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Snail shells are surprise weather time capsules

Snails carry weather records on their backs that could be used to map prehistoric cyclones, a University of Queensland study has shown. The project led by School of the Environment researchers examined the rings on the shell ...

Earth Sciences Sep 10, 2026

Water isotopes reveal early drought signals in Central Amazon rainfall

The historic droughts of 2023 and 2024 in the Amazon reduced river flows and altered the region's rainfall composition. Daily monitoring in Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas, revealed these changes through ...

Environment Sep 9, 2026

Can AI tame torrential rain by 2050? The next frontier of weather control and forecasting

Japan has been experiencing increasingly severe damage from torrential rainfall triggered by typhoons and stationary linear rain bands. In response, an ambitious and unconventional idea is taking shape: artificially inducing ...

Environment Sep 9, 2026

From drought to floods in North Africa: What could the super El Niño do next?

Morocco spent most of the last decade drying out. Between 2019 and 2024, the country recorded six consecutive years of below-average rainfall, the longest on record. The 2023–24 hydrological year was the driest in more than ...

Environment Sep 8, 2026

A vicarious calibration model enables quantitative applications of Fengyun-3 satellite ocean color data

Ocean color remote sensing is a vital tool for monitoring global ocean carbon sinks and primary productivity. However, the on-orbit calibration accuracy of satellite sensors is insufficient, and weak marine signals account ...

Earth Sciences Sep 8, 2026

Why does Southeast Asia keeps breathing the same haze—and can ASEAN do more to stop it?

Southeast Asia has spent decades trying to tackle haze from forest fires. Yet every few years, the region finds itself breathing it again. The transboundary environmental problem has become a recurrent phenomenon in the region.

Earth Sciences Sep 8, 2026

Why a wetter Tibetan Plateau still faces 'hot-dry' extremes: The roles of ENSO and the North Atlantic

Since the 1950s, the Tibetan Plateau has experienced pronounced warming and wetting. However, an overall shift toward wetter conditions does not necessarily mean that drought risk has diminished. On the contrary, against ...

Earth Sciences Sep 8, 2026

Nepal glacier saw exceptional heat before collapse caused deadly floods: Researcher

The mountain section whose collapse triggered fatal floods in Nepal and China on Aug. 26 had experienced unprecedented heat for the time of year, meteorological data analyzed by a researcher show.

Environment Sep 7, 2026

War drama Pressure depicts D‑day's weather forecast—what we found when we recreated the challenge using modern systems

Meteorologist James Stagg gave what many regard as the most important weather forecast in history in June 1944. The fate of more than 150,000 Allied troops preparing to invade the Normandy beaches on D-Day and the future ...

Environment Sep 7, 2026

Ships, ice cores and krill surveys underpin Australia's 10-year Antarctic monitoring strategy

The important role ships play in gathering scientific data in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean has been outlined at a leading Antarctic science conference in Hobart. The biennial Australian Antarctic Research Conference ...

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