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Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused on understanding global climate impacts, risks, and vulnerabilities to ...
Sohra, once the wettest place on Earth, is witnessing alarming declines in rainfall. June saw only one-third of the previous ...
Warming severity "hotspots" in Arctic-boreal region between 1997-2020. Christina Shintani / Woodwell Climate Research Center Map of areas that experienced vegetation climate stress in the Arctic ...
A recent study by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) reveals a looming climate crisis: the world ...
Warmer global temperatures are increasing the extent, duration, and severity of these extremes, a new study found, and are having more of an effect more than natural climate fluctuations.
In fact, the map’s “climate similarity surface” feature shows that Los Angeles of 2080 will also feel like portions of Algeria, Jordan and western Australia feel today.
Satellites map record floods in Australia. Stretches of land across New South Wales, Australia, have been hit with torrential rain leading to record-breaking floods.
Five places saw extremely rare 1,000-year flood events, often a season’s-worth of rain in a single day. Like an unhinged seesaw, this summer’s rainfall has teetered between too much and too ...
“Climate change is redrawing the wine map,” the report states, citing northern areas like Denmark that will thrive with longer growing seasons and milder conditions. This shift is happening ...
The work on the global Climate Shift Index has led to some interesting—and troubling—findings. The researchers who developed the tool examined weather data from the past year and found that ...
Climate Central released a new report and map tool showing the impact of climate change on the temperatures we experience each day - including areas hardest hit by global warming.