The authors call for a move to more transformative and meaningful forms of education for disaster resilience that involve the fostering of democratic structures that engage young people and schools in formulating goals, not just realizing them.
Study suggests that the impacts of the 2021 heat dome could have been much worse for British Columbians, despite its widespread devastation, when compared to a previously overlooked heat wave during the Second World War.
It is generally assumed that, over long timescales, the strength of the monsoon climate tracks changes in solar radiation: the more radiation, the more intense the summer monsoon, with warmer and wetter conditions, and vice versa
A study, published in Nature Climate Change, indicates that at the regional level, many places on Earth have already surpassed 1.5°C (2.7°F), and suggests that other regions have warmed as much as 2°C (3.6°F) due to human-caused climate change.
Preparing for a drier future does not mean preparing for milder floods. Cities need to prepare for contradictory challenge of managing both declining water availability and increasingly destructive rainfall extremes.
To make predictions of El Niños and La Niñas, forecasters supply these models with information about present conditions, including ocean temperatures, currents, winds and humidity.
A new study has found a self-reinforcing interaction between temperature, soil moisture, and atmospheric pressure is being triggered at high temperatures, making extreme heatwaves 10 percent hotter than they would otherwise be.
