World’s Highest Weather Stations Reveal Everest’s Extreme Climate From Valley to Summit
A new open-access dataset from six automatic weather stations spanning 3,810 to 8,810 metres on Mount Everest reveals how temperature, ...
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AI Learns to Count Every Pebble in a River, Transforming Sediment Science
Researchers at the University of Potsdam have developed OrthoSAM, an AI workflow that automatically delineates thousands of individual river pebbles ...
Buried in Rock: Why Debris-Covered Glaciers Collapse Suddenly After Decades of Silence
A new glacier flow model that tracks rock debris travelling inside ice shows that debris-covered glaciers ignore short-term climate swings ...
Satellites and Decision Science Map Hidden Groundwater in a Fast-Growing Himalayan Valley
Researchers have mapped groundwater potential across Uttarakhand's rapidly urbanising Soar Valley using an integrated AHP-GIS framework validated against 91 spring ...
Machine Learning Outperforms Classic Statistics in Mapping Deadly Himalayan Landslide Risk
A new study along a landslide-ravaged stretch of National Highway 7 in Uttarakhand shows that Random Forest and XGBoost machine ...
Hidden Fault Ramp and Young Thrusts Reshape the Story of Himalayan Mountain Building in Western Nepal
Integrated thermokinematic and landscape modeling in western Nepal shows that Himalayan exhumation is driven by a northerly fault ramp beneath ...
New Global Disaster Map Pinpoints 14 Hotspots Where Catastrophes Keep Striking
A new grid-based Accumulated-Event Risk Indicator built from a decade of EM-DAT records identifies 14 global disaster hotspots concentrated in ...
Scientists map landslide danger along a lifeline highway in the Indian Himalaya
A new AHP-based landslide susceptibility map of the Solan-Shimla highway in Himachal Pradesh identifies the most dangerous slopes along a ...
Himalayan Tribe’s Medicinal Plant Knowledge Documented Before Climate Change Erases It
A household survey in Dehradun district, India, has documented 36 medicinal plant species used by the Jaunsari tribe, revealing how ...
A Restless Himalayan Slope Is Building a Deadly Flood Time Bomb
Satellite radar, optical imagery and flood modelling reveal that the repeatedly reactivating Kuwari landslide in Uttarakhand has formed an unstable ...
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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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