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Following close on the heels of the study of climate change in Europe, published by WMO on Monday, the State of the Climate in Asia 2023 report highlighted the accelerating rate of climate change across several indicators such as surface…

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. Drought in southern Africa NATIONAL DISASTERS: An ongoing extreme drought in southern Africa…

MANGWE, Zimbabwe —  Delicately and with intense concentration, Zanyiwe Ncube poured her small share of precious golden cooking oil into a plastic bottle at a food aid distribution site deep in rural Zimbabwe. "I don't want to lose a…

Sustainability, Vol. 16, Pages 2831: Exploring Extreme Voltage Events in Hydrogen Arcs within Electric Arc Furnaces Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su16072831 Authors: Mohamad Al Nasser Nashmi Alrasheedi Ebrahim Karimi-Sibaki…

Figure 1. Locations of streamflow gauges and the Guxian reservoir over the Luo River basin in the middle reach of the Yellow River. The upper panel (a) shows the location of the Yellow River in China, panel (b) shows the location of…

4.1. Early Warning Potential through Automatic Monitoring NetworksThe significant impacts caused by extreme flood events such as Daniel, especially in areas that are highly vulnerable due to natural and socioeconomic conditions,…

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), in collaboration with the Chemical Insights Research Institute (CIRI) of UL Research Institutes, unveiled new research today on the effects of extreme…

March 27, 2024 “The situation in Haiti demands urgent, creative solutions to ensure that, at a minimum, relatives of U.S. persons can be quickly processed and reunited with their families in the United…

New research shows that climate change is already fueling heatflation, with worse to come.Sometimes climate change appears where you least expect it — like the grocery store. Food prices have climbed 25 percent over the past four years,…

Effects of extreme heat on ozone control. Credit: Wenhao Qiao Elevated surface ozone concentrations in China are posing a significant threat…

New York, New York, April 27, 2023 – In the midst of a growing national focus on Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), the Ad Council Research Institute (ACRI) and The Joyce Foundation today announce key findings of a mixed-methods…

Halle / Germany in June 2013. According to the findings of the UFZ scientists, the Saale is one of the rivers with a high flood complexity. Credit: André Künzelmann /…

Comparison of return periods at 516 river gauges in Germany between the winter flood of 1993 (left) and a counterfactual, i.e., hypothetical but not unrealistic,…

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands – March 27, 2024 – The Next Web The Next Web (TNW) Conference, one of Europe’s leading tech festivals and subsidiary of the Financial Times, and Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC), the world’s largest startup…

New York, NY (August 10, 2023) – As more states in the US begin to adopt their own Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), a new study from the Ad Council Research Institute (ACRI) and The Joyce Foundation uncovers the public’s awareness…

Description of the method that learns a map between the attractor of the coarsely-resolved equations and the attractor of the reference trajectory. Left: the red…

To assess a community’s risk of extreme weather, policymakers rely first on global climate models that can be run decades, and even centuries, forward in time, but only at a coarse resolution. These models might…

In the U.S., wildland firefighters are able to stop about 98% of all wildfires before the fires have burned even 100 acres. That may seem comforting, but decades of quickly suppressing fires has had unintended consequences. Fires…

In February, California faced a “monster storm.” This storm was the second atmospheric river storm to hit the state within a week, leaving nine confirmed dead in its wake. While this storm was record breaking, California saw similar…

This week in our Startup Spotlight blog series is our 2023 Winner,  Better Environment Category,  UN World Food Forum Startup Innovation Awards by XTC – Organicin Scientific!   Interviewed and Edited by John Martin Six Questions for…

We’re putting the final touches on our first big event of 2024: the Extreme Tech Challenge Networking Reception and Deep Tech Climate Startup Challenge at CES®, the world’s largest tech expo and global stage of innovation. 🚀   Event…

We’re putting the final touches on our first big event of 2024: the Extreme Tech Challenge Networking Reception and Deep Tech Climate Startup Challenge at CES®, the world’s largest tech expo and global stage of innovation. 🚀   Event…

This week in our Startup Spotlight blog series is our 2023 Winner, Better Production Category, UN World Food Forum Startup Innovation Awards by XTC – Zebra CropBank!   Interviewed and Edited by John Martin Six Questions for Buffy…

This week in our Startup Spotlight blog series is our 2023 Winner, Better Production Category, UN World Food Forum Startup Innovation Awards by XTC – Zebra CropBank!   Interviewed and Edited by John Martin Six Questions for Buffy…

This week in our Startup Spotlight blog series is our 2023 Winner, Better Production Category, UN World Food Forum Startup Innovation Awards by XTC – Zebra CropBank!   Interviewed and Edited by John Martin Six Questions for Buffy…

