What’s hot in science? Research news for the day of June 28, 2021

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Pine Island Glacier ends in an ice shelf that floats in the Amundsen Sea.

Mon, 28 Jun 2021
Pine Island Glacier’s ice shelf is ripping apart, speeding up key Antarctic glacier thinning

From 2017 to 2020, large icebergs at the ice shelf’s edge broke away

For decades, the ice shelf helping to hold back one of the fastest-moving glaciers in Antarctica, Pine Island Glacier, has gradually thinned. Analysis of satellite images reveals a more dramatic process in recent years. From 2017 to 2020, large icebergs at the ice shelf’s

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Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of trace elements in the oceans.

Mon, 28 Jun 2021
Unraveling the mysteries of trace elements in the oceans

Trace elements are very challenging to study

Heroes and villains abound in the story of trace elements, which are found in exceedingly low amounts in the ocean. Elements such as iron or zinc, are critical to marine life and play a key role in regulating the global carbon cycle. Other elements can be downright toxic to

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