Higher temperatures fuel gun violence. Now we know how much is from climate change.
This year, Philadelphia is on track to have the lowest number of homicides since 1963. But over Fourth of July weekend, a heat dome stretching...
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Amid Iowa's Water Crisis, Factory Farms Get a Pass on Environmental Permitting
More than a decade after the EPA found that Iowa wasn’t cracking down on polluting factory farms, the state continues to hedge on enforcement.Story by...
The BoM's temperature record keeping is under attack – again. What's going on? | Temperature Check
An ‘audit’ of the Bureau of Meteorology main dataset for measuring climate change claims it contains ‘widespread errors’. It doesn’t stack upWant to get this...
For Black voters, climate action means little without relief from rising costs
For Elijah Lee, protecting the environment has always been about what’s happening close to home. He grew up in a predominantly Black, low-income community in...
Stash of hundreds of human teeth reveal surprising Maya burial practice
Ancient DNA connects teeth in a cave offering to people buried in faraway elite tombs
Distributions of Short‐Duration High‐Intensity Precipitation Events in the United States Under Intermediate and Pessimistic Climate Change Scenarios
Abstract Under a warming climate, the magnitude and frequency of intense precipitation are expected to increase globally, on average. However, changes in the regional variability...
The May 2024 Storm: The Cusps and Dayside Magnetopause in Simulated Soft X‐Rays
Abstract The coronal mass ejection (CME) arriving at Earth on 10 May 2024 caused the most intense geomagnetic storm in the last two decades, resulting...
Subsurface Deformation and Recovery From the Ridgecrest Mw 7.1 Earthquake Revealed by P‐Wave Velocity Time‐Lapse Tomography
Abstract We investigate co‐ and post‐seismic P‐wave velocity (Vp) changes following the July 2019 Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest strike‐slip earthquake using time‐lapse tomography from 50,345 P‐wave...
Enhanced Melt Supply Promotes Near‐Symmetric Oceanic Crustal Accretion at the Ultraslow Eastern Gakkel Ridge
Abstract Variations in melt supply can shift slow and ultraslow ridges between magmatic and tectonic accretion modes, but whether this effect persists at Earth’s slowest‐spreading...
Gamma‐Ray Glows Commonly Followed by Lightning: A Statistical Study of the Spatio‐Temporal Relationship
Abstract Gamma‐ray glows are prolonged enhancements of gamma rays from thunderclouds, which are often linked to large‐scale electric fields rather than individual lightning. The link...
Multi‐Scale Growth of an Mw 7.0 Earthquake via Hierarchical Cascading Rupture From an Mw 3.8 Repeating Event
Abstract To understand what governs earthquake size, we investigated the 2021 Mw 7.0 Japan Trench earthquake, which began near a nest of repeating earthquakes. High‐precision...
Yes, There Is Some Global Action on Phasing Out Fossil Fuels
Fifty-seven countries joined a ‘coalition of the willing’ to create a roadmap for winding down fossil fuels, and there’s good reason to think the number...
The Locations of North Carolina's Industrial Poultry Farms Have Been a Secret—Until Now
A community science project is uncovering data ‘our state wants to hide from us,’ its co-founders say.By Lisa SorgA few days before Christmas in 2023,...
A Potent Climate Super-Pollutant Is Surging in Beijing
The region’s expanding electric grid and semiconductor industry are driving increased emissions of the world’s most potent greenhouse gas, new research reveals.By Phil McKennaClimate pollutant...
The first dinos that only ate fruit munched like parrots
Toothless, turkey-size oddity may have evolved alongside the emergence of flowering plants
'False autumn': stressed trees drop leaves early after scorching English summer
Season will be less vibrant with trees such as birches, which usually offer a striking burst of yellow leaves, already bareAmong a canvas of copper,...
Kennedy to select MAHA-aligned researcher to head mental health institute, overruling NIH director
Health secretary wants a leader of ‘metabolic psychiatry’ movement to direct $2.2 billion agency
Flickering signals in monkey brains hint at how we become conscious of what we see
Detailed recordings reveal an unexpected way neurons represent perceived and unnoticed images
Climate warming boosts frequency and intensity of southern Africa's rainfall extremes
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 23 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02772-0Extreme southward swings of the South Indian convergence zone (a major source of rainfall across southern Africa)...
A Homeowner's Last Stand Against Alabama Power
Fenn Church was ready to confront the utility if it tried to run transmission lines across his property. The company went around back.By Lee HedgepethCALERA,...
Boeing's Demolition of a California Nuclear Testing Facility Has Nearby Families Worried About Cancer
Ventura County said local regulators do not require specific dust control measures as the buildings are torn down, despite the site’s troubled history and worries...
Alabama's New Data Center Rules Still Leave Customers in the Dark, Critics Say
‘The numbers that matter most are still secret,’ said Monika Gerhart of the Gulf States Renewable Energy Industries Association.By Dennis PillionNearly all observers agree that...
The planet's vital signs are getting worse. One of the easiest fixes is your diet.
A new report examining more than a dozen of the Earth’s life-sustaining systems paints a pretty bleak picture. Published last week in BioScience, the seventh...
Beyond Net-Zero Targets: Lisa Sachs on Designing Systems for Decarbonization
Sachs, director of Columbia’s Center on Sustainable Investment, argues that durable climate progress begins with systems diagnosis, not isolated technologies, targets or promises.
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