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Kevin Arrigo's Stanford lab sampled an Arctic bloom from rise to decline in the summer of 2023, and two new papers trace its remains to a place where cold under-ice water dives beneath warmer open water.
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Attribution science usually asks what two centuries of fossil fuel burning did to a heat wave. A Stanford group asked what the ten years since the Paris Agreement did, and found a measurable answer in Europe's worst recent heat.
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Stanford's SmokeCast prototype rode a fire truck 300 miles in July 2026 and fed soil-metal likelihoods to the crew's app, while the smoke samples that could test those estimates stayed in a cartridge for 14 days.
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Brigid Lynch took it for an oddly shaped rock in a San Mateo County creek bed. Midpen has since donated the tooth to Stanford, where a radiocarbon date will test a preliminary estimate of about 10,000 years.
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Enhanced rock weathering's problem has always been rate rather than chemistry, and a Nature Biotechnology result attacks the rate directly. The 2.6-fold gain was measured on kilograms of mineral in a flow reactor.
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A pilot bioreactor running on unprocessed seawater and acetate pulled 0.50 grams of CO2 a day out of the air from 4 kilograms of rock, a modest number obtained by direct measurement in a tank rather than by inference from a field plot.
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The 2.6-fold speedup came from deleting the microbe's own off switch. That leaves the hard part of this work to whoever writes the discharge permit for a basin full of it.
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A new model says molten surfaces meter outgassing slowly enough to match escape losses for billions of years, which reshuffles the target list for follow-up spectroscopy of hot rocky planets.
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Stanford researchers are coating informal-settlement roofs in Indonesia to cut indoor heat by up to 5F. The defence offered is physiological rather than comfort, and the cost is still unpriced.
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