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A mysterious, highly active undersea volcano near California could erupt later in 2025: What scientists expect

Phys.org: Earth science - Wed, 05/21/2025 - 11:01
A mysterious and highly active undersea volcano off the Pacific Coast could erupt by the end of this year, scientists say.

The 21 May 2025 update on the landslide threatening Blatten in Switzerland

EOS - Wed, 05/21/2025 - 06:06

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognised as a world leader in the study and management of landslides.

News this morning from Blatten in Switzerland is that the landslide on Kleiner Nesthorn has continued to develop. Blue News reports that:

“The situation in Blatten in the Valais Lötschental remained tense during the night to Wednesday. According to a spokesperson for the Lötschental regional command post, there were further small rockfalls. The pile of rubble on the Birch Glacier had grown.

“There is still a lot of movement on the Kleiner Nesthorn. A constant rumbling could be heard during the night, said the spokesperson at the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency.”

During yesterday, rockfalls occurred continuously, and it appears that a substantial volume of material has now been evacuated from the site.

Swisstopo has made aerial photography of the site publicly available – the best way to view this is on their visualisation tool.

The Google Earth image below shows the site, with Blatten in the valley and the marker located in the path of the part of the slope that has failed to date:-

Google Earth image from 2022 showing the site of the landslide on Kleiner Nesthorn above Blatten in Switzerland.

There is much interest in the potential behaviour of the small ice sheet – the  Birch Glacier – just below the marker on the image above, which has accelerated during this period. Rockfall debris falling onto glaciers can cause a change in their behaviour. Whilst I don’t have full details, the concern is likely to focus on either the glacier destabilising and collapsing into the valley, or a large landslide entraining the glacier to form a rock and ice avalanche.

Neither of these scenarios is inevitable (indeed, very little is truly inevitable at this stage), but they would be at the upper end of the range of severity of potential events.

Melaine Le Roy continues to provide excellent updates on the events via his BlueSky feed. Yesterday morning, he posted this animation of the development of the failure:-

https://bsky.app/profile/subfossilguy.bsky.social/post/3lplsxku2a222

This provides a fantastic illustration of the scale of the landslide that is developing above Blatten.

Finally, AZPost has some amazing footage of “smaller” collapses occurring on the mountain:-

This includes this still of the upper part of the collapsing slope:-

The upper part of the landslide on Kleiner Nesthorn above Blatten in Switzerland. Still from a video posted to Youtube by AZPost.

The video shows that there is a long way to go before this event is over.

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The crustal and uppermost mantle dynamics of the South China block revealed by P-wave velocity and azimuthal anisotropic tomography

Geophysical Journal International - Wed, 05/21/2025 - 00:00
SummaryThe South China block (SCB) formed after the collision between the Yangtze craton and the Cathaysia block along the Jiangnan orogenic belt at 980–820 Ma. Afterward, intense tectonic activity occurred in the SCB in the early Paleozoic and early Mesozoic. In the Mid–Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous, the SCB experienced vigorous magmatic activity, which resulted in assemblage of mineralogenetic materials in the Youjiang basin (YB), Southeast coastal metallogenic belt (SCMB) and Wuyishan metallogenic belt (WMB). The mechanisms involved in the formation of various types of metallic ore deposits have attracted considerable attention. However, the crustal and uppermost mantle dynamics of the metallogenic mechanisms are still controversial. To address this issue, we conducted seismic tomography to image the velocity and azimuthal anisotropy of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the SCB. In this study, an eikonal equation-based traveltime tomography method was used to invert a total of 143,473 high-quality P-wave first arrivals, which were obtained by manually picking the seismic waveforms of 3615 regional earthquakes recorded by 892 broadband seismic stations. After the inversion, we derived high-resolution images, in which we identified a strong low-velocity anomaly and weak azimuthal anisotropy in the uppermost mantle of the northern YB. Below the SCMB, a low-velocity body extends from the uppermost mantle to the bottom of the crust; the azimuthal anisotropy of the uppermost mantle is weak and does not exhibit a consistent fast-velocity direction (FVD). These characteristics can be attributed to the upwelling of hot materials and crustal partial melting. For both the northern YB and SCMB, the low-velocity anomaly is probably related to hot property of the uppermost mantle and weak azimuthal anisotropy may be due to the nearly vertical α-axis of olivine. These features indicate the upwelling of hot materials beneath the YB. The upwelling of hot materials carried metal elements from deep mantle to shallow crust, resulting in metal deposits. Beneath the WMB, the lower crust and uppermost mantle show high-velocity anomalies and moderate strong azimuthal anisotropy with a consistent NE–SW-oriented FVD. The high-velocity anomalies reflect cold and rigid properties of the lower crust and the uppermost mantle beneath the WMB; consistent FVD of azimuthal anisotropy may indicate ancient fossil anisotropy. These features suggest ancient continental relicts of the Cathaysia block under the WMB.

