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Fifty years ago, Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin—and Australia's attitude to disasters changed forever
Exactly 50 years ago, on Christmas Eve 1974, Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin and left a trail of devastation. It remains one of the most destructive natural events in Australia's history.
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A gold rush for 'green finance' risks changing our relationship to nature
To combat climate change and help nature to recover, a lot more investment is urgently needed. The UN's State of Finance for Nature report claims that if the world is to meet climate, biodiversity and land degradation targets, ...
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Three years after the Marshall Fire: Wildfire smoke's health risks can linger long-term in homes that escape burning
Three years ago, on Dec. 30, 2021, a wind-driven wildfire raced through two communities just outside Boulder, Colorado. In the span of about eight hours, more than 1,000 homes and businesses burned.
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2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: what to know 20 years on
Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which killed more than 220,000 people across more than a dozen countries.
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Rural communities urged to flee east Australia bushfire
Australian authorities urged people in dozens of rural communities to leave home "immediately" Thursday to escape an out-of-control bushfire tearing through a national park.
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Climate, migration and conflict mix to create 'deadly' intense tropical storms like Chido
Cyclone Chido was an "intense tropical cyclone", equivalent to a category 4 hurricane in the Atlantic. It made landfall in Mayotte, a small island lying to the north-west of Madagascar on December 14, generating wind gusts ...
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Dec 25, 2024
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Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupts, spewing columns of lava
One of the world's most active volcanoes sprang into life again Monday, spewing columns of lava 80 meters (260 feet) above Hawaii, US vulcanologists said.
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Dec 24, 2024
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The tsunami detection buoys safeguarding lives in Thailand
Almost 1,000 kilometers off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves—a key link in a warning system intended to ensure no disaster is as deadly again.
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Dec 24, 2024
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Months after Marshall Fire, returning Colorado residents struggle with health and air quality
Six months after the Marshall Fire destroyed more than 1,000 houses in Boulder County, Colorado, more than half of residents of surviving homes in the area reported physical symptoms—including headaches, sore throats or ...
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Dec 23, 2024
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Solar geoengineering could save 400,000 lives a year
When it comes to finding solutions to climate change, there's no shortage of technologies vying for attention, from renewable energy to electric vehicles to nuclear energy. One such contender, solar geoengineering, is favored ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 23, 2024
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Decoding atmospheric effects of gravity waves with high-res climate simulations
Researchers at Stanford University, the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, or ECMWF, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory used the lab's Summit supercomputer to better understand atmospheric gravity waves, which ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 23, 2024
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Study highlights freezer's potential to reduce food waste and emissions
Putting extra holiday cookies and leftovers in the freezer will not only extend their shelf life—it could also put a dent in the U.S. household tendency to throw away edible food, a new study suggests.
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Dec 23, 2024
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Paleoclimate study finds glacial cooling altered tropical Pacific ocean patterns
A research team led by National Taiwan University used geochemical indicators from deep-sea sediments to reconstruct the upper ocean zonal gradients in the tropical Pacific during the last glacial period, providing valuable ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 23, 2024
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500,000 years of fossil records reveal climate change impacts on deep-sea ecosystems
Climate change impacts not only life on land but also the largely unexplored deep-sea ecosystem, home to unique and largely unexplored fauna. Deep-sea animals, which have adapted to stable and extreme environments, are particularly ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 23, 2024
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Baltimore's wastewater plants have made improvements: Will they bring lasting change?
All around the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant, Mike Hallmen points to evidence that change is afoot.
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Dec 23, 2024
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Colorado's landfills leak climate-warming methane into the air: What's the state going to do about it?
Landfills in Colorado release millions of metric tons of greenhouse gases each year as organic waste including food, paper and yard trimmings decomposes into the soil, contributing to global warming and harming human health.
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Dec 23, 2024
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Longer records bring climate change's impact on atmospheric circulation to light
The way climate change affects thermodynamic signals, such as atmospheric temperatures, is relatively well understood. Its effects on atmospheric circulation, however, are more complex because the atmosphere is noisy and ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 23, 2024
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Decades of observations uncover secrets of Antarctic fast ice
Sea ice that has persisted for at least 15 days and is held fast to the shoreline is called "fast ice." Around Antarctica, fast ice protects continental ice from ocean waves, creates unique ecological habitats for everything ...
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Dec 23, 2024
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Massive Antarctic icebergs may calve at random, analysis suggests
Antarctica is losing ice quickly, in part because of climate change. Massive calving events, such as the one that formed the Delaware-sized (5,800 square kilometers, or 2,239 square miles) A-68 iceberg in 2017, can destabilize ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 23, 2024
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Carbon offsets can bring energy efficiency to low-income Americans—Nashville data is promising
Under pressure from customers and investors, many U.S. companies have pledged to voluntarily reduce their impact on the climate. But that doesn't always mean they're cutting their own greenhouse gas emissions.
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Dec 22, 2024
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