In December 1861, intense rainfall began pounding central California, thrashing the state for the next 43 days. The rain, which scientists now think was caused by atmospheric rivers, killed thousands of people and destroyed ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 6, 2024
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As temperature records tumble, and the threat of bushfires and dry conditions looms large, an international study by Flinders University and Argentinian researchers renews the urgency of calls to make more concerted efforts ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 6, 2024
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In a small village in southern Madagascar, dozens of women shelter from the scorching sun under a tree as they wait to weigh their children.
Environment
Feb 6, 2024
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Andrew Kruczkiewicz has spent much of his career trying to get ahead of the weather. As a meteorologist and senior staff researcher at the Columbia Climate School, Kruczkiewicz's current research focuses on extreme weather ...
Environment
Feb 6, 2024
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Scorching summer heat is hard to imagine now in mid-winter Paris, but in six months when the world's athletes arrive for the Olympics, another pounding heat wave would spell trouble for organizers.
Environment
Feb 5, 2024
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Extreme heat and wildfire smoke are independently harmful to the human body, but together their impact on cardiovascular and respiratory systems is more dangerous and affects some communities more than others.
Environment
Feb 2, 2024
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New Curtin University-led research has estimated that 1,454 avoidable deaths (one person every five days) occurred in Australian capital cities in the past 20 years because of fine particle air pollution from extreme events ...
Environment
Jan 31, 2024
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While collecting cores from oak trees on Fire Island National Park, Nicole Davi, a dendrochronologist who works at the Climate School's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, explains the critical role maritime forests play in ...
Ecology
Jan 31, 2024
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Based on multiple evidence from remote sensing observations, global ecosystem model simulations and atmospheric CO2 inversions, a study led by Dr. Fangzhong Shi and Dr. Xiuchen Wu (Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 25, 2024
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Christmas was without snow, then temperatures seesawed throughout January in much of Canada, as the increasing effects of climate change drastically dampen the country's winter sports season.
Environment
Jan 25, 2024
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