All Strange Things About India and world
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 11 June 2025 The mapping of lake surfaces globally has been constrained by the limitations of single-source satellite data. A spatio-temporal fusion approach now enables high-resolution mapping of…
Study approach and methods summary Our aim was to analyse global-scale patterns of the age and source of river carbon emissions. Radiocarbon studies of river DIC, CO2 and CH4 have…
Drought index The SPEI31 is a widely utilized drought assessment tool that incorporates both AED and precipitation to evaluate drought severity across different timescales. SPEI values are computed by subtracting…
Dudgeon, D. et al. Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation challenges. Biol. Rev. 81, 163–182 (2006). Article PubMed Google Scholar Holgerson, M. A. & Raymond, P. A. Large contribution…
IPCC Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis (eds Masson-Delmotte, V. et al.) (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023). Fowler, H. J. et al. Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes. Nat. Rev.…
China’s Yangtze River is the longest in Eurasia and the third-longest on the planet, flowing more than 6,000 kilometres from the Tibetan Plateau to the East China Sea. Its basin…
Smith, C., Baker, J. C. A. & Spracklen, D. V. Tropical deforestation causes large reductions in observed precipitation. Nature 615, 270–275 (2023). Article ADS CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar…
A hurricane’s category only tells you about its wind speed, but much of its devastation comes from flooding. With Hurricane Hilary approaching the West Coast, some areas could see as…
Photo: 2M media (Shutterstock) Floods are the most expensive natural disaster in the United States, costing over $1 trillion since 1980 (when you take inflation into account), according to Flood…
Photo: Piyawat Nandeenopparit (Shutterstock) The day before Superstorm Sandy slammed into my neck of the woods a decade ago, my wife asked if we should move our car off the…