Research briefs

Researchers have found El Niño and La Niña have already become more frequent and more extreme. If this trend continues, as climate projections suggest, we can expect warming around West Antarctica to get even stronger during El Niño events.

UConn researchers has found a way to drastically cut the lag time for these assessments using remote sensing data and machine learning, bringing disturbance assessment closer to near real-time (NRT) monitoring.

A new analysis reveals serious monitoring gaps at even the highest-threat volcanoes.

Some researchers have recently proposed the construction of artificial structures – submarine curtains or walls – to stop the warming ocean from getting to the most rapidly melting glaciers in West Antarctica.

A new study has found that El Niño events, which typically occur once every few years, might become even stronger due to melting Arctic sea ice.

Every year, the South Asian monsoon season brings heavy rain to over a billion people in the Indian subcontinent between June and September. The rain falls in oscillations: Some weeks see 1 to 4 inches of water, while other weeks are mostly dry.

With climate change leading to increases in the size and frequency of wildfires, UC Santa Cruz researchers warn that such disasters can change the chemistry of nearby streams that people and wildlife depend on for drinking water.

Influxes of meltwater into the North Atlantic eventually lead to warmer and drier conditions over Europe.

Conditions that usually accompany the kind of intense hot and cold weather that strains power grids may also provide greater opportunities to capture solar and wind energy.

A new study using NASA satellite data reveals how drought affects the recovery of western ecosystems from fire, a result that could provide meaningful information for conservation efforts.