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November issue out now: featuring Articles on a record retreat rate of a grounded glacier, carbon transport during drought and a proto-Earth component in the mantle, a Focus on volcanic hazards & risk mitigation since the 1985 Armero disaster, and more!
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Happy to share this new paper about the 2025 Mandalay earthquake discussing the seismic gap idea. Have a look here: rdcu.be/ePUg4
Seismic gap breached by the 2025 Mw 7.7 Mandalay (Myanmar) earthquake
Nature Geoscience - The 2025 Mw 7.7 Mandalay earthquake in Myanmar breached and propagated beyond a long-quiescent segment owing to a mechanically weak barrier at the segment boundary and distant...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Happy to share this new paper about the 2025 Mandalay earthquake discussing the seismic gap idea. Have a look here: rdcu.be/ePUg4
⚒️ Article: Methane emissions from mangrove tree stems offset about 17% of the carbon buried in sediments in global mangroves
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November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
⚒️ Article: Methane emissions from mangrove tree stems offset about 17% of the carbon buried in sediments in global mangroves
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⚒️ Article: The 2025 Mw 7.7 Sagaing earthquake in Myanmar breached and propagated beyond a long-quiescent segment due to a mechanically weak barrier at the segment boundary and distant nucleation
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November 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
⚒️ Article: The 2025 Mw 7.7 Sagaing earthquake in Myanmar breached and propagated beyond a long-quiescent segment due to a mechanically weak barrier at the segment boundary and distant nucleation
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Our paper "Nitrite accumulation in marine oxygen minimum zones induced by microbial nitrite consumers" is online @natgeosci.nature.com! We found that microbial nitrite consumers counterintuitively lead to nitrite accumulation in marine oxygen minimum zones! 🦠 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nitrite accumulation in marine oxygen minimum zones induced by microbial nitrite consumers - Nature Geoscience
Despite being consumers, nitrite-oxidizing bacteria contribute to the accumulation of nitrite in marine oxygen minimum zones through interactions with other microbes, in particular denitrifiers, accor...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Our paper "Nitrite accumulation in marine oxygen minimum zones induced by microbial nitrite consumers" is online @natgeosci.nature.com! We found that microbial nitrite consumers counterintuitively lead to nitrite accumulation in marine oxygen minimum zones! 🦠 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
⚒️ Article: Nitrite-oxidizing bacteria contribute to the accumulation of nitrite in marine oxygen minimum zones through interactions with other microbes
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Nitrite accumulation in marine oxygen minimum zones induced by microbial nitrite consumers - Nature Geoscience
Despite being consumers, nitrite-oxidizing bacteria contribute to the accumulation of nitrite in marine oxygen minimum zones through interactions with other microbes, in particular denitrifiers, accor...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
⚒️ Article: Nitrite-oxidizing bacteria contribute to the accumulation of nitrite in marine oxygen minimum zones through interactions with other microbes
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A study in Nature Geoscience shows that large-scale East Antarctic ice loss around 9,000 years ago was amplified by a feedback loop between meltwater and ocean circulation. go.nature.com/43o4YgA ⚒️ 🧪
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
A study in Nature Geoscience shows that large-scale East Antarctic ice loss around 9,000 years ago was amplified by a feedback loop between meltwater and ocean circulation. go.nature.com/43o4YgA ⚒️ 🧪
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Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an underwater volcanic ridge in the Arctic Ocean
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Chinese researchers reveal unexplored section of mysterious Arctic Ocean ridge
Oceanographers hope to find otherworldly ecosystems at hydrothermal vents on the seafloor.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an underwater volcanic ridge in the Arctic Ocean
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⚒️ Article: Coherent patterns in the initial growth of extratropical peatlands throughout the Southern Hemisphere during the last glacial track changes in the latitudinal position of the southern westerly winds
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Westerly wind shifts drove Southern Hemisphere mid-latitude peat growth since the last glacial - Nature Geoscience
Coherent patterns in the initial growth of extratropical peatlands throughout the Southern Hemisphere during the last glacial track changes in the latitudinal position of the southern westerly winds, ...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
⚒️ Article: Coherent patterns in the initial growth of extratropical peatlands throughout the Southern Hemisphere during the last glacial track changes in the latitudinal position of the southern westerly winds
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⚒️ Article: Convective erosion and lateral transport of metasomatized continental keels may generate enriched mantle geochemical domains
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November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
⚒️ Article: Convective erosion and lateral transport of metasomatized continental keels may generate enriched mantle geochemical domains
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⚒️ November editorial: Lessons from the Armero disaster and beyond - on our Focus on volcanic hazards and risk mitigation since the 1985 Armero disaster (www.nature.com/collections/...)
