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The following is a January 27, 2012 “Earthweek—Diary of a Planet” snippet from the weekly feature of envrionmental events on our web site’s Earth Gate page: A huge dome of freshwater has developed over part of the Arctic Ocean in a trend that could have chilling consequences to the climate of Europe and other lower-latitude areas. Satellite observations dating back to 1995 indicate that strong winds and an...

The following “News and Views” article, “Hydrology: Himalayan Groundwater” by Professor Bodo Bookhagen, is from Nature Geoscience (2012), doi:10.1038/ngeo1366, published online 10 January, 2012. Dr. Bookhagen notes that “the News & Views combines several observations that I have made during the past year, including conference visits and discussions with colleagues. Water in the form of rain, snow, and...

The rapidly increasing information universe, with new data created at a speed surpassing our capacities to store it, calls for improved methods to retrieve, filter, integrate, and share data. The vision of a Big Data science entails the hope that the open availability of data with a higher spatial, temporal, and thematic resolution will enable us to better address complex scientific and social questions. However, on the downside,...