Kazakhstan’s Nura River Poses Flood Threat to Its Own Capital
A 90-year hydrological analysis reveals that Kazakhstan's Nura River can overflow into the Ishim system and threaten Astana with transit ...
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Latvian Region Charts Flexible Defense Against Climate-Driven Floods
Researchers combined stakeholder workshops with optimization modeling to design 37 alternative adaptation pathways that sequence flood protection measures in Latvia's ...
Dense Austrian rain gauge network rewrites the rules of extreme rainfall design
Using Austria's exceptionally dense WegenerNet rain gauge network, researchers have derived areal reduction factors for extreme rainfall from five minutes ...
Rising Seas Threaten Thousands of Heritage Sites in China’s Greater Bay Area
A new hydrodynamic risk assessment finds that a once-in-a-century storm surge could inundate nearly a third of the 11,220 immovable ...
How Colonization, Catastrophe, and Wetlands Shaped Segregation in a Chilean City
A PNAS study of Valdivia, Chile, traces how colonization, the 1960 earthquake, and wetland loss have produced urban segregation and ...
Tamil Nadu’s Two Monsoons Hide a Stark Asymmetry in Extreme Rainfall Risk
A 124-year Bayesian extreme value analysis of Tamil Nadu rainfall reveals that the northeast monsoon produces one-day extremes up to ...
Which Statistical Model Best Predicts India’s Most Dangerous Rainfall? A 90-Year Test
A 90-year analysis of Indian rainfall shows that the Peak Over Threshold method outperforms the GEV distribution for estimating extreme ...
New Flood Risk Model Puts a Price Tag on Flood Defenses Under Uncertainty
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich have developed a computationally efficient probabilistic flood risk model that quantifies the benefit ...
Global study finds river catchments rarely behave the same way twice
A global analysis of 1.7 million runoff events across 4,838 catchments finds that the transformation of rain and snowmelt into ...
Five Weather Regimes Drive Deadly Floods on Türkiye’s Black Sea Coast
A 30-year cluster analysis of 637 extreme precipitation days reveals five distinct synoptic regimes driving floods in Türkiye's Western Black ...
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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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