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Hunting for Methane Hot Spots at the Top of the World
It was winter in Fairbanks, Alaska, and the moose were grumpy. A University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student offered me a tip: “If you see their hair coming up, and they’re going to charge you?”...
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COVID-19让你感觉不舒服？也许是天气的问题
Source: GeoHealth This is an authorized translation of an Eos article. 本文是Eos文章的授权翻译。 人们早就知道天气会影响普通感冒和流感的传播。温度和湿度会影响病毒在空气中传播的方式，它们在人体外保持传染性的时间，以及人们对感染的易感性。...
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Machine Learning Helps Constrain the Thickness of Ancient Crust
Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors. Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth The thickness of the continental crust has varied greatly over...
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Hig Higman: Trekking Across the Last Frontier on the Hunt for Geohazards
Bretwood “Hig” Higman lives with his wife, Erin McKittrick, and two kids in a converted yurt in Seldovia, a community of 235 people on Alaska’s Kachemak Bay. It’s an unlikely place for an academic,...
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Frozen Riverbanks May Erode Faster in a Warming Arctic
Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors. Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface Arctic communities are experiencing rapid physical, chemical, and...
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Beavers Are Remaking Microbial Ecosystems in the Arctic
Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences As the Arctic has warmed and beaver populations have rebounded, the animal architects known for greatly modifying their natural environments...
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Landfast Sea Ice: The Most Important Ice You’ve Never Heard Of
Editors’ Vox is a blog from AGU’s Publications Department. Antarctic sea ice extent has plummeted throughout 2023, with its rapid loss surprising scientists across the world. Meanwhile, attention is...
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Northern Ecosystems are Shaped by Snow
Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors. Source: AGU Advances High northern latitudes store vast amounts of carbon in frozen soils, and their vulnerability to loss...
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Как необычная дружба разрушила мифы о вечной мерзлоте
This is an authorized translation of an Eos article. Это авторизованный перевод статьи Эос (Eos). В ясный морозный день в Фэрбанксе (штат Аляска) я проследовал за исследователями Taylor D. Sullivan и...
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Protein Powder Makes Ice Crystals Flower
Clouds do more than just beautify a landscape—they also play a key role in Earth’s climate by both blocking and trapping radiation. To better understand the physics of clouds, researchers recently...
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Machine Learning Identifies Source Volcanoes of Ash Deposits
Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors. Source: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems With dozens of active volcanoes in the Alaska-Aleutian region, it can be...
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Measuring Carbon’s Flow from Land to Sea
Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences Understanding carbon transport can offer important information about a changing climate. For instance, it can help scientists measure ocean...
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The deadly 20 November 2023 landslide near Wrangell in Alaska, USA
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. At about 9 pm local time on 20 November 2023, a large landslide...
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To Meet Climate Goals, Protect the Tongass and Chugach Forests
Source: AGU Advances Forests are a powerful natural tool for climate change mitigation, often acting as massive carbon sinks to counteract greenhouse gas emissions while also protecting biodiversity....
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Climate Change Is Weakening River Seasonality in the North
Northern ecosystems are changing rapidly as permafrost thaws, glaciers retreat, and precipitation patterns change. As a result, the rhythms of river flow are shifting, too, according to a new...
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