and historic photographs and a time-lapse video of glaciers. The exhibit explores glacier change, with an emphasis on understanding reflectivity—the capacity of ice to send incoming light back into the atmosphere—through an exploration of both the artistic dimension […]
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Scientists recreate life’s first step: Linking amino acids to RNA

Scientists recreate life’s first step: Linking amino acids to RNA

Chemists at UCL have shown how two of biology’s most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) and amino acids, could have spontaneously joined together at the origin of life four billion years ago. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, the “workhorses” of life essential to nearly every living process. But proteins cannot replicate or […]
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