Myanmar refugees, many aging and needing oxygen, are being turned away from hospitals that closed when the U.S. pulled funding this week. A South African organization that provides HIV testing has ...

The Sims turns 25 in just a few days, and EA is out to make sure I feel old as hell about it. As part of its ongoing celebrations, which started earlier this month with a rather lackluster Behind ...

Jan. 10, 2025 “We’re in a whiplash event now, wet to dry, in Southern California,” said Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist who led the research. “The evidence shows that hydroclimate ...

Floods, droughts, then fires: Hydroclimate whiplash is speeding up globally New research links intensifying wet and dry swings to the atmosphere's sponge-like ability to drop and absorb water Date ...

The state's naturally variable climate increases its wildfire risk. Hydroclimate whiplash -- the rapid shift between wet and dry conditions -- likely contributed to the severity of the wildfires ...

This quick cycling between very wet and very dry periods — one example of what scientists have come to call “weather whiplash” — creates prime conditions for wildfires: The rain encourages ...

Scientists suggest the two extremes could be related through a phenomenon known as “hydroclimate whiplash”, defined by volatile swings between very wet and very dry conditions – with climate ...

A study published Thursday has put the blame for the wildfires ravaging parts of Los Angeles on an emerging climate phenomenon: hydroclimate whiplash. This latest disaster comes on the heels of ...

And the heating planet causes a phenomenon that San Jose State Climate Scientist Eugene Cordero says is known as "hydroclimate whiplash." "Where you go from dry, to wet, back to dry," Cordero said.

Californians are all too familiar with flip-flopping weather extremes. New research cements the idea that California’s weather whiplash is increasing as the atmosphere warms due to human-caused ...

Scientists suggest the two extremes could be related through a phenomenon known as “hydroclimate whiplash”, defined by volatile swings between very wet and very dry conditions — with climate ...