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 ...
Tag: soil moisture
Vanishing Sea Ice and Parched Soils Supercharge Siberia’s Fire Weather, Study Finds
A new study shows that melting Laptev Sea ice triggers circulation and soil-drying feedbacks that amplify vapor pressure deficit and ...
Satellites Reveal How Drought Gripped a Farming Heartland in Northeast Ethiopia
A new satellite-based study combining MODIS, SMAP and CHIRPS data shows that drought affected more than 65 percent of Guba ...
Soil Warmth and Water Hold the Key to Carbon Storage on the Tibetan Plateau
A four-decade modeling study shows that soil temperature drives carbon sequestration on the Tibetan Plateau in spring and autumn while ...
Flash Droughts Strike in Weeks: Why Australia Has Become the Global Test Case
A new PLOS Water review maps the current state of Australian flash drought research, identifying critical gaps and the role ...
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 ...
A Simple Electric Current Could Reveal How Thirsty Soils Breathe
New research shows that simple electrical conductivity measurements can track how drying soils constrain microbial respiration through the connectivity and ...
AI Learns Where U.S. Streamflow Droughts Come From—and Predicts Them Where No Gauges Exist
A new USGS study trained 3,198 machine learning models to reveal the regional drivers of streamflow drought across the United ...
AI With Double Attention Sharpens Drought Forecasts Across China
Chinese researchers have developed FAELSTM, a dual-attention deep learning framework that outperforms existing models in forecasting agricultural drought by filtering ...
Satellite Skin Temperature Gets a Memory Boost in Land Models Through Joint Soil Updates
Researchers have devised an ensemble-based scheme that jointly updates soil temperature and moisture, turning fleeting satellite land surface temperature observations ...
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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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