Earlier flood forecasting could help avoid disaster in Japan
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - In Japan, thousands of homes and businesses and ...
Tag: Geography
Most rivers run dry — now and then
Over half of the world's rivers cease to flow for at least one day a year on averageCredit: McGill University ...
Research suggests ways to tackle water security challenges in world’s drylands
Credit: Lindsay Stringer The research - published ahead of World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought on 17 June 2021 ...
Using machine learning and radar to better understand storm surge risk
Credit: University of Texas at Austin. The types of land around us play an important role in how major storms ...
Machine learning model doubles accuracy of global landslide ‘nowcasts’
Credit: Credits: NASA Every year, landslides - the movement of rock, soil, and debris down a slope - cause thousands ...
SNAPSHOT USA: First-ever nationwide mammal survey published
Credit: Jesse Alston, University of Wyoming - How are the squirrels doing this year? The bears? The armadillos? How would ...
Ten-fold increase in carbon offset cost predicted
Credit: Trove Research The cost of offsetting corporate carbon emissions needs to increase ten-fold to drive meaningful climate action, says ...
Researchers explore ways to detect ‘deep fakes’ in geography
Credit: Chengbin Deng Can you trust the map on your smartphone, or the satellite image on your computer screen? So ...
What causes the deep Earth’s most mysterious earthquakes?
The cause of Earth's deepest earthquakes has been a mystery to science for more than a century, but a team ...
Evacuating under dire wildfire scenarios
Credit: The White House via Wikicommons In 2018, the Camp Fire ripped through the town of Paradise, California at an ...
Envisioning safer cities with AI
Researchers use crowdsourced data, neural networks, and supercomputers to simulate risks to cities and regionsCredit: Chaofeng Wang, SimCenter, UC Berkeley ...
Saving the eastern monarch butterfly: SFU research
Researchers analyzed current conservation strategies and recommended changes to how and where declining milkweed (an essential food source for butterfly ...
Grazing management of salt marshes contributes to coastal defense
Credit: University of Groningen Combining natural salt marsh habitats with conventional dikes may provide a more sustainable and cost-effective alternative ...
Peatlands pose complex, poorly understood risk for similar fires, researchers warn
Findings come five years after disastrous fire in Fort McMurray, AlbertaCredit: Sophie Wilkinson, McMaster University HAMILTON, ON May 18, 2021 ...
Species losses on isolated Panamanian island show importance of habitat connectivity
Credit: OSU photo by Randall Moore CORVALLIS, Ore. - Free from human disturbance for a century, an inland island in ...
Ticking upward: MU researcher studies rise of tick-borne diseases in Midwest
Credit: University of Missouri COLUMBIA, Mo. - When Ram Raghavan heard from a former colleague at the Centers for Disease ...
Prehistoric horses, bison shared diet
Tooth wear offers clues to how diversity of Ice Age mammals co-existed in AlaskaCredit: Andrew Higley/UC Creative University of Cincinnati ...
NTU study of ancient corals in Indonesia reveals slowest earthquake ever recorded
Study highlights missing factors or mismodelling in global risk assessmentsCredit: NTU Singapore A 'slow-motion' earthquake lasting 32 years - the ...
Hidden within African diamonds, a billion-plus years of deep-earth history
Scientists find a new way to tell ages of the stones, and what made themCredit: Yaakov Weiss Diamonds are sometimes ...
Clue to killer whale cluster
Why do more than 100 gather off WA every year?Credit: photo courtesy Naturaliste Charters, WA A Flinders University researcher has ...