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Sam Mooy/Getty Images The most socio-economically disadvantaged communities in Australia were disproportionately affected by the devastating 2019 to 2020 bushfire season. Australians in the most disadvantaged 10 per cent of regions were exposed to significantly higher fire risk than those in better-off communities, according to a new analysis. Sonia Akter at the National University of Singapore and R. Quentin Grafton at the Australian National University have studied the link between disadvantage and exposure to environmental hazards. Using publicly available government wildfire data, they de...

Nick Dolding / Getty Images A climate model can now reliably predict the Asian summer monsoon – and tropical cyclone activity associated with it – more than one year ahead of time, which could enable government agencies to make preparations for damaging weather events. Yuhei Takaya at the Japan Meteorological Agency and his colleagues have developed a climate prediction system that takes into account both historical and up-to-date meteorological measurements to simulate atmospheric changes and temperatures on land and in the ocean. The key to its long-range forecasting is the ability to ...

Nick Dolding / Getty Images A climate model can now reliably predict the strength of the Asian summer monsoon – and tropical cyclone activity associated with it – more than one year ahead of time, which could enable government agencies to make preparations for damaging weather events. Yuhei Takaya at the Japan Meteorological Agency and his colleagues have developed a climate prediction system that takes into account both historical and up-to-date meteorological measurements to simulate atmospheric changes and temperatures on land and in the ocean. The key to its long-range forecasting is...

Ritchie B Tongo/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Earthquakes in Taiwan may be linked to seasonal variations in the water cycle, driven by the Asian monsoon. Taiwan has both a high frequency of damaging earthquakes and a wide variation in the amount of precipitation and water stored in the ground, as a result of the heavy rains and typhoons that buffet the island between May and September. Advertisement Ya-Ju Hsu at Academia Sinica in Taiwan and her colleagues analysed earthquake data in eastern and western Taiwan and found a correlation between seismic activity and fluctuations in the water cycle. Hsu ha...

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