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Planetary Sciences

News 1 June 2020

A Longer-Lived Magnetic Field for Mars

New research indicates Mars’s dynamo may have been active for millions of years longer than previously thought.

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Geology & Geophysics

News 28 May 2020

Monitoring African Elephants with Raspberry Shake & Boom

A team of researchers has used low-cost devices to record footsteps and vocalizations from African elephants in the field.

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Geohealth

News 9 April 2020

Coronavirus Lockdown Brings Clean Air to Spanish Cities

Measures against the spread of the new coronavirus have an unexpected side effect: record-low air pollution levels.

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Planetary Sciences

News 30 March 2020

Armageddon at 10,000 BCE

Fragments of a comet likely hit Earth 12,800 years ago, and a little Paleolithic village in Syria might have suffered the impact.

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Biogeosciences

News 19 March 2020

Climate Change Will Reduce Spanish Olive Oil Production

Increased droughts will reduce southern Spain’s olive oil output by 30% before the end of the century.

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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

News 10 March 2020

Precipitation Plays a Key Role in Glacial Erosion

After comparing the climatic conditions at dozens of glaciers worldwide, researchers find that precipitation, not temperature, is the leading environmental factor driving glacial erosion.

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Planetary Sciences

News 9 March 2020

Earth Rocks and Moon Rocks Are More Different Than We Thought

New analyses of oxygen isotopes reveal terrestrial and lunar rocks aren’t as similar as previously thought, potentially changing the way we think the Moon formed.

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Geology & Geophysics

News 26 February 2020

Sediments May Support the Mediterranean Megaflood Hypothesis

Millions of years ago, the Mediterranean Sea may have evaporated. A newly identified body of sediments could have been deposited by the giant flood that refilled the basin.

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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

Feature 31 January 2020

Diagnosing Thwaites

The water under a vulnerable Antarctic glacier is warming. Its catastrophic collapse could trigger a dramatic increase in global sea level.

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Planetary Sciences

News 26 November 2019

Meet Hygiea, the Smallest Dwarf Planet in Our Solar System

New observations confirm that main asteroid belt object Hygiea is round. It now fulfills all the requirements to graduate from asteroid to dwarf planet.

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