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$DeMMO field team from left to right: Lily Momper, Brittany Kruger, and Caitlin Casar sampling fracture fluids from a DeMMO borehole installation. Credit: ©Matt Kapust$

Earth’s crust mineralogy drives hotspots for intraterrestrial life

April 18, 2021

Fjords Bare hotspots

Ancient mountain formation and monsoons helped create a modern biodiversity hotspot

Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.

Discovery of ancient super-eruptions indicates the Yellowstone hotspot may be waning

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

River-groundwater hot spot for arsenic

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

Aerial view of the acidic hot springs in the shallow water of the Taiwanese Kueishantao volcanic island, visible through the whitish discoloration of the sea water by sulphur. Credit: Mario Lebrato, Uni Kiel

Life under extreme conditions at hot springs in the ocean

November 21, 2019

Hot spot at Hawaii? Not so fast

August 18, 2017

Project Hotspot

April 6, 2017

Global hot spot maps link consumers with impacts

November 4, 2016

Hot Larvae: Calculating Dispersal from Unique Submarine Hot Spring Ecosystems

March 21, 2016

Hotspots of small swimming marine organisms may contribute to mixing

January 16, 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

Ancient Rocks Reveal Hot Spot of Sulfur-Breathing Bacteria

November 6, 2014

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

May 20, 2014

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