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Climate change will make monsoon storms in South Asia wetter and weaker, with more storms pushing further inland across India. https://phys.org/news/2025-11-monsoon-storms-heavier-weaker.html Earth Sciences Thu, 20 Nov 2025 11:28:04 EST news682860482 A study published in the journal Science Advances, indicates how the heating in North America can trigger remote effects in Asia—this could be further exacerbated by anthropogenic global warming and human modification of the North American land surface. https://phys.org/news/2025-09-discovery-north-america-role-asia.html Earth Sciences Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:00:01 EDT news676280925 The South Asian Summer Monsoon (SASM) is the world's most significant monsoon system, providing approximately 80% of the region's annual rainfall—influencing agriculture, water security, and the livelihoods of more than a billion people across the Indian Peninsula, the western Indochina Peninsula, and the southern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. https://phys.org/news/2025-05-ancient-climate-patterns-refine-south.html Earth Sciences Wed, 14 May 2025 14:06:03 EDT news666450361 Across the globe, monsoon rainfall switches on in spring and off in autumn. Until now, this seasonal pattern was primarily understood as an immediate response to changes in solar radiation. https://phys.org/news/2025-05-atmospheric-memory-billions-people-monsoon.html Earth Sciences Wed, 07 May 2025 12:00:05 EDT news665837415 People are already being forced to flee the consequences of climate change to an alarming extent in the Global South, says Jan Freihardt. He believes, however, that Europe's fear of mass climate migration is exaggerated, since international migration has other root causes. Here he shares his viewpoint. https://phys.org/news/2024-11-climate-mass-migration.html Social Sciences Wed, 27 Nov 2024 14:42:04 EST news651940921 Every year, the South Asian monsoon season brings heavy rain to over a billion people in the Indian subcontinent between June and September. The rain falls in oscillations: Some weeks see 1 to 4 inches of water, while other weeks are mostly dry. Predicting when these dry and wet periods will occur is critical for agricultural and urban planning, enabling farmers to know when to harvest crops and helping city officials prepare for flooding. However, while weather predictions are mostly accurate within one or two days, precisely predicting the weather a week or month out is very difficult. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-ai-monsoon-rainfall.html Earth Sciences Mon, 01 Apr 2024 16:38:26 EDT news631208297 Dust deposited on a glacier's surface can reduce the albedo of the ice and increase absorption efficiency of solar radiation, which has a significant impact on glacier melting and global climate change. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-reveal-source-tibetan-plateau.html Earth Sciences Mon, 09 Oct 2023 13:15:02 EDT news616076101 At least 77 people are confirmed dead in the floods that hit India's northeast, authorities said Sunday, with destroyed roads and bridges leaving thousands more still cut off despite waters receding. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-india-toll-army-stray-munitions.html Environment Sat, 07 Oct 2023 05:18:38 EDT news615874715 Indian rescue teams searched on Thursday for 102 people missing after a devastating flash flood triggered by a high-altitude glacial lake burst killed at least 10, officials said. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-dead-india-glacial-lake.html Environment Thu, 05 Oct 2023 05:00:26 EDT news615700823 At least five people have been killed and dozens including 23 soldiers are missing in India after intense rains burst a glacial lake and triggered a torrential flash flood, officials said Wednesday. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-india-glacial-lake-soldiers.html Environment Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:20:01 EDT news615633046 Dust storms occur frequently throughout Central and East Asia today. Several driving factors, particularly related to the East Asian Summer Monsoon, the East Asian Winter Monsoon and the westerlies, can influence dust production and transport in these regions. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-crater-lake-sediments-northeast-china.html Earth Sciences Fri, 04 Aug 2023 06:40:04 EDT news610349994 At least 50 people, including eight children, have been killed by floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains that have lashed Pakistan since last month, officials said Friday. