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Eos is the science news magazine published by AGU. Read about the latest climate and environmental news, exciting discoveries, and scientific endeavors to solve today’s most critical challenges.
The Climate and Health Impacts of Gasoline and Diesel Emissions
Apr 28, 2020 · New research tallies the effects of gas- and diesel-burning vehicle emissions on the climate, as well as on human health. Together, the emissions cause more than 200,000 premature deaths each year.
The Future of the Carbon Cycle in a Changing Climate - Eos
Feb 20, 2020 · Fig. 1. Carbon fluxes (in gigatons of carbon per year, GtCyr-1) of major anthropogenic sources (positive) and natural sinks (negative) demonstrate the corresponding increases in both from 1850 to ...
An Unbroken Record of Climate During the Age of Dinosaurs
May 17, 2021 · The second phase, SK-2, was completed in 2014–2018 in Anda County, Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province. SK-2 drilled to a depth of 7,018 meters, the deepest ever by an ICDP project at the time ...
A 1.4-Billion-Pixel Map of the Gulf of Mexico Seafloor - Eos
May 24, 2017 · A new bathymetry map, created by integrating many 3-D seismic surveys, reveals the Gulf of Mexico’s seafloor in unprecedented detail. Above is a snippet of this map, roughly 220 kilometers wide ...
The Looming Crisis of Sinking Ground in Mexico City - Eos
Apr 22, 2021 · Water flow in Mexico City in 2020. Before decades of heavy groundwater extraction, water flowed upward, artesian fashion, to the aquifer through basement and volcanic rock.
Three Times Tectonics Changed the Climate - Eos
Nov 22, 2019 · Fifty years after the birth of modern plate tectonics theory, a group of researchers highlights three key examples of how our planet’s shape-shifting outer layer has altered our climate.
Have You Seen Ball Lightning? Scientists Want to Know About It
Jul 15, 2021 · Graduate student Christopher Sterpka remembers the first time he saw ball lightning, as a 9- or 10-year-old staying at his grandparents’ house in West Hartford, Conn.
World’s Biggest Oxygen Producers Living in Swirling Ocean Waters
Sep 13, 2017 · Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. Plankton are not just one species of sea creature but, rather, a large variety of tiny organisms. Algae, bacteria, crustaceans, mollusks, and more ...