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Features

A comparison of the same data set displayed using traditional rainbow (left), cool-warm (middle), and wave colormaps
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Visualizing Science: How Color Determines What We See

by S. Zeller and D. Rogers 21 May 20206 February 2023

Color plays a major role in the analysis and communication of scientific information. New tools are helping to improve how color can be applied more accurately and effectively to data.

Satellite image of lightning flashing inside a giant thunderstorm over the bright terrestrial lights of Bolivia
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Studying Earth’s Double Electrical Heartbeat

Damond Benningfield, Science Writer by Damond Benningfield 4 May 202022 February 2023

Charged by thunderstorms and other weather phenomena, the global electrical circuit connects the entire planet.

An aircraft releases chemical dispersant on 5 May 2010 over oil floating on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico
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Why Sunlight Matters for Marine Oil Spills

by Collin P. Ward, C. M. Reddy and E. B. Overton 28 April 202018 May 2022

A decade of research since the Deepwater Horizon disaster has revealed how sunlight—its importance long understated in oil spill science—substantially alters petroleum floating at the sea surface.

A view looking southeast toward Mount St. Helens from the Castle Lake Viewpoint in June 2017
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Lessons from a Post-Eruption Landscape

by J. J. Major, C. M. Crisafulli and F. J. Swanson 24 April 20205 June 2023

Four decades of research into biophysical responses to the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens have vastly improved our understanding of how landscapes react to cataclysmic disturbances.

Illustration of lightning at Jupiter’s north pole
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Planetary Lightning: Same Physics, Distant Worlds

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 24 April 202012 April 2022

Lightning on Earth needs just a few simple ingredients to generate a spark. Those ingredients exist throughout the solar system and beyond.

Lightning flashes during a tornadic storm in Oklahoma.
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Lightning Research Flashes Forward

Heather Goss, AGU Publisher by Heather Goss 24 April 202017 August 2022

A greater understanding of lightning mechanisms is spurring the development of more accurate weather forecasting, increased public health precautions, and a more sophisticated understanding of lightning itself.

Two dozen alligators gather in clusters in a swampy area of Everglades National Park
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Lost in the Everglades

Mary Caperton Morton, Science Writer by Mary Caperton Morton 27 March 202029 September 2021

Living in Geologic Time: An unintentional adventure in the River of Grass shows how Florida has changed dramatically over 15,000 years of human habitation.

Candidatus Macondimonas diazotrophica visible both inside and around the edges of oil droplets
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Deepwater Horizon and the Rise of the Omics

by J. Kostka, S. B. Joye and Rita R. Colwell 25 March 202018 May 2022

Microbial genomics techniques came of age following the Deepwater Horizon spill, offering researchers unparalleled insights into how ecosystems respond to such environmental disasters.

Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster floats in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010.
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Modeling Under Pressure

Mark Betancourt, Freelance Journalist by Mark Betancourt 25 March 202019 August 2022

At a critical moment in the effort to end one of the world’s worst oil spills, one scientist holed up in his office and pulled an all-nighter to calculate the well’s aquifer support.

A dredge works through the night to clear shoaling along the Mississippi River at New Orleans.
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High Water: Prolonged Flooding on the Deltaic Mississippi River

by N. M. Gasparini and B. Yuill 20 March 202027 October 2022

Changing climate and land use practices are bringing extended periods of high water to the lower Mississippi River. New management practices are needed to protect people, industry, and the land.

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