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14-Apr-2025

UH researcher unveils new model to evaluate impact of extreme events and natural hazards

University of Houston
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A University of Houston professor of engineering has created a sophisticated computer model that tracks how water moves in estuaries – which is critical for evaluating climate variability and sea level fluctuation impacts for coastal communities.

Journal: Environmental Science and Pollution Research

14-Apr-2025

Scientists may have solved a puzzling space rock mystery

Curtin University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international team of researchers may have answered one of space science’s long-running questions – and it could change our understanding of how life began.

Carbon-rich asteroids are abundant in space yet make up less than 5 per cent of meteorites found on Earth.

An international team of scientists from Curtin University’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the International Centre for Radio Astronomy (ICRAR), the Paris Observatory and more scoured the globe to find an answer.

Journal: Nature Astronomy

14-Apr-2025

Do disasters delay early cancer diagnoses?

Wiley
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Rates of colorectal cancer diagnoses dropped during and shortly after Hurricanes Irma and Maria and the COVID-19 pandemic in Puerto Rico, according to a recent analysis published by Wiley online in CANCER. However, late-stage diagnoses eventually exceeded expectations, suggesting that limited access to cancer screening services due to these disasters likely hindered timely CRC diagnoses.

Journal: Cancer

11-Apr-2025

Hundred-year storm tides will occur every few decades in Bangladesh, scientists report

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For the highly populated coastal country of Bangladesh, once-in-a-century storm tides could strike every 10 years — or more often — by the end of the century, scientists report.

Journal: One Earth
Funder: MIT Climate Resilience Early Warning Systems Climate Grand Challenges project, Jameel Observatory JO-CREWSNet project, MIT Weather and Climate Extremes Climate Grand Challenges project, Schmidt Sciences, LLC

9-Apr-2025

The green past of the Saharo-Arabian Desert

Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Mineral deposits in limestone caves show that the now arid interior of Saudi Arabia repeatedly experienced increased rainfall over the last eight million years. An international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz supported by the Saudi Heritage Commission, Ministry of Culture, reconstructed the climate of the Saharo-Arabian Desert using isotope analysis of stalagmites. They conclude that the vast desert belt between Africa and Eurasia was not always an impermeable barrier for humans and animals.

Journal: Nature

8-Apr-2025

Kīlauea volcano’s ash prompted largest open ocean phytoplankton bloom

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study by an international team of researchers revealed that a rare and large summertime phytoplankton bloom in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre in the summer of 2018 was prompted by ash from Kīlauea falling on the ocean surface approximately 1,200 miles west of the volcano.

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
Funder: Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia, FIO‐ UM Joint Center on Marine Science and Technology, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) of Taiwan, Simons Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation

8-Apr-2025

AMS science preview: Fire weather, bumpy hurricane flights, climate extremes and protests

American Meteorological Society
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research published early online in American Meteorological Society journals discusses weather's changing impact on nighttime wildfires, venues most exposed to severe weather in the U.S., the bumpiest ever Hurricane Hunter flight, NWS heat warnings, correlations between climate extremes and social unrest in South Asia, and other key topics.