Environmental Science · Water Science and Technology

Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Mediterranean landslides may rise even as the region gets drier

Rainfall-triggered landslides may become more common in part of southern Italy even as climate projections show generally drier soils. Modeling suggests that changes in rainfall intensity and the moisture left by earlier rain could outweigh the drying trend.

1 week ago·12 views

Climate & Environment

AI data centres’ closed-loop cooling shifts 92–95% of water use to the grid

An open Zenodo working note tracks water use linked to 10 AI data-centre sites and provides code to reproduce its calculations. It finds that closed-loop cooling shifts roughly 92% to 95% of the modelled water footprint to the electricity grid, rather than removing it.

2 weeks ago·29 views