Record floods in southern China this month displaced more than half a million people, while searing heat buckled roads in other parts of the country.
Environment
Jun 25, 2022
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When permafrost thaws, water can flow more quickly through the ground, creating a complex subsurface flow system. Researchers at the Barrow Environmental Observatory in Alaska gained insight into this process by taking daily ...
Environment
Jun 25, 2022
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In central and southern China, tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their homes due to flooding from extreme rainfall. The Guardian reports that approximately a million people have seen their homes damaged ...
Environment
Jun 23, 2022
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Heavy rainstorms are causing major flooding and landslides in southern China, destroying buildings, crops and roads, and forcing many people to flee their homes.
Environment
Jun 21, 2022
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A heat wave that baked much of the central United States last week will start to move eastward with dangerously high temperatures, forecasters said Monday.
Environment
Jun 20, 2022
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Flood frequency analysis is a technique used to estimate flood risk, providing statistics such as the "100-year flood" or "500-year flood" that are critical to infrastructure design, dam safety analysis, and flood mapping ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 14, 2022
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The outer skin of our planet—the critical zone—stretches from treetops to the lower limits of groundwater. In this layer, interactions between rock, soil, water, air, and living organisms shape Earth's surface and sustain ...
Environment
Jun 13, 2022
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A large swathe of the southwestern United States was on alert Thursday for a potentially deadly heatwave that could push temperatures as high as 47 degrees celsius (117 Fahrenheit) over the coming days.
Environment
Jun 9, 2022
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After a record-setting Midwestern rainstorm that damaged thousands of homes and businesses, Stefanie Johnson's farmhouse in Blandinsville, Illinois, didn't have safe drinking water for nearly two months.
Environment
Jun 8, 2022
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A key UN summit this year must give biodiversity the same priority as climate change and press ahead with putting a financial value on natural resources, Gabon's environment minister says.
Ecology
May 31, 2022
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