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Using satellite data to monitor and navigate icy waters
With sea traffic set to rise in a warming Arctic, researchers are helping sailors plot a safer course through sea ice and icebergs thanks to more reliable satellite-based forecasts.
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Mar 14, 2025
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Earthquake rupture patterns reveal Mamara fault directs considerable seismic energy towards Istanbul
A new analysis of earthquake rupture directivity provides essential insights for seismic hazard and risk assessments in urban areas, particularly concerning the Main Marmara Fault near Istanbul in western Türkiye.
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Mar 14, 2025
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Pacific atoll water security requires new approach, say researchers
Hydrology experts at Flinders University are calling for urgent investigations into the operation of bore-fields that access fresh groundwater on Pacific islands, including Kiribati, where rising sea levels are already putting ...
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Mar 14, 2025
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A planetary boundary for geological resources: Exploring the limits of regional water availability
Geological resources such as critical metals and minerals, essential for the diffusion of technologies such as renewable energy and energy storage towards a decarbonized society, are indispensable for supporting modern life ...
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Mar 13, 2025
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Coastal wetlands, champions of carbon capture, are believed to remove more greenhouse gases than they produce
Across the street from the Flamingo Visitor Center at the foot of Florida's Everglades National Park, there was once a thriving mangrove population—part of the largest stand of mangroves in the Western Hemisphere. Now, ...
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Mar 13, 2025
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AI reveals new insights into the flow of Antarctic ice
As the planet warms, Antarctica's ice sheet is melting and contributing to sea-level rise around the globe. Antarctica holds enough frozen water to raise global sea levels by 190 feet, so precisely predicting how it will ...
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Mar 13, 2025
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Everything flows: Refining the laws of friction in a 'seismological wind tunnel'
Imagine a heavy book resting on a table. If you try to gently push the book across the table with the tip of your finger, it may first appear to remain motionless—it needs a lot more force to start sliding visibly. Similarly, ...
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Mar 13, 2025
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New map of landscape beneath Antarctica unveiled
The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international scientists led from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
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Mar 13, 2025
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High-frequency monitoring reveals complex infiltration-preferential flow processes in karst hillslopes
A study led by Prof. Chen Hongsong from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has unveiled the mechanistic influence of soil thickness (as a representative litho-structural factor) ...
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Mar 13, 2025
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ENSO's impact on Antarctic sea ice predictability: A study on linear and nonlinear dynamics
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the most prominent interannual climate variability signal, has been widely studied for its teleconnections with Antarctic sea ice variability. However, its influence on the predictability ...
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Mar 13, 2025
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Less mapped than the Moon: Quest to reveal the seabed
It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the moon, an astonishing fact driving a global push to build the clearest-ever picture of the seabed.
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Mar 13, 2025
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Climate change intensifies short-duration precipitation events and flooding, more than century's worth of data reveals
Climate change may lead to more precipitation and more intense floods. A new study shows that to understand the details of this relationship, it is important to distinguish between different types of rainfall and flood events—namely, ...
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Mar 13, 2025
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Advanced isotopic analysis provides new insights into global fossil methane emissions
An international study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres has provided new insights into global fossil methane emissions, using innovative multi-isotopic atmospheric measurements.
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Mar 12, 2025
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Extreme ocean heat does not mean climate change is accelerating: Study
An extraordinary jump in ocean temperatures in 2023 and 2024 was at the extreme end of expectations from global warming and would have been "practically impossible" without climate change, new research said Wednesday.
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Mar 12, 2025
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Flooding from below: The unseen risks of sea level rise
As climate change continues to drive global sea level rise, many people living in coastal areas are already seeing the effects. Coastal erosion is accelerating and shifting coastlines inland, and storm surges are getting ...
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Mar 12, 2025
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Powering the future: America's perceptions on critical minerals
Critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt and copper are essential for an energy transition away from fossil fuels—but America's perception of their importance isn't fully understood, which can slow progress.
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Mar 12, 2025
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Mexico City's local geology could amplify damage from moderate earthquakes
A recent swarm of small shallow earthquakes in Mexico City in 2019 and 2023 caused surprisingly strong ground shaking, prompting researchers to wonder how shaking from a moderate-sized earthquake might impact buildings across ...
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Mar 12, 2025
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Eukaryotic phytoplankton decline due to ocean acidification could significantly impact global carbon cycle
Princeton University and Xiamen University researchers report that in tropical and subtropical oligotrophic waters, ocean acidification reduces primary production, the process of photosynthesis in phytoplankton, where they ...
Global rooftop solar panels could cool Earth by 0.13°C, modeling study suggests
An interdisciplinary team affiliated with a host of institutions across China, working with one colleague from Singapore and another from MIT, has found evidence suggesting that if solar panels could be installed on every ...
Ancient wind patterns reveal future climate risks
A new study has revealed significant changes in the strength and position of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds over the past 11,000 years.
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Mar 11, 2025
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