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May 21, 2024

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Night-Time Heat Significantly Increases the Risk of Stroke

May 21, 2024 — Researchers show that nocturnal heat significantly increases the risk of stroke. The findings can contribute to the development of preventive measures: With them, the population can better protect themselves against the risks of climate change with ...

Warming Climate Intensifies Flash Droughts Worldwide

May 21, 2024 — Sudden, severe dry spells known as flash droughts are rising in intensity around the world, with a notable exception in mountainous Central Asia, where flash drought extent is shrinking, according to new research. Heat and changes to precipitation ...

Record Low Antarctic Sea Ice 'Extremely Unlikely' Without Climate Change

May 20, 2024 — Scientists have found that the record-low levels of sea ice around Antarctica in 2023 were extremely unlikely to happen without the influence of climate change. This low was a one-in-a-2000-year event without climate change and four times more ...

Climate Change Likely to Aggravate Brain Conditions

May 15, 2024 — Climate change, and its effects on weather patterns and adverse weather events, is likely to negatively affect the health of people with brain conditions, argue a team of ...

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90% of Floridians Believe Climate Change Is Happening

May 14, 2024 — The latest 'Florida Climate Resilience Survey' found that 90% of Floridians believe that climate change is happening. Belief in human-caused climate change has surged among Florida Independents while ...

Take Cover! Survey Shows Tornado Warnings Widely Misunderstood

May 9, 2024 — A study showed that about half of those surveyed in the mid-South could not accurately identify a tornado ...

Improved Wildfire Smoke Model Identifies Areas for Public Health Intervention

May 9, 2024 — The Canadian wildfires of June 2023 exposed a large portion of the Northeastern United States to unprecedented levels of smoke. A new model that ...

Climate Change Amplifies Severity of Combined Wind-Rain Extremes Over the UK and Ireland

May 3, 2024 — Climate change will cause an increase in extreme winter storms combining strong winds and heavy rainfall over the UK and Ireland, new research has ...

New Offshore Wind Turbines Can Take Away Energy from Existing Ones

Apr. 25, 2024 — Interactions between wind turbines could reduce power output by 30% in proposed offshore wind farm areas along the East Coast, new research has found. In all, the farms could still meet 60% of the ...

Marginalized Communities Developed 'Disaster Subculture' When Living Through Extreme Climate Events

Apr. 23, 2024 — An assistant professor conducted a study in which he lived among one of the poorest, most marginalized communities in Seoul, South Korea. In the ...

AI Weather Forecasts Captured Ciaran's Destructive Path

Apr. 22, 2024 — The study highlights the rapid progress and transformative potential of AI in weather ...

Everest Mountaineer's Letters Digitized

Apr. 22, 2024 — Letters written by the famous mountaineer George Mallory have been made available to a global audience for the first time, in the centenary year of his fatal attempt to scale ...

Climate Change Will Increase Value of Residential Rooftop Solar Panels Across US, Study Shows

Apr. 19, 2024 — Climate change will increase the future value of residential rooftop solar panels across the United States by up to 19% by the end of the century, ...

Weather Prediction Models Can Also Forecast Satellite Displacements

Apr. 19, 2024 — Researchers have found that modern weather models can accurately predict the energy that Earth emits and reflects into space, which directly affects the movements of low Earth-orbiting (LEO) ...

Ice Age Climate Analysis Reduces Worst-Case Warming Expected from Rising CO2

Apr. 17, 2024 — A detailed reconstruction of climate during the most recent ice age, when a large swath of North America was covered in ice, provides information on the relationship between CO2 and global ...

38 Trillion Dollars in Damages Each Year: World Economy Already Committed to Income Reduction of 19 % Due to Climate Change

Apr. 17, 2024 — Even if CO2 emissions were to be drastically cut down starting today, the world economy is already committed to an income reduction of 19% until 2050 due to climate change, a new study finds. These ...

Paradox of Extreme Cold Events in a Warming World

Apr. 17, 2024 — The Warm Arctic-Cold Continent (WACC) phenomenon is the puzzling combination of Arctic warming and extreme coldness in specific mid-latitude regions. However, the progression of WACC events remains ...

