A new study predicts that by the 2050s, wildfire smoke will cause the region to spend $850 million more every year to treat asthma.
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How is Modern Climate Change Affecting Landscape Processes?
Landscapes will respond to hydroclimatic changes associated with modern global warming, such as increasing extreme storms and wildfire, but to what extent is physical landscape change already evident?
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Saving Lives by Predicting Dust Storms
In the southwestern United States, dust storms form suddenly, quickly reducing visibility to zero. A new warning system may allow motorists to avoid these deadly hazards.
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Modeling Groundwater and Crop Production in the U.S. High Plains
Innovative new research by a team of international scholars borrows modeling methods from ecology and applies them to groundwater sustainability.
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Winter Drought Relief Unlikely in Western U.S.
This year is still on track to be one of the hottest years on record around the globe.
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Sudden Oak Death Taking a Toll on U.S. West Coast
Researchers have been modeling effects of the plant pathogen Phytophthora ramorum on coastal forests in California and Oregon since it arrived on the West Coast 3 decades ago.
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A Month of Milestones for Mars Missions
Mars launch season has arrived, and it brings the first space exploration mission from the Arab world, China’s first Mars landing, and the first powered flight on another planet.
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U.S. Readies Health Response for the Next Big Eruption
Forty years after the explosive eruption of Mount St. Helens, scientists, communities, and civic officials are evaluating plans to best protect public health before, during, and after an eruption.
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Science Gets Up to Speed on Dry Rivers
Nonperennial rivers are a major—and growing—part of the global river network. New research and science-based policies are needed to ensure the sustainability of these long-overlooked waterways.
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Bill Calls for Dramatically Cutting Plastic Pollution
With just 8% of plastic waste in the United States currently being recycled, the bill aims to set up an effective plastic recycling program and limit single-use plastic.