A forward-looking approach to climate disaster preparation
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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 6-Jun-2025 00:09 ET (6-Jun-2025 04:09 GMT/UTC)
Vulnerable communities in the Southeastern United States must look to the future, not the past, to prepare for climate disasters, according to researchers at Tufts University. In a recent paper published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, the researchers document substantially higher risk of extreme temperatures and flooding in the Southeast U.S.
An MIT study finds microparticles are less likely to accumulate in sediment infused with biofilms, such as sandy riverbeds or seashores. The work may guide people studying impacts of microplastics or determining priority zones for monitoring and protection.
During hurricanes, it’s not wind but water that poses the greatest risk – causing 86% of storm-related deaths in the past decade, mostly from inland flooding. FAU’s I-SENSE is revolutionizing storm forecasting through its leadership of the Southeast Atlantic Econet, a cutting-edge network of more 190 weather and flood monitoring stations. Spanning from Key West to South Carolina, it delivers real-time data that powers lifesaving forecasts from the National Weather Service.
In a paper published in National Science Review, a Chinese team of scientists highlights the discovery of well-preserved blue-stain fungal hyphae within a Jurassic fossil wood from northeastern China, which pushes back the earliest known fossil record of this fungal group by approximately 80 million years. The new finding provides crucial fossil evidence for studying the origin and early evolution of blue-stain fungi and offers fresh insights into understanding the ecological relationships between the blue-stain fungi, plants, and insects during the Jurassic period.
Field and pot fertilization experiments on foxtail millet and common millet further suggest that the millet grain δ15N values can serve as reliable indicators of manuring practices, and the relationship between manuring levels and the δ15N values of archaeological millet remains was proposed. The δ15N values of ancient millet grains suggest widespread and intensive manuring practices in prehistoric North China.
A spectacular breakthrough in geoscience shows that our planet is in motion even at a depth of 3000 kilometres.