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A thermal image of coastline shows plant evaporative stress in varying shades of red and green. Waterways in black snake through the mangrove forest, becoming narrower toward the top of the image. Land that touches or is near a waterway tends to have low evaporative stress and shows up as bright green, whereas areas farther inland indicate high evaporative stress and appear red.
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AGU is launching a community-driven effort, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to support computational notebooks as primary research objects in scholarly publications.

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Wiretapped Cables and the Songs of Whales

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Guiding principles and strategies for solving local water availability problems in India have emerged from collaborations involving water users, water experts, and water solutions providers.

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Scientists are making strides in monitoring firefighters for pollutant exposure using silicone wristbands, which will become even more important as wildfires encroach on the built environment.

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Sea Level Science and Applications Support Coastal Resilience

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Known for precise, planetary-scale measurements, NASA is improving its decades-long effort to observe and understand sea levels to help communities prepare for the effects of Earth’s rising ocean.

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A new study shows how muons can be used to study tide and wave phenomena, helping secure coastal communities.

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To improve future tropical cyclone forecasts, researchers sent a remotely operated saildrone into the extreme winds and towering waves around the eye of a category 4 hurricane.

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