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ASU professor helps lead world efforts to track extreme weatherIt might seem hard to believe, but there recently was an ocean wave as tall as a six-story building in the north Atlantic. The World Meteorological Organization on Tuesday classified the 2013 rise between Iceland and the British Isles as the… |
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Jenkins selected as AAAS IF/THEN AmbassadorArizona State University is proud to announce that Lekelia “Kiki” Jenkins, associate professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society has been selected as one of the… |
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Origins Project Great Debate to focus on climate changeClimate change is one of the most important, and perhaps thorniest, issues confronting world leaders today. A lot is at stake. Issues in climate variability, loss of living space, extended drought, amplified weather cycles, growing season variability and even national… |
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NASA's Curiosity rover discovers water-rich fracture halos in Gale CraterA research team using new methods to analyze data from NASA’s Curiosity rover and its neutron spectrometer Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons, or DAN, on Mars was… |
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Is there anybody out there?
With that quote flashing on a screen above them… |
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ASU Art Museum 2002-2003 CalendarAftermath (9/11): Photographs by Janis Lewin |
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How do we keep the moon unspoiled?After the gold rush of the 1850s, the Sierra Nevada foothills in California looked like giant moles had attacked. Thousands of mine shafts pocked the landscape. Hydraulic mining devoured hillsides and sent tons of silt into rivers and lakes. Forests went under the axe,… |
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ASU team proposes restoring Arctic ice with 10 million windmillsThe idea started after a depressing climate conference in 2012: ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) professor Steve Desch walked away feeling that the only scientific solution anyone was proposing to combat climate change was to radically reduce CO2… |
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Core questions about human evolutionA multinational research team is taking a look back in time to study the relationship between climate and human evolution. Like all living things, humans have adapted to their environments over time. So understanding changes in environmental conditions, such as climate,… |
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ASU professor speaks on mitigating urban greenhouse gas emissionsThe United Nations Climate Conference is underway in the Peruvian capital of Lima. Delegates there are receiving urgent messages about global warming, including information about record temperatures on both land and vast areas of… |