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Ileana Callejas discusses how remote sensing can be used to monitor water quality in coastal regions,including tracking sewage plumes, algal blooms and oil spills.
Bumsoo Kim explains how lipid biomarkers in the sedimentary record can be used to trace gas hydrate destabilization and methane-release events in the geological past.
An article in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems finds that chlorite- and serpentine-rich assemblages are most likely to control the frictional properties at subduction zone plate interfaces.
An article in Nature Climate Change reports that emigration will reduce by 10–35% in the lowest income groups, exposing them to subsequent climate impacts.
An article in Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics examines the impact of ice-nucleating particles in marine aerosols on an atmospheric river event in the western United States.
An article in Science Advances reports the age of the oldest dated piece of cratonic mantle lithosphere (2.8 Ga), which was found at a mid-ocean ridge.