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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
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News 2 February 2021

Simultaneous Drought and Heat Wave Events Are Becoming More Common

As the world heats up, the number and duration of combined stress events are increasing, causing harmful environmental and human impacts.
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Climate Change
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News 1 February 2021

More Acidic Water Might Supercharge Lightning

New research suggests ocean acidification could make lighting more intense.
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Climate Change
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Research Spotlight 29 January 2021

Untangling Drivers of Ancient Hurricane Activity

Individual paleohurricane records extracted from the sediments of storm-battered islands do not clearly implicate climate as having shaped hurricane frequency over the past millennium.
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Geohealth
Researchers walk atop the banks of an ancient canal in the Kazakh desert.

News 28 January 2021

Drought, Not War, Felled Some Ancient Asian Civilizations

Radiocarbon dating, luminescent sand grains, and climate records point to drought as the reason for the civilizations’ demise.
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Biogeosciences
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News 27 January 2021

Trees That Live Fast, Die Young, and Mess with Climate Models

The trade-off between tree longevity and life expectancy can mean future carbon uptakes are overestimated in current global climate models.
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Geology & Geophysics
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Research Spotlight 27 January 2021

How Heavy Rain and Drought Influence California Crustal Strain

New research using continuous GPS data reveals how multiyear precipitation patterns can amplify the effects of hydrological loading on crustal deformation.
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Climate Change
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Editors' Highlights 26 January 2021

Modeling Interactions Between Cities and Climate Across Scales

With more than half of humanity living in cities, the ability to model urban-climate interactions at relevant spatial scales is increasingly important.
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Geohealth
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AGU News 25 January 2021

Our Place in the Food Security Chain

In our February issue of Eos, we look at what role geoscientists have in ensuring everyone in our communities has a meal on the table.
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Biogeosciences
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Science Update 25 January 2021

Sowing Seeds of Food Security in Africa

An innovative program focused on collaboration and capacity building is looking to improve outcomes for smallholder farmers, reduce hunger, and alleviate food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Ocean Sciences
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News 21 January 2021

The Influence of Tidal Forces Extends to the Arctic’s Deep Sea

The Moon's gravitational pull creates the tides, but its influence extends hundreds of meters below the sea surface too, influencing sensitive methane seeps in the seabed.
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