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Three Studies Point to El Niño as Key to 2023 Record Global Heat

by Kristopher B. Karnauskas 28 January 202528 January 2025

Three recent studies reveal how the interplay between El Niño and long-term global warming drove the record-breaking global temperatures of 2023.

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Steering Geophysical Research Letters Forward: A Focus on Excellence and Global Inclusivity

by Kristopher B. Karnauskas 23 January 202523 January 2025

Meet the new Editor-in-Chief of Geophysical Research Letters and discover his plans to shape the journal’s role in advancing the Earth and space sciences.

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Deep Beneath California’s Sierra Nevada, Earth’s Lithosphere May Be Peeling Away

by Nathaniel Scharping 17 January 202530 April 2025

Evidence for lithospheric foundering, or the process of denser material sinking into the mantle, is emerging.

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Modeling the Long and Short of Subduction Zones

by Rebecca Owen 10 January 202517 January 2025

A new subduction model could reveal important insights about megathrust earthquakes.

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Magmatic Fluids and Melts May Lie Beneath Dormant German Volcanoes

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 2 January 202513 January 2025

New processing strategies applied to old seismic data reveal potential pockets of magmatic fluids or melts from the upper mantle.

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Massive Antarctic Icebergs May Calve at Random

by Rebecca Dzombak 20 December 20244 April 2025

The first analysis of extreme calving events in Antarctica finds no correlation with climate change, highlighting the significance of common, smaller calving events for ice loss and instability.

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Past Fracture Damage Can Inhibit Earthquake Slip

by Åke Fagereng 19 December 202419 December 2024

Around the surface rupture of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, a new study documents an anti-correlation between pre-existing fracture damage and earthquake slip – implying that damage inhibited slip.

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Posted inEditors' Highlights

Logjams Promote Floodplain Complexity and Hydraulic Resistance

by Valeriy Ivanov 17 December 202417 December 2024

Using a new model, scientists compare logjam hydraulic impact across 37 reaches observed over 11 years in the Colorado Rockies.

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Core Movements Could Be Causing Tiny Shifts in Earth’s Spin Speed

Sarah Derouin, Science Writer by Sarah Derouin 9 December 20249 December 2024

Researchers use ancient eclipse data and new machine learning techniques to understand what processes changed the length of Earth’s days over the past 3,000 years.

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Seemingly Simple Climate Adaptation Strategy Could Backfire

by Saima May Sidik 27 November 20242 December 2024

Reflecting sunlight can protect a neighborhood from scorching temperatures, but surrounding neighborhoods could suffer as a result.

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