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Artificial intelligence could help humans predict future disasters and pandemics, study reveals

Artificial intelligence future disasters pandemics

2022-12-31

Abstract PROVIDENCE, R.I. —For scientists, predicting the timing and magnitude of natural disasters is a fundamental goal. Howev...
Overgrazing is threatening global drylands, study finds

Overgrazing global drylands

2022-12-01

Abstract The positive effects of grazing by livestock and wild herbivores can turn negative as temperatures become warmer. Grazin...
Natural disasters affected 50m in Asia last year: report

Asia Natural disasters Climate

2022-12-01

Abstract Economic losses from drought, floods and landslides have rocketed in Asia, and last year alone, weather and water-relate...
Pan-African Approach Needed to Tackle Food Insecurity Arising from Conflict and Climate Shocks

Pan-African Approach Climate Shocks food production hunger hotspots

2022-11-30

Abstract Upheaval on the global stage, the war in Ukraine, conflict in the Horn of Africa, severe climatic shocks, high internati...
Forest fire threatens global carbon sinks and population centres under rising atmospheric water demand

Fire carbon sinks

2022-11-30

Abstract Levels of fire activity and severity that are unprecedented in the instrumental record have recently been observed in fo...
Flooding Significantly Impacts Food Security, New Study Finds

Flooding Food Security Significantly

2022-10-31

Abstract Analysis of African Nations Shows Multiple Effects of Floods on Food Needs. New research finds that flooding can affect ...
China must guard food security amid climate change

agriculture climate change China

2022-09-28

Abstract This summer has been the hottest in China since 1961. Intensification of subtropical highs and heat waves in the middle...
Mitigating the Hurricane’s Fury with Satellite Imagery and AI

Hurricane remote sensing AI

2022-09-28

Abstract Hurricanes have been one of the most ruthless natural intruders to wreak mass havoc. To a layman it’s a deadly storm fo...
New Landslide Reporting Tool Uses Social Media and AI

Artificial intelligence Landslide landslide reporting tool

2022-09-28

Abstract Landslide incidences have been increasing worldwide: Between 2004 and 2016, around 56,000 people were killed in nearly ...
Wildfire Smoke May Have Amplified Arctic Phytoplankton Bloom

wildfires research guidance

2022-09-28

Abstract Smoke from a Siberian wildfire may have transported enough nitrogen to parts of the Arctic Ocean to amplify a phytoplan...

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