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Artist's rendering of explorers on Mars extracting water from subsurface ice deposits.

Opinion 4 January 2019

The Mars Anthropocene

The idea of sending people to Mars has captured the public imagination, but have we fully considered how our presence will alter the planet?
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Geology & Geophysics
Researchers use models to assess the challenges of resource management

Research Spotlight 24 August 2017

How Can We Best Manage Shared Resources?

Researchers develop a mathematical model to shed light on the social, economic, and ecological challenges of governing resources such as fisheries, forests, grazing lands, and the atmosphere.
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Geology & Geophysics
Most airline passengers have no idea how little of the seafloor beneath them has been mapped.

Opinion 8 March 2017

Airline Flight Paths over the Unmapped Ocean

An assessment of ocean depth knowledge underneath commercial airline routes shows just how much of the seafloor remains "terra incognita."
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Geology & Geophysics

Editors' Vox 31 January 2017

Growing Our Publication Partnership

Renewed partnership aims to continue expanding the reach of scholarly Earth and space science.
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Geology & Geophysics
AGU and Wiley launch a new journal, Geohealth.

AGU News 11 August 2016

AGU Expands into Geohealth, Starting with New Journal

The journal GeoHealth, to be launched by the American Geophysical Union and Wiley, will disseminate research relating Earth and environmental sciences to human, agricultural, and environmental health.
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Geology & Geophysics

Editors' Vox 23 February 2016

Watch Your Language

Legacy words and the search of a new human-environment dynamic
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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface

Science Update 19 January 2016

Drones in a Cold Climate

As climate change reshapes the Earth's polar regions, scientists turn to drone-mounted cameras to measure sea ice. One expedition found out that flying drones near Antarctica isn't easy.
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Geology & Geophysics

Opinion 17 June 2014

Science Communication in the Post-Expert Digital Age

In the post-expert digital age, all perspectives can get airtime. To deal with the challenges of communicating with the public in this environment, the scientific community needs new strategies.
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Newly Identified Instabilities Enhance Atmospheric Turbulence

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