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Environmental: Wildfires
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What's driving re-burns across California and the West? - What's Driving Re-burns Across California and the West?      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Seasonal temperature, moisture loss from plants and wind speed are what primarily drive fires that s...

Chemistry: Biochemistry Chemistry: General Offbeat: General
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Is there a common link between the physical and social worlds? Two brothers think so      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

A Rutgers biophysical chemist and his brother, a political scientist on the West Coast, have joined ...

Environmental: Water Geoscience: Earth Science Geoscience: Environmental Issues Geoscience: Geography Geoscience: Oceanography
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Antarctic glacier retreating rapidly      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Scientists are warning that apparently stable glaciers in the Antarctic can 'switch very rapidly' an...

Geoscience: Environmental Issues Geoscience: Oceanography Space: General Space: The Solar System
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Could artificially dimming the sun prevent ice melt?      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

With methods of so-called geoengineering, the climate could theoretically be artificially influenced...

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Cold War spy satellite imagery reveals Ancient Roman forts      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

A new study analyzing declassified Cold War satellite imagery reveals 396 previously undocumented Ro...

Archaeology: General
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Shipboard cannon found off the Swedish coast may be the oldest in Europe      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Maritime archaeologists have studied what might be Europe's oldest shipboard cannon. The cannon was...

Environmental: General Geoscience: Environmental Issues Geoscience: Geography Geoscience: Severe Weather
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U.S. drought-monitoring system outpaced by climate changes      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

A new study reports that the U.S. Drought Monitor's weekly maps of nationwide drought conditions --...