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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.
Posted inNews

Proyecto de ciencia comunitaria ayuda a rastrear los riesgos geológicos en Uganda

by James Dacey 14 September 202214 September 2022

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.

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 202214 September 2022

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

Floating water hyacinths with trapped plastics.
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Remote Sensing Tracks Down “Plastic Plants” in Rivers

by Clarissa Wright 28 June 2022

Researchers are using remote sensing to track floating mats of plastic trapped in water hyacinth plants.

Aerial photo of a dark sand beach at low tide with snow-capped mountains in the background
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The Tides They Are a-Changing

by Bas den Hond 19 June 20199 December 2022

The twice-daily ebb and flow of the sea have the power to change the planet. Weak tides could have allowed Earth to freeze over, and strong tides may have given vertebrates a leg up on land.

Whitecaps dot a stormy sea
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Take Weather Prediction with a Grain of Salt and It Gets Better

by Bas den Hond 12 April 201925 July 2022

Sea surface salinity is starting to rival other methods for seasonal rain forecasting.

A precariously balanced boulder on a forested cliff
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Precariously Balanced Rocks Reveal Earthquake History in Israel

by Katherine Kornei 8 April 20198 December 2022

Using the prevalence of unstable rock formations in Israel’s Negev Desert, researchers determined that historical earthquakes in the region were weaker than previously thought.

Mother-of-pearl clouds over Lørenskog, near Oslo, Norway, half an hour after sunset.
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Science Offers New Clues About Paintings by Munch and Leonardo

by Bas den Hond 27 April 201725 January 2023

An unusual type of cloud might explain the sky in The Scream, and scientific verisimilitude reveals which is the real da Vinci masterpiece, new studies suggest.

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Creating Community for Early-Career Geoscientists

by W. R. Berghuijs, S. Harrigan, E. L. Kipnis, N. Dogulu, M. Floriancic, H. Müller, I. Pohle, S. M. Saia, F. Sedlar, M. Smoorenburg, C. Teutschbein and T. van Emmerik 16 December 201518 April 2022

Student involvement in geoscience unions: A case study from hydrology

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Finding Debris Clouds Around Asteroids Headed Our Way

by L. Laursen 20 April 201525 March 2022

Small spikes in the solar system's magnetic field may help scientists detect overlooked and possibly dangerous debris clouds around near-Earth asteroids.

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