1+ week, 4+ 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,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (258+ words) As environmental conditions change, it is increasingly important to understand the structure and properties of the Earth’s critical zone, the layer where rock, soil, water, air, and living organisms meet and interact. While several geophysical methods provide images of the…...

3+ week, 3+ 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…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (308+ words) Rapid rock uplift biases estimate of channel steepness—numerical simulations predict that faster uplift generates longer hillslopes that extend well beyond the arbitrarily fixed catchment area that is used to mark where channels begin. The resulting estimates of local “channel…...