Polystyrene beads help researchers better re-create how volcanic flows trigger tsunamis when they enter the sea at Stromboli, Italy.
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Community Members Test Oklahoma Waters
What’s in Your Water? engages local residents in monitoring Oklahoma’s waterways and helps fill gaps in state water quality data.
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Temperature Swings Are Melting the Ice in Lava Beds National Monument’s Caves
Ice caves in Lava Beds National Monument, their climates traditionally defined by narrow temperature ranges, are becoming more like regular caves.
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Mapping Kīlauea’s Magma Reservoirs
Researchers used a dense seismometer network to monitor a combination of natural and truck-generated seismic signals and identify two regions of subsurface magma storage.
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Cuts to Satellite Program Add “Uncertainty” and “Risk,” Suggests GAO Report
Last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report suggesting that the plan for NOAA’s next generation of geostationary satellites, called GeoXO, could “put vital observations at risk.”
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Breaking Data Scarcity Loops in Mountainous Regions
Living labs foster codesigned landscape and hydrological monitoring efforts and tools, thereby improving the reliability and adoption of satellite products and models in decisionmaking.
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Life in the Skies Links Ecosystems Near and Far. It Deserves More Attention.
Our understanding of Earth’s biology and its responses to environmental change is limited by an incomplete picture of the planet’s dynamic aerobiome.
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Shooting Light Pulses Down a 3-Kilometer Borehole Could Illuminate Seismic Hazards
Borehole distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) offers a more precise way to measure small earthquakes, if appropriate care is taken.
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Precursory indications of movement for the 26 August 2026 Langtang Lirung landslide in Nepal
Examination of Planet Labs satellite imagery before the collapse of the slope suggests that there were surprisingly few signs of incipient failure. The catastrophic landslide – debris flow – flood that swept through Tibet and Nepal on 26 August originated with very large rock slope failure on the flanks of Langtang Lirung, a massif located […]
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Aboard the Lake Guardian, Scientists Search for Clues About the Great Lakes’ Health
One of the longest-running lake monitoring programs provides data critical for researchers and resource managers.