"Page 2" - Scientific Topics of Interest

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

(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/

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

Hurricane Melissa , NOAA ; Link Hurricane Melissa was so strong that it shook the Earth a hundred miles away (Robin George ANDREWS, Scientific American ; October 30, 2025) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/seismometers-picked-up-hurricane-melissas-historic-power-like-an-earthquake/

Emiliania huxleyi  coccolithophore , Alison R. TAYLOR  (University of North Carolina Wilmington Microscopy Facility) ; CC BY-SA 2.5 ; Link They're smaller than dust, but crucial for Earth's Climate ( Ruđer Bošković Institute/ScienceDaily ; October 10, 2025) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251010091548.htm Selected Research Articles: Multifaceted Contributions of Coccolithophores to Ocean Carbon Export (LI et al. , 2024) https://spj.science.org/doi/full/10.34133/olar.0049 Coccolithophore calcification response to past ocean acidification and climate change   (O'DEA et al., 2014) https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms6363.pdf

Seismic Wave Travel Paths , Fabio CRAMERI ; CC BY-SA 4.0 International , Link MIT geologists discover where energy goes during an earthquake   (Jennifer CHU, MIT News ; September 16, 2025) https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-geologists-discover-where-energy-goes-during-earthquake-0916 Featured Research Article: “Lab-Quakes”: Quantifying the Complete Energy Budget of High-Pressure Laboratory Failure (ORTEGA-ARROYO et al. , 2025) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025AV001683

Hand drawn layers of the Earth , Pikisuperstar;  Freepik Hidden chemistry of Earth's core revealed by how it froze (News Release, University of Oxford ; 4 September 2025) https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/article/hidden-chemistry-earths-core-revealed-how-it-froze Featured Research Article: Constraining Earth's core composition from inner core nucleation (WILSON et al. , 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62841-4 Dynamo Theory - Outer Core Convection and Magnetic field generation , Andrew Z. COLVIN ; CC BY-SA 4.0 International , Link

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