"Water is the canary in the coal mine of climate change. We receive distress signals in the form of increasingly extreme rainfall, floods and droughts which wreak a heavy toll on lives, ecosystems ...

Best known for its appearances in desert-island cartoons, maritime movies and earworms by ABBA and Rihanna, the word SOS has been used as a code for emergency distress signals since 1905.

And researchers have previously investigated plant-wearable devices to monitor leaf water content as an indicator ... detects the hydrogen peroxide distress signals from living plants.

The distress signal CQD originated from the signal CQ, expressing "seeking you," or "all stations." The signal CQ was commonly used among wireless operators -- and land-based telegraphers before ...

And researchers have previously investigated plant-wearable devices to monitor leaf water content as an indicator of plant ... that quickly and accurately detects the hydrogen peroxide distress ...