Designing cities for 21st-century weather
Weather extremes, such as heat waves and torrential rainfalls, are becoming more frequent and more intense across the United States under climate change.
Weather extremes, such as heat waves and torrential rainfalls, are becoming more frequent and more intense across the United States under climate change.
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Nov 10, 2023
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Non-native species appear to be better able to resist extreme weather, threatening native plants and animals and potentially creating more favorable conditions for invasive species under climate change. That's the conclusion ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 8, 2023
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Mountains create their own weather or climate systems by changing airflow and precipitation patterns. Orographic, or mountain-influenced, precipitation occurs as moisture-laden air rises over the high topography; the air ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 8, 2023
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Cheetahs are usually daytime hunters, but the speedy big cats will shift their activity toward dawn and dusk hours during warmer weather, a new study finds.
Plants & Animals
Nov 8, 2023
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Over the past few decades, algae have been slowly edging corals out of their native reefs across the globe by blocking sunlight, wearing the corals down physically, and producing harmful chemicals. But in recent years, a ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 6, 2023
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Right now, there's something big spinning off the coast from Sydney—a giant rotating vortex of sea water, powerful enough to dominate the ocean currents off south-eastern Australia.
Earth Sciences
Nov 2, 2023
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Destructive winds that flow out of thunderstorms in the central United States are becoming more widespread with warming temperatures, according to new research by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 2, 2023
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Ocean warming has accelerated dramatically since the 1990s, nearly doubling during 2010–2020 relative to 1990–2000, according to new UNSW Sydney-led research.
Earth Sciences
Nov 1, 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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Adding crushed volcanic rock to cropland could play a key role in removing carbon from the air. In a field study, scientists at the University of California, Davis, and Cornell University found the technology stored carbon ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 24, 2023
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