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The Northern Sargasso Sea Has Lost Much of Its Namesake Algae
1+ hour, 3+ min ago (250+ words) This is the only sea on Earth that has no physical boundaries." The Sargasso Sea is a geographical anomaly when it comes to bodies of water'it's bounded by ocean currents, not land. This is the only sea on Earth that…...
The shifting pattern of landslide risk in cities – an interesting case study from Medellín
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (326+ words) An fascinating case study from the 24 June 2025 Granizal landslide in Medell'n, Colombia, which killed 27 people and destroyed 50 homes, shows demonstrates that it is not just the urban poor that are exposed to landslides. The location of the headscarp of the…...
Muskegon Lake
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (329+ words) Muskegon Lake'eos.org Earth's estuaries are hot spots of carbon cycling. Muskegon Lake is a highly productive urbanized estuary that drains the second-largest watershed in Michigan into the second-largest Laurentian Great Lake: Lake Michigan. Our aim is to quantify the…...
Antarctic Sea Ice
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (125+ words) Antarctic Sea Ice'eos.org The ocean around Antarctica is critical to ocean circulation, climate, and ecosystems. There, vast quantities of heat and anthropogenic carbon are drawn down from the atmosphere and stored at depth, thus moderating the rate of global…...
Tyroler Fjord
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (135+ words) Tyroler Fjord'eos.org At the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet, glacial meltwater carves new rivers into the Arctic landscape. These icy flows carry sediments, nutrients, and freshwater to the ocean, where they alter ecosystems and carbon cycling. Here, at…...
What Could Happen to the Ocean’s Carbon If AMOC Collapses
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (374+ words) [A colorized image of the North Atlantic Ocean shows swirls of (from top to bottom) blue, green, yellow, and orange.]Mass glacier melting may have led this influential ocean current system to collapse at the end of the last ice…...
After Sackett, a Wisconsin-Sized Wetland Area Is Vulnerable
3+ day, 22+ min ago (766+ words) Three hundred years ago, the central United States was a land of wetlands'more than 150 million hectares of them. All that water made the region highly attractive to farmers, who, over time, converted most of it into agricultural land. For the…...
Las olas de calor marinas lentifican el flujo de carbono de los océanos
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (725+ words) This is an authorized translation of an Eos article. Esta es una traducci'n al espa'ol autorizada de un art'culo de Eos. Los investigadores descubrieron que la producci'n de materia org'nica increment' en la superficie del oc'ano durante las olas de…...
A landslide inventory that extends over a century in Alaska demonstrates that climate change is having a major impact
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (280+ words) The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Of course, allow me to start by wishing all my readers a Happy 2026. I suspect that we…...
Marine Heat Waves Can Exacerbate Heat and Humidity over Land
6+ day, 48+ min ago (213+ words) [Clouds hang low over the skyline of the city of Tokyo.]Researchers found the unprecedented 2023 East Asian marine heat wave increased land temperatures and humidity by up to 50%. [Clouds hang low over the skyline of the city of Tokyo.] In…...