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Drought in the Amazon River, a consequence of the lack of rainfall in the Amazon
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Extreme drought and heat signal a “new normal” for tropical forests

An international study reveals that the unprecedented heat stress of 2023–2024 will likely recur in the coming decades unless emissions are reduced. The Amazon is the most vulnerable region.

EurekAlert
Aerial shot of a wildfire raging through a forest in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
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Australia's bushfire crisis linked to colonial land-use change

Forest expansion and thickening after British colonization has created landscapes more prone to burning, amplifying the influence of climate change and propelling Australia’s bushfire crisis, a new study has found.

University of Melbourne
River flowing through green fields and hills.
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Satellite data shows how flawed some river models can be

River models have long been used to estimate water in hard-to-reach or remote areas. New study from UMass Amherst shows the math can be off—way off.

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Lots of people and boats and the school at the village of Boca De Valeria on the Amazon River, Amazonas State, Brazil.
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El Niño could offer early warning of extreme heat in the Amazon

El Niño and warming in the tropical Atlantic could help provide advance warning of extreme heat in the Amazon, with some signals appearing as much as seven months earlier, research has found.

ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
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How AI could help predict and explain water levels in the Great Lakes

An interpretable model is one that can be verified, discussed, and challenged. This is the prerequisite for AI to become a legitimate tool in water management.

Conversation Media Group, the
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The techniques AI uses to create images can help predict floods

To produce predictions, generative AI models must be primed with existing information called training data, making predictions based on patterns observed in previous data sets.

Pennsylvania State University
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The 2025 Kamchatka tsunami's rhythm could help early warnings

Seventy-three years after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake of 1952 in the same region, Kamchatka has reminded us that it is one of the most efficient tsunami sources in the Pacific.

PhysOrg, Omicron Technology Ltd
A vintage water pump amidst picturesque fields at sunset, capturing rural tranquility.
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Can groundwater systems be resilient to droughts?

Team at Utrecht University developed a method to classify groundwater systems based on their ability to recover from long drought to better determine how groundwater systems recover after a drought and which groundwater reserves are most vulnerable.

Utrecht University
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Including future generations in flood protection decision-making

The key message from the researchers is that investments made today in flood protection also affect opportunities available to future generations.

Deltares
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Early heat waves hit wheat yields hardest

Research published in the Journal of Experimental Botany reveals that wheat crops are more sensitive to grain yield losses from heat waves that occur before reaching their flowering stage than those occurring later.

The Society for Experimental Biology (SEB)