The True North Pole has shifted at a rate of 4.36 centimeters per year (or over 1.7 inches) due to the extraction of countless amounts of groundwater from beneath our feet, according to a recent study published in #AGUpubs Geophysical Research Letters. https://www.salon.com/2023/06/21/humans-have-changed-the-earths-axis--and-our-gps-and-satellite-navigation-systems-need-it-to-work/ #press
Article by Jianning Ren out in #AGUpubs: We found that beetle effects on fire were a function of 2 counteracting forces: increases in fuel loading & decreases in aridity, with the dominant force depending on local fire regime: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022MS003073
Potentially deadly steam-powered volcanic eruptions like that which buried Pompeii may launch hot ash much further than previously thought, according to a new study in AGU’s Geophysical Research Letters. #AGUpubs
https://news.agu.org/press-release/death-valleys-ubehebe-crater-reveals-volcanic-hazard-areas-are-underestimated/
In an 2021 exhibit, 20 works from #indigenousartists were featured in "Art and Environmental Struggle," at the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. Here is a peek at eight of those works, published in #AGUpubs' GeoHealth:
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NEW: Sedwick et al. find that deep mixing driven by offshore winds and sea ice formation supplies substantial dissolved iron to the #RossSea surface waters on the Antarctic continental shelf.
Check out their results: https://fal.cn/3tEHX
New modeling has discovered that ducts, or channels, of waving magnetic lines – called Alfvén waves – may be carrying power from Earth's magnetic tail back towards Earth to produce intense auroral displays.
In #AGUpubs: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JA030841
Call for Papers: A new special collection invites papers addressing the interlinked problems of threats to air quality from accelerating #climatechange, and the impact of climate action on air quality.
Learn more here: https://fal.cn/3tEwo