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New report details global drought impacts #environment

New report details global drought impacts
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln's National Drought Mitigation Center and the United Nations' Convention to Combat Desertification have released a report outlining the impacts of drought around the world since 2023.

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 8215 nodes and 43367 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unwe…

Iconic Brazil nut crop plunges after extreme drought, skyrocketing prices https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/iconic-brazil-nut-crop-plunges-after-extreme-drought-skyrocketing-prices/

Iconic Brazil nut crop plunges after extreme drought, skyrocketing prices
A vital Amazonian superfood suddenly vanishes, leaving thousands of Indigenous and extractivist families reeling.

In some UK woodlands, every young tree has died. What’s going wrong? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/10/britain-ancient-woodlands-failing-regenerate-forests-climate-drought-heat-dis…

Climate Change Degrades Nutritional Value of Crops, Study Finds #environment

Climate Change Degrades Nutritional Value of Crops, Study Finds
Climate change is decreasing crops' nutritional value, in addition to the stress crops experience from extreme heat, drought and flooding.

How lakes connect to groundwater critical for resilience to climate change, research finds https://phys.org/news/2025-07-lakes-groundwater-critical-resilience-climate.html

How lakes connect to groundwater critical for resilience to climate change, research finds
Understanding whether lakes are fed predominantly by groundwater or rainwater is critical to managing our water resources in the face of droughts and shortages, new research has found.

Droughts are a ‘slow-moving global catastrophe,’ report finds https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/droughts-are-a-slow-moving-global-catastrophe-report-finds/

Droughts are a ‘slow-moving global catastrophe,’ report finds
“Drought is a silent killer. It creeps in, drains resources and devastates lives in slow motion,” said Ibrahim Thiaw, executive secretary of the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification. “Its scars run deep.” A comprehensive new report released this week documents what experts call some of the most widespread and damaging droughts in recorded history, affecting […]

Modelling the Effects of Hearing Loss on Neural Coding in the Auditory Midbrain with Variational Conditioning
Lloyd Pellatt, Fotios Drakopoulos, Shievanie Sabesan, Nicholas A. Lesica
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03088

Modelling the Effects of Hearing Loss on Neural Coding in the Auditory Midbrain with Variational Conditioning
The mapping from sound to neural activity that underlies hearing is highly non-linear. The first few stages of this mapping in the cochlea have been modelled successfully, with biophysical models built by hand and, more recently, with DNN models trained on datasets simulated by biophysical models. Modelling the auditory brain has been a challenge because central auditory processing is too complex for models to be built by hand, and datasets for training DNN models directly have not been availab…

Over half of Europe and Mediterranean basin hit by drought in mid-May #Europe

Over half of Europe and Mediterranean basin hit by drought in mid-May
More than half, or 53%, of land in Europe and the Mediterranean basin were hit by drought in mid-May, according to an AFP analysis of data from the European Drought Observatory (EDO) from May 11-20, 2025.

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