"Page 2" - Scientific Topics of Interest

Rodinia Missing Link,  CAWOOD  et al. , 2013;  CC BY-SA 4.0 International ,  Link 400-mile-long chain of fossilized volcanoes discovered beneath China (Aubrey Zerkle, LiveScience ; July 29, 2025) https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/400-mile-long-chain-of-fossilized-volcanoes-discovered-beneath-china Featured Research Article: A-700-km-Long Fossil Tonian Magmatic Arc Belt Hidden within the Yangtze Block Interior, South China (GU et al ., 2025) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zhidong-Gu-3/publication/393165783_A_700-km-Long_Fossil_Tonian_Magmatic_Arc_Belt_Hidden_Within_the_Yangtze_Block%27s_Interior_South_China/links/68637ed339c358351205b38d/A-700-km-Long-Fossil-Tonian-Magmatic-Arc-Belt-Hidden-Within-the-Yangtze-Blocks-Interior-South-China.pdf Also... Archaen geodynamics:  Ephemeral supercontinents or long-lived supercratons? (LIU et al. , 2021) https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/49/7/794/595625/Archean-geodynamics-Ephemeral...

Earth Overshoot Day Reaches Record for Earliest Date (Paige BENNETT, EcoWatch ; July 28, 2025) https://www.ecowatch.com/earth-overshoot-day-2025.html Earth Overshoot Day 2025 falls on July 24 (Press Release, Global Footprint Network ; June 5, 2025) https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/press-release-june-2025-english/ Country Overshoot Days 2025 https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/country-overshoot-days/

( OWEN et al. , 2025; University of Glascow ) Industrial waste is turning to rock in just decades, research reveals  (University News Release, University of Glasgow ; 28/4/2025) https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1173682_en.html Cumbrian coast research shows industrial waste turns into rock in decades - BBC News (29/4/2025) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86j2x4d29lo.amp Featured Research Article Evidence for a rapid anthropoclastic rock cycle (OWEN et al. , 2025) https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/53/7/581/653591/Evidence-for-a-rapid-anthropoclastic-rock-cycle N. B.:   Abstract and Supplementary Materials only. Evidence for a Rapid Anthropoclastic Rock Cycle * (OWEN et al. , 2025) https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/353367/1/353367.pdf (*) = Pre-Print! Slag Stone (circa 1900) , Kvarnen ;  CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link

(RUDJORD and HUUSE, 2025) Scientists discover giant ‘sinkites’ beneath the North Sea  (News Release, The University of Manchester ; 4 July 2025) https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/scientists-discover-giant-sinkites-beneath-the-north-sea/ Featured Research Article Km-scale mounds and sinkites formed by buoyancy driven stratigraphic inversion (RUDJORD and HUUSE, 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02398-8 Also... Large Scale Neogene Sand Intrusions, Northern North Sea, an Interactions between Sand and Low-Density Ooze (RIIS et al. , 2024) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4871940

      Indonesia's Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano erupts twice in 2 days, unleashing 6 mile-high ash cloud (Sascha PARE, LiveScience ; June 18, 2025) https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/indonesias-lewotobi-laki-laki-volcano-erupts-twice-in-2-days-unleashing-6-mile-high-ash-cloud               NASA LANDSAT Image ; Link

   ( NOAA Research )                   Ocean acidification more advanced than previously thought [News Release, Plymouth Marine Laboratory ( PML ) ; 9 June 2025] https://pml.ac.uk/news/ocean-acidification-more-advanced-than-previously-thought/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CFrom%20the%20coral%20reefs%20that,compromised%20to%20ensure%20their%20longevity Study finds Ocean acidification more pervasive than previously thought (News Release/Theo STEIN, NOAA Research , June 11, 2025) https://research.noaa.gov/study-finds-ocean-acidification-is-more-pervasive-than-previously-thought/ Featured Research Article : Ocean Acidification: Another Planetary Boundary Crossed (FINDLAY et al , 2025) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.70238 Also... High Seas Treaty gains momentum as 18 new countries pledge support (Annika HAMMERSCHLAG, Associated Press ; June 10, 2025) https://apnews.com/article/high-seas-treaty-oceans-un-ocean-confere...

