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My last days in the field brought us to monuments in a makeshift home near the ocean, a flooded field next to a school, and adjacent to a jute mill. Most of us now head back to Dhaka, the capital. Céline will stay on a few more days, then Hasnat with Saif and Nahin will continue until all the monuments are resurveyed.

We continued our GPS surveys of monuments to measure land subsidence. While the work generally went very well, we faced challenges from obscured or tilted monuments. We also struggled with large traffic delays, particularly at unpredictable ferry crossings.

A new study uncovers a previously undocumented relationship between erosion and wind speed.

Evidence suggests that this major ocean current, which influences the weather in parts of Europe and the U.S., is already changing.

The PlastiX-Snow project will track microplastics that contaminate Earth’s most remote and pristine locations.

Warming temperatures create two major drying trends, jeopardizing corn and soybean crops.

Using old tree rings and archival documents, historians and climate scientists have detailed an extreme cold period in Scotland in the 1690s that caused immense suffering. It may have lessons for Brexit-era politics.