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SwRI expands deep-sea, high-pressure testing with new 30-inch pressure vessel

Southwest Research Institute
Business Announcement

SAN ANTONIO — June 1, 2026 — Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has upgraded its Ocean Simulation Laboratories with a new 30-inch diameter pressure vessel. This new vessel allows SwRI to test larger equipment at conditions that simulate full-ocean depth and features a novel SwRI-designed quick-acting closure.

Record damages from wildfires in 2025, despite global area burned among lowest

University of East Anglia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study shows the world experienced some of the most destructive and deadly wildfires in recent history last year - despite the second lowest area burned since 2002. It highlights a continued trend toward fires becoming increasingly extreme, costly, and disastrous - both economically and in lives lost.

Journal: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Hydrochar turns agricultural waste into a powerful tool for healthier, carbon-rich soils

Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study shows that hydrochar, a carbon-rich material made from wet biomass, can improve soil structure and help soils store more carbon more effectively than several common organic amendments.

Journal: Biochar

Not all biochar is equal: New perspective calls for clearer claims in carbon removal and soil health

Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new perspective published in Biochar warns that biochar’s long-term carbon storage potential and its soil improvement benefits should not be treated as the same thing. The authors argue that clearer communication is urgently needed as biochar becomes a major player in voluntary carbon markets and climate mitigation strategies.

Journal: Biochar

Soil scientist awarded $1.6 million NSF grant to study ‘living skin’ of arid ecosystems

Penn State
Grant and Award Announcement

A Penn State soil scientist has received a $1.6 million, five-year grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund her team’s study of how increasing temperature fluctuations impact the biocrust microbiome — the complex, thin-layer microbe community that stabilizes soil, fixes nitrogen and drives nutrient cycling in drylands.

Rovers, regolith, robots: The blueprint for the moon

Texas A&M University
Meeting Announcement

In an environment of radiation, extreme temperatures and razor-sharp dust, researchers are designing how humans will build, and ultimately survive, on the moon.

Meeting: Earth and Space 2026

Heron-like, fish-eating dinosaur from 70 million years ago discovered in Argentina

Taylor & Francis Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new raptor-like dinosaur from some 70 million years ago that ate fish and behaved like modern herons has been unearthed from southern Patagonia.

Journal: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Funder: National Geographic Society, National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan

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