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Firing of neuroscience institute chief adds to NIH’s leadership vacuum
Trump administration declines to renew appointment of Walter Koroshetz, against NIH director’s wishes
Watch tiny plankton ‘surf’ ocean currents
Microscopic creatures hitch a ride on turbulent waters to travel faster
Chemicals in million-year-old fossils reveal animals’ lives in detail
Ancient meals and infections reconstructed from preserved metabolic markers
Climate as the primary moderator: towards context-driven design and implementation of vertical greenery systems for stormwater management
Urbanisation intensifies stormwater management challenges by expanding impervious surfaces, increasing flood risk and degrading water quality. Vertical greenery systems (VGS) are increasingly promoted as nature-based...
Disentangling the drivers of vegetation change in a mobility-constrained pastoral landscape in Laikipia Kenya
Dryland ecosystems around the world support high biodiversity and extensive pastoralism, but the drivers of landscape change are often poorly understood. Reductionistic understandings have tended...
Compound weather systems of cyclones, fronts and thunderstorms in global reanalysis
Many studies have examined the climatology of individual types of impactful weather systems such as cyclones, fronts and thunderstorms, with some recent studies also considering...
The National Science Foundation just had a big reorganization. Here are five things to know
Divisions and rotators disappear as more career staff become supervisors
Greening schools for climate-resilient, inclusive and liveable cities
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 29 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02519-3Transforming school environments into nature-based climate shelters not only promotes cooling and greening under extreme heat, but...
Super typhoon triggers severe ozone pollution in Pearl River Delta via stratospheric intrusion
Surface ozone (O₃) pollution poses well-documented threats to global ecosystems and public health. While stratospheric intrusion is regarded as an important source of surface O₃,...
Global warming weakens Maritime Continent barrier effect on MJO propagation
As the Indo-Pacific warm pool expands in a warming climate, the probability of an MJO event successfully propagating through the Maritime Continent (MC) is projected...
Tension on the streets, the mushroom trial circus and a devastating terrorist attack – looking back on Australia’s turbulent 2025
There was no shortage of grim and disturbing moments in a fractious year. But also a prime ministerial wedding, a miraculous survival story – and...
‘It’s like you’re sitting in front of an oven’: surviving the summer in one of Australia’s hottest towns
When the hot winds hit Roebourne, as many as 16 people pile into Yindjibarndi elder Lyn Cheedy’s home – one of the few with air...
Why Broken Resolutions Are Not (Entirely) Your Fault
Now is the time of year when everyone thinks about what they’d like to change about themselves. Despite the museum of abandoned aspirations behind us...
Unraveling the anisotropic pattern of track uncertainty in tropical cyclones
The position uncertainty of tropical cyclones (TCs) may stretch along specific directions, yet the global pattern of the dominant direction of uncertainty remains unclear. This...
Mining expansion as new driver of deforestation in Côte d’Ivoire
Mining is a rapidly expanding driver of tropical deforestation, yet the scale of its offsite impacts on deforestation and degradation at biome scale remain poorly...
From ‘global cooling’ to ‘beautiful coal’: Trump’s startling climate claims of 2025
Trump ratcheted up his questionable claims about the environment and how to deal, if at all, with the threats to itIn the past decade at...
Indonesia Poised to Harness Ocean’s Climate Potential
The ocean could be one of our most powerful allies in fighting climate change, if we do a better job of protecting and leveraging it.In...
How Alabama Power Has Left the ‘American Amazon’ at Risk
As its polluting coal ash ponds remain in groundwater, Alabama Power has doubled down on fossil fuel energy investments.By Lee HedgepethWired for Profit: Third in...
A Maine Folk Band Finds Its Voice in a Warming World
GoldenOak’s music turns floods, forest loss and climate anxiety into folk songs rooted in Maine and shaped by activism.By Ryan KrugmanPORTLAND, Maine—Onstage, Zak and Lena...
Rupture Dynamics of the 2025 Mw 7.7 Myanmar Earthquake: A Bilateral Supershear Rupture on Unusually Long Fault Superhighway
Abstract The 2025 Mw 7.7 Myanmar earthquake ruptured the central Sagaing fault, a previously identified seismic gap with high seismic potential. Here, we perform hundreds...
The Importance of an Ensemble Approach for Modeling Aerosol‐Convection Interactions
Abstract Aerosol‐convection interactions modulate cloud microphysics, thermodynamics, and updraft intensity, contributing to climate‐scale aerosol‐radiative forcing. However, quantifying aerosol indirect effects in mixed‐phase deep convection remains...
Strong Wind‐Driven Oceanic Forcing on Decadal SST Variability Over the Global Ocean
Abstract Gu et al. (2024, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107401) recently provided the first quantitative assessment of oceanic and atmospheric forcing on decadal sea surface temperature (SST) variability globally...
The Impact of Large‐Scale Land Surface Conditions on the South American Low‐Level Jet
Abstract The South American low‐level jet (SALLJ) is a major source of moisture transport to southeastern South America, influencing rainfall, agriculture, and hydropower. While past...
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