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Uranus and Neptune Should Be Top Priority, Says Report

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 14 December 201817 November 2021

Voyager 2 visited the ice giants in the 1980s, the only craft ever to do so. Planetary scientists argue that new missions to each planet would also benefit heliophysics and exoplanet research.

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One Fifth of Los Angeles’s CO2 Rises from Lawns and Golf Courses

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 13 December 20188 November 2021

Measurements of carbon-14 show that roughly 20% of carbon dioxide emissions in the Los Angeles Basin are likely due to the decay of plants in managed landscapes.

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Google Trends Could Help Scientists Track Allergy Season

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 13 December 20187 February 2023

Admit it: When your nose starts to run and your eyes itch, you search Google, too.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska speaks at AGU Fall Meeting 2018.
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Sen. Murkowski Warns About the Impact of Climate Change

by Randy Showstack 13 December 20187 April 2023

The senator from Alaska says the impact of climate change in her state “is real, it is happening, it is now, and almost none of these changes are for the better for us.”

Clay chemist Lynda Williams holds a handful of green clay, which she shows has healing properties.
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Healing Power of Clay? Not as Off-the-Wall as You Might Think

by H. Hagemann 12 December 201811 January 2022

An ancient folk remedy, blue-green iron-rich clay, kills antibiotic-resistant bacteria using a one-two punch, a new study shows.

The icebreaker USCGC Healy heads through ice in the Arctic Ocean.
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Arctic Undergoing Most Unprecedented Transition in Human History

by Randy Showstack 12 December 20188 November 2021

The Arctic Report Card, released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, outlines vast changes taking place in the Arctic region. Here are some major findings.

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Ocean Science Decade Comes at Time of Precarious Decline

by Randy Showstack 12 December 20187 April 2023

The UN-endorsed decade from 2021 to 2030 promises to advance ocean science and sustainable use of the oceans and reverse the decline in the health of the oceans.

The ice-climbing robot IceWorm scales a wall in a glacial cave at Mount St. Hel
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Meet IceWorm: NASA’s New Ice-Climbing Robot

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 12 December 201829 September 2021

A robot that can inch up icy surfaces may help scientists reach new heights in some of Earth’s most dangerous and remote landscapes.

An excavation conducted at an Adélie penguin colony on Earle Island (one of theDanger Islands), Antarctica.
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Penguin Poop Keeps a Record of Antarctic Glaciation

by B. Bedford 11 December 20184 October 2021

Scientists are digging up Adélie penguin guano to study millennia of Antarctica’s history.

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Leading Congress Member Promises Renewed Focus on Climate Change

by Randy Showstack 11 December 20187 April 2023

In a statement issued at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2018, House Science Committee ranking member Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson says that “it is time to stand up for science.”

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