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A new preprint server welcomes papers written and reviewed by AI
With human peer review struggling to keep pace with machine-generated science, aiXiv enlists bots to help
A New Report Describes Deep Environmental Cuts, State by State
North Carolina topped the Environmental Integrity Project’s list for both personnel and program cuts, though a restructuring makes exact comparisons difficult. Still, one researcher said...
U.S. military funds AI tools to speed modeling of viral outbreaks
DARPA program could yield models of disease spread in days instead of weeks
Replenishing sapped groundwater could trigger small earthquakes
A boom in aquifer injection projects could unlock long-quiet faults
Latest Twist in Chevron’s Amazon Pollution Saga: Ecuador Ordered to Pay the Oil Company $220 Million
Indigenous and other Ecuadorians have lived with millions of gallons of toxic pollution from Texaco’s operations for decades. Now, those victims’ tax dollars will go...
How Belém launched the Just Transition mechanism
Amid stalled talks on finance, adaptation and fossil fuel transition at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil’s Amazon region, governments agreed to an ambitious Just...
The deep ocean is fixing carbon in ways no one expected
Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon...
EU weakening of corporate sustainability rules ‘jeopardises’ climate action, critics say
The European Union’s decision to dilute its corporate sustainability rules could hurt the bloc’s efforts to fight climate change and risks rewarding companies with a...
When Elephants Trample Your Farm, Who Do You Call?
When Krithi Karanth walks into a forest village in the shadow of India’s Bandipur National Park, she is often greeted by farmers with cell phones...
Analysis: What are the causes of recent record-high global temperatures?
The past three years have been exceptionally warm globally. In 2023, global temperatures reached a new high, after they significantly exceeded expectations. This record was...
Scientists discover a new state of matter at Earth’s center
New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through a solid iron lattice. This...
Greenpeace Scrutinizes the Environmental Record of the Company That Sued the Group
The nonprofit said in a new report that pipeline company Energy Transfer reported hundreds of oil spills to federal regulators in recent years, among other...
Scientists Say the Forever Chemical TFA Could Cause Irreversible Harm. In Eastern North Carolina, It’s Everywhere.
The discovery of TFA in blood and water samples raises questions about Chemours’ role in adding to the pollution burden.By Lisa SorgForever War, Part 2:...
Gas Stoves Account For More Than Half of Some Americans’ Exposure to a Known Toxin, New Research Concludes
The common kitchen appliance plays an outsized role in exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a toxic air pollutant.By Phil McKennaPollution from gas stoves accounts for more...
Wisconsin Tribes Have Helped the Lake Sturgeon Recover. Climate Change Is Stressing Its Ability to Adapt.
The ancient, enormous fish have lived on Earth for more than 150 million years but changing weather conditions have researchers questioning whether future generations will...
The Navajo Nation said no to a hydropower project. Trump officials want to ensure tribes can’t do that again.
Early last year, the hydropower company Nature and People First set its sights on Black Mesa, a mountainous region on the Navajo Nation in northern...
US set to push fossil fuels under its G20 presidency
As the United States takes the reins of the G20 and makes economic growth the top priority, the Trump administration is expected to use its...
Mysterious illnesses have supernatural and ritualistic cures: Evidence from 3,655 century-old Irish folk cures
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 49, December 2025. SignificanceClassical anthropological and cognitive theories propose that supernatural healing practices emerge when...
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s...
Lineage tracing of both quiescent G0 and active Hoxb5+ LT-HSCs that actively contribute to homeostatic mouse hematopoiesis
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 49, December 2025. SignificanceProspectively isolated HSCs regenerate long-term hematopoiesis via transplantation in irradiated hosts. Hoxb5...
Barrierless nucleation in glassy precursors drives zeolite formation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 49, December 2025. SignificanceThe slow and complex formation of zeolites, microporous materials central to catalysis...
Synthetic chemicals in food system creating health burden of $2.2tn a year, report finds
Scientists issue urgent warning about chemicals, found to cause cancer and infertility as well as harming environmentScientists have issued an urgent warning that some of...
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