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Thousands of locusts descend on an agricultural field
Posted inNews

Record Locust Swarms Hint at What’s to Come with Climate Change

by R. S. Khan 14 July 20202 March 2023

Warming oceans that feed cyclones have also bred record-breaking swarms of desert locusts. Such plagues could grow bigger and more widespread with climate change.

Chart showing the northward propagation of the moisture transport supplied by the East Asian summer monsoon between 1961 and 2017
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Meiyu: The Dragon Dictating Rainfall Variability in East Asia

by Z. Li 13 July 202013 March 2023

According to Chinese myth, rain is water poured out of a dragon; in reality is the Meiyu that dictates rainfall in eastern Asia, producing rain belts jumping from south in spring to north in summer.

A dark, cloudy sky above rolling green hills near Jawhar in western India
Posted inScience Updates

Evolution of the Asian Monsoon

by P. D. Clift, A. Holbourn, C. France-Lanord and H. Zheng 25 June 202026 January 2023

Climate and topography change the characteristics of the Asian monsoon over millions of years. These changes affect the region’s climate and topography, and the cycle continues.

Charts showing relationship between catchment-averaged erosion rate and landscape steepness index
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Meteoric 10Be Reveals Lithological Control on Erosion Rates

by Mikaël Attal 1 June 202026 January 2023

New meteoric 10Be data quantify fast erosion of slates in the Zhuoshui River catchment in Taiwan and demonstrate the influence of lithology on landscape steepness.

Tourists stand on a platform to view the rapids at Tiger Leaping Gorge along the Jinsha River in China
Posted inScience Updates

Asia’s Mega Rivers: Common Source, Diverse Fates

by S. A. Kuehl, S. Yang, F. Yu, Y. Copard, J. Liu, C. A. Nittrouer and J. Xu 14 May 20202 November 2021

How do humans affect the ways that Asia’s mega rivers deliver sediment and dissolved matter to farms, river deltas, and, eventually, the sea? A proposed study would construct an integrated picture.

Map of South Asia showing population exposure to accumulated relative intensity in the decade around 2050 under a high emissions climate change scenario relative to the decade around 2000.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Health Concerns from Combined Heat and Pollution in South Asia

by D. Wuebbles 24 April 202014 April 2023

Little research has studied the impacts of combined climate conditions. Together, heat events and poor air quality in South Asia amplify the imminent health challenge.

Hazy skies in Anhui, China
Posted inEditors' Vox

Intensified Investigations of East Asian Aerosols and Climate

by Z. Li 9 March 20203 February 2022

Three special collections in JGR: Atmospheres present a fast-growing body of literature on atmospheric aerosols and their impact on the regional climate in East Asia.

YoriMawari-nami wave in 2013
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Submarine Canyons Breed Megawaves in Japan

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 21 February 20206 December 2021

The canyons act like a prism, focusing waves into mammoths of destruction.

Cliff face next to a river with markers of different strata in Japanese
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Japan Puts Its Mark on Geologic Time with the Chibanian Age

Tim Hornyak, Science Writer by Tim Hornyak 30 January 20206 December 2021

The newly named period in the Pleistocene identifies a key moment in geological history: the last time Earth’s magnetic poles switched places.

Satellite view of what remains of the Aral Sea, as well as the vast area formerly covered by the sea that now is considered the Aralkum desert
Posted inScience Updates

Scientists Share Results of Dust Belt Research

by D. Althausen, S. Abdullaev and J. Hofer 28 August 20199 May 2023

Central Asian Dust Conference; Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 8–12 April 2019

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