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The Breath of Colonialism Continues to Taint the Air in Uganda

by Rita Aksenfeld 12 December 202412 December 2024

Potentially harmful air quality in Kampala, Uganda, follows the borders of segregated settlements from Africa’s colonial era.

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Seismometers Track Atmospheric Shock Waves from Incoming Space Debris

by Farah Aziz Annesha 9 December 202417 December 2024

A Chinese spacecraft that burned up high over Los Angeles created a sonic trail detected by ground-based sensors.

Photo of researchers deploying an Argo float.
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Are Rogue Argo Floats Skewing Ocean Salinity Data Products?

by Lei Zhou 19 November 202418 November 2024

Global ocean salinity products have become increasingly inconsistent since 2015, coinciding with a drift to higher salinity values in a number of Argo sensors.

The top of a conical volcano covered in snow appears against a blue sky
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Glaciers near Active Volcanoes Flow Faster

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 14 November 202414 November 2024

Monitoring glacier velocity could help predict volcanic activity, a study of more than 210,000 glaciers suggests.

More recent movement of the slope at Brienz in Switzerland.
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A new landslide-driven evacuation of Brienz in Switzerland

by Dave Petley 12 November 202412 November 2024

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Back in the summer of 2023, Brienz in Switzerland was evacuated due to the threat of a large rockslope failure that threatened to bury the village. The so-called Brienz-Brinzauls landslide finally failed […]

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EPA Air Monitoring Network Misses 2.8 Million Americans in Pollution Hot Spots

by Grace van Deelen 1 November 20241 November 2024

Current EPA air monitoring may not capture the extent of particulate air pollution.

The orange glow from erupting lava illuminates the area around the summit of Kīlauea volcano under a star-filled night sky.
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An Unprecedented Experiment to Map Kīlauea’s Summit Magma System

by Roger Denlinger, Daniel R. H. O’Connell, Guoqing Lin, Steve Roecker and Ninfa Bennington 18 September 202423 September 2024

Dozens of researchers deployed nearly 2,000 seismic stations—and a T-Rex—to better illuminate subsurface structure and magma storage below the summit of the highly active volcano.

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Fiber-Optic Cables Used to Measure Changing Soil Moisture

by Caroline Hasler 10 September 202410 September 2024

Scientists are using seismic techniques to measure soil moisture. Their results show that recent droughts in California depleted water in the shallow subsurface.

Vistas desde el aire durante la noche, varias brillantes fuentes de lava estallan a lo largo de una fisura lineal, con columnas teñidas de naranja elevándose sobre ellas. Las luces de una ciudad están a lo lejos.
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En una rara oportunidad, investigadores observan la formación de los valles islandeses

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 9 September 20249 September 2024

Durante el período previo a las recientes erupciones volcánicas cerca de la ciudad de Grindavík, científicos documentaron la formación de grabens en tiempo real.

An artist’s depiction of the Sun, Earth, and the space between them. Dots on Earth mark the locations of ground-based instruments for monitoring space weather.
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From Sun to Earth: A New Network for Comprehensive Space Weather Monitoring

by Nathaniel Scharping 22 August 202422 August 2024

The Chinese Meridian Project combines hundreds of instruments for a detailed, three-dimensional view of the solar-terrestrial environment.

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