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A team of scientists from the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP), Pusan National University in South Korea and the Alfred Wegener Institute, ...

An oceanographer explains how climate change, warming oceans and a souped-up atmosphere are creating conditions for deadly floods.

New fossil studies reveal that ancient predators like saber-toothed cats vanished rapidly after their primary prey species ...

According to Henley & Partners—a U.K.-based investment migration consultancy—at least 39 countries do not permit dual ...

Another round of showers and thunderstorms moved across the Mid-Atlantic Tuesday after intense rain set off dangerous flash flooding from Virginia to New York on Monday, leaving at least two dead and ...

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The new Nextdoor is available today on the Apple App Store, the Google Play Store and at nextdoor.com. Nextdoor neighbours ...

Singh and Goyal (2016) analyzed the spatial and temporal variability of precipitation lapse rate and of precipitation extreme indices of the Teesta River catchment, which corresponds to north Sikkim ...