Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Winter storms that provide crucial snow and rainfall to northern India are arriving significantly later in the year compared to 70 years ago, a new study has found, exacerbating the risk of catastrophic flooding while also reducing vital water supplies for millions of residents of India. The cyclonic storms, known as … Read more
False color scanning electron microscope image of a parallel-channel superconducting nanocryotron. Blue highlights the ground plane, gray shows the trench and nanowire gaps, green represents the effective NbN channel, and red signifies the NbN gate to choke constriction. Scale bars correspond to 2 μm. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory In particle colliders that reveal the hidden … Read more
Observed and projected temperature increase over European land area. Temperatures are expressed relative to pre-industrial levels. The model projections show the mean and uncertainty interval. The two scenarios assessed are SSP1-2.6: low warming, and SSP3-7.0: high warming. Credit: European climate risk assessment: Executive summary (2024). Europe is the fastest-warming continent in the world and governments … Read more
Droughts like the one that has struck Spain are among the climate risks Europe faces. Europe could suffer “catastrophic” consequences from climate change if it fails to take urgent and decisive action to adapt to risks, a new EU analysis warned Monday. Areas in southern Europe are most at risk, the European Environment Agency (EEA) … Read more
Credit: The Undertow Ocean & Divers for Climate For the fifth time in just the past eight summersâ2016, 2017, 2020, 2022 and now 2024âhuge swathes of the Great Barrier Reef are experiencing extreme heat stress that has triggered yet another episode of mass coral bleaching. Including two earlier heating episodesâin 1998 (which was at the … Read more
A matter map derived from one of the simulated universes. The lightest areas of the map show the regions where dark matter is most dense. These correspond to superclusters of galaxies. The dark, almost black patches are cosmic voids, the large empty spaces in between clusters of galaxies. Credit: Niall Jeffrey et al A UCL-led … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Emergency planners in Shanghai and New York City face increasing pressure to protect elderly citizens from the devastating impact of coastal flooding caused by storms and cyclones, a new study reveals. Both cities are highly exposed to storm-induced flooding and analysis shows thatâwith two distinct systems of emergency operationâthere are significant … Read more
Most of the victims were feared to have been swept away in their cars. French rescue workers recovered three bodies on Sunday and were searching for four other people, including two children, after violent storms lashed the southeast of the country, with most believed to have been swept away in cars on flooded bridges. A … Read more
This photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows an oil sheen observed offshore of Huntington Beach, Calif., Friday, March 8, 2024. Officials say no recoverable oil remains in the water after a sheen was reported off the Southern California coast, but it remains unclear what caused it. Credit: Petty Officer 1st Class Richard Brahm/U.S. … Read more
During warm periods in Earth’s history, known as interglacials, glaciers the size of continents pulled back to reveal new landscapes. These were new worlds for early humans to explore and exploit, and 1.4 million years ago this was Europe: a Terra nullius unoccupied by humans. Long before it emerged as the epicenter of global colonialism, … Read more
