The collapse of the Swiss Birch glacier serves as a chilling warning of the escalating dangers faced by communities worldwide living under the shadow of fragile ice, particularly in Asia, experts say.
Footage of the May 28 collapse showed a…
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South Africa Is Rising Up Out of The Ocean, Scientists Reveal : ScienceAlert
As climate change intensifies, South Africa is not only becoming hotter and drier; it’s also rising by up to 2 millimeters per year, according to a new study.
Scientists knew this uplift was happening, but the prevailing explanation…
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Study of temporal behaviour of meteorological drought using innovative polygon trend and scaling hypothesis methods in Kolasib district, Mizoram, India
Study area and data acquisition
Northeast India (NEI), with its abundant biodiversity and monsoon-dominated climate, has two main river basin systems—The Brahmaputra and Barak Rivers—and approximately 60% of its land are covered in forests….
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Heatmap clustering and performance analysis of cotton genotypes in response to environmental conditions
Cotton growth attributes
Cotton plant height, true leaf number, and boll number per plant were significantly affected by genotype and year (p < 0.05). In addition, the genotype × year interaction was highly significant for plant height,…
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Polylepis wood acclimation strategies to ENSO events
Pérez-Escobar, O. A. et al. The Andes through time: Evolution and distribution of Andean floras. Trends Plant Sci. 27, 364–378 (2022).
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Willow silvopastoral systems as a strategy to reduce methane emissions while maintaining cattle performance
Nerlich, K., Graeff-Hönninger, S. & Claupein, W. Agroforestry in Europe: a review of the disappearance of traditional systems and development of modern agroforestry practices, with emphasis on experiences in Germany. Springer, (2013).
Tallowin,…
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Implications of Yedoma bank outcrop on the Arctic river sediment transport
Study area
The study region is located in the lower Kolyma watershed (Fig. 1). Kolyma is one of the largest pan-Arctic watersheds, with a total area of 653,000 km2 and total river length of 2129 km. Here annual water discharge is 109 ± 7…
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Investigating the first case of permafrost degraded subsidence in Lahaul & Spiti region of Tethyan Himalayas
Biskaborn, B. K. et al. Permafrost is warming at a global scale. Nat. Commun. 10(1), 264. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08240-4 (2019).
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An Extreme Drop in Oxygen Will Eventually Suffocate Most Life on Earth : ScienceAlert
For now, complex life flourishes on our planet thanks to its supply of oxygen. But Earth’s atmosphere wasn’t always like it is today, and scientists predict that in the future, it will revert back to one that’s rich in methane and low in…
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Spatiotemporal evolution characteristics and deformation mechanism of Suijiang landslide in Xiangjiaba reservoir, China
Temporal evolution characteristics of landslide deformation
Cracking is a sign of deformation during the formation and evolution of a landslide. By understanding the spatial distribution and mechanical properties of cracks, the evolution process…
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