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Middle school students sitting around a table at Ohio State University with a homemade ice core

News 22 March 2021

Cold Curriculum for a Hot Topic

Educators at ice core labs teach students hands-on lessons about climate change.
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Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology
Looking out from inside Lower Antelope Canyon, with the sky near the top of the frame. Characteristic layering in the sandstone is visible.

Research Spotlight 15 March 2021

The First Angstrom-Scale View of Weathering

Researchers observe how water vapor and liquid alter sedimentary rocks through physical and chemical processes.
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Science Policy & Funding
A rhododendron bush blooms pink flowers in front of the New River Gorge.

Feature 11 March 2021

The New River Gorge: Ancient River, Old Mines, New National Park

Living in Geologic Time: Regrowth and resiliency bring new accolades to one of the world’s oldest rivers.
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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
A rift in Antarctica’s Amery Ice Shelf

Research Spotlight 10 March 2021

Satellite Captures Detaching Iceberg in Near-Real Time

NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite recorded the cleaving of a 315-billion-ton iceberg from Amery Ice Shelf in 2019, as well as years of subtle cracking and splitting prior to the calving event.
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Yangtze River

Research Spotlight 10 March 2021

Researchers Home in on the Age of the Yangtze River

Findings on the river’s age also have implications for past landscape change in Asia.
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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
Two maps of the Missouri river basin showing estimates of river discharge in a hydrological model (top) and when the model incorporates satellite data (bottom).

Editors' Highlights 10 March 2021

Gauging Ungauged River Basins with Smart Remote Sensing

A clever combination of hydrologic modelling and discharge estimates from the Landsat satellite provides good discharge estimates throughout the Missouri river basin.
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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
African women plant seedlings as part of the Great Green Wall.

News 9 March 2021

New Funding Fortifies Africa’s Great Green Wall

With increased investment and renewed interest, a project to halt land degradation across the Sahel aims to transform the landscape—and people’s lives.
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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
Tents set up on a snow and ice field in Aurora Basin North, East Antarctica

Opinion 8 March 2021

Microplastics’ Hidden Contribution to Snow Melting

Microplastic particles, present everywhere on the planet, may complicate assessments of black carbon’s role in the melting of snow and of its contributions to Earth’s radiative balance.
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Atmospheric Sciences
Two charts comparing annual global average temperature anomaly series relative to 1961–1990 (top) and 1850–1900 (bottom)

Editors' Highlights 8 March 2021

New Global Surface Temperature Dataset Spans 170 Years

HadCRUT5, the new version of the Met Office Hadley Centre/Climatic Research Unit global surface temperature dataset from 1850 to 2018, has extended and improved the previous temperature record.
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Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
Illustration describing the Bogotá savanna from the observation point of the Cerro de Suba (Suba’s Hill) overlooking the territory where the Bogotá River runs through the landscape

News 5 March 2021

Aerial Photographs Uncover Bogotá’s Indigenous Hydraulic System

Complex hydraulic systems built by the Muisca people helped define the vibrant urban wetlands of Colombia’s capital city.
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