一项最新调查显示，野外工作期间发生有害互动的情况十分普遍，而许多此类事件并未被正式上报。一项新调查为此指明了改进的方向。
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Community Members Test Oklahoma Waters
What’s in Your Water? engages local residents in monitoring Oklahoma’s waterways and helps fill gaps in state water quality data.
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How Fine Can Global Storm Models Get?
A new study zooms in, literally, on how global models can capture precipitation and cloud cover in even more detail.
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Elephants Engineer Their Ecosystems in Life—and in Death
Elephant carcasses leave a lasting legacy on the savanna, reshaping microbial communities and plant life.
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The Ambiguous Costs of Climate Change
To put a price tag on climate change, some approaches focus on whether it made an event more likely, whereas others focus on whether it made an event more severe and damaging. A new study examines the validity of both approaches.
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Reading Rainfall in a Snail’s Shell
The chemical record of a snail shell is allowing scientists to reconstruct a record of past storms from the recent—and maybe distant—past.
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Mapping Childhood Lead Exposure Risk in the United States, Neighborhood by Neighborhood
A researcher uses housing and poverty data to identify locations where children are more likely to be exposed to lead.
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Preserving Soil Carbon by Preserving the Forest Floor
A 20-year study of British Columbia forests examines how soil carbon is affected by logging.
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Four in Five Researchers Report Harmful Interactions During Geoscience Fieldwork. A New Survey Suggests a Path Forward.
A new survey documents the prevalence of harmful interactions that occur during fieldwork. Many instances go officially unreported.
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Communities Affected by Climate Change Need More Than Data
Researchers and residents in Puerto Rico collaborated on how NASA Earth Observations data can address environmental justice challenges and strengthen community resilience.