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Latest Moon Mission Is Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 14 January 202514 January 2025

Firefly Aerospace hopes to kick off 2025 by sticking a lunar landing. Science from the mission’s 10 NASA payloads could help guide future Moon missions.

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Three-Quarters of the World’s Land Is Drying Out, “Redefining Life on Earth”

by Ayurella Horn-Muller 13 January 202513 January 2025

Climate change has made great swaths of the planet drier and soils saltier, jeopardizing food production and water access for billions.

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“Exceptional” Global Warming Spike Continued in 2024

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 10 January 202510 January 2025

More than 3 billion people experienced their hottest year ever in 2024 because of anthropogenic climate change. The world is speeding toward its 1.5°C warming target.

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Darker, Less Cloudy Earth Contributed to Record Heat

by Nathaniel Scharping 8 January 20258 January 2025

Decreases to our planet’s albedo caused by fewer low-lying clouds helped push temperatures to historic highs in 2023, according to new research.

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Home Foundations Are Crumbling. This Mineral Is to Blame.

by Benjamin Cassidy 7 January 20257 January 2025

Pyrrhotite causes cracks in concrete. But research on how widespread the issue might be has only scratched the surface.

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Nevada tiene montones de litio. Esta es la razón.

by Evan Howell 7 January 20257 January 2025

Nevada se está convirtiendo en un gran productor de litio, gracias a la topografía, el clima y la serendipia geológica.

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Six Thousand Years of Controlled Burning, Up in Smoke?

by Bill Morris 3 January 20257 January 2025

By disrupting millennia-old fire management practices, colonization created a deadly situation in Australian forests, but the jury is out on just how widespread “cultural burning” was.

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A New Tornado Database Helps Researchers Worldwide

by Andrew J. Wight 3 January 20257 January 2025

Thanks to unique geography and atmospheric conditions, the United States is a tornado hot spot, but these deadly whirlwinds also hit Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

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Watching a Solar Event from All Angles

by Collin Blinder 2 January 20252 January 2025

A fleet of spacecraft captured unprecedented details of the major solar outbursts in May and June 2024.

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Improving Earthquake Early Warning Access for the Deaf Community

by Grace van Deelen 2 January 20252 January 2025

Earthquake early warning systems are rarely accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing. A group of scientists is working to change that.

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