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What is ‘precipitation whiplash’? The new accelerating, climate change weather danger
Rapid changes from wet to dry weather can create severe natural disasters. And these precipitation whiplash events are ...
Ocean warming patterns key to accurate tropical cyclone climate projections
A new review published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences sheds light on one of climate science's enduring puzzles: how the ...
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Thunderstorm 'Ring of fire' erupts around 'heat dome' and Tropical Storm Andrea named in the Atlantic
The "heat dome" hovering over the eastern half of the U.S. now has a thunderstorm "ring of fire" erupting along its edge. Meanwhile, in the Atlantic, the first tropical storm of the season has been ...
Global 'precipitation whiplashes' between droughts and floods could intensify by 2028, study warns
A recent study by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) reveals a looming climate crisis: the world ...
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World Rainforest Day and the state of Earth’s most vital rainforests
June 22 marks World Rainforest Day, launched in 2017 by Rainforest Partnership to highlight the critical role of tropical ...
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Tropical Storm Andrea forms in the remote central Atlantic
The Atlantic’s first named storm of 2025 formed farther to the northeast than any June named storm on record, and is not a ...
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Will tropical dry forests survive the next 50 years?
In 1978, renowned ecologist Dan Janzen jumped into a ravine in Costa Rica, broke three ribs, and spent the first month of the ...
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Some tropical forests show surprising resilience as temperatures rise
The world’s hottest rainforest is located not in the Amazon or anywhere else you might expect, but inside Biosphere 2, the experimental scientific research facility in the desert outside Tucson ...