3D wave propagation and earthquake dynamic rupture simulations in complex poroelastic media

Geophysical Journal International - Wed, 05/21/2025 - 00:00
SummaryNumerical simulations of earthquakes and seismic wave propagation require accurate material models of the solid Earth. In contrast to purely elastic rheology, poroelasticity accounts for pore fluid pressure and fluid flow in porous media. Poroelastic effects can alter both the seismic wave field and the dynamic rupture characteristics of earthquakes. For example, the presence of fluids may affect cascading multi-fault ruptures, potentially leading to larger-than-expected earthquakes. However, incorporating poroelastic coupling into the elastodynamic wave equations increases the computational complexity of numerical simulations compared to elastic or viscoelastic material models, as the underlying partial differential equations become stiff. In this study, we use a Discontinuous Galerkin solver with Arbitrary High-Order DERivative time stepping (ADER-DG) of the poroelastic wave equations implemented in the open-source software SeisSol to simulate 3D complex seismic wave propagation and 3D dynamic rupture in poroelastic media. We verify our approach for double-couple point sources using independent methods including a semi-analytical solution and a finite-difference scheme and a homogeneous full-space and a poroelastic layer-over-half-space model, respectively. In a realistic carbon capture and storage (CCS) reservoir scenario at the Sleipner site in the Utsira Formation, Norway, we model 3D wave propagation through poroelastic sandstone layers separated by impermeable shale. Our results show a sudden change in the pressure field across material interfaces, which manifests as a discontinuity when viewed at the length scale of the dominant wavelengths of S- or fast P-waves. Accurately resolving the resulting steep pressure gradient dramatically increases the computational demands, requiring high-resolution modeling. We show that the Gassmann elastic equivalent model yields almost identical results to the fully poroelastic model when focusing solely on solid particle velocities. We extend this approach using suitable numerical fluxes to 3D dynamic rupture simulations in complex fault systems, presenting the first 3D scenarios that combine poroelastic media with geometrically complex, multi-fault rupture dynamics and tetrahedral meshes. Our findings reveal that, in contrast to modeling wave propagation only, poroelastic materials significantly alter rupture characteristics compared to using elastic equivalent media since the elastic equivalent fails to capture the evolution of pore pressure. Particularly in fault branching scenarios, the Biot coefficient plays a key role in either promoting or inhibiting fault activation. In some cases, ruptures are diverted to secondary faults, while in others, poroelastic effects induce rupture arrest. In a fault zone dynamic rupture model, we find poroelasticity aiding pulse-like rupture. A healing front is induced by the reduced pore pressure due to reflected waves from the boundaries of the poroelastic damage zone. Our results highlight that poroelastic effects are important for realistic simulations of seismic waves and earthquake rupture dynamics. In particular, our poroelastic simulations may offer new insights on the complexity of multi-fault rupture dynamics, fault-to-fault interaction and seismic wave propagation in realistic models of the Earth’s subsurface.

