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Prof Uses VR To Bring The Lake Huron Shoreline To His Students For decades, the rocky north shore of Lake Huron has served as a lab and lecture hall for second-year University of Toronto students learning fundamental geological field skills. >> Read the Full Article

USGS Scientists Work on Four Tropical Cyclones at Once At the mid-September peak of a very active Atlantic Hurricane Season, with four named storms and three tropical disturbances on the move at the same time, some USGS scientists are responding to multiple storms at once. >> Read the Full Article

Where Ice Still Flows into Glacier Bay In this changing Alaskan landscape, tidewater glaciers are holding on to the bay’s West Arm. >> Read the Full Article

NASA Takes Flight to Study California's Wildfire Burn Areas While the agency's satellites image the wildfires from space, scientists are flying over burn areas, using smoke-penetrating technology to better understand the damage. >> Read the Full Article

Mercury Concentrations in Yukon River Fish Could Surpass EPA Criterion by 2050 The concentration of mercury in fish in Alaska’s Yukon River may exceed EPA mercury criterion by 2050 if greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming are not constrained, according to new scientific research led by the National Snow and Ice Data Center’s (NSIDC) Kevin Schaefer. >> Read the Full Article

Rainmakers: The Turbulent Formation of Cloud Droplets Turbulent air in the atmosphere affects how cloud droplets form. New research from Michigan Technological University’s cloud chamber changes the way clouds, and therefore climate, are modeled. >> Read the Full Article

Climate Crisis Ages Fish, Amphibians and Reptiles Climatic conditions are changing at an unprecedented rate, affecting mainly fish, amphibians and reptiles, ectothermic animals that are unable to generate their own internal heat. >> Read the Full Article