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Opinion 1 April 2021

Tackling Challenges of a Drier, Hotter, More Fire-Prone Future

Research is increasingly showing how drought, heat, and wildfire influence each other. Ongoing collaborations provide templates for how best to study these phenomena and plan for their future impacts.
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News 31 March 2021

Aerosol Scientists Try to Clear the Air About COVID-19 Transmission

“We are basically doing what a public health agency should be doing.”
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Feature 29 March 2021

Fire as Medicine: Learning from Native American Fire Stewardship

For centuries, Indigenous peoples have worked to live in harmony with fire. Can integrating such cultural practices into contemporary wildfire management help prevent catastrophic wildfires?
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News 26 March 2021

Arctic Lightning Up 300% in One 11-Year Study

The increase may be due to climate change, researchers suggest, but the trend hasn’t been observed in other lightning data sets.
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Editors' Highlights 25 March 2021

New Data on Smoke Particulates from Cellular Radio Signals

Through analyzing radio links signal levels, retrieved surface smoke particulate concentrations can complement limited datasets from air quality stations in improving impacts analyses for wildfires.
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Science Update 24 March 2021

Slipping and Locking in Earth’s Earthquake Factories

Geodetic observations collected during back-to-back decadal research campaigns have revealed crucial new insights into the start–stop and slow-motion behavior of subduction zones.
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Editors' Highlights 19 March 2021

A New Robust Estimator of Earthquake Magnitude Distribution

The b-value, which describes the fraction of large versus small earthquakes, is less sensitive to transient changes in detection threshold and may improve the detection of precursory changes.
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Research Spotlight 18 March 2021

多发野火可作为资源压力指标

摘要:研究人员发现,在美国西部,同步多发火灾风险的天数与资源分配之间存在着很强的相关性。
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Science Update 17 March 2021

Discerning Structure and Seismic Hazards in the Sikkim Himalayas

A dense seismic network in operation since 2019 will provide new insights into the tectonics of seismically active Himalayan regions.
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Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology
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News 12 March 2021

Volcanic Lands Warm Before Eruptions

Satellite data have revealed that ground radiant temperatures around volcanoes rose in the years leading up to eruptions. The observation may help in forecasting future volcanic activity.
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