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Pungent Penguin Poop Produces Polar Cloud Particles - Eos The discovery highlights how penguins and other polar seabirds help shape their environments, even as they are under threat from climate change.

🧪🐧 I cannot avoid laughing at this image leading this article in EOS
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In early 00s an scientific study won an Ignoble award for a theoretical study of the projectile ejection , the carton in the paper was cute and funny .... 1/n

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Phoebe Lam: Embracing the Ocean’s Complexities - Eos A generalist at heart, this geochemist is unraveling the mysteries of the ocean’s chemical cycling.

Oceanographer Phoebe Lam integrates knowledge from physics, chemistry, biology, and more to understand how elements in the ocean move.

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California's Getting an Earlier Start to Wildfire Season - Eos Human-caused climate change has pushed the onset of fire season in the state to as much as 46 days earlier than it was 30 years ago.

Wildfire season in some parts of California starts more than a month earlier than it did in the 1990s, according to new research. 🧪

Comments from Gavin D. Madakumbura @uofcalifornia.bsky.social and LeRoy Westerling @ucmerced.bsky.social

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Exoplanet Triggers Stellar Flares and Hastens Its Demise - Eos HIP 67522 b can’t stop blasting itself in the face with stellar flares, a type of magnetic interaction that scientists have spent decades looking for.

This exoplanet can’t stop blasting itself in the face with stellar flares, speeding up its inevitable doom. Astronomers have been looking for a planet like this for decades.

Eight Ways to Encourage Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Discussions at Conferences - Eos Getting scientists to engage in sessions about issues of scientific culture is challenging, but these best practices for meeting organizers can help.

A key part of generating wider engagement with these sessions at conferences is indicating that they are priorities for organizers and all attendees.

For the morning crowd: NASA employees have revealed that the Trump admin, via Sean Duffy, have secretly directed them to make plans to terminate two highly successful, widely-used carbon monitoring satellites, despite warnings from lawmakers that doing so would be illegal. 🧪🛰️

地震如何改变湖泊微生物群落 - Eos 提示：地震发生后，湖泊的地质、化学和生物成分会重新配置。一项新的研究深入探讨了地震变化对喜马拉雅地区措普湖的影响。

Check out our latest Chinese translation, about how earthquakes affect the sediment composition of Lake Cuopu (Lake Tsopu) in the Himalayas.

Arctic Rivers Trade Inorganic Nitrogen for Organic - Eos Climate change is shifting the makeup of a key nutrient in rivers across Russia, Alaska, and Canada, with the potential for ecosystem-wide impacts.

How do you take your nitrogen? In Arctic rivers, the answer is, increasingly, “organic.”

New #AGUPubs research from @nyutandon.bsky.social, @carnegiescience.bsky.social

Iron Emissions Are Shifting a North Pacific Plankton Bloom - Eos Some of the iron emitted by industrial activity in East Asia is carried by winds into the North Pacific, where it nourishes iron-hungry phytoplankton.

Iron emissions from East Asia are pushing a phytoplankton bloom in the North Pacific farther north. Story by @markr4nger.bsky.social

Our highly anticipated annual Careers issue is out! Check out all these (short!) profiles of the many, many ways to have a career in science.

The 5 August 2025 debris flow at Tharali in northern India A very initial perspective on the 5 August 2025 debris flow at Tharali / Dharali in northern India, which may have killed 50 or more people.

A very initial perspective on the 5 August 2025 debris flow at Tharali / Dharali in northern India:-
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Hermínio Ismael de Araújo Júnior: Savvy Planning Can Get You Far - Eos The biologist turned paleontologist has been organized and nimble, and he jumped at opportunities as they arose.

Hermínio Araújo Jr. has moved swiftly to jump on opportunities to advance his career in paleontology.

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NASA Planning for Unauthorized Shutdown of Carbon Monitoring Satellites - Eos Despite warnings that their actions are illegal, Duffy and other senior NASA officials have continued to secretly direct NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellites missions s...

NASA is making plans to shut down two Earth observing satellites that provide key data to climate scientists and farmers, despite lawmakers telling them it’s illegal to do it. Story by @astrokimcartier.bsky.social

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Cave Deposits Reveal a Permafrost-Free Arctic - Eos Mineral cave deposits from northern Siberia show that the region was permafrost free during the late Miocene period, when Earth was warmer than today.

Northern Siberia may have been mostly permafrost free 8.7 million years ago.

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Research from @astroilin.bsky.social, comments from Evgenya Shkolnik @ ASU and Antoine Strugarek @ CEA Paris. Story by @astrokimcartier.bsky.social

Exoplanet Triggers Stellar Flares and Hastens Its Demise - Eos HIP 67522 b can’t stop blasting itself in the face with stellar flares, a type of magnetic interaction that scientists have spent decades looking for.

This exoplanet can’t stop blasting itself in the face with stellar flares, speeding up its inevitable doom. Astronomers have been looking for a planet like this for decades.

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Eight Ways to Encourage Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Discussions at Conferences - Eos Getting scientists to engage in sessions about issues of scientific culture is challenging, but these best practices for meeting organizers can help.

Conferences are key enablers of community building and can provide constructive environments for open discussions of cultural issues within science, write @spacequakes.bsky.social @jhuartssciences.bsky.social and Mariama Dryák-Vallies @ciresceee.bsky.social

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Stacey Hitchcock: From Fearing Storms to Seeking Them - Eos This atmospheric scientist digs into the details of storms to help keep people safe.

Stacey Hitchcock used to be afraid of storms. Now she studies them.

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A Solar Wind Squeeze May Have Strengthened Jovian Aurorae - Eos Juno spacecraft data suggest an extreme compression of the planet’s magnetosphere in December 2022, caused by the solar wind, briefly brightened the ultraviolet light displays.

Do you light up when you get a hug? A new #AGUPubs study suggests Jupiter might do the same.

White plumes rise from an icy landscape.

An earthquake in Iceland gave researchers an opportunity to study warming soils.

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Ancient River Discovery Confirms Mediterranean Nearly Dried Up in the Miocene - Eos Sedimentary deposits reveal a Nile-sized river system flowing from what are today Turkey and Syria.

Seismic data revealed a Nile-sized ancient river under the Mediterranean Sea 🌊 🧪 eos.org/articles/anc...

New research from Sebastian Breitenbach @northumbriauni.bsky.social and colleagues at @ox.ac.uk, Geological Survey of Israel, & others, comments from Dominik Fleitmann @unibas.ch and Nikita Kaushal @amnh.org

Cave Deposits Reveal a Permafrost-Free Arctic - Eos Mineral cave deposits from northern Siberia show that the region was permafrost free during the late Miocene period, when Earth was warmer than today.

A nearly permafrost-free Arctic? New research from northern Siberian caves holds clues. eos.org/articles/cav...

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Tanya Harrison: Roving on Mars - Eos This planetary geologist has worked on nearly every Mars rover while connecting government, universities, the private sector, and the public.

Driving a rover was a dream come true for @tanyaofmars.bsky.social. Story by @BowlerHatScience.org.

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I've known her for decades and Dr. Wendy does indeed rock.