🌿 #LivingData2027 is coming to Montréal! Submit a proposal for a session, workshop, panel discussion, or other creative format that brings together the biodiversity, data management, and collections communities. 📅 Submission deadline: 31 October 2026 🔗 livingdata2027.com

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#LivingData2027 is calling for session proposals 👥 Get organized with your peers 📄 Propose a session with the theme from Living Data to Ecological Intelligence 📩 Submit by 🗓️ 31 October. #LivingData #EcologicalIntelligence 🔗 tdwg.link/session-inst...

Our latest post to Substack explores what is happening with soil temperatures in Alaska. 🧪🔬🌲 Alaskan Soils Are Warming From the Surface Down criticalzonenews.substack.com/p/alaskan-so...

Alaskan Soils Are Warming From the Surface Down

Across Alaska, winter lays a white cover over tundra, forest, mountain pass, and coastal plain, but the ground beneath is not simply asleep.

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How does how land use regulate carbon storage and eutrophication risk in karst situations? Our latest post to Substack presents a study that considers this question. 🧪🔬💧 Land Use Turns Karst Water Into a Carbon Switch criticalzonenews.substack.com/p/land-use-t...

Land Use Turns Karst Water Into a Carbon Switch

In the karst hills of southwest China, water does not simply run downhill.

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🌱Soils support food, water, climate & biodiversity. Surveying people in Denmark, Spain & Ireland, we found similar soil values but different reasons behind them—showing soil policy needs shared goals plus locally adapted engagement 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/3nGF8IQ

EGU #Webinars: SciComm 101: How To Share Science Online ⏺️ The recording is now available on YouTube! 👀 Watch NOW: egu.eu/670AOT Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more videos: European Geosciences Union.

🎙️#EGUHydroTalks EP10: Ilias Pechlivanidis, future HS Division President on hydrometeorological forecasting 👋 Meet Dr. Ilias Pechlivanidis, Senior Researcher and Associate Professor in hydrology and water resources at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute 📹 Watch NOW: egu.eu/9SNTRQ

Lakes play an important role in the carbon cycle, but few studies have focused on high-elevation lakes. Our latest post to Substack follows this topic high into the Andes. 🧪🔬💧⛰️ Mountain Lakes Tell a Carbon Story Above the Clouds criticalzonenews.substack.com/p/mountain-l...

Mountain Lakes Tell a Carbon Story Above the Clouds

Above Cuenca, Ecuador, the lakes of Cajas National Park sit in a cold, bright world of grass, rock, wetland, and sky.

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It was another big fire summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Read about recent work to understand what comes next in our most recent post to Substack. 🧪🔬🌲 Fire Tests the Future of Northern Conifers substack.com/@criticalzon...

Fire Tests the Future of Northern Conifers

In the northwestern Canadian subarctic, the forest does not hurry back.

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Are you looking for a PhD project studying environmental drivers that influence human health and well-being? You might be interested in this new opportunity at the University of Toulouse: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr... #criticalzone #environment 🧪🔬💧

How can international research collaboration and networks can remain connected and resilient in an increasingly fragmented world? 🧪🔬 mountainresearchinitiative.org/news/keeping...

How does evolution of the Critical Zone relate to landslide risk? We spotlight a paper exploring that question in our latest post to Susbstack. 🧪🔬💧 Weathered Mountains Decide Which Slopes Fail substack.com/@criticalzon...

Weathered Mountains Decide Which Slopes Fail

In the mountains above Utuado, Puerto Rico, a hurricane does not arrive on a blank landscape.

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Water temperature is an important indicator of stream health. Read about mixing of water from urban and natural streams in our latest post to Substack. 🧪🔬💧 Urban Storms Send Heat Pulses Through Spring-Fed Streams criticalzonenews.substack.com/p/urban-stor...

Urban Storms Send Heat Pulses Through Spring-Fed Streams

A summer storm crosses State College, Pennsylvania, and the water begins to take sides.

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Check out this month's #EguPolicy newsletter📩! Discover the latest highlights in #Sci4Pol opportunities and events! 👀 Stay updated & read more here: egu.eu/1CMVWX

"According to the WMO’s new report, terrestrial #water storage—or the total stored in groundwater, lakes, rivers, soil moisture, vegetation, ice, and snow—has been falling since the mid-2010s." www.commondreams.org/news/un-wate...

'We Are Spending Our Reserves,' WMO Chief Warns as UN Drops Global Water Report | Common Dreams

"The buffers that have historically protected water security—snow, ice, groundwater—are eroding in many regions on a timescale of years, not overnight," the agency leader said, stressing "a sense of u...

