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Environment May 5, 2024

Cyclone bears down on flood-hit Kenya, Tanzania

Beaches were deserted and many shops closed on Saturday as heavy rains and winds from a tropical cyclone buffeted coastal areas of Tanzania and Kenya.

Earth Sciences May 3, 2024

Demystifying the complex nature of Arctic clouds

With dancing ribbons of light visible in the sky, a team of researchers flew on a series of scenic and sometimes stormy flights into the cold unknown, trying to learn more about why one of the most frigid places on Earth ...

Environment May 1, 2024

April temperatures in Bangladesh hottest on record

Bangladesh's weather bureau said Wednesday that last month was the hottest April on record, with the South Asian nation and much of the region still enduring a suffocating heat wave.

Earth Sciences Apr 30, 2024

An AI dataset carves new paths to tornado detection

The return of spring in the Northern Hemisphere touches off tornado season. A tornado's twisting funnel of dust and debris seems an unmistakable sight. But that sight can be obscured to radar, the tool of meteorologists. ...

Environment Apr 24, 2024

Extreme heat scorches Southeast Asia, bringing school closures and warnings

Extreme heat scorched parts of South and Southeast Asia Wednesday, prompting schools across the Philippines to suspend classes, heat warnings in the Thai capital and worshippers in Bangladesh to pray for rain.

Earth Sciences Apr 23, 2024

Climate change expected to increase wildfire danger

WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) researchers expect an elevated wildfire danger in the Alpine Foreland from 2040 onwards due to changing meteorological conditions. The danger currently remains very low ...

Environment Apr 23, 2024

When red-hot isn't enough: New government heat risk tool sets magenta as most dangerous level

Forget about red hot. A new color-coded heat warning system relies on magenta to alert Americans to the most dangerous conditions they may see this summer.

Earth Sciences Apr 12, 2024

Despite what you might hear, weather prediction is getting better, not worse

Australia's weather bureau copped harsh criticism after El NiƱo failed to deliver a much-vaunted dry summer in eastern Australia. Parts of northern Queensland in the path of Tropical Cyclone Jasper had a record wet December ...

Earth Sciences Apr 8, 2024

A rainfall scientist explains what April showers are and why they are becoming more intense

"March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers", goes the old British proverb. The term was even (almost) used in the Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the 1300s: "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote".

Environment Apr 8, 2024

Why is Ghana so hot this year? An expert explains

Ghana's meteorological agency and the state's health service have issued warnings about a period of very high temperatures expected in the first half of 2024 around the country. Ghana's experience is part of a global phenomenon: ...

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