CO2 monitoring at Sleipner field using reflection oriented full waveform inversion: Part 2 - 4D investigation

Geophysical Journal International - Wed, 05/21/2025 - 00:00
SummaryIn this work we apply a dedicated 4D full waveform inversion workflow to short offset streamer data from the Sleipner CO2 storage field in the North Sea. We consider a baseline dataset acquired in 1994 and a monitor dataset acquired in 2008. Accessing to only short offset data raises significant difficulties for full waveform inversion. In this case the penetration of diving waves, which controls the depth where quantitative updates of the velocity can be expected, do not reach the zone of interest where the CO2 is injected. For this reason, we propose to combine an efficient time-lapse full waveform inversion strategy, which we call simultaneous, with a reflection oriented full waveform inversion workflow. The latter has been introduced in the literature as a way to circumvent short-offset limitation and increase the ability of full waveform inversion to update the macro-velocity model at depth by exploiting the reflection paths, using a prior step of impedance reconstruction. We first illustrate the interest of this combined strategy on a 2D synthetic model inspired from the Sleipner area. Then we apply it to the Sleipner field data, using as baseline model the one we present in a companion paper, where our reflection oriented workflow is presented. Our combined approach yields reliable estimates of the changes due to the CO2 injection, characterized by velocity reductions of up to 400 m.s−1 and strong impedance contrasts at depths of 800-1000 m, which consistent with previous FWI studies. Furthermore, the spatial distribution of CO2 changes aligns with conventional seismic time-migration results from earlier studies, following a north-south migration trend.

Government Will Reduce Access to COVID-19 Vaccine

EOS - Tue, 05/20/2025 - 20:51
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Officials from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Tuesday that only adults older than 65 and people with specific medical conditions will be considered eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations this fall.

Healthy Americans younger than 65 may be eligible for vaccine boosters depending on the outcomes of new clinical trials.

FDA commissioner Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, published the agency’s new framework in the New England Journal of Medicine. They wrote that that the United States’ existing policy is more aggressive than those in European nations and Canada, most of which recommend COVID-19 boosters primarily for older adults and those classified as high-risk.

“The FDA will approve vaccines for high-risk persons and, at the same time, demand robust, gold-standard data on persons at low risk,” they wrote.

Makary and Prasad used the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) definition of “high risk” conditions, which includes asthma, cancer, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, heart disease, pregnancy, and tuberculosis.

The FDA also approved a new COVID-19 vaccine from Novavax on 17 May, with similar limitations.

 
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Fewer Americans are opting into COVID boosters, with CDC data reporting that just 23% of adults and 13% of those under 18 had received the 2024-2025 vaccine as of 26 April.

However, COVID-19 still presents a danger. The CDC estimates that between 1 October 2024 and 10 May 2025, there were 260,000 to 430,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations and 30,000 to 50,000 COVID-19 deaths. Research has found that environmental factors, such as exposure to air pollution and proximity to gas and oil wells, can increase the likelihood or severity of the disease.

“This an anti-science move that will kill more Americans,” Lucky Tran, a scientist and public health communicator based in New York, wrote on Bluesky.

Under its new leadership — who spread misinformation throughout the pandemic — the FDA announced it will limit all Covid vaccines to adults over 65 and those with certain medical conditions.Covid continues to spread and cause harm. This an anti-science move that will kill more Americans.

Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) 2025-05-20T17:43:11.744Z

—Emily Dieckman (@emfurd.bsky.social), Associate Editor

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New research links global climate patterns to wildfires in Los Angeles

Phys.org: Earth science - Tue, 05/20/2025 - 20:34
As wildfires continue to ravage regions from Los Angeles to South Korea, a new study featured on the cover of Advances in Atmospheric Sciences sheds light on the large-scale climate patterns influencing these devastating global extreme events.

Clouding the forecast: Why so many climate models are wrong about rate of Arctic warming

Phys.org: Earth science - Tue, 05/20/2025 - 19:51
The Arctic is one of the coldest places on Earth, but in recent decades, the region has been rapidly warming, at a rate three to four times faster than the global average. However, current climate models have been unable to account for this increased pace.

