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Articles, resources, and announcements from Human Dimensions.
The goal of NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is to understand the chemistry, dynamics, and energy balance above the troposphere, as well as the coupling between these processes and between regions of the atmosphere.
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July 28, 2020
According to a recent report in Science, the Amazon rain forest has lost nearly two million acres to logging each year since 1996.
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July 28, 2020
The business of data management has been transformed in the last decade—and not solely by computational progress.
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July 28, 2020
Increased human population often leads to greater influence on the environment and sharper declines in species and ecosystems.
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July 28, 2020
Hunting for elusive answers to a multitude of questions about humanity's role in global climate change.
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July 28, 2020
A new long-term archive of satellite data will help hydrologists monitor floods, allow aid agencies to pinpoint flood-prone regions, and provide information for modeling Earth's complex hydrologic cycles.
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July 28, 2020
The quiet forests of Canada may slowly be losing carbon, not from the trees themselves, but from the frozen soils underneath, where deep pools of carbon are locked within permafrost.
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July 28, 2020
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