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Former MDPI CEO Dr. Franck Vazquez joins Frontiers

Frontiers

Vazquez served as the chief scientific officer of MDPI from 2015 to 2016 and again from 2019 to 2021, and as the chief executive officer from 2016 to 2019. in molecular genetics in 2004 and an M.Sc. The University of Lille awarded Dr. Vazquez a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology in 2001.

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How Forest Management Can Build Healthy Wildfire Cycles in Western North America

Union of Concerned Scientists

Image from Hessburg et al 2019. More continuous and densely arranged trees in such forests can easily carry and spread fire, and increase the risk of insect outbreaks like mountain pine beetle, which impacted nearly 40 million acres of forest in British Columbia during an outbreak that peaked in 2004.

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3,190 New Stories In 2022 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership

PA Environment Daily

Since June 2004, PA Environment Digest has printed or linked to over 6,290 articles about environmental stewards from all walks of life and all ages. They Deserve Our Thanks, Our Support! -- Be Inspired By Hundreds Of Environmental Stewardship Leaders From 2019! 197 Stories)! -- Be Inspired!

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

1 Average number of named storms by day of the year in the historical record from 1851–2019 (dark blue line). 2019 ; Kossin et al. 1987-2007, 2019. The light blue shading denotes the range between the minimum and maximum number of storms observed by each day. 2016 ), could increase again in concentration. Zhang et al.

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Federal Water Tap, September 27: New Projections Show High Risks for Colorado River Reservoirs

Circle of Blue

Those results for Mead and Powell were derived from the “stress test” hydrology: basically constraining future outcomes to the conditions that were experienced from 1988 to 2019. In context: Colorado River Forecasts Not a ‘Crystal Ball’. On the Radar. Global Water Strategy Update.

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As Soon as Possible

Real Climate

Well, back in 1993 (before the more comprehensive critiques had been published), Hoyt and Schatten put together a long-term estimate of solar activity that relied on the SCL, based on the idea from FCL91 and scaled to a finding about cycling and non-cycling stars that turned out to be wrong too (Wright, 2004). 1273-1278, 2004.

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Supersolidity enters a second dimension

Physics World

The work, which builds on research from 2019 demonstrating supersolidity in one dimension, opens the way to hitherto impossible tests of theoretical predictions about this long-unexplained phenomenon. Atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) can exist in a mysterious “supersolid” state in two dimensions, researchers in Austria have shown.

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