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Predictive pyrogeography-powered software and real-time models offer fire responders considerable benefits for understanding where and how wildfires will spread, via mapping based on wind conditions, topography, temperature and the dryness, density and types of foliage that serve as fuel. Apiguide/Shutterstock (no reuse)

Analysing wildfire behaviour can help detect risk zones earlier and support fire‑smart strategies

Studying the scale and intensity of previous fires can help us to detect thermal hotspots earlier and support faster, smarter crisis response and post-fire restoration.
Earth draws closer to passing behind the Moon in this image captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby. NASA

Will future missions to the Moon be sustainable? It may depend on whom you ask

Landing on the Moon can disturb its environment – people are discussing how to balance those concerns with political and economic goals.
Seagrass has made an unexpected return to Mosquito Lagoon. Captain William B. Wolfson, Grassroots Guide Service, New Smyrna Beach, FL

Hurricanes devastated Florida’s East Coast – then seagrass made an unexpected comeback

After years of collapse, seagrass in Florida’s Mosquito Lagoon rebounded unexpectedly following 2022 hurricanes, offering new insight into ecosystem resilience.

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