This week in our Startup Spotlight blog series is our 2023 Winner, Better Life Category, UN World Food Forum Startup Innovation Awards by XTC –Stellapps!   Interviewed and Edited by John Martin Six Questions for Ranjith Mukundan – CEO…

This week in our Startup Spotlight blog series is our 2023 World Food Forum Startup Innovation Award Winner –Sustainable Planet!   Interviewed and Edited by John Martin Six Questions for Susan Payne Co-Founder and Chief Operating…

This week in our Startup Spotlight blog series is our 2023 World Food Forum Startup Innovation Award Winner –Sustainable Planet!   Interviewed and Edited by John Martin Six Questions for Susan Payne Co-Founder and Chief Operating…

From dangerous heat to relentless wildfires, extreme weather is everywhere. July 5th was the hottest day ever recorded. July 6th was hotter. These extreme weather events can motivate action on climate change–if we talk about them in the…

This week in our Startup Spotlight blog series is our 2024 Deep Tech Climate Innovations Startup Challenge Winner – EarthEn! Interviewed and Edited by John Martin Six Questions for Karthi Chakaravarty, Co-founder and COO of EarthEn…

This week in our Startup Spotlight blog series is our 2024 Deep Tech Climate Innovations Startup Challenge Winner – EarthEn! Interviewed and Edited by John Martin Six Questions for Karthi Chakaravarty, Co-founder and COO of EarthEn…

  CES® 2024, the apex of tech innovation and entrepreneurship, concluded recently, provided a unique opportunity for networking, showcasing finalists from the Deep Tech Climate Innovations Startup Challenge, presented by Cadence Giving…

Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) is thrilled to announce it will be an event partner for the upcoming NVIDIA GTC AI Conference, scheduled to take place in San Jose March 18-21, aiming to drive innovation and transformative solutions in the…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNLLD4SRiNU The Government of the Republic of Korea, in collaboration with Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), announces a new and impactful initiative: The…

Stormy beginnings On the morning of August 20, 1991, residents across Mattapoisett, MA, stood in flooded streets, gazing at the empty lots where their homes had been. Hurricane Bob had just torn through the area—leaving devastation in…

The authors would like to make the following corrections about the published paper . The changes are as follows:(1)Additional Affiliation:In the published publication , there was an error regarding the affiliation for Michael C. S.…

1. IntroductionThe electricity grid is currently experiencing several major issues, ranging from aging infrastructure to expanding cybersecurity and physical security concerns. As infrastructure ages, new threats emerge, including…

by David MacLeod, Erik W. Kolstad, Katerina Michaelides and Michael Singer, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0…

NEBAR HADNET, Ethiopia —  The cruel realities of war and drought seem to have merged for Tinseu Hiluf, a widow living in the arid depths of Ethiopia's Tigray region who is raising four children left behind by her sister's recent death…

1 IntroductionTranscriptomics gives us insights into genes and traits of adaptive significance (Voelckel et al., 2017). Zhou et al. (2019) used publicly available transcriptomics data, and using bioinformatics tools, they constructed a…

For years, Pam Nixon lived in a part of West Virginia known as “Chemical Valley” — an area surrounding the state’s capital, Charleston, that has historically been home to one of the largest concentrations of chemical plants in the…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of severe weather events, which may particularly…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The same weather system that led to the spread of the devastating Labor Day wildfires in 2020 brought…

A range of videos are available on YouTubeLightField Studios Inc. / Alamy YouTube’s recommendation algorithm no longer inadvertently sends people down a rabbit hole of extreme political content, researchers have…

The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP) and the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program (SCIPP), NOAA CAP/RISA teams, worked together to publish a new article titled, “Building resilience to extreme weather and…

Summarizing the state of the climate, the month ended with extreme heat in the southern hemisphere where it’s summer, while high temperatures atypical of the northern hemisphere winter prevailed.Parts of North and South America,…

During cold weather, electric car batteries take longer to chargeJochen Tack/Alamy A boost in battery chemistry could enable electric vehicles to run longer and charge faster, even in extremely cold temperatures.…

Understanding cloud patterns in our changing climate is essential to making accurate predictions about their impact on society and nature.Scientists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) and the Max Planck Institute…

1. IntroductionA subset of Active galactic nuclei (AGN) known as blazars have relativistic jets that point to our direction of sight . They are divided into the Flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ) and BL Lac objects sub-classes . These…

This section includes the storage calculation, determining the discharge equations based on the reservoir characteristics of two dams, and lastly, the reservoirs’ routing using the Modified Puls technique. Characteristics of extreme…