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Geology & Geophysics
Fishermen work from a small boat on a river in southern India with large boulders in the background

Feature 25 March 2021

Cratons, Why Are You Still Here?

How have these continental relics from Earth’s early history survived the plate tectonic mixing machine?
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Education
Rock pick, compass, and other tools of geology on a table with a map in the background

News 9 March 2021

Teaching Geoscience History in Context

The history of geoscience is filled with racist ideology and problematic foundational figures. A new set of modules aims to help educators by offering more inclusive context for inequities in the field today.
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Geology & Geophysics
View of Long Valley Caldera in California with snow-covered mountains in the background

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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Geology & Geophysics
Figures showing modeling of fault related anisotropy

Editors' Highlights 13 January 2021

Fault Related Anisotropy in the Hikurangi Subduction Zone

A new study provides the first high-resolution three-dimensional anisotropic P-wave velocity model of the shallow part of the Northern Hikurangi subduction zone offshore New Zealand.
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Biogeosciences
World map showing trends of gross primary productivity, increasing in the northern latitudes and decreasing in the tropics

Editors' Highlights 17 December 2020

Water Stress Controls the Capacity of the Terrestrial Carbon Sink

Despite increased photosynthetic activity at northern latitudes in recent decades, plant productivity in tropical zones suffers because of water limitations.
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History of Geophysics
Fires burn at night on the hills of Tidbinbilla near Canberra, Australia, on 6 February 2020.

Research Spotlight 30 November 2020

Australia’s Most Extreme Bushfire Season, Statistically Speaking

Researchers identified climatic and geomorphic risk factors that led to record-breaking fires across Australia during the 2019–2020 fire season.
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Climate Change
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy sails through sea ice in the Beaufort Sea

Feature 25 November 2020

A 50-Year-Old Global Warming Forecast That Still Holds Up

In 1972, Mikhail Ivanovich Budyko used a simple methodology to make climate predictions that remain surprisingly accurate today and that could serve as a new “business-as-usual” scenario.
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Atmospheric Sciences
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Editors' Vox 16 September 2020

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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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
Map of Land subsidence predictions in the western United States obtained via machine learning

Editors' Highlights 17 August 2020

Machine Learning Predicts Subsidence from Groundwater Pumping

Machine learning and data on aquifer type, sediment thickness, and proxies for irrigation water use has been used to produce the most comprehensive map of land subsidence in the western U.S. to date.
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Climate Change
A view along the Atlantic coastline of South Africa showing hillslopes descending to the beach and ocean

Research Spotlight 14 July 2020

Ancient Sea Levels in South Africa May Offer Modern Analogues

Largely spared from disruptive tectonic activity, the South African coastline offers a natural setting to study sea levels from when Earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide last reached today’s levels.
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