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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
Multiple large and destructive tsunamis in the past few decades in the Indian Ocean (2004), Chile (2010), and Japan (2011) have underscored the threat that tsunamis pose to coastal regions, ushering in a new era of research aimed at better predicting areas threatened by the fast-developing natural disasters.
Human-caused climate change — including increased extreme weather and climate events — is here, according to the recently released United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2021 report, but the best way to communicate the concern is still debated.
Future storms could have even larger impacts "if we're not wise now," Texas A&M professor Andrew Dessler says.
Around the world, agricultural practices have developed as a function of topography, soil type, crop type, annual rainfall, and tradition.
International and Saudi researchers have discovered archaeological sites in the Nefud Desert of Saudi Arabia associated with the remains of ancient lakes formed when periods of increased rainfall transformed the region into grassland.
Hundreds of species have yet to be described in the ecosystems that support Alaska’s valuable commercial fisheries.
