Vanishing Farmland Leaves the American West More Exposed to Wildfire
New research analyzing nearly 10,000 Western wildfires finds that irrigated cropland acts as a landscape-scale fire buffer, meaning drought-driven farmland ...
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Aspen Leaves Carry Chemical Memories of Past Droughts, Study Finds
University of Utah researchers found that quaking aspen trees alter the chemical defenses in their leaves for years after drought, ...
Newspaper archives reveal how droughts quietly build before Spain feels the damage
A 48-year analysis of Spanish newspaper reports shows that drought impacts track long-term moisture deficits of 12 to 30 months, ...
New Cryospheric Index Ranks the Hidden Ice Reserves That Keep a Chilean Desert River Alive
Researchers have created a Normalized Cryospheric Index that combines ice storage and snow permanence to rank the Andean sub-watersheds that ...
When One Disaster Triggers Another: How Cascading Climate Risks Are Breaking North American Cities
A new comparative review of cities in Canada, the United States, and Mexico finds that compound and cascading climate risks ...
Droughts in Iran Are Growing Wider and Longer, and Distant Oceans May Be Partly to Blame
A 65-year analysis of Iranian drought finds dry spells have grown more extensive since the late 1990s and shows statistical ...
Brazil’s Headwater Aquifers Face Steep Declines Under Climate Change
New hydrological modeling projects severe declines in groundwater storage in two contrasting headwater basins in Minas Gerais, Brazil, with losses ...
A Vast Steppe Crosses a Climate Tipping Point Into Heat and Drought
New research in Nature Geoscience shows that the Western Eurasian Steppe has undergone an abrupt, human-influenced regime shift toward hotter ...
Warming Skies, Silent Drought: New Study Maps Four Decades of Moisture Loss in Togo
A 45-year analysis of northern Togo finds stable rainfall but significant warming that is quietly intensifying moisture deficits across one ...
Food Insecurity Grips Rural Somaliland as Warming Climate Reshapes Agro-Pastoral Life
A survey of 114 agro-pastoral households in Somaliland's Arabsiyo District finds that more than 80 percent face some degree of ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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