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Southern China's Jiangxi Province has issued the highest flood alarm. It is warned that dams can fail and that extreme flooding is possible on several rivers. China has been plagued by floods for weeks, caused by heavy rain. In Jinagxi, some 5 million people have now been affected by the floods. According to state media, a total of 34 million…

At the beginning of the 19th century, the physicist Pierre-Simon Laplace hypothesized that the atmosphere is traversed by pressure waves at the origin of a global phenomenon of atmospheric resonance. For many years, geophysicists will deepen and clarify this idea, in particular by identifying the frequencies expected for these waves. However, it…

Until 2025, the average temperature on Earth will remain at least 1 degree warmer than the average in the second half of the 19th century. Moreover, there is a one in five chance that the temperature in one of those years will be 1.5 degrees above the average of that pre-industrial era for the first time. These are the main conclusions from the…