1+ week, 3+ day ago   (69+ words) Sarah Stanley, a freelance writer for Eos, has a background in environmental microbiology but covers a wide range of science stories for a variety of audiences. She has also written for PLOS, the University of Washington, Kaiser Permanente, Stanford Medicine,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (608+ words) Here, sediment deposits mark the high-water lines of floods that surged through the canyon centuries before any stream gauges were there to measure them. In particular, Baker and his colleagues studied slackwater deposits, fine-grained sediments emplaced by floodwaters in sheltered…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (566+ words) From 2020 to 2022, California faced one of its driest periods on record, in part because of human-caused climate change. Though the drought has eased, scientists have noticed lasting effects on the state’s aquifers that may affect their ability to store water…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (219+ words) Soil methanotrophs are organisms capable of biologically removing methane from the atmosphere. Current estimates vary widely, but soil methanotrophs may store an average of 28–35 gigatons of methane per year globally. And even that could be an underestimate, scientists suspect. Previous…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (236+ words) Active crustal deformation in the Eastern and Southern Alps demonstrating rigid block tectonics with indentation and lateral (out of orogen) crustal extrusion tectonics as the main players. Credit: Grützner et al. [2026], Figure 17 The Eastern and Southern Alps deform slowly compared…...