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Virtual field experience of Whaleback anticline
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The Rise of Gaming-Based Virtual Field Trips

by Jenessa Duncombe 27 January 202327 January 2023

Geologists are harnessing a game engine to build environments for teaching and learning.

Photo of a digger clearing access to forest for selective logging in Borneo.
Posted inNews

Selectively Logged Forests Are Not Broken

by Erin Martin-Jones 23 January 202323 January 2023

Borneo’s logged forests are buzzing with life and have unrealized conservation potential.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

How Can We Sample More Ethically?

by Susan Trumbore 9 January 20239 January 2023

Ryan-Davis and Scalice describe a path towards sampling more ethically, going beyond legal permitting requirements to engagement of Indigenous expertise and respect of peoples’ relationship to place.

A cloudy sky above a landscape of evergreens and trees lacking any leaves, a cascade of beaver ponds cuts through the forest. On the right side of one of the ponds, a moose stands with its head down, reflected in the water.
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Scientists EEAGER-ly Track Beavers Across Western United States

by Alka Tripathy-Lang 3 January 20233 January 2023

Efficiently tracking nature’s engineers—beavers—at the scale of entire watersheds over time is now possible, thanks to a new artificial intelligence–trained model called EEAGER.

Photo of a polar bear and two cubs traversing a field of snow and ice
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Glacial Ice Offers Polar Bears a Precarious Climate Refuge

by Elise Cutts 9 December 20229 December 2022

An isolated polar bear population in southeastern Greenland survives in fjords, despite spotty sea ice. But this pocket of bears is not a sign of how the species could be saved.

People sit on the prow of a boat around the paper on the deck.
Posted inNews

An Inclusive Approach to Oceangoing Research

by Jenessa Duncombe 27 October 202227 October 2022

The bread and butter of oceanography, sea voyages rarely include minoritized communities and nonscientists. The Inclusion Mission wants to change that.

Images of ice particles
Posted inEditors' Highlights

New Cloud and Precipitation Data Over the Southern Ocean

by Minghua Zhang 11 October 202211 October 2022

New measurements show the macro- and microphysical characteristics of the clouds and precipitation over the data-space regions of the Southern Ocean.

A person stands amid tall trees on a lush green mountainside.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Amazon Basin Tree Rings Hold a Record of the Region’s Rainfall

by Rachel Fritts 11 October 202211 October 2022

New research provides a 200-year reconstruction of interannual rainfall in the Amazon basin using oxygen isotopes preserved in tree rings in Ecuador and Bolivia.

One of two fire-generated vortices at the 2021 Dixie Fire
Posted inNews

Chasing Fire Tornadoes for Science

by Emily Shepherd 6 September 20226 September 2022

Recent research suggests fire-generated vortices are always present during wildfires.

Three scientists discuss around a map on a table.
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How an Unlikely Friendship Upended Permafrost Myths

by Jenessa Duncombe 19 August 202230 November 2022

“Beautifully long arguments” between an American scientist and a Russian researcher helped clarify several fundamental assumptions about permafrost thaw.

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