A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return
Satellite data reveal in unprecedented detail how groundwater reservoirs permanently lose their ability to store water
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Chinese university launches probe into girl's gene-editing death
More than a year after failed clinical trial, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine promises ‘serious action’
AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
More than half of AI ‘unicorns’ have never published a paper or preprint
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'We have lost everything': extreme rainfall across Asia brings flash floods and typhoons
From Afghanistan to Taiwan, unprecedented deluge highlights devastating impact of climate breakdown’It rained for 10 days and 10 nights, non-stop – I’d never seen anything...
What do the heatwaves in Europe and North America tell us about our future? | Fiona Katauskas
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Tree species richness relates to long-term forest photosynthesis increase
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 27 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02698-7The authors integrate tree species richness with satellite-derived photosynthesis proxies to show that richness correlates with greater...
Canopy-mediated climate feedbacks in the boreal continuous permafrost zone
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 27 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02692-zSoil carbon stocks are greater than biomass carbon in boreal forests. This study shows that tree canopies...
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The Future of Climate Finance
Climate economist Gernot Wagner argues public climate finance should de-risk private investment, fund adaptation for vulnerable countries and help multilateral development banks scale proven climate...
France and Spain race to contain huge wildfires before fresh heatwave begins
Officials talk of ‘absolutely critical’ days for firefighters before rise again from middle of the weekEurope wildfires live – latest updatesFirefighters in France and Spain...
Fossil Fuels Did This: Wildfires
As we write this, deadly wildfires are actively burning across Spain, France and many other countries, with tens of thousands of people evacuated and firefighters...
Britain braces for fourth heatwave of year as fire chiefs issue public appeal
Temperatures up to 35C forecast, triggering heat health alerts and pleas to take care in parched parks and rural areasParamedics and firefighters are braced for...
When it comes to predicting the future, why are TV writers better than politicians? | Zoe Williams
From BBC drama The Rapture on the climate crisis to Apple’s Criminal Record on the rise of the far right, culture often sees what politics...
Saber-toothed cats became inbred—and struggled to move—before they went extinct
Population declines led to spike in spinal deformities and rare tumors, fossil study suggests
Weather Whiplash Fueled Wildfires in France and Spain
In a summer of record heat waves, France and Spain are now facing wildfires that have forced the evacuations of more than 300,000 people. Scientists...
'It came out of real frustration': the 90s activist network that set fires to save a burning planet
Matthew Wolfe’s Fires in the Night examines Earth Liberation Front, a US eco-anarchist movement, and its legacy of radical environmentalismAre echoes of 1990s radical environmentalism...
PM urged to uphold climate pledges made as mayor and ban new North Sea oil drilling
Experts who helped Burnham draw up Manchester carbon neutral pledge say backtracking would send wrong message amid wildfires and heatwavesEurope wildfires – latest updatesLeading climate...
'Climate hushing' has swept the Democratic Party. New polling suggests it's a mistake.
A hush has fallen over the Democratic Party — a ‘climate hush,’ to be precise. The phrase captures the push within the party to focus...
Europe wildfires live: Macron to chair crisis meeting as France and Spain continue to battle major blazes
Firefighters in France and Spain face another day battling wildfires that have seen hundreds of thousands of people evacuatedPedro Sánchez says Spain is suffering effects...
Uganda begins emergency food handouts after 19 die from hunger
Government move follows months of drought and crop failures in Karamoja, with 1.5m people facing malnutritionUganda has launched emergency food relief distribution after at least...
'The city isn't built for heat': how extreme weather puts London's rough sleepers at risk
As heatwaves make the capital increasingly dangerous, outreach workers warn that vulnerable people face barriers to finding water and cool spaces’You’ve just got to bear...
Pink Penguin Guano Provides Diet Clues
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A Delayed Return Stroke Driven by Channel Charge Accumulation
Abstract Based on combined VHF interferometer and fast/slow antenna measurements, we document an abnormal bolt‐from‐the‐blue lightning flash, which included two strokes. There are four successive...
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