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GlobalBuildingAtlas: A High Resolution 3D Map of the Human Built Environment

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(ZHU  et al. , 2025) All the world's buildings available as 3D models for the first time [Press Release, Technical University of Munich (TUM) ; December 2, 2025] https://www.tum.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/press-releases/details/all-the-worlds-buildings-available-as-3d-models-for-the-first-time Featured Research Article: GlobalBuildingAtlas:  an open global and complete dataset of building polygons, heights and LoD1 3D models (ZHU et al. , 2025) https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/6647/2025/?utm_ Website : Global Building Atlas LoD1 Interactive Map https://tubvsig-so2sat-vm1.srv.mwn.de/

Continental Rifting and Mantle Enrichment - Indian Ocean Seamount Province

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GERNON et al ., 2025 Enriched mantle generated through persistent convective erosion of continental root s (GERNON et al. , 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01843-9 Also... Origin of Indian Ocean Seamount Province by shallow recycling of Continental lithosphere (HOERNLE et al. , 2011) https://www.academia.edu/download/70395387/Hoernle_Indian_Ocean_cont_mantle_NatGeosci2011.pdf

The Strength of Hurricane Melissa set off Seismometers...

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Hurricane Melissa , NOAA ; Link Hurricane Melissa was so strong that it shook the Earth a hundred miles away (Robin George ANDREWS, Scientific American ; October 30, 2025) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/seismometers-picked-up-hurricane-melissas-historic-power-like-an-earthquake/

Coccolithophores: Microscopic Plankton that Regulate Earth's Climate

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Emiliania huxleyi  coccolithophore , Alison R. TAYLOR  (University of North Carolina Wilmington Microscopy Facility) ; CC BY-SA 2.5 ; Link They're smaller than dust, but crucial for Earth's Climate ( Ruđer Bošković Institute/ScienceDaily ; October 10, 2025) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251010091548.htm Selected Research Articles: Multifaceted Contributions of Coccolithophores to Ocean Carbon Export (LI et al. , 2024) https://spj.science.org/doi/full/10.34133/olar.0049 Coccolithophore calcification response to past ocean acidification and climate change   (O'DEA et al., 2014) https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms6363.pdf

The Energy Budget of Earthquakes

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Seismic Wave Travel Paths , Fabio CRAMERI ; CC BY-SA 4.0 International , Link MIT geologists discover where energy goes during an earthquake   (Jennifer CHU, MIT News ; September 16, 2025) https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-geologists-discover-where-energy-goes-during-earthquake-0916 Featured Research Article: “Lab-Quakes”: Quantifying the Complete Energy Budget of High-Pressure Laboratory Failure (ORTEGA-ARROYO et al. , 2025) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025AV001683