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The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt with Ocean Currents and the Sargasso Sea ,  LÓPEZ et al ., 2021 ;   CC BY-SA 4.0 International ,  Link There is one sea on Earth that touches no land because it has no shore (Eric RALLS, Earth.com ; May 24, 2025) https://www.earth.com/news/one-large-water-body-on-earth-does-not-touch-land-known-as-the-sargasso-sea/ Website : Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences ( Arizona State University ) https://bios.asu.edu/

Jellyfish Lake Palau , Onyo ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Jellyfish Lake:  Palau's saltwater pool with a toxic bottom and surface waters brimming with millions of jellyfish (Sascha PARE, LiveScience ; May 9, 2025) https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/jellyfish-lake-palaus-saltwater-pool-with-a-toxic-bottom-and-surface-waters-brimming-with-millions-of-jellyfish Jellyfish Lake Stratification Diagram ,  Mastigas_sp._side/CT-Snow/Davefoc ;  CC BY-SA 2.0 ,  Link Research Article: Jellyfish distribution and abundance in relation to the physical habitat of Jellyfish Lake, Palau (CIMINO et al. , 2018) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Megan-Cimino/publication/323152379_Jellyfish_distribution_and_abundance_in_relation_to_the_physical_habitat_of_Jellyfish_Lake_Palau/links/5e050b55299bf10bc37beeaa/Jellyfish-distribution-and-abundance-in-relation-to-the-physical-habitat-of-Jellyfish-Lake-Palau.pdf

A Pfyn culture stone tool with wooden handle from about 3800 B. C. , Matthias HOFFMAN, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg Pfyn culture flint tool:  World's oldest known "Swiss Army Knife" (Kristina KILLGROVE, LiveScience ; April 7, 2025) https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/pfyn-culture-flint-tool-worlds-oldest-known-swiss-army-knife Skizzen von Fundstücken Ausgrabung Pfyn-Breitenloo 1944 /Sketch of finds from the Pfyn-Breitenloo Excavation site in 1944, Roman KONCZAK ; Link

  https://www.un.org/en/observances/water-day UN International Day of Glaciers' Preservation   https://www.un-glaciers.org/en Research Article: Disappearing World Heritage Glaciers as a Keystone of Nature Preservation in a Changing Climate (BOSSON et al. , 2019) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2018ef001139 Also... Slowdown of the Motion of the Ocean ( NASA , June 5, 2023) https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-atmosphere/slowdown-of-the-motion-of-the-ocean/ How Melting Arctic Ice affects Ocean Currents ( UCAR - Center for Science Education ) https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/climate-change-impacts/melting-arctic-sea-ice-and-ocean-currents Thermohaline Circulation , cmglee/AVSA et al. ; CC BY-SA 4.0 International , Link   Other Articles : Earth's sediment cycle during the Anthropocene (S YVITSKI et al. , 2022) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Houjie-Wang-3/publication/358273769_Earth%27s_sediment_cycle_during_the_Anthropocene/links/61fe31d8...

Blood Moon Eclipse (July 27, 2018) ,  Bernd THALLER ;  CC BY-SA 2.0 ,  Link Total lunar eclipse March 2025 - When and where to see "Blood Moon" lunar eclipse (Jamie CARTER, Space.com ; March 10, 2025) https://www.space.com/stargazing/eclipses/total-lunar-eclipse-march-2025-when-and-where-to-see-the-next-blood-moon-lunar-eclipse

Nid d'un oiseau recycleur de déchets plastique ,   Clean Heart Sn ;  CC BY-SA 4.0 International ,  Link Plastic waste in bird nests can act like a tiny time capsule (Gennaro TOMMA, Science ; 4 March 2025) https://www.science.org/content/article/plastic-waste-bird-nests-can-act-tiny-time-capsule Featured Research Article: Birds documenting the Anthropocene:  Stratigraphy of plastic in urban bird nests (HIEMESTRA et al. , 2025) https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecy.70010 Also... Anthropologic nest material use in a global sample of birds (SHEARD et al. , 2024) https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2656.14078 Life in a polluted world: a global review of anthropogenic materials in bird nests  (JAGIELLO et al. , 2019) https://www.ucm.es/data/cont/media/www/pag-60246/Jagiello%20et%20al%202019_ENVPOL.pdf

