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#AntarcticLog: Diving on the Mid-Cayman Rise
#AntarcticLog is a series of comics by Karen Romano Young. You can find the originals here. Leg 2 of the Alvin Science Verification Expedition
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Alaska lexicon sinks in over the years
By Ned Rozell When my little Ford pickup chugged into Alaska 36 years ago this month, I didn’t know a wheel dog from a dog salmon. You could have
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#AntarcticLog: Greetings from the Puerto Rico Trench
#AntarcticLog is a series of comics by Karen Romano Young. You can find the originals here. Greetings from the deepest place in the Atlantic
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The Imamzadeh Dawood mudflow disaster in Iran
The Imamzadeh Dawood mudflow disaster in Iran Over the last week Iran has suffered from a series of extreme rainfall events, with catastrophic
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The 26 July 2016 landslide at Fushun west pit in China
The 26 July 2016 landslide at Fushun west pit in China On 26 July 2016 a large landslide occurred in a highwall at a large coal mine in Fushun,
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The 2 December 2020 Beach Road Landslide in Haines, Alaska
The 2 December 2020 Beach Road Landslide in Haines, Alaska On 2 December 2020 at 1:17 pm local time a large landslide occurred close to Haines in
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This North Carolina boulder carved a satisfying track as it slid downhill, and you can see it with lidar imagery
By Philip S. Prince A few weeks ago, after years of “lidar surfing,” I finally encountered an Appalachian boulder that left clear evidence of its
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A high-country Eden for sockeye salmon
By Ned Rozell EAST FORK OF THE GULKANA RIVER — In late summer, a few months before this mossy valley will feel the sting of 40-below air, bright
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NORTH CASCADE GLACIER CLIMATE PROJECT 2022-39th Annual Field Program
Mount Baker camp for Rainbow and Sholes Glacier (Illustration by Megan Pelto) Science Director: Mauri S. Pelto, mspelto@nichols.edu Art Director:
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What Inclusive Instructors Do – a book from Stylus Publishing
My university hosted an Inclusive Teaching Summer Reading Group that focused on the book What Inclusive Instructors Do – Principles and Practices
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Landslides from the 27 July 2022 M=7.0 earthquake in Abra, Philippines
Landslides from the 27 July 2022 earthquake in Abra, Philippines On 27 July 2022 a M=7.0 earthquake struck Abra Province in the northern part of
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Deming Glacier Icefall Deceleration 2017-2022 Driven by Mass Balance Loss
Deming Glacier velocity from NASA MEaSUREs ITS_Live at four locations from below icefall at blue X to above icefall at red X. There is not a
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The risk of large rockslides at the port of Skagway in Alaska
The risk of large rockslides at the port of Skagway in Alaska Skagway is a small borough in Alaska with a population in the 2020 census of 1,240
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New peat landslides in Shetland (including a very interesting landslide video)
New peat landslides in Shetland (including a very interesting landslide video) The Shetland islands, off the far north coast of Scotland, are covered
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#AntarticLog: To sea we go!
And now for something completely different. #AntarcticLog heads to the deep sea, where carbon sinks, where the sea is black, and where the tiny