Texas Hill Country is known for its landscapes, where shallow rivers wind among hills and through rugged valleys. That geography also makes it one of the deadliest places in the U.S. for flash flooding.
In the early hours of July 4, 2025, a…
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Why Texas Hill Country, where a devastating flood killed dozens, is one of the deadliest places in the US for flash flooding
Texas Hill Country is known for its landscapes, with shallow rivers winding among hills and through rugged valleys. But that geography also makes it one of the deadliest places in the U.S. for flash flooding.
In the early hours of July 4,…
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Why Texas Hill Country, where a devastating flood killed more than 120 people, is one of the deadliest places in the US for flash flooding
Texas Hill Country is known for its landscapes, where shallow rivers wind among hills and through rugged valleys. That geography also makes it one of the deadliest places in the U.S. for flash flooding.
In the early hours of July 4, 2025, a…
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A complex network perspective on spatiotemporal evolution of extreme precipitation over the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze river
Analysis of the EPVGN topological structure characteristics
Using the VG algorithm, we transformed the extreme precipitation time series from 159 cities located in the MLYR, covering the period from 1970 to 2023, into discrete networks of the…
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Mongabay India podcast ‘Wild Frequencies’ wins audio reporting award
Mongabay India won an excellence in audio reporting award recently from the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA). The award was for the limited series podcast Wild Frequencies.
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In Latin America, energy transition stirs a rise in human rights lawsuits
- A new report from the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) finds that more than half of the 95 energy transition-related lawsuits recorded globally since 2009 took place in Latin America and the…
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Meat giant profits from carbon market without halting deforestation
- Through its 2021-founded subsidiary MyCarbon, Brazil’s meat processing giant Minerva Foods is emitting and selling carbon credits to big oil companies that are in a rush to move away from a polluting stigma.
- Some…
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The forest guardians along Nepal-India border leading red panda conservation
- In eastern Nepal’s Taplejung district, Forest Guardians like Surya Bhattarai are on the frontlines of red panda conservation — monitoring habitat, deterring poaching and gathering scientific data to help…
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Seismic noise from oil companies threatens Amazon River Mouth marine life
- As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.
- Petrobras has been conducting surveys since 2013 using seismic airgun blasts that can…
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Traditional hunting shifts with access to cheap guns in India’s Nagaland: Study
Among Indigenous Naga tribes in India’s northeastern state of Nagaland, hunting traditions are transforming as cheap homemade guns make targeting commercially valuable large…
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