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Extreme Climate Pushed Thousands of Lakes in West Greenland ‘Across a Tipping Point,’ Study Finds
West Greenland is home to tens of thousands of blue lakes that provide residents drinking water and sequester carbon from the atmosphere.
Meltwater Ponds on the Amery Ice Shelf
Toward the end of 2024, less than halfway through the melt season in Antarctica, the icy continent had already seen bouts of widespread melting along its coastal areas.
UO’s Earthquake Scientists Help Prep for the Next ‘Big One’
It's been 325 years since the last huge Cascadia shock, and researchers are getting ready for another with an array of new tools.
New Water Purification Technology Helps Turn Seawater into Drinking Water Without Tons of Chemicals
Water desalination plants could replace expensive chemicals with new carbon cloth electrodes that remove boron from seawater, an important step of turning seawater into safe drinking water.
NASA’s Hubble Traces Hidden History of Andromeda Galaxy
In the years following the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe.