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Sowing 1,000 Trees into Shanghai’s Urban Fabric

by Jackie Rocheleau 8 July 202114 April 2022

A new development blends riverside nature with commercial construction.

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Half of the IPCC Scenarios to Limit Warming Don’t Work

by Jordan Wilkerson 7 July 20211 June 2023

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change showcased 50 scenarios to limit global warming to 1.5°C above preindustrial temperatures. A new study finds that only half of those scenarios are realistic.

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Uganda Advances Toward Launching Its First Satellite

by H. Mafaranga 1 July 202114 April 2022

A new ground station and an expanded education network will lead to the launch of a security and Earth observation satellite in 2022.

Foto de Kristin Jónsdóttir, la sismóloga de la Oficina Meteorológica de Islandia al frente, con Fagradalsfjall haciendo erupción detrás. A medida que lava naranja sale de pequeño cráter, humo anarajandizo sube al aire. El fondo de basalto negro solidificado brilla en rojo.
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Persiguiendo magma por la península de Reykjanes en Islandia

by Alka Tripathy-Lang 30 June 202119 July 2023

La Oficina Meteorológica de Islandia ha estado rastreando la agitación cerca de la erupción de Fagradalsfjall desde diciembre de 2019, mientras que investigadores en otros lugares exploran nuevos métodos para ver los enjambres sísmicos de Islandia.

The supergiant Betelgeuse glows red and orange against a dark, starry background. The star’s surface is mottled and emits a faint reddish glow representing its stellar wind. A dark cloud of dust partially obscures the star’s lower left region.
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When Betelgeuse Won’t Explode, You Need a Big Telescope to Prove It

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 30 June 202126 January 2022

Thanks to last-minute telescope time, researchers pieced together the sequence of events that caused Betelgeuse’s Great Dimming last year.

A reenactor works on a Viking farm at a living history museum in Sweden.
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Food Security Lessons from the Vikings

by James Dacey 29 June 202115 March 2023

Scandinavian societies of the first millennium adapted their farming practices to volcano-driven climate changes.

A researcher stands above a large sinkhole, pouring green dye into draining water.
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Dyes and Isotopes Track Groundwater from Sink to Spring

by J. Besl 28 June 202124 August 2023

The hydraulic connection between a sinkhole and a natural spring—the longest and largest yet documented—could help reduce the guesswork in mapping karst aquifers.

Ilaria Capua is a professor of agriculture and life sciences at the University of Florida.
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Podcast: Standing Up for Science During an Epidemic

by S. M. Hanlon 24 June 20215 October 2021

A virologist overcame smears and adversity to stand up for science.

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The Possible Evolution of an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere

by Stacy Kish 23 June 202126 April 2022

Scientific sleuths explore data gathered trillions of kilometers away and put forth different, and often conflicting, ideas to reconstruct the gaseous envelope on a distant rocky exoplanet, GJ 1132 b.

Planets near a star
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Gap in Exoplanet Size Shifts with Age

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 21 June 202128 April 2022

Smaller planets are scarcer in younger systems and larger planets are lacking in older systems, according to new research that analyzed hundreds of exoplanets.

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