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A house built on permafrost, now thawing, tilts dramatically.
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Mapping the People, Places, and Problems of Permafrost Thaw

by J. Besl 21 April 202128 September 2021

By combining demography data with permafrost maps, researchers provide a first count of the population on permafrost and predict its imminent decline.

People stand atop debris from a huge slump landslide in Uganda.
Posted inNews

Landslides Mar the “Pearl of Africa”

by H. Mafaranga 19 April 202126 October 2021

Behind Uganda’s lavish beauty, climate change has taken its toll: Death, destroyed properties, and displaced communities increase as above-normal rainfall floods the country.

Workers clear flood and landslide debris from a cliffside
Posted inNews

Migrant Workers Among the Most Vulnerable to Himalayan Disasters

by Rishika Pardikar 12 April 202128 September 2021

Critics say companies are failing to develop adequate emergency procedures to protect construction workers on hydropower plants in the Himalayas.

Aerial image of a woman stooping to gather crops in a large field
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When Climate Adaptation Intervention Risks Further Marginalization

by Rishika Pardikar 22 February 202129 September 2021

Many climate adaptation interventions focus excessively on the effects of climate change and less on examinations of what drives vulnerability.

A firefighter looks on as homes burn in Northern California’s Camp Fire earlier in November 2018.
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Communities of Color Are More Vulnerable to Wildfires

by I. Loomis 29 November 2018

Affluent white people are more likely to live in fire-prone areas, but race and socioeconomic vulnerability can put minority communities at greater risk, a new study finds.

New research reveals how sea level rise threatens wastewater treatment plants.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Sea Level Rise Threatens Hundreds of Wastewater Treatment Plants

by E. Underwood 4 May 2018

Untreated sewage could affect 5 times more people than direct flooding, a new study shows.

Sea cucumber among manganese nodules in the Pacific Ocean’s Clarion-Clipperton fracture zone.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Natural Resource Exploitation Could Reach New Depths

by J. Lunn 21 July 2017

The deep seafloor could provide humans with supplies of valuable metals, but opinion is divided as to whether sustainable exploitation is possible and worth the ecological and economic risk.

Soil profile in East Fork Poplar Creek in Oak Ridge, Tenn., shows physical and biological complexity and the susceptibility of soils to erosion.
Posted inScience Updates

Advancing Soil Carbon Cycle Science

by M. A. Mayes, K. Lajtha and V. Bailey 12 August 20169 September 2016

Workshop to celebrate 2015–2024 International Decade of Soil; Boulder, Colorado, 14–16 March, 2016

Posted inEditors' Vox

Insights into the Ongoing California Drought

by N. Diffenbaugh 25 November 201510 February 2018

Real-time research informs real-time decision-making for addressing the California drought.

Posted inNews

Earth Observation Plan Focuses on User Needs and Measurements

by Randy Showstack 16 September 201417 November 2014

A new U.S. National Plan for Civil Earth Observations focuses on user needs and defines a framework for constructing a balanced portfolio of Earth observing systems, White House officials said.

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