The effects of El Niño are being felt globally, ranging from floods in Argentina to deadly fires in Peru and drought in French Guiana, and prompting a U. N. call for speedy action to face an unprecedented "wrecking ball" this year.
Technologies developed to remove space junk and fix broken satellites can be repurposed to build fleets of bodyguard spacecraft to protect important assets from attacks.
Indian authorities ordered nearly 100,000 people to evacuate homes in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha ahead of a severe cyclone the national weather office expects to make landfall by Wednesday.
Sudarsono shuddered as he inhaled from an oxygen tank while being evacuated from his small house in Palangkaraya on Indonesian Borneo, yellow, acrid wildfire smoke billowing all around.
A prominent researcher claims to have a revolutionary approach to “interpretability,” or the science of why A. I. models do what they do.
A new collaborative research project between Anangu, the traditional owners of Uluru, and plant scientists has uncovered the physiological traits that helped some species of desert plants survive a mass dieback event in Australia. These results reveal the key strategies for desert plant survival...