NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission aboard the International Space Station has produced its first mineral maps, providing detailed images that show the composition of the surface in regions ...
Planetary Sciences
Oct 12, 2022
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Communities in the Great Lakes region need to start planning now for a future that may include "climate migrants" who leave behind increasingly frequent natural disasters in other parts of the country.
Earth Sciences
Oct 6, 2022
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A research team comprised of Woo Dae Jang, Gi Bae Kim, and Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at KAIST reported an interactive metabolic map of bio-based chemicals. ...
Biochemistry
Aug 11, 2022
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A new map in Oregon that rated the wildfire risk of every tax lot in the state—labeling nearly 80,000 structures as high-risk—generated so much pushback from angry homeowners that officials abruptly retracted it, saying ...
Environment
Aug 5, 2022
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A new study helps reveal why tropical mountain birds occupy such narrow elevation ranges, a mystery that has puzzled scientists for centuries. While many assumed temperature was responsible for these limited distributions, ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 21, 2022
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Climate-change deniers have a viral way of spreading misinformation on social media during a heatwave: by publishing weather maps out of context to imply forecasters are exaggerating global heating.
Environment
Jul 19, 2022
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A new publication and interactive map summarize the current state of knowledge on the risks posed by permafrost soils—and call for decisive action
Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2022
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Oregon State University's new maps of 30-year U.S. climate "normals" show the area east of the Rockies is getting wetter, the Southwest is getting drier, and temperatures are inching upward—with daily lows rising faster ...
Environment
Dec 2, 2021
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Understanding how climate change will affect the flooding of rivers may become easier with a new framework for assessing flood risk that's been developed by an interdisciplinary team from Penn State.
Earth Sciences
Nov 19, 2021
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A team of researchers from Politecnico di Milano, the University of California and Massey University has created maps of possible hotspots in Asia and Europe where the risk of coronaviruses jumping from bats to humans is ...
