In a new study, Stanford researchers report that intensifying precipitation contributed one-third of the financial costs of flooding in the United States over the past three decades, totaling almost $75 billion of the estimated ...
Environment
Jan 11, 2021
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California and other areas of the U.S. Southwest may see less future winter precipitation than previously projected by climate models. After probing a persistent error in widely used models, researchers at the Department ...
Environment
Dec 15, 2020
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Through the analysis of vegetation from a Bering Sea island, researchers have determined that the extent of sea ice in the region is lower than it's been for thousands of years.
Earth Sciences
Sep 2, 2020
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When it comes to climate change, University of Wisconsin-Madison forest and wildlife ecology Professor Ben Zuckerberg says birds are the proverbial canary in the coal mine. They are both responsive and sensitive to changes ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 21, 2020
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A new method could help to track groundwater changes better than before. To this end, researchers from Potsdam and Oberlin, Ohio (USA), have compared gravity field data from the GRACE and GRACE-Follow On satellite missions ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 15, 2020
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Climate change is occurring all over the globe as a 1°C increase in Earth's temperature has led to the rise in the sea level, melting of the Arctic ice, and unseasonable heat waves and heavy snow. To accurately predict the ...
Earth Sciences
May 27, 2020
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The massive Colorado River, which provides water for seven US states, has seen its flow reduced by 20 percent over the course of a century—and more than half of that loss is due to climate change, according to new research ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 20, 2020
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The climate is warming, especially in the Arctic, which will bring increased precipitation. However, the year-to-year variations in precipitation will also increase sharply, it has been found, and for a totally different ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 13, 2020
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More frequent and intense rainfall events due to climate change could cause more landslides in the High Mountain Asia region of China, Tibet and Nepal, according to the first quantitative study of the link between precipitation ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 11, 2020
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El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the strongest signal in interannual climate variation. El Niño increases the precipitation over the equatorial central-eastern Pacific, which releases more latent heat into the tropical ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 8, 2020
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