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Rise in severity of hottest days outpaces global average temperature increase
UCI study also finds megacities affected most by uptick in extreme-heat events
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Scientists unveil new satellite-based global drought severity index
Enhanced monitoring tool adds groundwater storage to assessment factors
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Increasing factory and auto emissions disrupt natural cycle in East China Sea
China’s rapid ascent to global economic superpower is taking a toll on some of its ancient ways. For millennia, people have patterned their lives and diets around the vast fisheries of the East China Sea, but now those waters are increasingly threatened by human-caused, harmful algal blooms that choke off vital fish populations, according to…
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UCI and NASA document accelerated glacier melting in West Antarctica
Two new studies by researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA have found the fastest ongoing rates of glacier retreat ever observed in West Antarctica and offer an unprecedented look at ice melting on the floating undersides of glaciers. The results highlight how the interaction between ocean conditions and the bedrock beneath a…