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Hurricanes: Stronger, slower, wetter in the future?

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Hurricanes: A bit stronger, a bit slower, and a lot wetter in a warmer climate

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Study finds no evidence of natural gas from fracking in Ohio drinking water

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A bolt of insight

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Europium points to new suspect in continental mystery

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Uncertainty in long-run economic growth likely points toward greater emissions, climate change costs

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Lifting the economy on hawks' wings

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Ice stream draining Greenland Ice Sheet sensitive to changes over past 45,000 years

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Pollution-related disease presents global environmental challenge

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Fossil find solves questions around baleen whale evolution

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Record-breaking ocean heat fueled Hurricane Harvey

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Students monitor local pollution

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USAF and NSF announce partnership in science and engineering research

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Measuring snow persistence can help predict streamflow

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Bullfrogs helped a deadly fungus make the jump to the Western US

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A new giant virus found in the waters of Oahu, Hawaii

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CReSIS scientists join international push to grasp 'runaway' ice loss in Antarctic glacier

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Two decades of hurricanes change coastal ecosystems: increase algae blooms, fish kills, dead zones

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Federal partners release Interagency Strategic Plan for Microbiome Research

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US and UK join forces to understand how quickly a massive Antarctic glacier could collapse

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What can past glacier behavior tell us about future sea level rise?

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Rice, UH team preps for massive Antarctic glacier study

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Thwaites Glacier focus of international program

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Study suggests ample warning of supervolcano eruptions

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Sub-sea rift spills secrets to seismic probe

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Bleaching of coral reefs reduced where daily temperature changes are large

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Sunlight reduces effectiveness of dispersants used to clean up oil spills

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Sunlight reduces effectiveness of dispersants used in oil spills

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Billions of gallons of water saved by thinning forests

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