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Field photos of burned forest and graphs showing reflectance properties.
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Summer Fire Means Winter Melt

by Valeriy Ivanov 2 February 20232 February 2023

Changing wildfire activity in California may impact seasonal hydrology by causing intense snowmelt during winter in areas where fires extend into higher elevation zones.

Maps showing distribution of different drought types.
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Streamflow Drought Intensification in the European Alps

by Valeriy Ivanov 1 February 202331 January 2023

A five-decade analysis of drought generation processes in the Alps shows their changing seasonality in high-elevation basins with increasingly frequent droughts caused by a lack of snowmelt water.

Rows of green leaves and grass grow between the dry stubble of already harvested wheat.
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Satellite Data Reveal Uptick in Cover Cropping on Farms

by Katherine Kornei 20 December 202220 December 2022

Over the course of a decade, farmers growing corn and soybeans in the U.S. Midwest increased their adoption of cover cropping—a tenet of so-called conservation agriculture—by fourfold.

Close-up of a flowering lilac shrub.
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Leaves Are Springing Up Earlier Along the Appalachian Trail

by Kate Hull 14 December 202214 December 2022

Satellite images of lustrous new leaves reveal changes that will have cascading effects on diverse ecosystems in the eastern United States.

R/V Mirai makes its way across Arctic sea ice.
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The Bottom of the Arctic Is Blooming

by Fanni Daniella Szakal 14 November 202217 November 2022

Researchers found phytoplankton hidden on the Arctic seafloor, hinting at a cascade of effects on the local ecology and carbon cycle.

Aerial view of an agricultural field with some plots in temperature-controlled conditions
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Warmer Winters Keep Crops Sleepy into Spring, Hurting Yield

by Elise Cutts 21 October 202228 October 2022

Annual crops go dormant during winter. Frosty temperatures cue them to wake up—but the warmer winters brought on by climate change scramble the cold signal, hurting yield.

Aerial photograph showing melt ponds in a raft of sea ice. The shadow of the airplane is cast over the ice.
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Satellites Get First Full-Year View of Arctic Sea Ice Thickness

by Erin Martin-Jones 20 October 202228 October 2022

The AI-based monitoring method may unlock data that could improve shipping safety and climate predictions.

Diagrams showing simulated near-surface temperature changes.
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Modeling Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling in a Changing Climate

by William J. Randel and Gang Chen 18 October 202214 October 2022

Climate models have disagreed on the future evolution of the stratospheric polar vortex and links to the troposphere, but a new study revisits this problem with state-of-the-art climate models.

Maps overlain with prediction accuracy.
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Quantifying Changes in Midlatitude Subseasonal Prediction Skill

by Suzana Camargo 9 September 202230 September 2022

The differences between future and present subseasonal predictability in the Northern Hemisphere provided by the tropics are evaluated using neural networks.

Irrigated fields in Srinagar, Jammu, and Kashmir
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Irrigation in Indo-Gangetic Plain Has Little Impact on Heat Stress

by Rishika Pardikar 30 August 20223 October 2022

Irrigation-related cooling during summer months is overestimated by roughly 5 times, highlighting the need for climate models to accurately reflect local agricultural practices.

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