A five-year time series from radar satellite imagery tracks surface slip on major faults in the San Francisco Bay Area, capturing subtle velocity variations and controlling factors.
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Atmospheric Rivers Help Coastal Wetlands Build Up Sediment
Accounting for these storms and flooding can help experts predict and respond to rising sea levels.
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Birds Sang a New Song During the Pandemic
White-crowned sparrows in the San Francisco Bay Area sang differently during California’s COVID-19-induced shutdown, recordings have revealed.
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Modeling the Cascading Infrastructure Impacts of Climate Change
New research highlights how interdependences among infrastructure systems like roads can complicate climate adaptation.
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A Streetcar for the Digital Age
A Streetcar to Subduction for the digital age: AGU revises a classic guidebook using Google Earth.
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The Layered Legacy of Clyde Wahrhaftig
As the geologist’s beloved guidebook gets a digital makeover, his personal contributions to the field shed light on who he was as a scientist.
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Sea Level Rise Threatens Hundreds of Wastewater Treatment Plants
Untreated sewage could affect 5 times more people than direct flooding, a new study shows.
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Fearful of Trump, Hundreds in San Francisco Rally for Science
Speakers called on scientists not to remain silent in the face of what they said are threats to the Earth sciences.