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Scientists Ground Truth What Influences Hurricanes

Scientists Ground Truth What Influences Hurricanes

Scientists looked back 10 to 13 thousand years to gain real-world insight into the environmental factors that influence hurricanes near Florida and...

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Study Links Major Floods in North America and Europe to Multi-Decade Ocean Patterns

Study Links Major Floods in North America and Europe to Multi-Decade Ocean Patterns

The number of major floods in natural rivers across Europe and North America has not increased overall during the past 80 years, a recent study has...

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Precipitation changes in the western tropical Pacific over the past millennium

Precipitation changes in the western tropical Pacific over the past millennium

This article is part of the Spring 2017 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter.

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Boreal vegetation and cycling of carbon and nitrogen

Boreal vegetation and cycling of carbon and nitrogen

This article is part of the Spring 2017 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter.

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Improving avalanche hazard forecasting in a variable climate in mountain ecosystems

Improving avalanche hazard forecasting in a variable climate in mountain ecosystems

This article is part of the Spring 2017 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter.

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Changing fire regimes in the southwestern U.S. – implications for forest management and endangered species

Changing fire regimes in the southwestern U.S. – implications for forest management and endangered species

This article is part of the Spring 2017 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter. 

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Investigating drivers of tree mortality in western forests

Investigating drivers of tree mortality in western forests

This article is part of the Spring 2017 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter. 

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Evidence for seasonal controls on the transportation of loess in Matanuska Valley, southern Alaska

Evidence for seasonal controls on the transportation of loess in Matanuska Valley, southern Alaska

This article is part of the Fall 2016 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter.

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Tracking long-term changes in Rocky Mountain snowpack

Tracking long-term changes in Rocky Mountain snowpack

This article is part of the Fall 2016 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter. 

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Modeled Historical Land Use and Land Cover for the Conterminous United States

Modeled Historical Land Use and Land Cover for the Conterminous United States

This article is part of the Fall 2016 issue of the Earth Science Matters Newsletter. 

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