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Lessons from the Armero disaster and beyond - Nature Geoscience
The aftermath of volcanic eruptions often reveals critical gaps in hazard and risk management. Effective global implementation of the lessons learned from disasters triggered by natural hazards is lon...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
⚒️ November editorial: Lessons from the Armero disaster and beyond - on our Focus on volcanic hazards and risk mitigation since the 1985 Armero disaster (www.nature.com/collections/...)
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Nature research paper: The importance of past rifting in large igneous province development
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The importance of past rifting in large igneous province development - Nature
Seismic data from the Turkana Depression in East Africa show that areas of thinned lithosphere are not necessarily persistent weak zones where extension and magmatic provinces will develop.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Nature research paper: The importance of past rifting in large igneous province development
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Excited to see our paper out in @natgeosci.nature.com this week! 'Lessons from 40 years of communicating volcanic risk during crisis'.
In it we reflect on our progress for volcanic crisis communications since the devastating 1985 Nevado del Ruiz eruption, and identify where challenges remain.
In it we reflect on our progress for volcanic crisis communications since the devastating 1985 Nevado del Ruiz eruption, and identify where challenges remain.
⚒️ Comment: Lessons from 40 years of communicating volcanic risk during crises [free to access (via a free Nature account) for one month]
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Lessons from 40 years of communicating volcanic risk during crises - Nature Geoscience
Since the 1985 Nevado del Ruiz eruption that killed over 23,000 people in Armero, Colombia, risk communication has become central to volcanic crisis management. Despite the development of effective to...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Excited to see our paper out in @natgeosci.nature.com this week! 'Lessons from 40 years of communicating volcanic risk during crisis'.
In it we reflect on our progress for volcanic crisis communications since the devastating 1985 Nevado del Ruiz eruption, and identify where challenges remain.
In it we reflect on our progress for volcanic crisis communications since the devastating 1985 Nevado del Ruiz eruption, and identify where challenges remain.
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Check out our latest work, led by Jon Jung, Ph.D. student in the @amglab.bsky.social at @mpic.de:
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Here we show that the supply of excess phosphorous from accounts for the majority of observed Sargassum variability since 2011.
🌊 🧪 #Paleosky #CoralReefs
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Here we show that the supply of excess phosphorous from accounts for the majority of observed Sargassum variability since 2011.
🌊 🧪 #Paleosky #CoralReefs
Equatorial upwelling of phosphorus drives Atlantic N2 fixation and Sargassum blooms - Nature Geoscience
High near-surface nitrogen-fixation rates that promoted the recent growth of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt were tied to greater upwelling of phosphorus from the equatorial Atlantic, according to c...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Check out our latest work, led by Jon Jung, Ph.D. student in the @amglab.bsky.social at @mpic.de:
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Here we show that the supply of excess phosphorous from accounts for the majority of observed Sargassum variability since 2011.
🌊 🧪 #Paleosky #CoralReefs
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Here we show that the supply of excess phosphorous from accounts for the majority of observed Sargassum variability since 2011.
🌊 🧪 #Paleosky #CoralReefs
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New paper alert! 🗞️🚨 In @natgeosci.nature.com - on terrigenous dissolved organic carbon in the #Arctic Ocean, led by @awi.de, based on data from the MOSAiC drift expedition.
⚒️ Article: Terrestrially-derived dissolved organic carbon is pervasive in the Arctic Ocean, especially within the Transpolar Drift current, and changing inputs could impact future marine carbon cycling
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Major terrestrial contribution to the dissolved organic carbon budget in the Arctic Ocean - Nature Geoscience
Terrestrially derived dissolved organic carbon is pervasive in the Arctic Ocean, especially within the Transpolar Drift current, and changing inputs could impact future marine carbon cycling, accordin...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
New paper alert! 🗞️🚨 In @natgeosci.nature.com - on terrigenous dissolved organic carbon in the #Arctic Ocean, led by @awi.de, based on data from the MOSAiC drift expedition.
Focus on volcanic hazards and risk mitigation since the 1985 Armero disaster:
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Including the following content (1/8):
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Volcanic hazards and risk mitigation since the 1985 Armero disaster
The November 1985 eruption of Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz volcano and the resulting Armero disaster marked a turning point in natural hazard and risk research, ...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Focus on volcanic hazards and risk mitigation since the 1985 Armero disaster:
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Including the following content (1/8):
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Including the following content (1/8):
November issue out now: featuring Articles on a record retreat rate of a grounded glacier, carbon transport during drought and a proto-Earth component in the mantle, a Focus on volcanic hazards & risk mitigation since the 1985 Armero disaster, and more!
www.nature.com/ngeo/volumes...
www.nature.com/ngeo/volumes...
