The Himalayan high peaks serve as a jagged wall dividing nuclear-armed neighbors a physical barrier rising in places to more than 8,800 meters (29,000 feet) separating apocalyptically equipped nations divided by religion, politics, and many decades of bad blood. But in ecological terms, the Himalayan plateau, the “rooftop of the world,” is a place […]
On Feb. 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. The assault, by what’s widely considered the second-most powerful military in the world, was on six fronts across air, land and sea, spanning 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) across the Ukrainian border. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) says […]
According to a new study sponsored by the University of Washington, machine learning computer algorithms that develop themselves without direct programming by humans can be used to enhance lightning forecasts.