“Unlike a paused research grant, a degraded physical archive cannot be restarted. You can photograph a sample, but you cannot rerun its chemistry 40 years from now if the physical sample has degraded.”

Anthony Veltri, ” The Governance Gap Threatening Long-Term Ecological Archives”

EARTH SCIENCE ARCHIVE

Climate Change Made Spain Wildfires At Least 20 Times More Likely

Over the past two weeks, large wildfires in southwestern France and central Spain have burned 255,000 hectares, displaced hundreds of thousands of people, and created extremely poor air quality even hundreds of kilometers away. Though firefighters have now contained the major fires, a forecasted heat wave and windy weather are threatening to worsen the situation.…

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