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Northern Lakes Release Methane in Bursts the Climate Models Must Catch -- Another July post to our Substack. 🧪🌐 open.substack.com/pub/critical...
Northern Lakes Release Methane in Bursts the Climate Models Must Catch
On a still Swedish lake, the surface can look like a sheet of dark glass, holding forest, clouds, and sky in one unbroken reflection.
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Dust isn't just a feature of the desert; #dust deposition changes the #ecology of mountain #lakes too. Read how in our Substack. 🧪🌐 open.substack.com/pub/critical...
Dust Turns Western Lakes Into Living Climate Sensors
On a summer day in the western United States, a lake can look like a polished fragment of sky, blue at the surface and quiet enough to seem untouched by the deserts beyond the ridge.
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Read about how #dust deposition changes the timing of mountain snowmelt in our Substack. 🧪🌐 open.substack.com/pub/critical...
Dark Snow Moves the Mountain Calendar
In the headwaters above the Great Salt Lake, spring does not arrive only by temperature.
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Catching up on some of our July posts to Substack 🧪🌐 open.substack.com/pub/critical...
Alpine Springs Reveal the Hidden Chemistry of Disappearing Ice
High in the Alps, water appears where the mountain seems least willing to give it up: below a rock glacier, at the foot of a young moraine, beneath a talus slope of broken stone, beside the pale edge ...
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The call for #session #proposals for the #EGU27 General Assembly is now open 🙌! Session proposals are welcome for both virtual and on-site participation at the EGU General Assembly, taking place from 4–9 April 2027 in Vienna, Austria. 📆: 23 September 2026. 👉 Submit here: https://www.egu27.eu/
Almost every European plant species is out of equilibrium. Climate change is only part of the story—disturbance greatly shapes where species actually occur. 🚨Our new paper 🌱in @natecoevo.nature.com analysed 3,047 species across >1.1M European vegetation plots. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Registration for the @egu.eu supported Mary Anning Conference closes next week. Talks and discussions on #CO2, #water and #ecosystem function across scales meetings.copernicus.org/mac1-coupling/ in #Bordeaux 10-12th June 2025 at @inrae-france.bsky.social @egubg.bsky.social #biogeosciences
Are you an #ECS looking for a meaningful way to make an impact beyond research? Then it's time to join the #EGU Special Activity Fund's Mission Earth project! 👀 Interested in learning more? 🔗 Register here: egu.eu/7YNU7B 📷 Marc Girons Lopez on imaggeo.egu.eu
Share your Critical Zone research in San Francisco during #AGU26. Submit your abstract today. 🌐🧪
AGU26 Annual Meeting | AGU
AGU’s annual meeting, the largest gathering of Earth and space scientists, convenes 20,000+ attendees from 100+ countries to share research, connect, collaborate, and inspire one another. Join us for...
