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A scene from a Japanese picture scroll depicting the 1855 Edo earthquake
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Kabuki Actor’s Forgotten Manuscript Yields Clues About 1855 Quake in Japan

Tim Hornyak, Science Writer by Tim Hornyak 8 September 20206 December 2021

Researchers analyzed a survivor’s account of the disaster to better understand future temblors.

Map showing an example of how chemical signature informs the dynamics of the Asian Summer Monsoon flow pattern
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When Chemistry Lends a Hand to Dynamics

by C. Zhang 25 August 202029 March 2022

Chemical signature and chemical transport analyses help understand the dynamics of the Asian Summer Monsoon.

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The First Undeniable Climate Change Deaths

by D. Merino 18 August 20206 December 2021

In 2018 in Japan, more than 1,000 people died during an unprecedented heat wave. In 2019, scientists proved it would have been impossible without global warming.

Satellite image of Typhoon Hagibis approaching Japan
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Typhoons Getting Stronger, Making Landfall More Often

Tim Hornyak, Science Writer by Tim Hornyak 12 August 20209 March 2023

New research shows a growing threat from Pacific storms amid climate change.

Map of the world showing trajectories that transport water from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
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A New Perspective on a Classic Climate Conundrum

by Alessandra Giannini 6 August 202012 January 2022

The Lagrangian method applied to tracking water transport between the Atlantic and Pacific basins reveals a larger contribution by mid-latitude westerly winds across Eurasia than previously thought.

Photograph and heat map plot of a spontaneously combusting coal-mine waste heap in Myanmar heating up to 91.5 degrees Celsius
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Citizen Science Reduces Risks from Combusting Coal-Mine Wastes

by K. Hudson-Edwards 17 July 20206 January 2023

A community-based citizen science study on spontaneously combusting coal-mine waste heaps in Myanmar underpins the development of risk management plans to protect individuals and communities.

Thousands of locusts descend on an agricultural field
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Record Locust Swarms Hint at What’s to Come with Climate Change

by R. S. Khan 14 July 20202 March 2023

Warming oceans that feed cyclones have also bred record-breaking swarms of desert locusts. Such plagues could grow bigger and more widespread with climate change.

Chart showing the northward propagation of the moisture transport supplied by the East Asian summer monsoon between 1961 and 2017
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Meiyu: The Dragon Dictating Rainfall Variability in East Asia

by Z. Li 13 July 202013 March 2023

According to Chinese myth, rain is water poured out of a dragon; in reality is the Meiyu that dictates rainfall in eastern Asia, producing rain belts jumping from south in spring to north in summer.

A dark, cloudy sky above rolling green hills near Jawhar in western India
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Evolution of the Asian Monsoon

by P. D. Clift, A. Holbourn, C. France-Lanord and H. Zheng 25 June 202026 January 2023

Climate and topography change the characteristics of the Asian monsoon over millions of years. These changes affect the region’s climate and topography, and the cycle continues.

Charts showing relationship between catchment-averaged erosion rate and landscape steepness index
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Meteoric 10Be Reveals Lithological Control on Erosion Rates

by Mikaël Attal 1 June 202026 January 2023

New meteoric 10Be data quantify fast erosion of slates in the Zhuoshui River catchment in Taiwan and demonstrate the influence of lithology on landscape steepness.

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