The 2018 to 2020 European drought was the worst in more than two centuries, driven in part by uncommonly high temperatures that exacerbated dry conditions across large parts of the continent, new research finds.
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New Mexico Wildfire Spawns Fire Cloud
A massive, early season wildfire that continues to burn in northern New Mexico generated a pyrocumulonimbus cloud.
New Drought Benchmark in Europe
These were days, months and years that many will come to remember: the drought from 2018 to 2020. An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) has succeeded in categorizing the historical dimensions of this event.
NASA’s ECOSTRESS Detects ‘Heat Islands’ in Extreme Indian Heat Wave
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