Australia just experienced the second-warmest summer on record, with 2019 being the hottest year. Summer temperatures soared across the country, causing great economic and human loss. The good news is we can do something ...
Environment
Mar 11, 2020
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A team of researchers, using a state-of-the-art climate prediction system, is forecasting a strong El Niño toward the end of 2023. If westerly wind bursts were to occur during the spring and early summer, an even stronger ...
Environment
May 3, 2023
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Studies have shown that being in a hot environment reduces cognitive performance, whereas a brief walk enhances cognition. But what happens when you go for a brief walk on a hot summer's day, as so many students and office ...
Economics & Business
Feb 28, 2022
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You probably saw a multi-colored climate map at least once in school. You might have pored over it, fascinated. Was Antarctica really a cold desert? And why was so much of Russia listed as tundra?
Earth Sciences
Oct 24, 2023
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Over the last 40 years, Arctic sea ice thickness, extent and volume have declined dramatically. Now, a new study finds a link between declining sea ice coverage in parts of the Canadian Arctic and an increasing incidence ...
Environment
Jun 4, 2019
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Hospital ventilators shut down, football matches with obligatory water breaks and food spoiling in fridges without power: Iraq's notorious summer has arrived.
Environment
Jun 16, 2019
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Shanghai sweltered under a new record high of 40.9 degrees Centigrade (105 F) on Friday, authorities said as they issued a weather "red alert" over a stubborn heat wave that has plagued much of the country.
Environment
Jul 21, 2017
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Spurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows. The ratio of record highs to lows is likely ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 12, 2009
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To beat the summer heat, many of us in the Southern Hemisphere are hitting the beach—and this raises our chances of encountering potentially dangerous marine life beneath the waves.
Plants & Animals
Jan 11, 2023
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Sick of sweltering summer heat? Well, you are in luck, because fall starts Thursday, at least according to meteorologists.
Earth Sciences
Sep 1, 2022
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