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Comprehensive Assessment of the Development of Flash Droughts and the Underlying Mechanisms

Similar to flash floods, flash droughts come on fast—drying out soil just in a matter of days to weeks. Such events can destroy crops and result in huge economic losses.

4 Apr 2022

Aggressive and Comprehensive Actions Needed to Achieve Net Zero Emissions

The third and final installment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC's) Sixth Assessment Report calls for aggressive and comprehensive actions if we are to achieve net zero emissions by mid-century.

4 Apr 2022

Study Offers New Insights into the Impact of Recent Climatic Change on the Frozen Continent

The area and volume of surface meltwater lakes are highly variable year over year, finds a first-ever study looking at surface meltwater lakes near the East Antarctic Ice Sheet over seven years.

1 Apr 2022

City Trees Benefit from Stormwater Harvesting

To enhance the health of urban street trees, reports of tree canopy coverage dwindling throughout city suburbs increase pressure on local government and other authorities’ measures.

1 Apr 2022

Ozone Weakens One of Earth’s Main Cooling Mechanisms

According to new research, one of the most significant cooling mechanisms might undergo weakening due to Ozone, thereby making it a considerable greenhouse gas compared to what was thought earlier.

1 Apr 2022

Funding to Help Develop DRI’s Advanced Weather and Research Forecast Modeling Tool

Wildfires in the Sierra Nevada are taking place at unparalleled sizes and intensities as there is a warming in the climate, thereby posing risks to communities and resources across California and Nevada.

1 Apr 2022

Growth of Tropical Trees Hindered by Increased Heat and Drought

For a long period, ecologists supposed tree rings were not present in tropical trees due to a lack of temperature and rain variations in the trees' surroundings.

1 Apr 2022

Researchers Use Capacitance Probes to Study the Moisture Content in Sand Dunes

Deserts might appear to be inactive and lifeless, but they are known to be very much alive. Especially, sand dunes tend to grow and move from one place to another—and as per the decades-long research project performed, humid air is also breathed by them.

31 Mar 2022

Researchers Develop a New Process for the Production of Ethanol

There is a necessity for a significant decrease in CO2 emissions to restrict the impacts of climate change. This is in accordance with the latest assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

30 Mar 2022

Mammoth Mountain’s CO2 Emissions Strongly Linked to Weight of Snow and Ice Atop the Sierra Nevada

Thirty years ago, on the flanks of a volcano in California's Sierra Nevada range, trees began to die en masse, suffocated at their roots by carbon dioxide seeping up from the mountain's depths after a swarm of small earthquakes.

30 Mar 2022