Scientists peered into a secret Antarctic lake hidden beneath the ice — and uncovered a never-before-seen ecosystem Scientists investigating the frozen Lake Enigma in Antarctica discovered an ecosystem teeming with strange microbial communities.

Scientists peered into a secret Antarctic lake hidden beneath the ice — and uncovered a never-before-seen ecosystem
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This is the only unambiguous date format -ISO 8601 date format. Good riddance to 06-05-2025 vs 05-06-2025.

Ottawa2025 GAC/MAC/IAH-CNC annual meeting. Interested in water, concerned about groundwater in Canada. Then check out Session Water_SS_14. Public groundwater geoscience in the Canadian federation: Challenges of jurisdiction, funding and science capacity

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Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences Scientists shocked as “blue-sky” Marsden Fund has half its budget shifted to research focused on helping economy

New piece from @veronikameduna.bsky.social on the latest disaster-in-the-making happening here in #NZ - a govt decision to defund social sciences, humanities, and other blue-sky research.

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Daring ‘James Bond’ mission to drill Antarctic ice cores could reveal future of sea level rise To understand vulnerable glaciers, climate scientists extract ice from continent’s remote and stormy coast

For Science Magazine (@science.org), I covered a wild mission to land a crack team of paleoclimate scientists by helicopter on a stormy, icy ridge near Thwaites Glacier to drill ice cores that could help us better understand the "doomsday" glacier's uncertain future. ❄️

May 2025 – join us in Ottawa for one of the many sessions at the GAC-MAC-IAH annual meeting. A joint meeting of three of Canada's main geoscience societies. Harmonized data is critical to overcoming differences that block the way to action in trans-jurisdictional regions - Looking for Perspectives!

This PhD student helped to win a major pay hike for Canadian researchers Kaitlin Kharas is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024.

Kaitlin Kharas, exec director of @supportourscience.bsky.social is one of Nature's 10. The people who had an impact on science this year. Profile by me in @natureportfolio.bsky.social 🧪
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Canada is one step closer to burying nuclear waste in northwestern Ontario | Great Lakes Now The search for a site to store toxic waste has ended just north of Lake Superior near Ignace, Ontario. With the town and local First Nation’s support, it now moves ahead to various stages of review.

The search for a site to store toxic waste has ended just north of Lake Superior near Ignace, Ontario. With the town and local First Nation’s support, it now moves ahead to various stages of review.

Story by @thenarwhal.ca:

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In Canada similar challenges exist - "Great Lakes Now posed the question “who’s in charge..."" can the new Canada Water agency address this challenge in Canada? Time will tell - It is a tall order – Do stakeholders have unrealistic expectations – hopes.
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Groundwater: Who’s in charge? | Great Lakes Now As groundwater resources are increasingly under threat in the U.S. — including the Great Lakes region — regulation, oversight and planning for the long-term are diffused and often lacking.

What overlies deeper basin pore space – groundwater–used for potable water. Coverage by "Great Lakes Now" It is easy to forget groundwater - in Michigan "44% of people secure their water from groundwater" in Ontario municipalities Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph..
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CO2 sequestration - from Great Lakes Now. Perhaps lessons highlighting challenges in pumping CO2 into the ground. Conceptually great – individual settings provide challenges. As southern Ontario hopes to exploit the Cambrian, are there lessons from Illinois? www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/10/the-...

Do you teach sedimentology? It is for you!
The @sedimentology.bsky.social, in collaboration with North Sea Core CIC, is sponsoring the distribution of core samples from various depositional environments to academic institutions
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How do carbon taxes affect food prices? In our latest paper, @dr_jen_winter and I analyze both direct and indirect impacts across the entire food supply chain: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5024885

It's the most detailed exploration of CTaxes and food yet! 🤓 #cdnecon #cdnpoli

And while we're at it. Did you know that during our era of major climate investment in Canada we actually reduced the quality of our climate observing system in many parts of the north? 84bbf97c-1ba3-4840-8e5a-93b4adf7881f.usrfiles.com/ugd/84bbf9_6...

New paper alert! While
simple climate projections expect northern forests to become more productive with warming and take up more carbon, we show why this may not happen. Reminder that permafrost is the backbone of the Arctic. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

GAC-MAC-IAH-CNC 2025 OTTAWA Fourwaves - GAC-MAC-IAH-CNC 2025 OTTAWA

The list of conf. sessions is now available for Ottawa2025 annual meeting of GAC/MAC/IAH-CNC. Currently in a PDF file, but download and get an early feel for this multi-society meeting, Canada's premier geoscience meeting.
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Evidence for subsea permafrost in subarctic Canada linked to submarine groundwater discharge Nature Geoscience - Observations from the Labrador Coast indicate the presence of subsea permafrost landforms outside of the Arctic, suggesting a potential underestimation of subsea permafrost in...

DYK that subsea permafrost exists?
That it can be found as south as 56°N?
and that it is maintained frozen by cold ocean currents?
-> Look at this paper from Normandeau et al. fresh out of the press! rdcu.be/dP7Li

Check out the subsurface of southern Ontario. Web based viewing platform of the hydrostratigraphy of southern Ontario. A 15 layer model of aquifer and aquitard layers including the well know Guelph Formation. # 1. geo3d.pgi.gov.pl/Ontario/inde... @romtoronto.bsky.social