Research briefs

Winter storms that provide crucial snow and rainfall to northern India are arriving significantly later in the year compared to 70 years ago exacerbating the risk of catastrophic flooding while also reducing vital water supplies for millions of Indians.

In the absence of indigenous fire management, savannas have seen the kind of larger, higher-intensity fires occurring late in the dry season that likely existed before people, when lightning was the sole source of ignition.

In a new research paper, researchers set out to investigate what effect more frequent extreme Indian Ocean Dipole events would have on rainfall in east Africa.

Arctic sea ice is shrinking as the world continues to warm, and a new study led by researchers at Penn State may provide a better understanding of how the loss of this ice may impact daily weather in the middle latitudes, like the United States.

With an increase in land subsidence occurring in densely populated areas, a key factor driving subsidence is groundwater abstraction.

As climate change threatens to bring more extreme heat and adverse impacts for these workers, a new study published today in the journal One Earth examines the scale of this threat and explores pathways to boost workers’ resiliency to warming.

A study published in Nature, “A global assessment of actors and their roles in climate change adaptation,” was conducted to identify the actors of climate adaptation and their roles.

In new research, the authors compared cultural burning to agency-led prescribed burning or no burning. We studied the effects on soil properties such as moisture content, density, and nutrient levels.

This study combines satellite-obtained measurements of sinking land, with sea-level rise projections and tide charts to provide a new comprehensive look at the potential for flooding in a combined 32 cities along the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts.

The Digital Twin Earth Hydrology Platform, a ground-breaking step toward a virtual replica of the terrestrial water cycle, combines new high-resolution satellite observations and cutting-edge modeling to build a test environment for our planet.