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• Lightning Rises Sharply in the Arctic
  A study recently published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds that Arctic lightning has tripled in the last decade alone. The researchers, led by Bob Holzworth ... - Read More

• Salty Sea Spray Keeps Lightning Strikes Away
  Although most rain on Earth falls over the oceans, lightning at sea is rarer than expected—and for decades, scientists were not sure why. A new study published on Tuesday in ... - Read More

• Study Shows Changing Glaciers Could Impact Wildlife and Tourism at National Parks | Discover Magazine
  The new data, published by researchers at the UW and the National Park Service, can help national parks predict how the changing glaciers will impact wildlife and tourism. Taryn ... - Read More

• Decades of Change: How Climate is Affecting Glaciers | Earth.com
  A new study led by the University of Washington has measured 38 years of change for glaciers in Kenai Fjords National Park. Taryn Black, a doctoral student in Earth and space ... - Read More

• Glacier Retreat in Alaska
  ESS graduate student Tayrn Black, who defended her PHD dissertation last month, has published research documenting 38 years of change for glaciers in Alaska’s Kenai Fjords ... - Read More

• New Tsunami Warning to Those in Seattle: If the Earth Starts Shaking, Get to Higher Ground ASAP | GeekWire
  If a really big earthquake hits offshore from Seattle, the city's shorelines could be struck with massive tsunami waves within a matter of three minutes. In a worst-case scenario, ... - Read More

• Earthquake Could Produce Tsunami Waves That Would Hit Seattle in Minutes | KIRO 7
  State officials are releasing new information about what a tsunami produced by a major earthquake on the Seattle Fault could do to Seattle and Puget Sound. The study prepared by ... - Read More

• Water Worlds Could Have Plumes of Nutrients Carried Up from Down Below | Universe Today
  Earth's oceans are one huge, uniform electrolyte solution. They contain salt (sodium chloride) and other nutrients like magnesium, sulphate, and calcium. We can't survive without ... - Read More

• On Alien Worlds, Exotic Form of Ice May Transport Nutrients | Space
  A high-pressure form of water ice known as ice VII has been shown to be capable of transporting salts rather than expelling them. Any potential alien life in the waters of vast ... - Read More

• Dave Montgomery's New Book: Healthier Soils Mean Healthier People.
  ESS faculty member, geomorphologist David Montgomery, has been exploring how practices that rebuild soil health affect the quality of the food that comes from that soil. His new ... - Read More

• Seismologist: Oregon Earthquakes Not a Precursor of the 'Big One' | MyNorthwest
  You can take a breath of relief -- the earthquakes that occurred in the Pacific Ocean off the Oregon coast this week are not a precursor of the "Big One." Several earthquakes ... - Read More

• Study Says Worst-case Northwest Tsunami Risk is Underestimated | KIRO 7
  It's hard to imagine anything worse than the 2011 tsunami in Japan. But a professor at the University of Southern California says an even larger tsunami could potentially hit the ... - Read More

• A Mega-tsunami in the Pacific North-west? It Could Be Worse Than Predicted, Study Says | The Guardian
  Scientists find the size of the 'outer wedge' of a faultline can magnify a rupture's impact, worrying news for a fault running from Vancouver Island to northern California. Harold ... - Read More

• Study: Regenerative Farming Boosts Soil Health, Yielding More Nutritious Crops | Mongabay
  A recent study, published in the journal PeerJ, compared the nutritional content of food crops grown using conventional versus regenerative farming practices -- those that build ... - Read More

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