Newly planted vegetation accelerates dune erosion during extreme storms, research shows (phys.org)
Ocean current comes to the rescue for Pacific island reefs (phys.org)
Climate change is making trees bigger, but also weaker (theconversation.com)
The life below our feet: Team discovers microbes thriving in groundwater and producing oxygen in the dark (phys.org)
Study claims Earth was created much faster than we thought (phys.org)
Study explains unusual deformation in Earth's largest continental rift: Computer models confirm that the African Superplume is responsible for the unusual deformations as well as rift-parallel seismic (www.sciencedaily.com)
Mods wanted!
If anyone would like to help me set up these communities and/or mod, please get in touch. This place is what we make it and I’d love some fresh ideas. I mod a number of smaller science subreddits and would like to help make this place just as nice, if not better!
Researchers describe the melting of gold nanoparticles in gold-bearing fluids in the Earth's crust: Gold, the most precious noble metal (www.sciencedaily.com)
Tibetan lakes emit as much nitrogen as a megacity. (www.nature.com)
How does the sky turn dark at night? (Hover mouse over image) (apod.nasa.gov)
[INTERACTIVE] Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas (www.wri.org)
[INTERACTIVE] Water, Peace and Security Map (waterpeacesecurity.org)
[INTERACTIVE] MarineTraffic: Live Ship Tracking Intelligence | AIS Marine Traffic (www.marinetraffic.com)
[INTERACTIVE] IQAir | Real Time Air Quality Map (www.iqair.com)
[INTERACTIVE] Freshwater Ecosystems Explorer (www.sdg661.app)
[Interactive] Surface Conditions of Greenland: Polar Portal - Monitoring Ice and Climate in the Arctic (polarportal.dk)
Volcano eruptions are notoriously hard to forecast. A new method using lasers could be the key (theconversation.com)
Research reveals sources of CO2 from Aleutian-Alaska Arc volcanoes: Scientists have found what happens to the organic and inorganic carbon of the Earth's Pacific Plate (www.sciencedaily.com)
UKCEH at SETAC Europe 2023: exploring the sources, fate and effects of chemical pollution | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (www.ceh.ac.uk)
Lots of linked papers.