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'Rock of Starvation' reappears in Budapest during historic drought

Popular Science

Seeing this hunger stone in the Danube River is not a good sign. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The omen has reappeared at least six times since 2003. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy .


Hoover Dam's horror threat to 40 million Americans: As 'tipping point' is reached... expert warns residents in THREE states to brace

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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Your yellow lawn is NOT dead! Plant expert reveals why Britons should stop worrying about their parched grass

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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What Happens When the World is on Fire

TIME - Tech

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Most New US Data Centers Are Slated for Drought-Plagued Areas

Mother Jones

To meet this moment, we need YOU. For five decades, has been exposing the corruption that the powerful would rather keep buried. That fight for the truth is at a pivotal point, and it takes readers like you to make it possible. To meet this moment, we need YOU. That fight for the truth is at a pivotal point, and it takes readers like you to make it possible. Amid public outcry over water-guzzling server farms, a Guardian analysis indicates trouble ahead.



Record Low Snow in the West Will Mean Less Water, More Fire, and Political Chaos

WIRED

Snowpack levels across a wide swath of western US states are among the lowest seen in decades, even as regulators struggle to negotiate water rights in the region. States across the western US are facing record low snowpack levels in the middle of the winter season. The snowpack crisis, which could mean a drier, more wildfire -prone summer, is coming as states are racing unsuccessfully against a deadline to agree on terms to share water in the Colorado River Basin, the source of water for 40 million people across seven states in the West. "Barring a genuinely miraculous turnaround" in the remainder of the winter, says Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, the low snowpack "has the potential to worsen both the ecological and political crisis on the Colorado Basin, and then also produce really adverse wildfire conditions in some parts of the West." Data provided by the US Department of Agriculture show that as of February 12, snowpack was at less than half its normal level in areas across nine Western states--some of the lowest levels seen in decades.


Why bison hunters abandoned a kill site 1,200 years ago

Popular Science

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Bison are an enduring and iconic symbol of North America's vast Great Plains. The large mammals have been hunted for thousands of years, and were almost driven into extinction in the late 1800s. Over thousands of years, bison hunters used different sites, but why they abandoned hunting grounds has been an archaeological mystery. For the Bergstrom site in present-day Montana, climate change may have been to blame.



Enhanced Drought Analysis in Bangladesh: A Machine Learning Approach for Severity Classification Using Satellite Data

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Drought poses a pervasive environmental challenge in Bangladesh, impacting agriculture, socio-economic stability, and food security due to its unique geographic and anthropogenic vulnerabilities. Traditional drought indices, such as the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), often overlook crucial factors like soil moisture and temperature, limiting their resolution. Moreover, current machine learning models applied to drought prediction have been underexplored in the context of Bangladesh, lacking a comprehensive integration of satellite data across multiple districts. To address these gaps, we propose a satellite data-driven machine learning framework to classify drought across 38 districts of Bangladesh. Using unsupervised algorithms like K-means and Bayesian Gaussian Mixture for clustering, followed by classification models such as KNN, Random Forest, Decision Tree, and Naive Bayes, the framework integrates weather data (humidity, soil moisture, temperature) from 2012-2024. This approach successfully classifies drought severity into different levels. However, it shows significant variabilities in drought vulnerabilities across regions which highlights the aptitude of machine learning models in terms of identifying and predicting drought conditions.