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Where California’s Land Is Sinking and Rising
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Published February 22, 2025
The elevation changes may seem small, amounting to fractions of inches per year, but they can increase or decrease local flood risk, wave exposure, and saltwater intrusion.
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America’s Sinking East Coast
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Published February 20, 2024
Critical infrastructure is threatened as sinking land amplifies global sea level rise.
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Landslide Creeping Below an African City
Published February 6, 2023
A large, slow-moving landslide is accelerating in eastern Congo, putting a community at risk.
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Plotting Earthquake Effects in Afghanistan
Published July 2, 2022
A shallow quake struck in the middle of the night and hit an area where people live in homes that are vulnerable to shaking.
Tracking the Demise of a Giant Antarctic Iceberg
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Published May 25, 2022
Scientists recently chronicled the death throes of A-68A, one of the world’s largest-known icebergs.
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A Deadly Day on Mount Semeru
Published December 11, 2021
Flows of superheated ash and tephra mixed with rain to create destructive rivers of debris on the Indonesian volcano.
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Finding Gold Mining Hotspots in Peru
Published June 16, 2021
Researchers have created a satellite-based tool to help officials identify new activity.
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Sizing Up a Tabular Iceberg
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Published June 3, 2021
The topography of Antarctic Iceberg A-76 provides insight into the strange properties of ice.
Historic Floods in New South Wales
Published March 24, 2021
Persistent heavy rain raised rivers to levels not seen since 1961.
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Taking a Measure of Sea Level Rise: Land Motion
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Published November 5, 2020
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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