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Earth's Atmospheric Transfer to Lunar Soils

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PARAMANICK et al. , 2025 The moon has been secretly feasting on Earth's atmosphere for billions of years (Harry BAKER, LiveScience ; January 6, 2026) https://www.livescience.com/space/the-moon/the-moon-has-been-secretly-feasting-on-earths-atmosphere-for-billions-of-years Featured Research Article: Terrestrial atmospheric ion implantation occurred in the near side lunar regolith during the history of Earth's dynamo (PARAMANICK et al. , 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02960-4

Why Greenland is indispensable to global climate science | The Conversation

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Record Breaking Temperatures in Greenland ,  European Union Copernicus Climate Change Service Data (CMES) ; Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data,  Link Why Greenland is indispensable to global climate science (Martin SIEGERT, The Conversation ; January 9, 2026) https://theconversation.com/why-greenland-is-indispensable-to-global-climate-science-273064 Simplified Geologic Map of Greenland showing Basement terrains and Sedimentary basins ,  Flemming G. CHRISTIANSEN ;  CC BY-SA 4.0 International ,  Link

Another Planetary Boundary Crossed: Ocean Acidification

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Ocean Acidification ,  Sky SMITH/UCSD Scripps Institute of Oceanography ;  Link Explainer:  The latest science on Ocean acidification (Anna NAPOLITANO, Dialogue Earth ; December 23, 2025) https://dialogue.earth/en/ocean/explainer-the-latest-science-on-ocean-acidification/ Also... From Global Emissions to Local Impacts:  Spatially Explicit Modelling of Ocean Acidification in Life Cycle Assessment (ANDERSON et al. , 2025) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.5c02069

GlobalBuildingAtlas: A High Resolution 3D Map of the Human Built Environment

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(ZHU  et al. , 2025) All the world's buildings available as 3D models for the first time [Press Release, Technical University of Munich (TUM) ; December 2, 2025] https://www.tum.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/press-releases/details/all-the-worlds-buildings-available-as-3d-models-for-the-first-time Featured Research Article: GlobalBuildingAtlas:  an open global and complete dataset of building polygons, heights and LoD1 3D models (ZHU et al. , 2025) https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/6647/2025/?utm_ Website : Global Building Atlas LoD1 Interactive Map https://tubvsig-so2sat-vm1.srv.mwn.de/

Continental Rifting and Mantle Enrichment - Indian Ocean Seamount Province

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GERNON et al ., 2025 Enriched mantle generated through persistent convective erosion of continental root s (GERNON et al. , 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01843-9 Also... Origin of Indian Ocean Seamount Province by shallow recycling of Continental lithosphere (HOERNLE et al. , 2011) https://www.academia.edu/download/70395387/Hoernle_Indian_Ocean_cont_mantle_NatGeosci2011.pdf