Atmospheric Sciences
CFCs and other halocarbons have long been known for causing an ozone hole over the Antarctic, but many of them are also powerful greenhouse gases.
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Natural Hazards
Globally relevant and locally devastating, hailstorms produce significant societal impacts; despite this, our understanding of hailstorms and our ability to predict them is still limited.
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Ice from Above: Toward a Better Understanding of Hailstorms
Planetary Sciences
A new journal special collection investigates the ejection of particles from the asteroid Bennu and the implications of these observations for asteroid science.
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Up Close with an Active Asteroid
Ocean Sciences
Exploring how the multiscale interaction between underwater oil and gas plumes and the environment impacts plume composition and trajectory.
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The Underwater Behavior of Oil and Gas Jets and Plumes
Ocean Sciences
The size of tides has changed in the past and will continue to change in the future due to natural and anthropogenic influences on estuaries, coastlines, and near shore regions.
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The Ups and Downs of Tides
Geology & Geophysics
A better understanding of how earthquakes are caused by hydraulic fracturing is an important part of building better practices to manage and mitigate their risks.
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Understanding Earthquakes Caused by Hydraulic Fracturing
Planetary Sciences
A new special issue of JGR: Planets details the water-rich history of a distinctive geomorphic feature on Mars dubbed Vera Rubin ridge, as investigated by the Curiosity rover.
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Curiosity Solves the Mystery of Gale Crater’s Hematite Ridge
Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology
Ocean alkalinity plays a major role in ocean’s carbon uptake, in buffering, and in calcium carbonate production and dissolution, and it impacts and is affected by various biogeochemical processes.
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Understanding Alkalinity to Quantify Ocean Buffering
Geology & Geophysics
Global data compilations and the production of time-varying paleomagnetic field models over the past hundred thousand years provide insights into geomagnetic field evolution.
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The Global Geomagnetic Field of the Past Hundred Thousand Years
Atmospheric Sciences
Understanding the fundamental physics of the Madden‐Julian Oscillation, a phenomenon that occurs over the Indian and Pacific Oceans, remains a challenge in tropical atmospheric research.
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