CO2 Worsens Wildfires by Helping Plants Grow

Apr. 16, 2024 — By fueling the growth of plants that become kindling, carbon dioxide is driving an increase in the severity and frequency of wildfires, according to a new ...

Yellowstone Lake Ice Cover Unchanged Despite Warming Climate

Apr. 16, 2024 — While most lakes around the world are experiencing shorter durations of ice cover, the length of time that Yellowstone Lake is covered by ice each year has not changed in the past century, possibly ...

Cloud Engineering Could Be More Effective 'Painkiller' for Global Warming Than Previously Thought

Apr. 11, 2024 — Cloud 'engineering' could be more effective for climate cooling than previously thought, because of the increased cloud cover produced, new research ...

Food Security in Developed Countries Shows Resilience to Climate Change

Apr. 11, 2024 — A study has found that market forces have provided good food price stability over the past half century, despite extreme weather ...

How Climate Change Will Impact Food Production and Financial Institutions

Apr. 8, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new method to predict the financial impacts climate change will have on agriculture, which can help support food security and financial stability for countries ...

Fans Are Not a Magic Bullet for Beating the Heat!

Apr. 4, 2024 — A new study throws cold water on the idea that fans can effectively cool you down during extremely hot weather ...

Experiencing Extreme Weather Predicts Support for Policies to Mitigate Effects of Climate Change

Apr. 3, 2024 — Most Americans report having personally experienced the effects of extreme weather, according to new survey data. An analysis finds that a reported exposure to extreme weather is associated with ...

How Extratropical Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions Can Contribute to the Variability of Jet Streams in the Northern Hemisphere

Mar. 29, 2024 — Ocean-atmosphere coupling, the exchange in energy between the ocean and atmosphere, influences teleconnection patterns, the climate effects across vast geographical areas. However, its impact outside ...

Unintended Consequences of Fire Suppression

Mar. 25, 2024 — A new study reveals how fire suppression ensures that wildfires will burn under extreme conditions at high severity, exacerbating the impacts of climate change and fuel ...

A New Way to Quantify Climate Change Impacts: 'Outdoor Days'

Mar. 21, 2024 — 'Outdoor days,' a new measure, describes climate change impacts by noting the number of days per year that outdoor temperatures are comfortable enough for normal outdoor ...

Satellite Data Assimilation Improves Forecasts of Severe Weather

Mar. 21, 2024 — In 2020, a line of severe thunderstorms unleashed powerful winds that caused billions in damages across the Midwest United States. A new technique that incorporates satellite data could improve ...

The Heat Index -- How Hot It Really Feels -- Is Rising Faster Than Temperature

Mar. 20, 2024 — Researchers showed in 2022 that heat index calculations by NOAA based on analyses from the 1970s don't adequately reflect the heat stress humans feel during the extremes of heat and humidity ...

Meteorology: Weak Polar Vortex Makes Weather More Predictable

Mar. 15, 2024 — Events in the stratosphere are making long-range weather in Northern Europe easier to forecast, researchers have ...

Ready for the Storm: Researchers Analyze Infrastructure, Demographics to See Where Tornadoes Are Most Disruptive

Mar. 13, 2024 — Researchers examined demographics, infrastructure and more than seven decades of weather data to determine which places in Kentucky are most vulnerable to ...

Summer Solstice Triggers Synchronized Beech Tree Reproduction Across Europe

Mar. 13, 2024 — A new study has found that the summer solstice acts as a 'starting gun' to synchronize beech tree reproduction across vast distances in Europe, affecting ecosystem ...

India's Water Problems Set to Get Worse as the World Warms

Mar. 11, 2024 — Winter storms known as western disturbances that provide crucial snow and rainfall to northern India are arriving significantly later in the ...

Study Explores Impacts of Arctic Warming on Daily Weather Patterns in the U.S.

Mar. 11, 2024 — Arctic sea ice is shrinking as the world continues to warm, and a new study may provide a better understanding of how the loss of this ice may impact daily weather in the middle latitudes, like the ...