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1 March 2024

Climate change threatens thousands of archaeological sites in coastal Georgia

Thousands of historic and archaeological sites in Georgia are at risk from tropical storm surges, and that number will increase with climate change, according to a new study.

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21 March 2022

Wildfires devastate the land they burn, and they are also warming the planet

The 2021 wildfire season broke records globally, leaving land charred from California to Siberia. The risk of fire is growing, and a report published by the UN last month warned that wildfires are on track to increase 50% by 2050.

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10 March 2022

Nature-based solutions in mountains can reduce climate change impact on drought

New research has shown how catchment restoration - through the management of alien tree infestation in the mountains of the southwestern Cape - could have lessened the impact of climate change on low river flows during the Cape Town 'Day Zero' drought.

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5 November 2020

Identifying communities at risk for impacts of extreme heat

An analysis of ways to measure a community's vulnerability to climate change suggests that California's current method may leave some at-risk communities behind.

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9 October 2018

Lessons from the 1918 flu pandemic, 100 years on

The research analyses the risk drivers in the 1918 flu pandemic, and warns that while the world is better prepared than 100 years ago, changing population demographics, antibiotic resistance, and climate change will affect the impact of the next pandemic.

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15 February 2018

Earthquakes continue for years after gas field wastewater injection stops, study finds

Shutting down oil and gas wastewater injection wells may not stop human-induced earthquakes quickly, say seismologists. New research shows that high-volume injection, even for a short time, can induce long-lasting seismicity when it is near a critically stressed fault.

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27 April 2017

Global warming accounts for tripling of extreme West African Sahel storms

The UK-based Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) has led an international team of scientists who reveal global warming is responsible for a tripling in the frequency of extreme West African Sahel storms observed in just the last 35 years.

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26 April 2017

New model could help predict major earthquakes

A Nagoya University-led team reveals the mechanisms behind different earthquakes at a plate boundary on the west coast of South America, shedding light on historical seismic events and potentially aiding prediction of the future risk from these natural disasters.