November 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
November issue out now: featuring Articles on a record retreat rate of a grounded glacier, carbon transport during drought and a proto-Earth component in the mantle, a Focus on volcanic hazards & risk mitigation since the 1985 Armero disaster, and more!
www.nature.com/ngeo/volumes...
www.nature.com/ngeo/volumes...
⚒️ Article: Terrestrially-derived dissolved organic carbon is pervasive in the Arctic Ocean, especially within the Transpolar Drift current, and changing inputs could impact future marine carbon cycling
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Major terrestrial contribution to the dissolved organic carbon budget in the Arctic Ocean - Nature Geoscience
Terrestrially derived dissolved organic carbon is pervasive in the Arctic Ocean, especially within the Transpolar Drift current, and changing inputs could impact future marine carbon cycling, accordin...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
⚒️ Article: Terrestrially-derived dissolved organic carbon is pervasive in the Arctic Ocean, especially within the Transpolar Drift current, and changing inputs could impact future marine carbon cycling
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⚒️ Article: Early Holocene retreat of an ice shelf in East Antarctica was linked to ocean-driven forcing enhanced by ice-sheet meltwater from adjoining regions
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Antarctic ice-shelf collapse in Holocene driven by meltwater release feedbacks - Nature Geoscience
Early Holocene retreat of an ice shelf in East Antarctica was linked to ocean-driven forcing enhanced by ice-sheet meltwater from adjoining regions, as unveiled through the integration of proxy record...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
⚒️ Article: Early Holocene retreat of an ice shelf in East Antarctica was linked to ocean-driven forcing enhanced by ice-sheet meltwater from adjoining regions
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⚒️ Article: Analyses of Chang'e-6 lunar farside samples suggest solar-wind implanted surface water varies with latitude and regolith maturity
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November 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
⚒️ Article: Analyses of Chang'e-6 lunar farside samples suggest solar-wind implanted surface water varies with latitude and regolith maturity
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Team of @mpic.de et al. has uncovered the driver of the massive Sargassum blooms in the Atlantic.
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The driver of Sargassum blooms in the Atlantic Ocean
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November 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Team of @mpic.de et al. has uncovered the driver of the massive Sargassum blooms in the Atlantic.
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⚒️ Article: Equatorial upwelling of phosphorus drives Atlantic N₂ fixation and 𝘚𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘮 blooms
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Equatorial upwelling of phosphorus drives Atlantic N2 fixation and Sargassum blooms - Nature Geoscience
High near-surface nitrogen-fixation rates that promoted the recent growth of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt were tied to greater upwelling of phosphorus from the equatorial Atlantic, according to c...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
⚒️ Article: Equatorial upwelling of phosphorus drives Atlantic N₂ fixation and 𝘚𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘮 blooms
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@mpic.de
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⚒️ Article: Low carbon dioxide during the last glacial period enhanced photorespiration in trees across North America, indicating a decline in land plant productivity
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Isotopic evidence for elevated photorespiration during the last glacial period - Nature Geoscience
Low carbon dioxide levels during the last glacial period enhanced photorespiration in trees across North America, indicating a decline in land plant productivity, according to measurements of clumped ...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
⚒️ Article: Low carbon dioxide during the last glacial period enhanced photorespiration in trees across North America, indicating a decline in land plant productivity
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Want to know more about jadarite? Read our #AllMineralsConsidered piece: rdcu.be/eOojc
November 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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The Hektoria Glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated by at least 8 km in two months, a rate nearly 10 times faster than previously measured for a grounded glacier, according to a study in Nature Geoscience. go.nature.com/4nETBYJ ⚒️ 🧪
November 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The Hektoria Glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated by at least 8 km in two months, a rate nearly 10 times faster than previously measured for a grounded glacier, according to a study in Nature Geoscience. go.nature.com/4nETBYJ ⚒️ 🧪
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Nature research paper: Magnetotelluric evidence for a melt-rich magmatic reservoir beneath Mayotte
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Magnetotelluric evidence for a melt-rich magmatic reservoir beneath Mayotte - Nature
Magnetotelluric data provide evidence of a large melt-rich magmatic reservoir beneath Mayotte island that might be connected to the system that fed the large submarine eruption of Fani Maoré in 2018–2019.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Nature research paper: Magnetotelluric evidence for a melt-rich magmatic reservoir beneath Mayotte
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