Is the world running out of freshwater?
More than half of the world's population faces water scarcity for at least one month a year.
More than half of the world's population faces water scarcity for at least one month a year.
Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2023
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By now, there is no doubt that the climate crisis is also a significant health crisis affecting people across the globe.
Environment
Dec 8, 2023
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While the impacts of climate change vary across the globe, most scientists agree that, overall, a warming environment is increasing both the frequency and intensity of severe weather events such as tornados and intense thunderstorms.
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2023
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Artificial intelligence, which can already generate texts and mimic human speech, might also help the world prepare for the worsening effects of climate change.
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2023
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Electrifying music concerts and other mass events are increasingly under threat from severe weather events, such as extreme heat.
Environment
Nov 24, 2023
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Ask a cross section of Texans, and about half are likely to say there is a link between climate change and severe weather events, suggests the newest report in the Texas Trends 2023 survey series.
Environment
Nov 17, 2023
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NASA high-end computing plays a key role in taking many agency missions from concept to application in the real world. From increasing accuracy of global weather forecasts for forecast entities (like NOAA) to warn of severe ...
Space Exploration
Nov 14, 2023
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Heavy precipitation, wind storms, heat waves—when severe weather events such as these occur they are frequently attributed to a wavy jet stream. The jet stream is a powerful air current in the upper troposphere that balances ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 1, 2023
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Climate change poses an "existential threat" to life on Earth, prominent scientists warned Tuesday, in an assessment on this year's avalanche of heat records and weather extremes that they said are hitting more ferociously ...
Environment
Oct 28, 2023
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New research from Japan published in Ecology suggests that increasingly severe weather driven by climate change may push oceangoing seabirds to their limits.
Plants & Animals
Oct 25, 2023
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