Extreme storms in the tropical regions are expanding and becoming more persistent with climate warming, resulting in higher storm rainfall volumes while peak intensity remains unchanged.
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Remote Sensing Mitigated the Impact of the 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires
Airborne Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer 3 (AVIRIS-3) observations supported situational awareness, inspections, infrastructure assessment, and debris-flow management.
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Waves Play a Key Role for Lateral Stirring and Mixing of Ocean Tracers
Numerical models and theoretical considerations deliver new insights on how waves affect the movement of tracers in wave-rich environments.
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Earth Greening Under Water Stress
Worldwide patterns of increased plant water stress reveal water limits to vegetation greening.
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Unveiling Atmospheric Circulation on Mars with Magnetic Field Data
Not only can the magnetometer on NASA’s MAVEN satellite track magnetic fields on Mars; it can also track atmospheric circulation – using machine learning.
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User-Friendly Interface for Trace Element Open-System Melting Model
A 2001 model predicts trace element distributions in melts and residues of open-system mantle melting and melt migration. New software lets anyone apply this model despite its complex equations.
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Long-Term Datasets are Essential to Understanding Coastal Change
A multi-decadal field dataset combined with reduced-complexity modeling approach highlights the importance of shoreline change in controlling alongshore variability of dune evolution.
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The Magnetic Face of Plasma Irregularities on Mars
Plasma density irregularity is nothing new on Mars, but the accompanying magnetic field irregularity observed on NASA’s MAVEN satellite is.
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Measuring What Matters: Farmer-Driven Sustainability Metrics
Working with farmers produces agricultural sustainability indicators that are more comprehensive, easier to use, and better for making decisions.
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Tectonics and Deglaciation Govern Eastern-Southern Alps at Slow Rates
Transnational, multiproxy, and interdisciplinary datasets locate seismic hazard and show that slow-rate tectonic and deglaciation deformation overrate mantle processes in the Southern-Eastern Alps.