New study on the impact of climate extremes on (future) water security. Extreme climate events endanger groundwater quality ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Extreme climate events, such as droughts and heavy rainfall, threaten groundwater quality and stability by bypassing natural soil purification processes. Long ...

Australia's average temperatures have increased by 1.51 degrees Celsius. The year 2019 was its warmest ever on record ...

"Detrimentally affect human health." Scientists puzzled by disturbing discovery while analyzing areas after heavy rainfall — ...

Extreme weather spurred by climate change, including droughts and heavy rains, may increase the risk of nitrates from fertilizers ending up in groundwater, according to a recent study from ...

From the persistent droughts of southern Africa and Central America in the early part of the year to the more recent devastating extreme rainfall in Spain and the deadly Hurricane Helene along ...

The final results of the study "indicate that minimal natural attenuation occurred in the source," meaning that increased rainfall has slowed the natural process that removes those contaminants from ...

Short-duration extreme rainfall events (such as high hourly total rainfalls ... This has implications for recharging surface water storages and groundwater, and water resource management. Heavy ...

Meteorologist Jason Chiappa and his team analyzed rainfall data from 2003 to 2023, focusing on "extreme events" in which 12-hour rainfall totals exceeded the 10-year average for an area. The study ...

Glass, steel and cement makers urge that the water crisis needs to be acknowledged as crucial as gas and electricity, and addressed duly ...