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A Busy Season for Crop Fires in Northwestern India
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Published November 17, 2020
Burning leftover straw after the rice harvest has once again blanketed the region with smoke.
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Dangerous Hurricane Iota Sets Late-Season Records
Published November 16, 2020
Before 2020, only four category 4 or 5 hurricanes had ever made landfall in Nicaragua. Now two are going to land in just two weeks.
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Shedding Light on Greenland
Published November 15, 2020
Nature’s beauty overtook science for an evening.
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Iceberg A-68A Nears South Georgia
Published November 13, 2020
Scientists watch as A-68A, currently the planet’s largest iceberg, approaches a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
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Capturing Wind on Maui
Published November 14, 2020
Kaheawa Wind Power facilities provide 10 to 15 percent of this Hawaiian island’s electric power.
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Vamco Thrashes the Philippines
Published November 12, 2020
The typhoon brought strong winds and flooding to Manila.
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Stained Winyah Bay
One of the first attempts to set up a permanent European colony in the contiguous United States ended in disaster.
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Eta Floods Nicaragua
Published November 10, 2020
The category 4 storm caused deadly flooding and landslides in Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala.
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Jason and the Bloomonauts
Published November 8, 2020
Dynamic mixing and churning of currents around some South Atlantic islands makes for biologically productive waters.
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Isthmus of Taravao, Tahiti
Published November 7, 2020
This island’s rugged topography and dense rainforest has led most of its inhabitants to live along the coastline.
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Taking a Measure of Sea Level Rise: Ocean Altimetry
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Published November 5, 2020
The ocean is lumpy and sloshes around its basins for natural reasons. But it is also rising, slowly and steadily.
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Taking a Measure of Sea Level Rise: Land Motion
Earth’s surface may seem motionless most of the time, but an array of measurements show that natural and human-caused processes cause coastal land to rise and fall.
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