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Discovery of Carbon Stock in 20-Year-Old Mangrove Plantations

What is the capacity of carbon storage for planted mangroves? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of international researchers led by the USDA Forest Service investigated the length of time that planted mangroves can store carbon, as such insights could provide ...

Key Largo Tree Cactus is the USA's First Extinction Due to Sea Level Rise

The Key Largo tree cactus (Pilosocereus millspaughii) was first identified in an isolated mangrove forest in 1992. It is native to the Bahamas, Haiti, and South Florida. But it doesn't grow naturally in Florida anymore, and scientists suspect that it has ...

Similarities Between Mars Soils and Newfoundland's Subarctic Climate

What was ancient Mars like? Was it warmer and wetter than it is today or cold and icy like present day Mars? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers comprised of NASA scientists ...

Dark Comets and the Potential Delivery of Water to Earth

What are dark comets and how are they responsible for delivering water to the Earth? This is what a recent study published in Icarus hopes to address as a team of international researchers investigated the origins of dark comets and their evolution throughout the history of the solar system, including how much ...

LHS 1140 b: From Mini-Neptune to Potential Water World

The search for Earth’s twin just got a little closer as astronomers recently presented findings regarding a potential icy or watery “super-Earth” called LHS 1140 b, which is located approximately 49 light-years from Earth and whose radius is approximately 1.7 times our planet, along with orbiting ...

Predicted Weakening of Ocean's Overturning Circulation

How will climate change influence the ocean’s circulation in the future? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) investigated how could hinder the ocean’s mechanisms of transferring carbon between ...