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Flood risk
In this Collection, we explore the natural processes that drive flood hazard, the social and environmental factors that can exacerbate vulnerability and the measures that can be taken to assess and mitigate flood risks.
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Indigenous peoples and the environment
In this Collection, we feature articles that explore the relationship between indigenous peoples and the environment and the value of indigenous knowledge in meeting Sustainable Development Goals.
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Rifts
Earth’s tectonic plates extend and break-apart during rifting.
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The 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake Sequence
In this Collection we bring together and invite research and opinion ranging from the seismological characteristics of the earthquakes to lessons and strategies for resilience and the human response.
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Science at Extreme Pressures
Under extreme pressure, matter can exhibit novel or counter-intuitive phenomena such as superconductivity at unusually high-temperature, unexpected chemical stoichiometries and reaction kinetics, or new material phases.
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Plastics in the environment
Plastic is ubiquitous in our lives and the environment.
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Deep water
Deep water refers to the water, and its constituent ions, in Earth’s interior.
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Asteroid Surfaces
Recent missions to the asteroids Ryugu and Bennu have revealed that the surfaces of asteroids can be actively shaped by a variety of geological processes.
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Permafrost in a warming world
Permafrost regions are vast and thawing.
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Research in support of COP26
This November, world leaders will meet in Glasgow, UK for the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to discuss action on the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2021
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi for their advances in complex physical systems. In
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Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals
