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Volunteers helped digitize millions of pieces of previously classified data.

A new dataset contains more than 3 million individual weather observations, as well as logs from vessels bombed at Pearl Harbor.

"The scanning and rescuing of this data provides a window into the past."

Open access notables Sea level rise (SLR) as a result of our atmospheric accident is a certainty; the outcome we'll realize sits between brackets restng far above zero. For any country with a sea coast— particularly those with a combination of human presence and low coastal elevations— there's more or less urgent need to figure out how accomodate encroachment. We get one chance to optimize this work and it won't be easy even with the best information. So, useful information we should know is 'what are the foundations of our plans, and do we have any plans for SLR at all? ...

Expedition maps hundreds of thousands of miles of previously unexplored seafloor by The Week team IBRAHIM CHALHOUB /AFP An expedition to map the seafloors of the Earth’s five oceans has provided new insights into their precise depths and locations, scientists say.  The Five Deeps Expedition explored the “key locations where the seafloor bottoms out” in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern Oceans in order to provide “the most precise information yet” on the oceans’ deepest points, reports the BBC.  Top of the ocean bottoms According to a newly published paper in ...