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-dead-pakistan-monsoon.html Environment Fri, 07 Jul 2023 03:36:46 EDT news607919802 Ocean temperatures have been off the charts since mid-March 2023, with the highest average levels in 40 years of satellite monitoring, and the impact is breaking through in disruptive ways around the world. https://phys.org/news/2023-06-ocean-chartshere-humans-ecosystems-world.html Environment Wed, 21 Jun 2023 15:20:01 EDT news606570672 Today East Asia, and in particular the Hengduan Mountains and other parts of southwestern China, hosts several of Earth's great biodiversity "hotspots." A biodiversity hotspot is where very large numbers of unique species are under threat of extinction, and so are conservation priority areas. However, to understand how best to look after this diversity we need to understand what created it and how it has been maintained before human threats. https://phys.org/news/2022-11-eocene-eastern-tibet-drove-ancient.html Earth Sciences Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:44:03 EST news588267841 The North American southwest has been suffering through weather extremes in recent years ranging from searing heat waves and scorching wildfires to monsoon rainfalls that cause flash floods and mudslides. https://phys.org/news/2022-11-monsoons-climate-conditions-future.html Earth Sciences Thu, 10 Nov 2022 10:46:04 EST news587299562 Even if the world somehow manages to limit future warming to the strictest international temperature goal, four Earth-changing climate "tipping points" are still likely to be triggered with a lot more looming as the planet heats more after that, a new study said. https://phys.org/news/2022-09-climate-escalates-15c.html Environment Sun, 11 Sep 2022 14:40:01 EDT news581866537 Physicists and mathematicians of the Ural Federal University (UrFU) have calculated how external factors affect the behavior of the El Niño atmospheric and oceanic processes in the Pacific region. In the mathematical model, they accounted for wind, humidity, temperature, ocean currents, and other parameters that can lead to unpredictable El Niño results. This is a phenomenon in which the temperature of the upper Pacific Ocean rises and the near-surface waters shift eastward. The onset of El Niño affects rainfall, fisheries in Peru, Chile, Ecuador, and climate change on the planet. Description of the features of the unusual phenomenon and its scenarios, the scientists published in the journal Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena. https://phys.org/news/2022-08-scientists-unbalance-el-nio.html Earth Sciences Tue, 23 Aug 2022 14:02:03 EDT news580482122 Scientists say climate change is a factor behind the erratic and early rains that triggered unprecedented floods in Bangladesh and northeastern India, killing dozens and making lives miserable for millions of others. https://phys.org/news/2022-06-climate-factor-unprecedented-south-asia.html Environment Wed, 22 Jun 2022 05:34:25 EDT news575094862 The study of the orogenic effects of the Tibetan Plateau uplift on global climate during the Cenozoic has focused almost exclusively on the India-Asia collision zone, the Himalayas. The strong erosion in the Himalayas was assumed to be a primary driver of Cenozoic atmospheric CO2 decline and global cooling predominantly through accelerating silicate chemical weathering in the India-Asia collision zone or through effective burial of organic carbon in the nearby Bengal Fan in South Asia.  https://phys.org/news/2021-08-east-asian-monsoon-global-cooling.html Environment Tue, 03 Aug 2021 11:52:44 EDT news547210360 The onset of the Indian summer monsoon has been predicted three months ahead for the last 40 years with the highest precision up until today. The result indicates longer seasonal forecasts based on machine learning may be a way to mitigate the consequences of an erratic monsoon system under future global warming. Dr. Takahito Mitsui and Dr. Niklas Boers of the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research (PIK Potsdam), Germany, published the results in Environmental Research Letters. The work is part of the European TiPES project, Coordinated from The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and PIK Potsdam. https://phys.org/news/2021-07-indian-monsoon-onset-machine.html Environment Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:13:20 EDT news544806794 Climate change is making India's monsoon stronger and more chaotic, scientists said Wednesday, warning of potential severe consequences for food, farming and the economy affecting nearly a fifth of the world's population. https://phys.org/news/2021-04-climate-indian-monsoon-seasons-chaotic.html Earth Sciences Wed, 14 Apr 2021 07:28:18 EDT news537604040 The North American monsoon has dictated the length of wildfire season for centuries in the U.S.