NHS must prepare for annual summer heat pressures, says Yvette Cooper
Health secretary says global heating means UK hospitals and GPs will have to prepare for summer as well as winter peaks of demandAdapting to global...
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Adapting to global heating: which UK public services are struggling in hot weather?
As NHS told to prepare for extreme weather, strain also felt in other areas including transport and farmingNHS must prepare for annual summer heat pressures,...
Long-Term Study Suggests Landfill Methane Emissions Are Far Higher Than Estimates
The study used continuous ground-based measurements to determine that landfill methane emissions are likely much higher than current assessments.
The free-living wellspring of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in Bradyrhizobium
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 31, August 2026. SignificanceFor over a century, nitrogen-fixing bacteria called rhizobia have been celebrated for...
Progressive climate organizer William Lawrence wins Michigan Democratic House primary
Activist who rallied around a datacenter moratorium will face incumbent Republican Tom Barrett in NovemberUS politics live – latest updatesWilliam Lawrence, a prominent environmental organizer...
NASA's Perseverance Captures Phobos and Earth
2 Min Read NASA’s Perseverance Captures Phobos and Earth PIA26758 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI Photojournal NavigationSciencePhotojournalNASA’s Perseverance Captures…Photojournal HomePhotojournal SearchLatest ContentGalleriesFeedbackRSSAbout Downloads NASA’s Perseverance Captures Phobos and...
Methionine oxidation alters both helical assembly and disordered contacts in human TDP-43 C-terminal domain phase separation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 31, August 2026. SignificanceHow chemically specific modifications tune interaction networks within disordered proteins and regulate...
Discovery of a phenazine–thiol conjugase from sparse data using genome-informed machine learning
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 31, August 2026. SignificanceMachine learning excels when large, well-labeled datasets are available, yet many biologically...
Sprint-like cardiac dynamics support repeated acrobatic lunges in foraging rorqual whales
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 31, August 2026. SignificanceRorqual whales’ foraging style combines high- and low-power feeding strategies to exploit...
Abrupt transition to irreversible damage in the overdrafted Sacramento Valley aquifer system
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 31, August 2026. SignificanceGroundwater extraction can cause both reversible and irreversible ground deformation, with the...
Palindrome in the sequence of the ribosomal peptidyl transferase center suggests a protoribosome emergence scheme
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 31, August 2026. SignificanceUnderstanding how life emerged from nonliving matter is a central question in...
MORC2 controls HIF-1α stability via an HDAC4-dependent mechanism to regulate erythropoiesis
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 31, August 2026. SignificanceThis study identifies MORC2 as a crucial negative regulator of HIF-α. We...
Who Gets to Decide the Fate of a Pristine Alaskan Rainforest?
In ‘Land Less’ — the Third-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — filmmaker Alexi Liotti follows the activists fighting a bill...
A legal fiction blocking billions in climate finance will be challenged this week
Bemnet Agata is a communications officer at the Tax Justice Network, where Alison Schultz is a research fellow. We are entering an age of permanent...
Italy to place all 27 of its major cities on highest heat alert
Move comes as fourth heatwave of summer intensifies, edging temperatures in some areas close to 40CItaly is to place all of its 27 major cities,...
Source limitation drives slow compositional recovery in tropical secondary forests
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 31, August 2026. SignificanceAlthough tropical forests can recover many characteristics of mature, undisturbed forests within...
Reversing vegetable biodiversity loss to diversify diets
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 31, August 2026. Vegetables are a critical component of diets, with inadequate intake of this...
Lessons From Nepal: Partnerships to Scale Crop Residue-Based Feed for Food Security and Climate
August 5, 2026 — Livestock is central to income and food security for many rural households across South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. But in many...
Dietary DNA in municipal wastewater reveals signatures of wealth, immigration, and coastal proximity
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 31, August 2026. SignificancePoor diet is a leading driver of chronic disease worldwide, yet current...
Comparative archaeology reveals recurrent but nondeterministic pathways through complexification
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 31, August 2026. SignificanceEarly complex societies are the antecedents of modern nations, yet their diverse...
Santa Marta coalition tested as co-chair Colombia turns back to fossil fuels
Leaders of the Santa Marta coalition – a group of governments, businesses and civil society organisations seeking to transition away from fossil fuels – hope...
Southeast Asia's fragile grids threaten billions in clean energy investment
When heavy storms triggered a fault on a major power line in Indonesia’s Sumatra in late May, blackouts plunged homes and businesses across the island...
Profile of Morris Moscovitch
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 31, August 2026. Morris Moscovitch’s five-decade career has reshaped scientists’ understanding of how the brain...
AI will reorganize science. Will research remain a human enterprise?
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 31, August 2026.
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