» The flash droughts across the south-central United States in 2022: Drivers, predictability, and impacts
06/10/24 21:57 from ScienceDirect Publication: Weather and Climate Extremes
Publication date: December 2024 Source: Weather and Climate Extremes, Volume 46 Author(s): Jordan I. Christian, Taylor M. Grace, Benjamin J. Fellman, Daniel F. Mesheske, Stuart G. Edris, Henry O. Olayiwola, Jeffrey B. Basara, Brian A. Fu...

» Anthropogenic influence on precipitation in Aotearoa New Zealand with differing circulation types
06/10/24 21:57 from ScienceDirect Publication: Weather and Climate Extremes
Publication date: Available online 5 October 2024 Source: Weather and Climate Extremes Author(s): Anjali Thomas, Adrian McDonald, James Renwick, Suzanne Rosier, Jordis S. Tradowsky, Gregory E. Bodeker

» Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have led to the invention of 'ant agriculture'
06/10/24 18:10 from Ecology News - Biology News
The event that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn't all bad. The low-light environment caused by the meteor impact some 66 million years ago favored the spread of fungi that feed on organic matter, which was abundant at the time as plants and ...

» Flash flooding kills three in northern Thailand
06/10/24 16:34 from Earth News - Earth Science News, Earth Science, Climate Change
Flash flooding in popular Thai tourist hotspot Chiang Mai has killed three people, a health official said Sunday, as visitors evacuated hotels through knee-high muddy water and shops closed in the city center.

» Why is Mount Everest so big? New research highlights a rogue river—but deeper forces are at work
06/10/24 15:10 from Earth News - Earth Science News, Earth Science, Climate Change
Mount Everest (also known as Chomolungma or Sagarmāthā) is famously the highest mountain in the Himalayas and indeed on Earth. But why?

» Study shows EV owners have bigger carbon footprint than average because they are wealthier
06/10/24 14:00 from Earth News - Earth Science News, Earth Science, Climate Change
A pair of psychologists and an economist at the University of Turku, in Finland, have found that because the average electric vehicle (EV) owner is wealthier than the average person, they still have a bigger than average carbon footprint.

» A 'forgotten' valley in storm-hit North Carolina, desperate for help
06/10/24 10:03 from Earth News - Earth Science News, Earth Science, Climate Change
The only road to Pensacola, in the remote mountains of western North Carolina, is now a muddy path through deep, twisting gorges. Its main bridges were swept away last week in floods fueled by devastating Hurricane Helene—and a cold wint...

» Two elephants die in flash flooding in northern Thailand
06/10/24 10:00 from Ecology News - Biology News
Two elephants drowned during flash flooding in popular Thai tourist hotspot Chiang Mai, their sanctuary said Sunday, as local authorities evacuated visitors from their hotels and shops closed in the city center.

» Limestone and iron reveal puzzling extreme rain in Western Australia 100,000 years ago
05/10/24 15:40 from Earth News - Earth Science News, Earth Science, Climate Change
Almost one-sixth of Earth's land surface is covered in otherworldly landscapes with a name that may also be unfamiliar: karst. These landscapes are like natural sculpture parks, with dramatic terrain dotted with caves and towers of bedro...

» Study of global primate populations reveals predictors of extinction risk
05/10/24 14:50 from Ecology News - Biology News
An international team of biologists, planetary scientists and conservationists has conducted a large-scale study of non-human primate populations around the world to gauge their risk of extinction due to climate change.

» Supreme Court lets stand rules to curb mercury, methane emissions
05/10/24 09:50 from Earth News - Earth Science News, Earth Science, Climate Change
The US Supreme Court declined on Friday to block environmental regulations aimed at reducing harmful emissions of mercury from power plants and methane from oil and gas facilities.

» Field notes: Life in the Eldorado National Forest after wildfire strikes
05/10/24 09:45 from Ecology News - Biology News
Charred trees punctuated the Eldorado National Forest like blackened skeletons of their former selves, victims of the Mosquito Fire. Two years earlier, in 2022, the Mosquito Fire started in Tahoe National Forest, moved north to the Eldor...

» Nepalis fear more floods as climate change melts glaciers
05/10/24 09:43 from Earth News - Earth Science News, Earth Science, Climate Change
Mingma Rita Sherpa was not home when the muddy torrent roared into his village in Nepal without warning, but when he returned, he did not recognize his once beautiful settlement.