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Knowing your soils is the first step in managing your soils well teagasc.ie/news--events... #SoilHealthWeek

Soil Health Week: Know your soil - Teagasc | Agriculture and Food Development Authority

Irish soils are remarkably diverse. More than 200 different soil types occur across the country, and it is common to find several soil types within the same farm, or even within a single field. As par...

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Where do different plants find their water in the soil? Read about some recent work on this topic on our latest post to Substack. 🧪🔬🌲 💧 Soil Moisture Decides When Roots Compete criticalzonenews.substack.com/p/soil-moist...

Soil Moisture Decides When Roots Compete

In a mixed landscape, the drama of survival is often underground.

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This coming Monday #SoilHealthWeek kicks off with the 'Secret Life of Soil' webinar and Q&A in association with the Irish Soil Biology Research network. Join us for a visual journey through the life in soil and all your #SoilHealth questions answered. Registration teagasc.ie/environment/...

#EGUWebinars: Beyond SciComm 101. In this #webinar, you will learn: -Why does science matter in multilateral environmental negotiations? -How can scientists effectively engage with decision makers? 📅Monday, 5 October 2026 at 11:00 CEST Register now: egu.eu/55PJGS 📸: Alexandra Kushnir on #imaggeo

What makes #carbon accumulate in #soils? Research profiled in our latest Substack post considers this question for alpine soils on the Tibetan Plateau. 🧪🔬 Fertilized Grasslands Reveal a Hidden Mineral Carbon Switch criticalzonenews.substack.com/p/fertilized...

Fertilized Grasslands Reveal a Hidden Mineral Carbon Switch

On a fenced alpine grassland in Xinjiang, China, the most consequential action may be happening below the reach of ordinary attention.

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How do forests work in climates where water arrives in the winter but summers feature drought? Read about it on our latest Substack. 🧪🔬💧🌲 Forests Shift Their Water Strategy From Snowmelt to Drought substack.com/@criticalzon...

Forests Shift Their Water Strategy From Snowmelt to Drought

High in the Sierra Nevada, a forested headwater catchment keeps time with snow, sun, and hidden water.

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A Giant Sequoia tree needs a lot of water. Where do they find it when soils seems so dry? Read about it in a recent post to our Substack. 🧪🧪💧🌲 Geophysics Reveals the Hidden Water Reservoirs Beneath Sequoias substack.com/@criticalzon...

Geophysics Reveals the Hidden Water Reservoirs Beneath Sequoias

In Yosemite’s Mariposa Grove, a giant sequoia is not merely tall; it is improbable at every scale.

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🚨 A friendly reminder to submit your manuscript to one of our special issues:

Our lastest post to Substack. 🧪🔬💧 Rain Carries a Hidden Chemistry From Air to Ecosystems substack.com/@criticalzon...

Rain Carries a Hidden Chemistry From Air to Ecosystems

A storm begins above the forest as weather, but inside each falling drop is a small chemical spacecraft, carrying evidence from trees, microbes, fires, cities, aerosols, clouds, and sunlight.

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Water-rock interactions are a big part of what happens in the Critical Zone. Read about some of the complexity in our latest Substack article. 🧪🪣🔬 Acid Rain Meets Its Match Beneath the Red Soil substack.com/@criticalzon...

Acid Rain Meets Its Match Beneath the Red Soil

In the red-soil hills of subtropical China, rain begins its descent with a hidden burden of acid.

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Predicting how much runoff a watershed will produce in response to a given amount of precipitation is surprisingly difficult, as explored in our latest Substack article. 🧪🔬🪣 Catchments Change Their Rules When Wetness Connects the Landscape criticalzonenews.substack.com/p/catchments...

Catchments Change Their Rules When Wetness Connects the Landscape

At the beginning of a storm, a catchment can seem quiet, almost undecided.

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Trees store carbon, but how can we better estimate how much carbon is in an entire forest? Read about progress in this direction in our latest Substack article: The Forest Carbon Ledger Depends on Each Tree’s Chemistry substack.com/@criticalzon... 🧪🔬🌲

The Forest Carbon Ledger Depends on Each Tree’s Chemistry

In a temperate forest beside a lake in Ontario, the future of climate accounting is hidden in tree trunks.

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Carbon Removal Depends on the Journey Underground

A handful of crushed basalt looks like a simple climate instrument: dark grains, volcanic origin, a mineral future scattered across a field.

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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/

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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