Storm Prediction Gets 10 Times Faster Thanks to AI

EOS - Tue, 05/20/2025 - 13:23
Source: Geophysical Research Letters

Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can produce weather predictions more quickly than traditional algorithms for a fraction of the computational cost. But because training AI takes such large amounts of data, it has so far been most successful at producing global-scale forecasts. Until recently, researchers lacked the data needed to train algorithms to predict small-scale weather patterns such as thunderstorms.

Flora and Potvin extended AI-based weather forecasting to thunderstorm-scale events by training Google’s neural network GraphCast on data from NOAA’s Warn-on-Forecast System. The Warn-on-Forecast research project generates high-resolution forecasts for areas likely to experience extreme weather with the aim of issuing earlier warnings for tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, and flash floods.

The AI model, named WoFSCast, learned the dynamics of key thunderstorm features, including updrafts, which feed thermodynamic energy into storms, and cold air pockets that form beneath storms, which influence how storms move and grow.

The model yielded largely accurate predictions of how storms would evolve for up to 2 hours; these predictions matched 70% to 80% of those generated by the Warn-on-Forecast system. The process of generating a prediction took only 30–40 seconds using one graphical processing unit. That’s at least a factor of 10 faster than using the current Warn-on-Forecast System to generate forecasts without AI.

With additional training data, the researchers suggest that WoFSCast could become even more versatile, predicting surface winds and rainfall within landfalling tropical cyclones, as well as how wildfires will spread, for instance. By using an AI-enhanced system, the National Weather Service may be able to issue severe weather warnings more quickly and reduce the harm caused by these extreme events. (Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL112383, 2025)

—Saima May Sidik (@saimamay.bsky.social), Science Writer

Citation: Sidik, S. M. (2025), Storm prediction gets 10 times faster thanks to AI, Eos, 106, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EO250159. Published on 20 May 2025. Text © 2025. AGU. CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
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Artisanal Gold Mining Is Destroying Amazonian Peatlands

EOS - Tue, 05/20/2025 - 13:22

For decades, wounds have surfaced in the Peruvian Amazon where the Rio Inambari merges with the Rio Madre de Dios, carving thick gashes into ancient tree stands. These almost lunar scars of barren rubble were formed at the hands of a growing enterprise capitalizing on gold that the rivers deposit throughout their floodplains.

A new study published in Environmental Research Letters shows that the spread of this devastation has quickened and increasingly affected a unique Amazonian ecosystem. Peatland swamps safeguard meters-deep deposits of carbon accumulated over millennia and contain unique assemblages of life distinct from the surrounding rain forest.

Around 15 years ago, “there was mining in peatlands, but it was the exception.”

Around 15 years ago, Ethan Householder first visited the Madre de Dios region, where 70% of artisanal gold mining takes place in Peru. Peatlands are dispersed in small pockets throughout the enormous Madre de Dios floodplain, which stretches into Bolivia, where the river’s confluence with the Mamore forms the Madeira and eventually empties into the Amazon itself.

Householder, a community ecologist at Germany’s Karlsruher Institut für Technologie and a study coauthor, recalled that at that time, “there was mining in peatlands, but it was the exception.”

Now, he and his colleagues have found that peat mining is surging in the region.

To determine how artisanal gold mining (defined as subsistence or small scale and often illegal) has affected peatlands along the Rio Madre de Dios, the team searched through decades of satellite imagery for sudden drops in the greenness of the forest canopy that might signal deforestation. Then, they looked for spectral information indicative of mining activity: the buildup of gravel and sand, for example, and the presence of water-filled pits at the site of formerly forested land.

Using a machine learning algorithm trained to pick out pixels that met those criteria, the team combed through imagery from 1985 to 2023. They found that more than 11,000 hectares of forest along the river had been converted to mines, with most of the growth taking place since the mid-2010s.

Studies like this “are all puzzle pieces of evidence saying this is a huge issue and still not resolved.”

The analysis found more than 550 hectares associated with mining activity in peatlands. Though that’s just a fraction of the total area that’s been mined, research showed that peatland mines have expanded faster than mining in the forest at large in recent years. (Fifty-five percent of peatland loss occurred within the past 2 years.)

