Floods

After a year of record-breaking wildfires across Canada and the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth, it likely comes as no surprise that 2023 was the hottest year on record.According to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), 2023 was 1.48 C warmer than the pre-industrial average from 1850-1900, beating out 2016's record of 1.25 C. Do you have a question about climate change and what is being done about it? Send an email to [email protected] As we continue to burn fossil fuels and pump greenhouse…

Flooding in Fenton, Missouri, in 2008. Credit: Jocelyn Augustino, FEMA By breaking down flooding analysis into its main physical mechanisms, researchers at Princeton have projected that climate change will markedly impact river basin flooding across the United States during the 21st century. In an article titled "Higher emissions scenarios lead to…

A few years ago, a couple of Google employees reached out to a Minnesota scientist with an unusual proposal: What if they could teach computers to spot beaver habitats from space? "They wanted to know if I thought it was possible to find beaver wetlands from aerial imagery myself, and then if that could be scaled up with machine learning," Emily Fairfax, a University of Minnesota beaver researcher and assistant professor of geography, told As It Happens guest host Megan Williams.Fairfax knew that beavers' sprawling dams…

Four years after sex offender Jeffrey Epstein‘s suicide in jail, far-right conspiracy theorists remain enamored with the notion that he remains the key to proving that prominent Democrats comprise a secret pedophile cabal. And, with court documents related to a civil case against his human trafficking co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell starting to be unsealed Wednesday, many believe their political enemies are about to feel the sting of justice. The material comes from a settled 2015 defamation suit brought against…

On a warm, blustery December afternoon outside the De Laurentis olive oil-producing co-op in the white hilltop town of Ostuni, Puglia, Luigi D'Amico holds out his palm, revealing an olive picked earlier in the day.Instead of resembling the plump, gleaming green and black fruit overflowing in bins around him, this one is half-consumed, dry and shrunken."That's what the olive fly does," he explained. "It lays its larvae, which then devours the olive."D'Amico lists off other pests and fungi — olive leprosy, peacock's eye…

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) is testing artificial intelligence (AI) to build climate models to improve weather forecasting as torrential rains, floods and droughts proliferate across the vast country, a top weather official said.Global warming has triggered more intense clashes of weather systems in India in recent years, increasing extreme weather events, which the independent Centre for Science and Environment estimates have killed nearly 3,000 people this year.Weather agencies around the world are…

The Indian government is testing artificial intelligence (AI) to build climate models to improve weather forecasting as torrential rains, floods and droughts proliferate across the vast country, a top weather official said.Global warming has triggered more intense clashes of weather systems in India in recent years, increasing extreme weather events, which the independent Centre for Science and Environment estimates have killed nearly 3,000 people this year.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

There was the Bollywood star in skin-tight lycra, the Bangladeshi politician filmed in a bikini and the young Pakistani woman snapped with a man.None was real, but all three images were credible enough to unleash lust, vitriol - and even allegedly a murder, underlining the sophistication of generative artificial intelligence, and the threats it poses to women across Asia.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteNorthwestern UniversityKellogg Post Graduate Certificate in Product…

The unusual December cyclone Michaung has instigated intense rains in many eastern coastal regions. One of the hardest-hit cities is Chennai in Tamil Nadu, and the continuous rains have caused massive floods in the city. Recently, as a result of these floods, the entire ecosystem of the city has been flipped over, and a massive crocodile was seen crossing a road. This crocodile was seen moving across a single-lane road near Vellore Institute of Technology, and a video of this has been shared online. People were…

The Bay of Bengal has once again been struck by a devastating cyclone this year, named “Michaung,” which has begun wreaking havoc in Chennai, Puducherry, and the NTR district in Andhra Pradesh. A video capturing the aftermath of Cyclone Michaung has surfaced on the internet, showing cars being swept away by floodwaters resulting from the cyclone. Apartment in Pallikaranai, Chennai Effect of #CycloneMichuang 😕😕 Stay safe chennai!!#ChennaiRain pic.twitter.com/txiJtrq1BQ — vittoba.balaji (@balavittoba) December 4, 2023…