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Heterogeneous operations and opportunities to reduce CO2 emissions in global blast furnace ironmaking
The blast furnace (BF) process accounts for over 90% of global iron ore-based steel production and remains a major contributor to CO2 emissions. This study...
Anthropogenic drivers and their impact on the hydrological regime of Nepal: a review
Nepal’s hydrological regime, shaped by steep topography, monsoon-dominated rainfall, and extensive cryospheric systems, offers a useful testbed for understanding how climate change and human activities...
CJA Submits Public Letter with 17 EJ Organizations to Oppose More Handouts to Polluting Industries
Trump’s EPA is making moves to make it legal and easier for corporations and industry to pollute waterbodies and wetlands throughout the United States. We...
Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2025
The year 2025 saw the return to power of Donald Trump, a jewellery heist at the Louvre museum in Paris and an engagement that “broke...
Atmospheric forcing uncertainty contributes to divergent estimates of China’s terrestrial carbon dynamics
Accurate quantification of terrestrial carbon dynamics is essential for assessing ecosystem–climate feedbacks and informing climate mitigation in the Anthropocene. China, as both the world’s largest...
The earliest <em>Homo</em> species did not look human, partial skeleton shows
Homo habilis, 2 million years old, was known mainly from teeth and jaw bones
Mapped: how the world is losing its forests to wildfires
Wildfires now destroy twice as much tree cover per year as two decades ago – a crisis fuelled by climate changeThe world is losing forests...
Hypersensitivity of chitin degradation to initial species densities due to monomer diffusion
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 2, January 2026. SignificanceCompetitive interactions shape key metabolic processes in microbial communities. As a model...
Alito’s Recusal in Oil Case Renews Questions About Justice’s Investments
Nearly one-quarter of the associate justice’s $1 million in individual stock holdings are in fossil fuel companies.By Marianne LavelleSupreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s seat...
Fight Over Venezuelan Oil Highlights Shadowy International Legal System
Trump said the socialist government “stole” from American oil companies. Those firms have been seeking billions in compensation through a controversial arbitration system.By Nicholas KusnetzThe...
Coal Communities Accuse Congress of Breaking Its Promise to Clean Up Abandoned Mine Lands
The House passed a bill last week that would “repurpose” $500 million meant for cleaning up environmental and safety hazards caused by decades of coal...
A major agreement to protect the Amazon is falling apart after 20 years
Nearly 20 years ago, a Brazilian lobbying group for soy trading and processing companies signed onto a historic conservation deal known as the Amazon soy...
Timing and magnitude of the Lomagundi–Jatuli carbon isotope excursion
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 2, January 2026. SignificanceThe rise of atmospheric oxygen during the Great Oxidation Event (GOE) set...
Molecular basis of the higher-order assembly of CatSper
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 2, January 2026. SignificanceCatSper is an essential ion channel that mediates Ca2+influx during sperm hyperactivation,...
After one year of Trump, is anything left of the American Climate Corps?
Two long years ago, it appeared that the much-anticipated American Climate Corps was finally happening. President Joe Biden had promised to build a green jobs...
States say they need more help replacing lead pipes. Congress may cut the funding instead.
The Senate is taking up a spending package passed by the House of Representatives that would cut $125 million in funding promised this year to...
Sex-allocation trade-offs and their genetic architecture revealed by experimental evolution
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 2, January 2026. SignificanceThe theory of sex allocation has successfully predicted the sex ratios of...
Prior novelty invigorates future mesolimbic target detection
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 2, January 2026. SignificanceSurviving in dynamic environments requires coordinated neural mechanisms to detect, learn from,...
Extreme heat is breaking honey bees’ natural cooling system
Honey bees can normally keep their hives perfectly climate-controlled, but extreme heat can overwhelm their defenses. During a scorching Arizona summer, researchers found that high...
Scientists discover what’s linking floods and droughts across the planet
Scientists tracking Earth’s water from space discovered that El Niño and La Niña are synchronizing floods and droughts across continents. When these climate cycles intensify,...
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Long-term effects of forty-hertz auditory stimulation as a treatment of Alzheimer’s disease: Insights from an aged monkey model study
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 2, January 2026. SignificanceAlthough 40-Hz physical stimulation shows therapeutic potential for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in...
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