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A road winds through a mountain landscape covered in red mossy vegetation and shrubs.
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Native Plants Are Hiding Up High, but Invaders Are Catching Up

by Caroline Hasler 9 March 20239 March 2023

Far from pristine outposts of nature, mountains across the world are being rapidly colonized by non-native plants that spread uphill along roads.

Illustration of a forest on the left side beneath a dark, starry sky that transitions to a cityscape on the right side, with bright lighting
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Starry Nights Are Disappearing

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 10 February 2023

Stars dim as the sky gets brighter, a result of expanding cities and bright LEDs. Simple low-tech changes can help preserve dark night skies.

Photo of a red sprite shaped like a jellyfish above illuminated thunderclouds
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New Crowdsourced Science Project Will Study Sprites

by Erin Martin-Jones 15 December 202217 March 2023

The NASA-funded project is asking sky gazers, storm chasers, and scientists to capture photos of sprites and other optical phenomena that flash above thunderclouds after a lightning strike.

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The Lower Humidity of Urban Areas Moderates Outdoor Heat Stress

by Donald Wuebbles 31 October 202212 December 2022

Data scarcity of traditional observations cannot reveal whether surface temperature capture the potential for urban heat stress. This study improves the dataset with 40,000 citizen weather stations.

A headwater stream flows down the side of a rocky and grassy mountainside under a blue sky.
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Protecting the Mountain Water Towers of Spain’s Sierra Nevada

by Bopaiah A. Biddanda, Manuel Villar-Argaiz and Juan Manuel Medina-Sánchez 16 September 202223 September 2022

Students and community members monitor the health of mountain water reserves, which capture and release water, evening out wet and dry periods downstream.

Ciudadanos mayores en una zona rural toman parte de un mapeo. El mapa está al centro de la foto, y cinco ciudadanos miran cómo uno de ellos dibuja el mapa.
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Proyecto de ciencia comunitaria ayuda a rastrear los riesgos geológicos en Uganda

by James Dacey 14 September 202222 March 2023

Un proyecto comunitario en las tierras altas de Kigezi está ayudando a identificar puntos calientes de deslizamientos de tierra e inundaciones y cómo los peligros están evolucionando.

Abandoned buildings sit in the wake of a landslide that hit the Sunkoshi River in Nepal.
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New Landslide Reporting Tool Uses Social Media and AI

by Deepa Padmanaban 1 September 20221 September 2022

The tool extracts landslide information in real time, which could advance landslide research as well as disaster response.

Senior citizens in a rural setting take part in a mapping workshop in Uganda’s Kigezi Highlands.
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Community Science Project Helps Track Geohazard Risks in Uganda

by James Dacey 22 July 202227 March 2023

A community project in the Kigezi Highlands is helping to identify landslide and flooding hot spots and how the hazards are evolving.

Monsoonal rainfall in Manipal, Western Ghats.
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A Community-Led Landslide Prediction System in India

Rishika Pardikar, Science Writer by Rishika Pardikar 7 June 20227 June 2022

In a first-of-its-kind disaster prevention initiative, a meteorology-based landslide prediction system was developed as a crowdsourced science effort.

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Crowdsourced Weather Projects Boost Climate Science Research

by Jennifer Schmidt 2 June 20222 March 2023

Historic observations, manually transcribed from handwritten records, are giving scientists a fresh glimpse into Victorian era climate.

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