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Geoscientists have published a large review paper in the journal Science that highlights the capacity of current models to link landscape-altering events and calls for further studies of cascading ...

Quin Hillyer’s May 11 column stands out as the most balanced reporting yet on the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion by the paper.

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Those fibers allow the bacteria to do long-distance electron transport, connecting electron acceptors like oxygen or nitrate at the sediment surface with donors like sulfide in deeper sediment layers.

Askoa Ibisate, geographer specialising in fluvial geomorphology, has analysed how the disappearance of the Olloki dam affects sediment transport. Ibisate concluded that the volume of pebbles ...