Over the last few decades, the American West has seen major increases in wildfire activity and big decreases in groundwater supply. Warmer temperatures are paving the way for the invasion of destructive bark beetles, while ...
Environment
Dec 14, 2018
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A team of geographers, climatologists and tree ring specialists affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. has found the number and degree of hot droughts in the western U.S. is unprecedented in the modern era. In ...
A rock core from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, has given scientists a powerful new tool to understand how catastrophic events shaped Earth's ecosystems before the rise of the dinosaurs.
Earth Sciences
Jul 20, 2020
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Now that last month's sizzling numbers are all in, the European climate monitoring organization made it official: July 2023 was Earth's hottest month on record by a wide margin.
Environment
Aug 8, 2023
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For the sixth month in a row, Earth set a new monthly record for heat, and also added the hottest autumn to the litany of record-breaking heat this year, the European climate agency calculated.
Environment
Dec 6, 2023
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An international team of researchers have published a study exploring the association between summer temperature and drought across Europe placing recent drought in the context of the past 12 centuries. The study reveals ...
Environment
Aug 5, 2019
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"The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward," Winston Churchill proclaimed to the Royal College of Physicians in 1944, invoking a much older idea known as "uniformitarianism".
Environment
Nov 2, 2021
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A new study looking at seven centuries of water flow in south Asia's mighty Brahmaputra River suggests that scientists are underestimating the river's potential for catastrophic flooding as climate warms. The revelation comes ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2020
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Tree rings are record books of annual growth, and the width of each ring is correlated to that year's environmental conditions. In a new study, Cameron Lee and Matthew Dannenberg use machine learning to demonstrate that ring ...
Ecology
Mar 29, 2023
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July has been so hot thus far that scientists calculate that this month will be the hottest globally on record and likely the warmest human civilization has seen, even though there are several days left to sweat through.
Environment
Jul 27, 2023
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