We've got apps and radars – but can ants predict rain?
It's often said that ants can predict impending rain and respond by changing their behaviour.
Plants & Animals
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Research shows plants in Africa 'green up' ahead of rainy season
A study led by the University of Southampton has shown the greening up of vegetation prior to the rainy season in Africa is more widespread than previously understood.
Environment
Jul 2, 2018
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Four dead, hundreds evacuated as torrential rains hit Romania
Days of torrential rains in Romania have claimed four lives and forced more than 250 people to flee their homes, local authorities said Sunday.
Environment
Jul 1, 2018
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After Cape Town, Ivory Coast city feels the thirst
Earlier this year, Cape Town grabbed the world's headlines as it careened towards a water armageddon.
Environment
Apr 26, 2018
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When it rains, it pours—the effects of stormwater runoff
The lovely smell that follows a spring rain as you sit on your porch and enjoy the sound of drips pattering on the lawn is so loved that it has earned the distinct honor of its own word: "petrichor." Somewhat less romantic ...
Environment
Apr 4, 2018
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Nature provides the means for the sustainable management of floods
Soon, spring and the melting snow will yet again be visible as flooding around Finland. Although major floods caused by extreme weather phenomena are rare in the Nordic countries, floods cause financial loses even here each ...
Environment
Mar 22, 2018
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Rain or snow? Humidity, location can make all the difference, new map shows
University of Colorado Boulder researchers have created a map of the Northern Hemisphere showing how location and humidity can affect precipitation, illustrating wide variability in how and why different areas receive snow ...
Environment
Mar 20, 2018
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Storm leaves California with half of usual snow for year
California water officials tromped through long-awaited fresh snowdrifts in the Sierra Nevada mountains Monday, but a welcome late-winter storm still left the state with less than half the usual snow for this late point in ...
Environment
Mar 5, 2018
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Welcome snow slows California's plunge back to drought
Welcome drifts of fresh snow awaited California's water managers fpr their late-winter survey of the vital Sierra Nevada snowpack Monday after a massive winter storm slowed the state's plunge back into drought.
Environment
Mar 5, 2018
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California gauges snowpack amid dry winter
Amid record-setting heat in the state's south, California's water managers will measure the Sierra Nevada snowpack, which supplies water to millions.
Environment
Feb 1, 2018
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