Eversource to cut trees, limbs in Hebron
A utility company is now beginning tree work across the town of Hebron. Eversource will begin management of trees and limbs along state and town roadsides in response to dead or dying trees affected ...
News Medical4 天
Climate change is pushing up rates of kidney disease and urological cancers
Climate change is increasing the risk of urological diseases, including cancer and kidney conditions, while urological ...
Island17 天
New research reveals drought’s dual impact on flowering plants and pollinators
In a world grappling with the realities of climate change, understanding how plants adapt to environmental stressors is more critical than ever. A groundbreaking study led by Dr. Kaushalya Rathnayake ...
earth17 天
International plant trade is spreading invasive species and pests
The presence of these reptiles signals a larger problem. Ornamental plants and cut flowers transport a wide range of pests, including insects, fungi, and disease-carrying organisms. These shipments ...
CBC.ca17 天
Multi-year droughts are becoming hotter, lasting longer and causing more damage: study
20, 2024, during an unusually severe and widespread drought in the U.S. Northeast. (Ted Shaffrey/The Associated Press) The land affected by multi-year droughts is increasing by nearly 50,000 ...
The Independent17 天
Droughts across the West are getting worse - and scientists warn it’s not going to get ...
Droughts can have major consequences for all of Earth’s inhabitants, resulting in food insecurity, forcing migration and increasing illness and disease. Some 60 percent of all deaths caused by ...
natural18 天
‘Multi-year’ droughts have become more frequent, drier and hotter over past 40 years
It identifies droughts by looking at a “drought index” based on changes in rainfall and potential evapotranspiration, which measures the amount of water that escapes the soil and plants into the ...
Associated Press18 天
Surprise finding sheds light on what causes Huntington’s disease, a devastating fatal ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This microscope photo provided by the McLean Hospital’s Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center in January ...
New Scientist18 天
Severe droughts are getting bigger, hotter, drier and longer
Severe droughts that persist for years have grown hotter, drier and larger since the 1980s. These long-lasting droughts – some of which are extreme enough to be classified as “megadroughts ...
The Washington Post18 天
Multiyear droughts are worsening. Here’s where they have the most effects.
More than 13,000 droughts spanning years have overwhelmed our planet across nearly four decades. These severe droughts are becoming hotter, longer and more devastating as our planet’s global ...
University of California18 天
Floods, droughts, then fires: Hydroclimate whiplash is speeding up globally
The global consequences of hydroclimate whiplash include not only floods and droughts, but the heightened danger of whipsawing between the two, including the bloom-and-burn cycle of overwatered then ...