-Mexico border region, according to new University of Arizona research that can inform land management amid global climate change. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-north-american-monsoon-reining-wildfires.html Environment Tue, 13 Oct 2020 13:01:16 EDT news521812871 Large volcanic eruptions can help to forecast monsoons over India. This seasonal rainfall is key for the country's agriculture and thus for feeding 1 billion people. As erratic as they are, volcanic eruptions improve the predictability, an Indian-German research team finds. What seems to be a paradox is, in fact, due to a stronger coupling between the monsoon over large parts of South and South-East Asia and the El Niño phenomenon after an eruption. Combining data from meteorological observations, climate records, computer model simulations and such geological archives as tree-rings, corals and ice-cores from past millennia of Earth history, the researchers found that a synchronization of the monsoon with the strongest mode of natural climate variability, El Niño, makes it easier to anticipate the strength of seasonal rainfall in the Indian subcontinent. https://phys.org/news/2020-09-indian-monsoon-volcanic-eruptions.html Earth Sciences Fri, 18 Sep 2020 14:00:02 EDT news519639309 Researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that the projected uncertainty of the precipitation increase over global land monsoon regions by the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) models was mainly due to the spread of circulation changes across models. https://phys.org/news/2020-08-monsoon-circulation-uncertainty-global-precipitation.html Earth Sciences Thu, 13 Aug 2020 13:36:56 EDT news516544334 Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University studied how the weather will change with global warming in Asian monsoon regions using a high-resolution climate simulation. The region is home to a large population, and the monsoons are a major driver of global water cycles. They explicitly simulated cloud formation and dissipation, and found significantly increased precipitation over the monsoon "trough," with tropical disturbances such as typhoons and concentrated water vapor playing key roles. https://phys.org/news/2020-07-wetter-global-asian-monsoon-regions.html Environment Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:51:35 EDT news515055093 The modern environment of southern China is dominated by a humid monsoon climate, and presents a striking contrast to the widespread deserts found at similar latitudes elsewhere. https://phys.org/news/2020-05-major-environmental-shift-middle-eocene.html Earth Sciences Tue, 12 May 2020 09:40:42 EDT news508495239 More than a billion people in Asia depend on seasonal monsoons for their water needs. The Asian monsoon is closely linked to a planetary-scale tropical air flow which, according to a new study by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), will most likely shift geographically as the climate continues to warm, resulting in less rainfall in certain regions. https://phys.org/news/2019-11-climate-shift-east-asian-monsoons.html Earth Sciences Wed, 13 Nov 2019 07:50:59 EST news492853851 Climate change has already led to significant increases in extreme rainfall over the global land monsoon regions over the past century, according to a study recently published in Journal of Climate. https://phys.org/news/2019-10-global-monsoon-extreme-rainfall.html Earth Sciences Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:50:01 EDT news491733430 Our oceans and the complex "conveyer belt" system of currents that connects them play an important role in regulating global climate. The oceans store heat from the Sun, and ocean currents transport that heat from the tropics to the poles. They release the heat and moisture into the air, which moderates climate nearby. But what happens if part of that conveyer belt jams? https://phys.org/news/2019-05-seasonal-monsoon-block-key-ocean.html Earth Sciences Mon, 20 May 2019 08:33:05 EDT news477559945 The past may be a surprisingly useful guide for predicting responses to future climate change. This is especially important for places where extreme weather has been the norm for a long time, such as the Indian subcontinent. Being able to reliably predict summer monsoon rainfall is critical to plan for the devastating impact it can have on the 1.7 billion people who live in the region. https://phys.org/news/2019-03-indian-summer-monsoon-amplified-global.html Earth Sciences Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:39:30 EDT news472207164