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.
Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2023
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News tagged with severe weather
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· geostationary operational environmental satellite
Life on Earth under 'existential threat': climate scientists
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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The recent killer tornado's track is visible from space
During the night of December 10, 2021, severe weather tore through several US states, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee. At least 70 tornado-like events were reported, and one storm cell was ...
Environment
Dec 16, 2021
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World should prepare for El Nino, new record temperatures: UN
The United Nations warned Wednesday of a growing likelihood the weather phenomenon El Nino will develop in coming months, fuelling higher global temperatures and possibly new heat records.
Environment
May 3, 2023
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GOES-16 satellite sends first images of Earth
Since the GOES-16 satellite lifted off from Cape Canaveral on November 19, scientists, meteorologists and ordinary weather enthusiasts have anxiously waited for the first photos from NOAA's newest weather satellite, GOES-16, ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 24, 2017
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NASA launches groundbreaking soil moisture mapping satellite (Update)
NASA successfully launched its first Earth satellite designed to collect global observations of the vital soil moisture hidden just beneath our feet.
Space Exploration
Feb 1, 2015
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Changes in weather patterns creating more severe storms
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Kansas State University climate expert attributes the increase in the number and severity of tornadoes and severe storms in 2011 to a change in weather patterns.
Earth Sciences
Jun 1, 2011
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Extreme weather poses increasing threat to US power grid
When Hurricane Katrina's punishing storm surge plowed ashore, it swamped seven of Coast Electric Power Association's substations, vital to powering thousands of Mississippi homes and businesses. The facilities have long since ...
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 22, 2015
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The number of monarch butterflies at their Mexico wintering sites has plummeted this year
The number of monarch butterflies at their wintering areas in Mexico dropped by 59% this year to the second lowest level since record keeping began, experts said Wednesday, blaming heat, drought and loss of habitat.
Ecology
Feb 7, 2024
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Globalized economy making water, energy and land insecurity worse: study
The first large-scale study of the risks that countries face from dependence on water, energy and land resources has found that globalisation may be decreasing, rather than increasing, the security of global supply chains.
Environment
Oct 26, 2020
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