It was Western Sydney's turn for a drenching this week, as the region was hit by an east coast low—the infamous storm systems that periodically bring heavy rainfall to the New South Wales coast.
Environment
Mar 7, 2022
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At any one time, Earth's atmosphere holds only about a week's worth of rain. But rainfall and floods have devastated Australia's eastern regions for weeks and more heavy rain is forecast. So where's all this water coming ...
Environment
Mar 7, 2022
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As well as threatening biodiversity, food systems and human health, climate change has another victim: ancient artifacts. At some UK sites of archaeological interest, unusually heavy rainfall is eroding layers of protective ...
Archaeology
Feb 2, 2022
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Mountainous terrains have dynamic climates and can produce startling contrasts in precipitation. Increases in elevation can spell either more or less rainfall depending on atmospheric moisture content, general circulation ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 28, 2022
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The No. 1 movie on Netflix in recent weeks has been "Don't Look Up," a fictionalized account of scientists struggling in vain to sound the alarm on a comet that is about to destroy Earth. Using the comet as a thinly veiled ...
Environment
Jan 26, 2022
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Warmer waters in the central tropical Pacific in recent decades have led to shifts in atmospheric wind jets, bringing more winter rainfall to the eastern Arabian Peninsula and less to the south.
Environment
Jan 11, 2022
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The last seven years have been the hottest on record globally "by a clear margin", the European Union's climate monitoring service reported Monday, as it raised the alarm over sharp increases in record concentrations of methane ...
Environment
Jan 10, 2022
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Like many residents living near Calgary's rivers, Irene's house flooded in June 2013 when heavy rainfall melted the snowpack in the Rocky Mountains, inundating much of southern Alberta in what was, at the time, the costliest ...
Environment
Dec 1, 2021
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It's easy to get lost in the numbers from COP26. For two weeks, world leaders gathered to discuss emissions reduction targets for the next five years.
Environment
Nov 16, 2021
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Low rainfall, structural damage and extraction by struggling farmers have emptied a key reservoir in northwestern Syria, leaving it completely dry for the first time, farmers and officials told AFP.
Environment
Nov 11, 2021
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