Already, digging up these peatlands has released anywhere from 200,000 to 700,000 metric tons of carbon stored belowground—in addition to the carbon released from the loss of trees and plant life above it. If all the peat in the Madre de Dios region is lost, some 17 million metric tons of long-sequestered carbon could be released.

Mining in the Amazonian peatlands “is basically the entire force of global capitalism on top of one of the most carbon-rich habitats on Earth,” Householder said.

The new work continues and expands the story of how gold mining is degrading the Amazon, said Greg Asner, a conservation ecologist at Arizona State University who has been studying the effects of gold mining on the Peruvian Amazon since the early 2010s. To him, studies like this “are all puzzle pieces of evidence saying this is a huge issue and still not resolved.”

—Syris Valentine (@shapersyris.bsky.social), Science Writer

Citation: Valentine, S. (2025), Artisanal gold mining is destroying Amazonian peatlands, Eos, 106, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EO250195. Published on 20 May 2025. Text © 2025. The authors. CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
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地下洪水:海平面上升的隐形风险

EOS - Tue, 05/20/2025 - 13:21
Source: Earth’s Future

This is an authorized translation of an Eos article. 本文是Eos文章的授权翻译。

随着气候变化持续推动全球海平面上升,许多生活在沿海地区的居民已感受到其影响。海岸侵蚀正在加速,海岸线向内陆移动,风暴潮也愈演愈烈。但隐藏在地表之下的还有另一个迄今为止鲜为人知的严重后果:地下水位上升。

有证据表明,在一些地势低洼、地下水位较浅的沿海地区,海平面上升将导致地下水位同步上升,这可能会给住宅、企业和其他基础设施带来严重风险。

在一篇聚焦新西兰沿海城市达尼丁的新论文中,Cox等人展示了一种预测海平面上升如何改变地下水位,从而增加内陆洪涝灾害的方法。达尼丁南部已经经历了周期性洪涝灾害,随着海平面上升,洪涝灾害将变得更加严峻。研究人员将该城市描述为新西兰社区应对和适应气候变化和海平面上升的典范。

研究人员使用了2019年至2023年的数据,这些数据来自安装在达尼丁低洼沿海地区的35个地下水传感器网络,该市的大部分基础设施都位于该区域。他们将传感器数据与潮汐、降雨和其他因素的数据进行比较,来预测未来海平面上升对地下水的影响。

研究结果表明,海平面上升首先会导致地下水位上升,从而降低土地吸收降雨的能力。随着海平面继续上升,地下水位可能会进一步上升,并在地下水位以下造成问题,例如淹没污水处理系统、渗入地下室以及破坏建筑物地基。最终,地下水可能会上升到足够高的地方,形成泉水,引发洪水。

研究人员得出结论,地下水位上升造成的洪水灾害可能向内陆延伸到比许多人预期的更远的地方。此外,假设达尼丁沙丘屏障的防护地形不发生重大变化,这些地下水效应将比海平面上升直接造成的洪水更早发生。

研究人员指出,他们的方法包含关键的假设和不确定性——例如,地下水和海平面将以相同的速度上升,地下水位将保持大致相同的形状,但保守的预测对于达尼丁的规划和灾害管理具有重要价值。他们表示,由于该方法相对简单且成本低廉,因此也可以应用到世界各地类似的沿海地区。 (Earth’s Future, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF004977, 2025)

—科学撰稿人Sarah Stanley

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Inferring River Discharge from Google Earth Images

EOS - Tue, 05/20/2025 - 12:00
Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors. Source: Geophysical Research Letters 

River discharge is an important variable for a wide range of water management applications, yet many rivers (even in the United States) remain ungauged or under-gauged due to the difficulty of conventional field methods, especially in regions of complex terrains. Existing remote sensing methods need gauge data for calibration and are subject to other limitations.

