Six ongoing and future missions explore the variety of asteroids in the solar system, seeking to uncover what makes each of them special.
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Reichstein Receives 2018 Piers J. Sellers Global Environmental Change Mid-Career Award
Markus Reichstein will receive the 2018 Piers J. Sellers Global Environmental Change Mid-Career Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2018, to be held 10–14 December in Washington, D. C. The award recognizes a scientist or team of midcareer scientists “for outstanding contributions in research, educational, or societal impacts in the area of global environmental change, especially through interdisciplinary approaches.”
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Ban-Weiss, Chakrabarty, and Guan Receive 2018 Global Environmental Change Early Career Award
George Ban-Weiss, Rajan Chakrabarty, and Kaiyu Guan will receive the Global Environmental Change Early Career Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2018, to be held 10–14 December in Washington, D. C. The award recognizes an early-career scientist “for outstanding contributions in research, educational, or societal impacts in the area of global environmental change, especially through interdisciplinary approach.”
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Election Results Offer Hope for Climate Action
The Democrats’ control of the House of Representatives promises to provide checks and balances on the Trump administration, environmental leaders say.
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Volcano in Iceland Is One of the Largest Sources of Volcanic CO2
High-precision airborne measurements, in combination with atmospheric modeling, suggest that the Katla subglacial caldera may be one of the planet’s biggest sources of volcanic carbon dioxide.
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My Time at Radio Science: A Thank-You from the Editor-in-Chief
The outgoing Editor-in-Chief of Radio Science reflects on his tenure and expresses appreciation to all those who contributed to the success of the journal over recent years.
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Wuebbles Receives 2018 Bert Bolin Global Environmental Change Award
Donald J. Wuebbles has been selected as the 2018 Bert Bolin awardee and lecturer of the AGU Global Environmental Change section. He will receive the award and present this lecture at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2018, to be held 10–14 December in Washington, D. C. The award recognizes an Earth scientist for “groundbreaking research and/or leadership in global environmental change through cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research in the past 10 years.”
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De Groot Receives 2018 William Gilbert Award
Lennart de Groot will receive the 2018 William Gilbert Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2018, to be held 10–14 December in Washington, D. C. The award recognizes “outstanding and unselfish work in magnetism of Earth materials and of the Earth and planets.”
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Dolphins in Florida Show Exposure to Phthalate Contaminants
Scientists have detected exposure to phthalates among a majority of bottlenose dolphins sampled in Sarasota Bay, Florida (2016–2017), including some with levels comparable to those observed in humans.
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Could Life Be Floating in Venus’s Clouds?
If present, microbes could explain evolving patterns in the planet’s atmosphere when observed in ultraviolet light.