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Fjords are ‘hotspots’ in global carbon cycling

May 5, 2015

Hot Larvae: Calculating Dispersal from Unique Submarine Hot Spring Ecosystems

Measuring the temperature on the seafloor: In the newly discovered hydrothermal field, hot liquid and cold gas bubble up from the sediment just a few centimeters apart. Credit: ROV Kiel 6000 / GEOMAR

Scientists discover a hidden deep sea hotspot bursting with life

The image shows a thermokarst lake in Alaska. Thermokarst lakes form in the Arctic when permafrost thaws. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA flights detect millions of Arctic methane hotspots

Global hot spot maps link consumers with impacts

These are figures from the Nature Geoscience groundwater aquifer paper. Credit: Wallis et al

River-groundwater hot spot for arsenic

April 10, 2020

Site of mega-development project in Mexico is a biodiversity hotspot

May 20, 2014

The image shows a thermokarst lake in Alaska. Thermokarst lakes form in the Arctic when permafrost thaws. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA flights detect millions of Arctic methane hotspots

February 15, 2020

Hot spot at Hawaii? Not so fast

August 18, 2017

Hotspots of small swimming marine organisms may contribute to mixing

January 16, 2016

Hot Larvae: Calculating Dispersal from Unique Submarine Hot Spring Ecosystems

March 21, 2016

CT scan of Earth links deep mantle plumes with volcanic hotspots

September 2, 2015

Fjords Bare hotspots

Fjords are ‘hotspots’ in global carbon cycling

May 5, 2015

hydrothermal vent

Scientists discover a hidden deep sea hotspot bursting with life

December 20, 2025

Fjords Bare hotspots

Ancient mountain formation and monsoons helped create a modern biodiversity hotspot

August 6, 2020

Global hot spot maps link consumers with impacts

November 4, 2016

Ancient Rocks Reveal Hot Spot of Sulfur-Breathing Bacteria

November 6, 2014

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The skull of the juvenile T. rex, "Jane", was slender with knife-like teeth, having not yet grown big enough to crush bone.

Researchers learn more about teen-age T. rex

January 7, 2020

Artist illustration of an alamosaurus. (Credit: Natalia Jagielska)

Dinosaurs were thriving when the asteroid struck

October 30, 2025

NHMUK PV R 9372, Palaeosauropus sp., (a) colour photograph of the original sandstone slab and tracks, (b) 3D digital render of the plaster cast of the sandstone slab and tracks and (c) black and white photograph of the original sandstone slab and tracks. In (b), left manus and pes prints are denoted a and b respectively, the right pes prints c and e, with print d being the right manus. The indented area left of print e is identified as damage to the specimen rather than a footprint impression.

Oldest known record of amphibian tracks in the UK

February 18, 2020

Graduate student Mike Duvall is pictured here in southeastern Nepal during fieldwork in 2017. Image credit: John Waldron

Scientists discover fault system in southeastern Nepal

July 25, 2020

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Scientists explore world’s largest undersea canyon

A fresh surface rupture of the Kekerengu fault, taken 4 days after the Kaikoura earthquake, with lead author Jesse Kearse leaning next to a curved slickenline (the subject of this article). Photo credit - Professor Tim Little (Victoria University of Wellington).

Curved slickenlines preserve the direction of rupture propagation

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