Research briefs

UNH scientist discovers the sun’s outbursts may briefly weaken rain and snow events.

Air conditioning is increasingly the go-to when heatwaves strike. However, not only does this lead to more emissions, it also puts increasing strain on the electricity grid – even culminating in deadly blackouts.

Rapidly growing cities face water security challenges due to rising demand and limited freshwater supplies.

Just weeks after a severe heatwave that broke all-time May records, Europe is experiencing another major heatwave that is breaking June and annual records.

The number of people exposed to dangerous heat stress worldwide has risen sharply over the past half-century, propelled by climate change, according to a study released Monday as Europe sweltered through a punishing heat wave.

Forest fires now burn ten times more acreage annually than in 1985, while wildfire severity has gotten even worse. In California, 30 times more acreage burned from high-severity, forest-killing fires, according to new UCLA research.

Older people in Austria widely perceive an increase in extreme weather since their childhood. Yet how strongly they notice these changes depends on their social position, where they live and how they relate to environmental issues.

Machine learning methods have for some time been successfully applied to unravel the complexity of earthquake interactions and to identify distinct patterns in existing earthquake data catalogues.