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The risk of avalanches can be predicted by artificial intelligence (AI) just as well as by humans, according to the findings of a three-year research project in Switzerland. The Swiss Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) released their report in Davos on Tuesday. The researchers say that machine-trained algorithms and humans have different strengths and weaknesses and can therefore complement each other well. The SLF has been working with AI models for three years, and found that their predictions are often good. "Sometimes they are clearly not, but even we are sometimes wrong," sai...
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Late spring overnight frosts in Germany's wine-growing regions have raised concerns among winemakers about potential impacts on the harvest. The German Winegrowers' Association (DWV) fears that the cold temperatures could damage wine yields this year: "The frosts at this point in time are so devastating because the vegetation is already well advanced after the recent months of record heat," DWV President Klaus Schneider told the Funke Mediengruppe newspaper chain on Friday. "The young, fertile shoots are now freezing, and those that grow back may not be fertile," he said. That means that wineg...
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German insurers plan to provide better warnings about the risk of flash floods during storms in future. "The July 2021 flood in particular showed that the flood simulations used to date do not depict flash floods accurately enough," said Anja Käfer-Rohrbach, deputy managing director of the German Insurance Association. From next year onwards, the risk of sudden flooding will therefore be modelled, she said. This data will be fed into a portal that will help insurers to answer the question of which buildings are at risk of flooding and to what extent. So far, only the risks of flooding and heav...
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Mongolia has lost more than 4.7 million of its livestock herd to extreme weather conditions this winter, the country's emergency committee reported on Tuesday. The figure represents a sharp rise from the roughly 1.5 million reported around a month ago. Extreme conditions – known as "dzud" in Mongolia – often hit the country lying between Russia and China during the winter months. According to a UN report at the beginning of last month, this is the second year in a row that the country has faced these severe conditions. It described dzuds as a peculiar slow-onset disaster unique to Mongolia, ch...
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Iran's national gas company has called on the population to conserve energy in the face of a cold spell, the Tasnim news agency reported on Tuesday. It said that nationwide gas consumption has risen in both the industrial and private sectors following the onset of a cold snap. The capital Tehran has been covered in snow for days leading to chaos on the streets. In Iran, an oil and gas-rich country of almost 90 million people, energy is relatively cheap for consumers. It holds the world's second largest gas reserves. However, the industry, which has been hit by tough international economic sanc...
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