Legleiter et al. [2025] propose a new image-based method to infer river discharge based on critical flow theory. Specifically, slope transitions (from steep to mild) or channel constrictions can induce critical flow conditions, causing undular hydraulic jumps in the form of well-defined standing wave trains. For critical flow (with Froude number equal to 1), the spacing of the waves, the velocity of the flow, and the depth of the water are all uniquely related to one another, so the discharge can be calculated from basic measurements of wavelength and channel width.

The newly proposed method is used to derive discharges from 82 Google Earth images, which agreed closely with gauge records, providing preliminary confirmation for the reliability of the method. Although the method is only applicable to rivers with standing waves (which typically occur on steep slopes or near channel constrictions), these conditions are frequently met in mountainous regions, exactly where new monitoring methods are the most needed due to the lack or sparsity of gauge stations. This study provides a foundation for further evaluation and refinement of the theoretically grounded approach to river discharge estimation.

Citation: Legleiter, C. J., Grant, G., Bae, I., Fasth, B., Yager, E., White, D. C., et al. (2025). Remote sensing of river discharge based on critical flow theory. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL114851. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL114851   

—Guiling Wang, Editor, Geophysical Research Letters

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1.5°C Paris Climate Agreement target may be too high for polar ice sheets and sea level rise

Phys.org: Earth science - Tue, 05/20/2025 - 09:00
Efforts to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C under the Paris Climate Agreement may not go far enough to save the world's ice sheets, according to a study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.

The incipient major rock slope failure at Blatten in Switzerland

EOS - Tue, 05/20/2025 - 08:20

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides.

In Switzerland, a dramatic rock slope failure is developing above Blatten [46.4128, 7.7987], a village located in Vallais Canton.

Blue News is providing regular updates on a dedicated website. The drama started at the weekend with a major landslide in the Petit Nesthorn area, which impacted and entrained a part of the Birch glacier. This has resulted in evacuation of the majority of the population of Blatten.

There is little doubt that a major instability has developed. The estimated scale of the instable mass is up to 5 million cubic metres. At least 17 metres of displacement have been recorded in the last few days.

Melaine Le Roy is providing detailed coverage of the evolution of the event on BlueSky. Hopefully, you’ll be able to view one of his posts below, which shows the extraordinary scale of the mobile mass:-

INSANE !!

Amazon forest loss leads to measurable drop in regional rainfall

Phys.org: Earth science - Mon, 05/19/2025 - 18:23
The Amazon Basin lost about 27,000 square kilometers of forest each year from 2001 to 2016. By 2021, about 17% of the basin had been deforested.

Scientists use salinity to trace changes in the US Northeast coastal ocean

Phys.org: Earth science - Mon, 05/19/2025 - 16:25
The near-bottom water in the U.S. Northeast continental shelf provides a critical cold-water habitat for the rich regional marine ecosystem. This "cold pool" preserves winter temperatures, even when waters become too warm or salty elsewhere during the summer.

Why is southern Australia in drought—and when will it end?

Phys.org: Earth science - Mon, 05/19/2025 - 16:17
Swathes of South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia are in the grip of drought as they experience some of the lowest rainfall totals on record.

Model suggests impact of global warming on AMOC has led to increased flooding along US Northeast Coast

Phys.org: Earth science - Mon, 05/19/2025 - 15:30
A team of geophysicists and atmospheric scientists at Princeton's NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science has found evidence that a warming planet over the past 15 to 20 years has impacted the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and led to an increase in the number of flooding events along parts of the U.S. Northeast Coast (USNEC).

Glaciers will take centuries to recover even if global warming is reversed, scientists warn

Phys.org: Earth science - Mon, 05/19/2025 - 15:28
New research reveals mountain glaciers across the globe will not recover for centuries—even if human intervention cools the planet back to the 1.5°C limit, having exceeded it.

Seaweed surges may alter Arctic fjord carbon dynamics

Phys.org: Earth science - Mon, 05/19/2025 - 14:22
In high-latitude Arctic fjords, warming seas and reduced sea ice are boosting seaweed growth. This expansion of seaweed "forests" could alter the storage and cycling of carbon in coastal Arctic ecosystems, but few studies have explored these potential effects.

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