"Page 2" - Scientific Topics of Interest

A ring of twisted moss on mature biological soil crust in Arches National Park , NPS ; CC BY-SA 2.0 , Link As the American West dries out, a secret savior emerges from the soil.  (Amanda HEIDT, SFGate ; August 20, 2026) https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/arches-canyonlands-biocrusts-22384504.php Selected Research Article : What is a biocrust?  A refined contemporary definition for a broadening research community (WEBER et al. , 2022) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/brv.12862

How do Scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse? (Kevin T. SMILEY, Deepti SINGH, Jennifer MARLON, and Jim HURELL, The Conversation ; July 24, 2026) https://theconversation.com/how-do-scientists-know-if-climate-change-made-a-heat-wave-extreme-storm-or-wildfire-worse-288232 The Science of Extreme Event Attribution - Which Analyzes Climate Change's Influence on Specific Weather Events - Has Advanced, But Challenges Remain News Release, National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine; July 15, 2026) https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/the-science-of-extreme-event-attribution-which-analyzes-climate-change-s-influence-on-specific-weather-events-has-advanced-but-challenges-remain Featured Report: Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and Their Impacts 2026 (NAS Consensus Study Report, July 15, 2026) https://www.nationalacademies.org/projects/DELS-BASCPR-23-02

(Press Release, SCHMIDT Ocean Institute ; June 2, 2026) https://sites.google.com/schmidtocean.org/31-new-species-discovered/ Website: SCHMIDT Ocean Institute https://schmidtocean.org/

  Titan's Organic World (BATZ DE TREQUELLÉON, 2026) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72264-4

Shelf detecting using Geomorphons function  (ZAKI and LAMB, 2026) " Bathtub Ring" is New Evidence for an Ancient Ocean on Mars (Lori DAJOSE, Caltech ; April 15, 2026) https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/bathtub-ring-is-new-evidence-for-an-ancient-ocean-on-mars Featured Research Article: Identifying the topographic signature of early Martian oceans (ZAKI and LAMB, 2026) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10381-2 Reconstruction Map of a possible shallow ocean on Mars (2019) , D A R C 12345 ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link

Gladys WEST and Sam SMITH , U. S. Navy ; Link Gladys West, Unsung Figure in Development of GPS, dies at 95 (Michael S. ROSENWALD, New York Times ; January 27, 2026) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/science/gladys-west-dead.html Gladys West - The hidden figure who helped invent GPS (Aamna MOHDIN, The Guardian UK; 19 November 2020) https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/19/gladys-west-the-hidden-figure-who-helped-invent-gps Gladys WEST pictured with her husband, Ira WEST , Unknown Author ; Link Dr. Gladys WEST - 2018 Inductee in the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame , U. S. Air Force ; Link

Biodiversity and related topics in the MaRDI Knowledge Graph ,  Daniel MIETCHEN ;  Link "This engine is grinding to a halt" - Nature slowing down as climate change gains pace (News Release, Queen Mary University of London ; 9 February 2026) https://www.seresearch.qmul.ac.uk/cbs/news/5338/this-engine-is-grinding-to-a-halt-nature-slowing-down-as-climate-change-gains-pace/ Featured Research Article: Widespread slowdown in short-term species turnover despite accelerating climate change (NWANKWO and ROSSBERG, 2026) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-68187-1 Also... Ecological Communities with Lotka-Volterra Dynamics (BUNIN, 2017) http://phsites.technion.ac.il/bunin/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2018/08/PhysRevE.95.042414_LV_communities.pdf

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

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

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