Furthermore, flood defenses take a lot of time and political will to implement. The construction of the Thames storm surge barrier and the ongoing strengthening of the Netherlands' sea defenses were both stimulated by a catastrophic 1953 storm in which more than 2000 people perished. Yet, the p...
Devastating Spanish floods expose an urgent need for more flood-risk professionals Sebastiano Piccolroaz Research Highlight | 12 November 2024 Ice-giant planet was having a bad day when Voyager came calling A chance disruption means that Voyager gave astronomers a distorted view of the planet...
A warming climate is expected to have an impact on the magnitude and timing of river floods; however, no consistent large-scale climate change signal in observed flood magnitudes has been identified so far. We analyzed the timing of river floods in Europe over the past five decades, using a ...
Climate change factors and expanded population growth in the Wildland Urban Interface (transition zone between human structures and undeveloped wildland) contribute to a projected increase in wildfire frequency and smoke exposure. As an unregulated sourc
Examines the science and arguments of global warming skepticism. Common objections like 'global warming is caused by the sun', 'temperature has changed naturally in the past' or 'other planets are warming too' are examined to see what the science really
According to statistics, the average embedding similarity between pretrained models is 38.4% greater than that between random generated noise, which proves from another perspective that the coding information of the catchments is not a random signal in disorder, but rather high-dimensional feature ...
Conversely, weaker precipitation events falling below the 50th percentile show a higher negative response to global warming. Light rainy days decrease by 16.2% per degree Celsius of warming, while very heavy and extremely heavy rainy days increase by 26.4% and 27.5%, respectively. These findings ...
to a planetary safe limit of 90% biodiversity intactness, as proposed in a recent study (5). The hypothesis is that below the safe limit, the wide range of services provided by biodiversity that underpin human well-being—such as crop pollination, waste decomposition, regulation of the global...
which corresponds to a reduction of about 20% over the entire period. This means that the global trend in water availability is brought about by changes in the Southern Hemisphere. Similarly, the year-to-year variability in water availability is mainly caused by changes in the south. According...
Rapid global urbanization has meant that appropriate and sustainable planning and development of our cities has been limited, making them a vulnerable hotspot to climate change [3]. The phenomenon known as the urban heat island (UHI) effect is dramatically affecting cities and quality of life, ...