Marguerite Thomas WILLIAMS:  The US' first Black person to obtain a doctorate in Geology ( Anouk BENIEST, EGU Blogs ; August 26, 2020) https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ts/2020/08/26/marguerite-thomas-williams-the-us-first-black-person-to-obtain-a-doctorate-in-geology/ Also... The Matilda Effect, or why female role models are needed to drive change ( moeveglobal.com ) https://www.moeveglobal.com/en/planet-energy/2030-goals/matilda-effect-female-role-models-are-needed-to-drive-change Research Articles: The Matilda Effect in Science Communication:  An Experiment on Gender Bias in Publication Quality Perceptions and Collaboration Interest (KNOBLOCH-WESTERWICK et al. , 2013) https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/u.osu.edu/dist/4/13821/files/2015/05/Hecate-21-nov-2012-2-14yygy1.pdf The Matilda Effect in Science:  Awards and Prizes in the US, 1990s and 2000s  (LINCOLN et al. , 2012) https://advance.washington.edu/liy/sites/default/files/Lincoln%20et%20al.%20%282012%29%20...

Savonoski Crater , Kaiti CRITZ - National Park Service ( NPS) ; Link Savonoski Crater:  The mysterious, perfectly round hole in Alaska that scientists can't explain (Sascha PARE, LiveScience ; February 21, 2025) https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/savonoski-crater-the-mysterious-perfectly-round-hole-in-alaska-that-scientists-cant-explain The Savonoski Problem (T. Neil DAVIS, Geophysical Institute - University of Alaska Fairbanks ; September 01, 1978) https://www.gi.alaska.edu/alaska-science-forum/savonoski-problem Research Article SAVONOSKI CRATER ALASKA:  POSSIBLE METEORITE IMPACT STRUCTURE (FRENCH et al. , 1972) https://adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1972Metic...7...97F

Satellite image of Salt Glaciers in the Zagros Mountains , USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center ; Link Oceanic plate between Arabian and Eurasian continental plates is breaking away (Press Release, Georg-August-Universität-Göttingen ; 28 January 2025) https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/135974.html?id=7703 Featured Research Article The Miocene subsidence pattern of the NW Zagros foreland basin reflects the southeastward propagating tear of the Neotethys slab (KOSHNAW et al. , 2024) https://se.copernicus.org/articles/15/1365/2024/ Zagros Folded Zone , Joshua DOUBEK ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Zagros Mountains Fold Thrust Belt (FTB) , Mikenorton ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link

Did giant ice age beasts carve these vast caves in South America? (Meghie RODRIGUES, Nature ; 28 January 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00216-x Measuring a Paleoburrow: Trabajo paleontológico Mar del Plata octubre 2019 , Xstor ; CC BY-SA 4.0 International , Link Selected Research Articles: Megaichnus igen. nov:  Giant Paleoburrows attributed to Extinct Cenozoic Mammals from South America (LOPES et al. , 2016) https://repositorio.unesp.br/bitstreams/0e88fb08-a5ff-4193-8cb9-21cc6ac1a064/download FOTOGRAMETRIA DE UM ICNOFÓSSIL ESCAVADO POR PREGUIÇAS-GIGANTES ( MEGAICHNUS MAJOR ) [AUDI et al. , 2012] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Caroline-Audi-2/publication/365772145_Fotogrametria_de_um_icnofossil_escavado_por_preguicas-gigantes_Megaichnus_major/links/63c01bdb3fcb6855ce7dd4b0/Fotogrametria-de-um-icnofossil-escavado-por-preguicas-gigantes-Megaichnus-major.pdf

Rothamsted Research Sign ,  FORSCHER SCS ;   CC BY-SA 4.0 International ,  Link Trade-off between pollinator-wildflower diversity & grassland yields (BALFOUR et al. , 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s44185-024-00070-6 Pollinator Dependence , Hannah RITCHIE ; CC BY-SA 4.0 International , Link

Altermagnetism , Libor ŠMEJKAL ; CC BY-SA 4.0 International , Link Altermagnets imaged at the nanoscale (Isabelle DUMÉ, Physics World; 13 January 2025) https://physicsworld.com/a/altermagnets-imaged-at-the-nanoscale/ Researchers discover new third class of magnetism that could transform digital devices (Jane ICKE, University of Nottingham ; 11 December 2024) https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/researchers-discover-new-third-class-of-magnetism-that-could-transform-digital-devices Featured Research Article: Nanoscale imaging and control of altermagnetism in MnTe (AMIN et al. , 2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08234-x