NatWest faces AGM showdown over climate backtracking
Shareholders including the Church of England back call for protest votes against the bank’s chairNatWest is at risk of an embarrassing showdown at its shareholder...
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Solomon Islands: Tropical Cyclone Maila - Humanitarian Snapshot (24 April 2026)
Country: Solomon Islands Sources: Government of Solomon Islands, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Please refer to the attached Infographic.
Solomon Islands: Tropical Cyclone Maila - Track Map
Country: Solomon Islands Sources: Government of Solomon Islands, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Please refer to the attached Map.
Solomon Islands: Tropical Cyclone Maila - Pacific Humanitarian Team - Situation Repot No.2 (24 April 2026)
Country: Solomon Islands Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Please refer to the attached file. HIGHLIGHTS Initial indications suggest that over 150,000...
Solomon Islands: Tropical Cyclone Maila - Pacific Humanitarian Team - Situation Repot No.1 (17 April 2026)
Country: Solomon Islands Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Please refer to the attached file. HIGHLIGHTS Tropical Cyclone Maila peaked as a...
WFP Sri Lanka Country Brief, April 2026
Country: Sri Lanka Source: World Food Programme Please refer to the attached file.
WFP Algeria Country Brief, April 2026 (Reporting Period: March 2026)
Country: Algeria Source: World Food Programme Please refer to the attached file. HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS Although full rations are currently provided, WFP expects to sustain food...
Sewage Is Threatening Coral Reefs Around the World, Even in Marine Protected Areas
A new study finds that more than 70 percent of these protected zones are exposed to high levels of wastewater pollutants, making corals and other...
Afghanistan: Health Cluster Dashboard for Humanitarian Response Services (March 2026)
Country: Afghanistan Source: Health Cluster Please refer to the attached file. The dashboard provides an overview of humanitarian health services across Afghanistan, showing coverage, population...
WFP Jordan Country Brief, April 2026 (Reporting period: March 2026)
Country: Jordan Source: World Food Programme Please refer to the attached file. KEY HIGHLIGHTS In March, WFP continued to provide reduced monthly food assistance of...
UK departments at odds over energy demands of AI datacentres
Discrepancy in forecasts raises questions over government planning for net zeroOne vision of the UK’s future involves a decarbonised economy powered by clean, renewable energy....
Warming waters are supercharging an invasive salmon predator in Alaska
As Alaska’s rivers warm, invasive northern pike are becoming noticeably more voracious. Scientists discovered that pike of all ages are eating more fish, with young...
Trump fires NSF's oversight board
Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence
'The birds are a global citizen': Indigenous groups in Australia and Alaska team up to track a feathered adventurer's epic journey
A new knowledge-sharing project aims to ensure the survival of the migratory short-tailed shearwaterShort-tailed shearwaters used to blacken the skies on the south-west coast of...
Scientists just discovered Africa is closer to breaking apart than we thought
Beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift, scientists have found the crust is thinning to a critical point, suggesting the continent is gradually breaking apart. This ‘necking’...
Eddy Kinetic Energy Contribution to Total Ocean Kinetic Energy From Multi‐Satellite Altimetry
Abstract Ocean mesoscale structures play a central role in transporting oceanic properties, accounting for a significant fraction of ocean’s total kinetic energy (KE). Using 23...
Shallow Creep in the Leaky Stress Shadow of Locked Zones of Subduction Megathrust
Abstract In some subduction zones such as Nankai, creeping of the shallow part of the megathrust in the stress shadow of deeper locked zones is...
Successes and Failures of Current AI Climate Models
Abstract AI climate model simulations are in their infancy and the paper by Baxter et al. (this issue) reports the results of a new set...
Climatology and Trends in Spatial Scales of Extreme Precipitation Over Land in the Contiguous US
Abstract Extreme precipitation (EP) poses a severe risk under a changing climate. Here we use daily gridded precipitation data (1980–2024) and a connected‐component labeling algorithm...
On the Strength of Solar Forcing in the Earth's Thermosphere
Abstract We report the signature of solar forcing in the thermosphere using daytime temperature profiles from the Michelson Interferometer for Global High‐resolution Thermospheric Imaging (MIGHTI)...
The Dissipation Regime of Turbulence on Mars Observed With Microphone Data From the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover
Abstract Turbulent winds are a regular occurrence in planetary boundary layers. Turbulence affects mixing, energy fluxes and forcing on the surface environment. Energy injected into...
Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, report warns
Nearly half of children in the United States are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a new report, as experts warned Donald Trump’s...
New panel of climate scientists calls for fossil fuel transition roadmaps
A new panel of experts, bringing together some of the world’s top climate scientists, has called on governments to develop roadmaps for phasing out fossil...
Criminalisation of climate protesters in UK is counterproductive, research finds
Study of 1,300 campaigners finds arrests, fines and jail terms increase determination of activists to take direct actionThe criminalisation of direct action climate protests in...
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