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AGU Partners with Wiley to Take on New Geohealth Initiative

WEBAGU Contact: Joan Buhrman. [email protected]. +1 (202) 777-7509. Wiley. Penny Smith. [email protected]. +44 (0) 1243 770171. The American Geophysical Union (AGU) with publishing partner Wiley announced today the launch of a new journal, GeoHealth.

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Letting farmland recover may let air quality recover, too

WEBWASHINGTON — The USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) promotes sustainable agricultural practices to improve habitat, soil and water quality. It may have an unintended benefit of improving air quality, too, according to new research published in AGU’s journal GeoHealth, which investigates the intersection of human and …

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AGU Celebrates the Year of Open Science

WEBAGU has chosen “Wide. Open. Science.” as the theme for our signature meeting AGU23, which will convene more than 25,000 attendees from over 100 countries in San Francisco 11–15 December 2023. “At AGU23, we will celebrate how the Earth and space science community has called for barriers to be lowered between scientists and …

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Widespread electric vehicle adoption would save billions of dollars

WEBAGU press contact: Lauren Lipuma, +1 (202) 777-7396, [email protected] Northwestern University press contact: Amanda Morris, +1 (847) 467-6790, [email protected] Contact information for the researchers: Daniel Peters, Environmental Defense Fund, Austin, Texas [email protected]

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Climate change could increase ER visits for allergy-related asthma

WEBWASHINGTON, DC — More children could wind up in hospital emergency rooms suffering from allergy-induced asthma if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise and cause longer oak pollen seasons, according to a new study. The new research finds that if greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase through the end of this century, …

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Climate change to accelerate spread of sometimes-fatal fungal …

WEBJim Randerson, University of California Irvine. +1 (949) 824-9030, [email protected]. WASHINGTON—Valley fever is endemic to hot and dry regions like the southwestern United States and California’s San Joaquin Valley, but a new study predicts climate change will cause the fungal infection’s range to more than double in size this …

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AGU Fall Meeting 2022: Press event schedule and

WEBWASHINGTON — The press event schedule for AGU Fall Meeting 2022 is now live and topical tipsheets are available. #AGU22 will be held 12-16 December at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago and online everywhere. Staff journalists, freelance journalists, student journalists and press officers will be able to register as …

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Lower atmosphere ozone dropped 7% during COVID-19 …

WEBWASHINGTON—During spring and summer of 2020, ozone at 1-8 kilometers (0.6-5 miles) above Earth’s surface fell by 7% on average across the Northern Hemisphere, a new study finds. The decrease is likely explained by curtailed transportation due to COVID-19 quarantines, according to the report, published in Geophysical …

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Hundreds of hospitals on Atlantic and Gulf Coasts at risk of …

WEBAGU press contact: Rebecca Dzombak, [email protected], +1 (202) 777-7492 (UTC-4 hours) Harvard press contact: Anna Miller, [email protected], +1 (617) 610-1620 (UTC-4 hours) WASHINGTON — The first study to systematically investigate flooding risk to hospitals on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts from Category 1-4 storms finds …

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Amphibian die-offs worsened malaria outbreaks in Central America

WEBAGU press contact: Lauren Lipuma, +1 (202) 777-7396, [email protected] Contact information for the researchers: Joakim Weill, University of California Davis, [email protected] WASHINGTON—The global collapse of frogs and other amphibians due to the amphibian chytrid fungus exacerbated malaria outbreaks in Costa Rica and …

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Cosmic radiation may boost danger for manned missions to Mars

WEBUniversity of New Hampshire Contact: David Sims. +1 (603) 862-5369. [email protected]. A new study shows that increasing levels of cosmic radiation spurred by weak solar activity could make deep space journeys more risky to the health of their crews, raising questions about the feasibility of missions to Mars.

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Pollution from freight traffic disproportionately impacts …

WEBWASHINGTON—In urban areas across the U.S., low-income neighborhoods and communities of color experience an average of 28% more nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) pollution than higher-income and majority-white neighborhoods.The disparity is driven primarily by proximity to trucking routes on major roadways, where diesel trucks are …

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AGU Annual Meeting 2023: Press event schedule and tipsheets …

WEBWASHINGTON — The press event schedule for AGU’s Annual Meeting 2023 (#AGU23) is now live and topical tipsheets are available. #AGU23 will be held 11-15 December at the Moscone Center in San Francisco and online everywhere. Staff journalists, freelance journalists, student journalists and press officers will be able to register as …

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Monitoring of natural gas compressor stations underestimates …

WEBWASHINGTON — There are more than 1,200 compressor stations along the roughly 3.2 billion kilometers (2 million miles) of natural gas pipeline in the United States. Monitoring and enforcement of pollutants from these stations is falling short, a new study reports. Compressor stations use large combustion engines to compress natural gas, …

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Media Advisory: Climate and Health for Africa conference to be …

WEBAGU press contact: Liza Lester, [email protected] (UTC-4 hours) WASHINGTON — Members of the press are invited to attend a virtual media roundtable with convening researchers and members for AGU's inaugural Chapman Conference on Climate and Health for Africa at 7:00 a.m. EDT on Monday, 12 June, via Zoom. The …

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Study shows N95 respirators could offer robust protection from …

WEBResearch finds N95 respirators may reduce hospitalizations from wildfire smoke by about 30%, but synthetic, cotton and surgical facemasks are less effective at protecting against fine particles in smoke. Researchers calculated a “protection factor” for each type of face covering based on its ability to filter out particles and the amount of

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El Niño and 2016 Ecuador earthquake likely worsened Zika outbreak

WEBWASHINGTON D.C. — A Zika virus outbreak in coastal Ecuador in 2016 was likely worsened by a strong El Niño and a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck the region in April, according to a new study. A new research commentary suggests the earthquake left more people exposed to disease-carrying mosquitoes, and climate …

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