Japan’s deadly 2018 heatwave ‘could not have happened without climate change’

This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Daisy Dunne The record-breaking 2018 summer heatwave in Japan in which more than 1,000 people died “could not...

Earth’s Freshwater Future: Extremes of Flood and Drought

NASA satellites are a prominent tool for accounting for water, as it constantly cycles from water vapor to rain and snow falling onto soils,...

NASA Explores Our Changing Freshwater World

Water is so commonplace that we often take it for granted. But too much – or too little of it – makes headlines. Catastrophic flooding...

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