Is your city prepared for flooding caused by extreme rainfall under climate change? In many regions, the uncertainty surrounding this threat is a major cause for concern and an obstacle to adaptation. However, according to ...
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Sep 22, 2025
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In the summer of 2023, East Asia, including Japan, experienced record-breaking temperatures and humidity, accompanied by unprecedented marine heat waves in the surrounding seas. Although the simultaneous occurrence of atmospheric ...
Environment
Sep 16, 2025
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Spain this year sweltered through its hottest summer ever, the national meteorological agency AEMET said Tuesday, the latest in a string of global temperature records.
Environment
Sep 16, 2025
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When severe heat waves, droughts, and other weather-related disasters strike, age and education shape who migrates and who stays put, according to a study in Nature Communications.
Environment
Sep 4, 2025
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Summer is the time for sunshine, but Americans have been getting a surplus of heat this summer, with millions of people across the Southeast recently facing a blistering heat wave with heat indexes, or feels-like temperatures, ...
Environment
Aug 26, 2025
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Throughout the first half of 2020, average monthly temperatures in Siberia reached 6°C above the norm. The situation climaxed on 20 June, when the temperature in the town of Verkhoyansk climbed to 38°C (100.4°F), the highest ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2025
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So-called "100-year weather events" now seem almost commonplace as floods, storms and fires continue to set new standards for largest, strongest and most destructive. But to categorize weather as a true 100-year event, there ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2025
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A 16-day heatwave Spain suffered this month was "the most intense on record," the national meteorological agency said on Sunday.
Environment
Aug 25, 2025
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With climate change and more frequent extreme weather events, researchers predict that global yields of important crops like maize, rice, and soybeans could decline by 12 to 20% by the end of the century. To prepare, plant ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 21, 2025
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Extreme rainfall in New Zealand from future cyclones could rise by up to 35%. New high-resolution modeling predicts that rainfall from tropical cyclones will significantly increase under global warming.
Earth Sciences
Aug 13, 2025
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