In areas of low or no flood monitoring, archival coverage of historical flooding can help scientists make better risk predictions.
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Traversing the High Sierra on the People’s Paths
Living in Geologic Time: Backpacking through the past, present, and future of fire on the John Muir Trail.
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Abrupt Climate Shifts Change the Latitudes of Storm Activity
A new 6500-year construction of storms combined with other paleo-storm records finds abrupt changes in the Atlantic Ocean circulation impact the latitudinal preference of storm activity.
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Rethinking Darwin’s Theory of Atoll Formation
Atolls have a long and complex history related to seafloor evolution, and Darwin’s model is only the beginning of the story.
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The Deepest Layers of the South-West Atlantic Ocean are Warming
A unique temperature time series observed over the past decade in the bottom layers of the south-west Atlantic Ocean shows significant variability with long-term warming trends.
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Polar Bears to Vanish from Most of the Arctic This Century
A “timelines of risk” model shows when and where population collapse begins as sea ice wanes in our warming future.
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New Results Concerning Solar Wind Entry into the Magnetosphere
A new book describes recent results defining the many pathways and foreshock, bow shock, magnetosheath, and magnetopause phenomena connecting the solar wind to the dayside magnetosphere.
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Global North Is Responsible for 92% of Excess Emissions
The United States and European Union bear disproportionate liability for emitting to the atmospheric commons, new research argues.
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Post-Tropical Cyclones Influence on European Windstorm Risk
Comparing the importance of midlatitude cyclones and post-tropical cyclones on European windstorms during the Atlantic hurricane season using ERA-5 reanalysis.
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Urbanization, Agriculture, and Mining Threaten Brazilian Rivers
Harder to analyze and quantify, diffuse pollution is often overlooked when it comes to water quality assessments.