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📰 Special Issue: Clay matters for soil enzymes—but not all enzymes respond the same way. This study shows that acid and alkaline phosphatases interact differently with soil texture. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Clay differentially influence phosphatase activities in soil
Phosphatase enzymes play a critical role in soil phosphorus cycling, yet acid phosphatase (ACP) and alkaline phosphatase (AKP) differ markedly in thei…
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Soil fungi help drive nutrient cycling, support plant growth and contribute to #carbonstorage. A new review examines how fungal diversity shapes #ecosystems, agriculture and #health, while influencing the resilience of soils to environmental change. #Science #Environment #Fungi DOI: doi.org/hb783q
Soil fungal diversity shapes ecosystems, agriculture and health • Muser Press
Beneath forests, grasslands and farmland, fungal communities help drive nutrient cycling, carbon storage and plant growth. A review published in Nature
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⏰ Reminder: #AI4PEX Science Talks take place this Thursday! 🌍 Hadi Shokati AI for soil erosion, flood segmentation & rainfall erosivity forecasting 🧠 René Geist SoftJAX & SoftTorch: differentiable programming for scientific ML 📅 Thursday, 25 June 2026, 13:00 CEST 👉 Register now! buff.ly/ISWKn3W
Not sure where to publish your data? Meet the Repositories brings together chemistry-friendly repositories to discuss scope, use cases & FAIR data publishing. Find the right home for your research data—and ask repository experts directly. 🧪 30.06.2026, 10-12 am https://t1p.de/jpjfc #OpenScience
@jo-soltwedel.bsky.social presenting about how important FAIR data management is for efficiently leveraging AI in a trustworthy manner. Small differences in underlying data annotation and metadata can effect AI-based analysis output a lot. #ELMI2026 @gerbi-gmb.de #OME-Zarr
65% of EU countries have policies on FAIR Data, but gaps remain in implementation. With EOSC Track, we monitor how FAIR principles are adopted across Europe. 👉 Explore it: www.eoscobservatory.eu/explore/open... #EOSCTrack #FAIRdata #OpenScience #DataStewardship #ResearchData #EOSC #OpenResearch
Across the forests of Southeast Asia, climate pressure does not arrive as a single force. Heat, drying air, shifting rainfall, and rising atmospheric demand combine in different ways across landscapes, reshaping the conditions under which tropical forests persist and store carbon: bit.ly/4vT433q
Beneath every field lies information waiting to be measured. As agriculture becomes increasingly connected, sensors are moving beyond isolated probes toward flexible materials that blend into the soil itself, transforming the ground into an active source of environmental intelligence: bit.ly/4oS23q9
By linking hydraulic monitoring, machine learning, and subsurface flow processes, this study situates seepage analysis within a broader water-management system where engineering design, geological properties, and groundwater dynamics collectively influence infrastructure performance: bit.ly/4xA9fek
Rapid detection methods are important for recreational water management, where delays in contamination assessment can affect both public health decisions and public confidence in water quality monitoring. Read more in this thesis from McGill University student Michelle Pelletier: bit.ly/4fR0mXs
"Since the '70s, enrichment factor analysis has been used to separate natural mineral inheritance from human-added contamination. Sediment Quality Guidelines gave researchers a way to compare chemical concentrations with likely biological effects. Here, the authors add labile fraction measurements."
Lagoon Sediments Reveal a City’s Chemical Future
At the bottom of a lagoon, the future keeps a ledger in grains smaller than dust.
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Independent evaluation of global high-resolution soil moisture products highlights the importance of rigorous validation beyond training datasets, particularly as these products become increasingly integrated into agricultural, hydrological, and disaster-management applications. 🌐🧪
An independent evaluation of global 1 km soil moisture products using in-situ and airborne observations
High-resolution soil moisture data are essential for applications in agriculture, hydrology, and disaster management. Four global daily SM products at…
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High-resolution mapping of soil organic matter and salinity offers a more precise basis for identifying degradation hotspots, supporting efforts to balance agricultural productivity with long-term soil conservation. 🌐🧪
Large-scale monitoring of soil organic matter and salinization using satellite hyperspectral imagery and a deep residual attention network
Soil degradation threatens environmental health and sustainable land use, with declining soil organic matter (SOM) and increasing salinization being two key manifestations. Accurate assessment of the ...
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In alpine grassland soils, microbes face a changing nutritional landscape as nitrogen accumulates over time. Their response is not simply to grow faster; instead, communities reorganize, altering how efficiently carbon is transformed and stored within the soil. 🌐🧪
Long-term nitrogen enrichment reduces microbial carbon use efficiency by restructuring active microbial metabolism
Soil microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) is a key regulator of terrestrial carbon (C) cycling and storage. Although nitrogen enrichment is widesprea…
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"Early plastisphere work leaned heavily toward oceans, but the authors point out that “freshwater plastisphere studies remain comparatively limited,” especially in reservoirs that supply drinking water." 🌐🧪
Tiny Plastic Cities Reveal the Secret Societies in Source Water
At first, the story is almost too small to see: a speck drifting beneath a quiet surface, carrying a private city of cells.
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