Using satellites to detect cyanobacterial algal blooms can foster faster decision-making that reduces harm to public health as well as associated costs.
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Storms Interact but Rarely Merge into Bigger Tempests
The Fujiwhara effect—complex interactions between large storms nearby each other—can steer hurricanes and tropical storms but doesn’t typically create colossal tempests.
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Some Farm Animals Might Have a Sense About Impending Earthquakes
Stabled animals seem to grow fidgety in the hours before an earthquake, whereas their free-range counterparts show no discernible difference in behavior.
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Tracking Air Pollution from Ghana’s E-Waste Site
Researchers established a relatively low cost method that could help countries with limited monitoring capabilities measure particulate pollution in their skies.
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This Week: Obsolete Technology and Brand-New Discoveries
What Earth and space science stories are we recommending this week?
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Typhoons Getting Stronger, Making Landfall More Often
New research shows a growing threat from Pacific storms amid climate change.
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Dust Storms Associated with Increase in Critical Care Visits
Fine particulate matter from dust storms can exacerbate respiratory diseases, and now scientists have shown that critical care hospital visits spike during and after such events.
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This Week: Thirsty Rice, Engaged Investors, and a Bulky Starship
What Earth and space science stories are we recommending this week?
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Fragrances in an Ice Core Tell a Story of Human Activity
An ice core from Europe’s highest peak contains scent-imparting molecules whose trends mirror the Soviet Union’s economic ups and downs.
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Super Dense Array Measurement Magnifies Seismic Wavefields
An investigation of small-scale spatial variability in earthquake ground motions helps to quantify the uncertainty of ground motions in probabilistic seismic hazard analysis.