A new cross-journal special collection invites contributions on how machine learning can be used for solid Earth observation, modeling and understanding.
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Exploring the Widespread Impacts of Ongoing Nitrogen Pollution
The release of reactive nitrogen into the environment is having severe and ongoing ecosystem, economic, and human health impacts. How can we reduce our nitrogen footprint?
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Halocarbons: What Are They and Why Are They Important?
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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Ice from Above: Toward a Better Understanding of Hailstorms
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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Up Close with an Active Asteroid
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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The Underwater Behavior of Oil and Gas Jets and Plumes
Exploring how the multiscale interaction between underwater oil and gas plumes and the environment impacts plume composition and trajectory.
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The Ups and Downs of Tides
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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Understanding Earthquakes Caused by Hydraulic Fracturing
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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Curiosity Solves the Mystery of Gale Crater’s Hematite Ridge
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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Understanding Alkalinity to Quantify Ocean Buffering
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.