Worldwide, 267 million people live on land less than two meters above sea level, which is most at risk from sea level rise, according to a study in Nature Communications. The paper suggests that by 2100 the number could increase ...
Environment
Jun 30, 2021
0
9
A severe cyclone is brewing off India's eastern coast, the nation's weather bureau warned Sunday, as the death toll rose from a major storm that wreaked havoc in the west of the virus-hit nation last week.
Environment
May 23, 2021
0
18
At least 27 people were dead and almost 100 missing on Tuesday after a monster cyclone slammed India, compounding the country's woes as it recorded a new record number of coronavirus deaths in 24 hours.
Environment
May 18, 2021
0
7
As muddy rainwater surged from Hawaii's steep seaside mountains and inundated residential communities last month, the damage caused by flooding was obvious—houses were destroyed and businesses swamped, landslides covered ...
Environment
Apr 15, 2021
0
16
UNSW engineers are leveraging the popularity of Insta-famous sites to study severe weather events and improve coastal planning practices.
Environment
Mar 25, 2021
0
6
The vast majority of nutrients and sediment washed into streams flowing into the Chesapeake Bay are picked up by deluges from severe storms that occur on relatively few days of the year. That is the conclusion of a new study ...
Environment
Dec 14, 2020
1
26
Nature struck relentlessly in 2020 with record-breaking and deadly weather- and climate-related disasters.
Environment
Dec 10, 2020
0
2
Australians should be ready for "compounding" overlapping crises as they face more frequent, costly and severe climate change-worsened disasters, an inquiry into the nation's recent historic bushfires warned Friday.
Environment
Oct 30, 2020
2
5
A new study by scientists from the University of Tasmania, CSIRO and the University of South Australia is the first to find a relationship between plastic debris ingested by seabirds and liver concentrations of mineral metals, ...
Ecology
Oct 23, 2020
0
305
September will be remembered as a month of extremes: Historic wildfires burned across the West, unprecedented tropical activity churned up the Atlantic, and parts of the country saw record heat.
Earth Sciences
Oct 8, 2020
0
12
