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As Temperatures Rise, More California Forests Will Burn
Park Williams and Richard Seager, climate experts at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, discuss why California wildfires are expected to expand and intensify with climate change.
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A Day in the Life at Sea
Two months at sea, collecting drill cores in the stormiest ocean on the planet, can feel both extremely epic and fairly routine.
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More Intense Non-Tropical Storms Causing Increased Rainfall in U.S. Southeast
In the Southeastern United States, the increasing amount of rain during hurricane season is coming not from hurricanes but from non-tropical storms created by weather fronts, new research finds.
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North to Patuakhali and Barisal for the End of Our Fieldwork
We added a campaign monument to the tide gauge at Khepupara on the way to our last GPS and SET installation site at Patuakhali. We faced challenges such as bad roads and broken bridges, and leeches, but got the work done. The field work was now coming to a close.
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Khulna to Barishal and Kuakata
We replaced the GPS at Khulna University, then met some colleagues in Barisal. We continued to Khepupara and the beach at Kuakata for more installations. The beach on the Bay of Bengal is fresh water in the summer due to the enormous water discharge at the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta.
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New Article: Engineered CO2 Removal, Climate Restoration, and Humility
Senior research scholar Julio Friedmann examines the roles of technical experts, financiers, and government officials in advancing carbon dioxide removal projects.
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You Asked: If CO2 Is Only 0.04% of the Atmosphere, How Does it Drive Global Warming?
Short answer: A little bit goes a long way.
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Finishing on the Boat
Silting rivers and bad roads made it difficult to find a last site. After a successful installation and an upgrade to an existing GPS site, we left the boat for land. We then discovered the local river had washed away some of our equipment.
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Photo Essay: Living on the Ice in Juneau, Alaska
We’re developing a technique that uses ice-penetrating radar to measure how quickly snow turns to ice. To take our measurements, we needed to camp out in the Juneau icefields for a few weeks.
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