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  • Cover of the Beam Me Down, Scotty article featuring an illustration of a satellite orbiting Earth
    In this study, the scientists wanted to test a method of calculating the amount of carbon stored by plants across…
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    Beam Me Down, Scotty: The Use of Airborne and Satellite Technology to Measure Carbon in Hawaiian Forests

  • The cover of "Did They Make the Gradient?" featuring a black and white photo of a flume installed in a stream to measure streamflow.
    If the temperature of a stream rises too high, the animals that live in the stream may find it difficult…
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    Did They Make the Gradient? Climate and Stream Temperatures Now and Into the Future

  • illustration of the back of a car on a street under a tree
    The scientists in this study wanted to know if cars parked in shady parking lots emit fewer gases than cars parked in…
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    Don’t Be So Fuel-ish! How Much Fuel Is Saved When Cars Are Parked in the Shade?

  • Don't Be So Fuelish cover in Spanish
    The scientists in this study wanted to know if cars parked in shady parking lots emit fewer gases than cars parked in…
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    Don’t Be So Fuel-ish! How Much Fuel Is Saved When Cars Are Parked in the Shade? (Spanish)

  • illustration of the propeller on a plane
    Some kinds of forest fires can be beneficial to the natural environment and to people. Fire is a normal event…
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    Smoke and Mirrors: Detecting the Amount of Gases in Wildland Fire Smoke

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    Some kinds of forest fires can be beneficial to the natural environment and to people. Fire is a normal event…
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    Smoke and Mirrors: Detecting the Amount of Gases in Wildland Fire Smoke (Spanish)

  • The cover of "The GLAS Is Half Full" featuring an illustration of a Landsat satellite.
    The scientists wanted to know if the information gathered by satellites was as good as the information they would get…
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    The GLAS Is Half Full: Satellites and Changing Tropical Forests

  • PDF preview cover of the Treasure Islands article. The cover is a photograph of an i'iwi, a small tropical bird.
    The scientists in this study were interested in learning about birds living in different sized kīpuka on the island of…
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    Treasure Islands: Hawaiian Kīpuka and the Future of Native Hawaiian Birds

  • Illustration from the cover of "What You See Is Not What You Get: The Difference Between Visible Sunlight and Ultraviolet Radiation" showing two kids wearing sunglasses that reflect back a neighborhood scene.
    Scientists have known that there is a difference between the sun’s visible radiation and invisible ultraviolet radiation from the sun.…
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    What You See Is Not What You Get: The Difference Between Sunlight and Ultraviolet Radiation

  • Spanish cover of What You See Is Not What You Get
    Scientists have known that there is a difference between the sun’s visible radiation and invisible ultraviolet radiation from the sun.…
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    What You See Is Not What You Get: The Difference Between Sunlight and Ultraviolet Radiation (Spanish)

  • Front cover of National Inquirer Climate Change edition with images of scientists, a wolverine, and a field
    Is the Earth’s environment changing over time? In the past few years, most scientists have agreed on at least one…
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    Natural Inquirer – Vol. 14 No. 1

  • The cover of the Spanish Urban Forest cover
    What are urban forests? Urban forests are the trees and other plants that grow where people live, go to school,…
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    Urban Forest – Spanish