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Six Thousand Years of Controlled Burning, Up in Smoke?
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
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
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
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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Our Favorite Science Stories of 2024
What Earth and space science stories stood out this year?
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Flint, 10 Years Later
In the decade since the start of the Flint water crisis, policymakers and communities have made improvements to the lives of residents, but opportunities for progress remain.
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Telescopes Catch the Aftermath of an Energetic Planetary Collision
A planetary collision 1,800 light-years away birthed a body that has cooled in unexpected ways.
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Greenland Ice Sheet Stores Hidden Water Throughout the Melt Season
A new method uses stations around Greenland’s coast to measure how much meltwater weighs down the bedrock beneath the ice, improving our understanding of its contribution to sea level rise.
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Alaska’s Mount Veniaminof Volcano Is Stealthy—Here’s Why
New research explains why Mount Veniaminof erupts without the usual warming signs.