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Bird eyes view of Singapore City skyline in Singapore.
A real-world study by researchers at NTU Singapore has shown that the use of cool paint coatings in cities can help pedestrians feel up to 1.5 degrees Celsius cooler, making the urban area more comfortable for work and play.
Nanyang Technological University
Wildfire in Stanislaus National Forest, California, 2013
When forests aren’t allowed to burn, they become more dense, and dead branches, leaves and other biomass accumulate, leaving more fuel for the next fire. This buildup leads to more extreme fires that are even harder to put out.
Conversation Media Group, the
Scientists have been looking for better ways to make weather forecasts more accurate. Despite the maturity of ensemble numerical weather prediction (NWP), the resulting forecasts are still, more often than not, under-dispersed.
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
An artificial intelligence (AI) model could improve the accuracy of flood forecasting, according to a new study published in Nature.
Springer
Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) areas, which are transition zones between wilderness and human-developed land, are particularly susceptible to wildfires. The risk is heightened due to flammable vegetation and the effects of climate change.
University of Hong Kong, the
Based on multiple data points over the past 2000 years, the study systematically summarized the historical facts of major volcanic eruptions, the characteristics and mechanisms of their climatic impact, and directions for future research.
Science China Press
A Vietnamese school girl bikes through the flooded streets in Ho Chi Minh wearing her school uniform.
A recent paper published in Nature Climate Change reviewed studies linking climate change-related events or “climate stressors” to education outcomes.
Conversation Media Group, the
Thunderstorm over fields in South Africa.
The researchers reported that adding microwave data collected by low-Earth-orbiting satellites to existing computer weather forecast models produced more accurate forecasts of surface gusts in a case study of the 2020 Midwest Derecho.
American Geophysical Union

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