State of the Planet

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monsoon season

  • Tree Rings, Climate Change and the Rainy Season

    Tree Rings, Climate Change and the Rainy Season

    Seeking to understand the history of the southeast Asian monsoon, researchers venture into the remote highlands of Vietnam to sample the rings of behemoth cypress trees that have survived for a thousand years.

  • Rapid-Fire Cyclones over the North Indian Ocean

    Rapid-Fire Cyclones over the North Indian Ocean

    With Chapala’s destructive landfall in Yemen just a couple of days in the past, a second tropical cyclone, Megh, has just formed in the Arabian Sea. This one is not forecast to become anywhere near as intense as Chapala did—though we know intensity forecasts can be wrong, as they were at early stages for both…

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  • Tree Rings, Climate Change and the Rainy Season

    Tree Rings, Climate Change and the Rainy Season

    Seeking to understand the history of the southeast Asian monsoon, researchers venture into the remote highlands of Vietnam to sample the rings of behemoth cypress trees that have survived for a thousand years.

  • Rapid-Fire Cyclones over the North Indian Ocean

    Rapid-Fire Cyclones over the North Indian Ocean

    With Chapala’s destructive landfall in Yemen just a couple of days in the past, a second tropical cyclone, Megh, has just formed in the Arabian Sea. This one is not forecast to become anywhere near as intense as Chapala did—though we know intensity forecasts can be wrong, as they were at early stages for both…