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10 August 2010

Haiti earthquake: It wasn’t the fault of Enriquillo

Video interview with Eric Calais, science advisor for the UNDP Disaster Risk Reduction Program in Haiti. — Maria-José Viñas, AGU science writer

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9 August 2010

What role do rivers play in the carbon cycle?

The importance of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas in climate change is spurring studies to assess each source where the gas is emitted and each ‘sink’ (like forests and soils) where it is absorbed – and how much carbon comes and goes from each. At the Meeting of the Americas, David Butman of Yale University presented the first estimate of  how much carbon enters the atmosphere annually from the rivers and …

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8 August 2010

What brings people to the 2010 Meeting of the Americas?

At the Meeting of the Americas icebreaker, a casual sampling by AGU bloggers revealed that researchers have come from around the globe to discuss new work, make connections with colleagues, and  visit parts of the globe they wished to see. Anna Plotzki of the University of Bern, Switzerland was already in South America—Bolivia, to be specific, where she is working on her PhD on the evolution of Holocene landscapes in …

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