COP17: Which countries have released new pledges to tackle nature loss?
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Under US pressure, World Bank says it will back gas 'where appropriate'
The World Bank president said on Friday his organisation will continue to support some gas projects in developing countries alongside renewables, nuclear and hydropower, despite...
Apomixis imposes evolutionary costs by reducing recombination efficiency and disrupting segregation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 41, October 2026. SignificanceApomixis potentially leads to the accumulation of deleterious mutations, although facultative sexuality...
Global divergence in urban–rural vegetation resilience driven by broken ecological trade-offs
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 41, October 2026. SignificanceClimate change is weakening the resilience of natural ecosystems, but whether urban...
Brain weight across the adult lifespan in great apes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 41, October 2026. SignificanceEven in the absence of pathologies, human brains are characterized by age-related...
Floundering North Carolina Fisheries Agency Endangers Workers and Wildlife
Mismanagement at the division has jeopardized worker safety and the long-term health of aquatic wildlife, former employees say.By Lisa SorgOn a misty and breezy morning...
Modern Aquaculture's Invisible Cost: Its Putrid Stench
One burden of the West’s aquaculture industry is created in the factories of poor countries, where communities live with foul air, disrupted sleep and the...
Long after the Maui fires, toxic metals linger in residents' bodies
In August of 2023, a series of wildfires broke out across Maui, killing more than 100 people, destroying thousands of homes, and causing billions in...
Advice from a climate therapist: Touch grass. (No, really.)
In my years as a psychotherapist, I’ve worked with many people facing similar struggles. One such pattern is embodied by a client I’ll call Emma...
Trump just effectively killed a popular solar energy program for rural America
Earlier this month, after a series of stops and starts, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced changes to a long-running program that is supposed to...
Formation of a swelling gel underlies a morphological transition in Bacillus subtilis biofilms
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 41, October 2026. SignificanceBiofilms are complex, self-assembled bacterial communities that enable microbes to thrive in...
An unidentified reservoir of comet 81P/Wild 2 chondrules
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 41, October 2026. SignificanceIt is widely accepted that chondrules were formed in the inner regions...
Is coal really making a comeback?
Coal was on the way out. That’s how it looked last year, anyway, when the International Energy Agency forecast that global demand for the dirtiest...
Who shapes climate science? The equity question facing the IPCC
Meena Raman is deputy director at Third World Network (TWN), a public interest lawyer and an expert on international climate negotiations. Leon Sealey-Huggins is senior...
Extended fractional Hofstadter states at high field in twisted bilayer graphene above the magic angle
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 41, October 2026. SignificanceElectrons in solids can collectively organize into topological states characterized by integer...
A 2,623-year temperature reconstruction from the Colorado Rocky Mountains reveals warm and cool droughts
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 41, October 2026. SignificanceThis study provides a millennial-length temperature reconstruction for the southern Rocky Mountains,...
Deep learning of fossil pollen morphology reveals 25,000 y of ecological change in eastern African grasslands
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 41, October 2026. SignificanceGrasses are a diverse and ecologically important plant clade whose pollen is...
Continuous UV irradiation played an inconclusive role in selecting the canonical genetic alphabet
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 41, October 2026. SignificanceUltraviolet (UV) light was likely to be present in abundance on the...
Bonanza of new dates rewrites the history of the Inca
The South American empire lasted longer, and met more resistance, than scholars thought
Quantum Fisher information and photon statistics from shift current shot noise
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 41, October 2026. SignificanceQuantum states of light carry useful information in their fluctuations, but converting...
Fault-controlled natural hydrogen reservoirs as underground hydrogen storage sites
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 41, October 2026. SignificanceLarge-scale underground hydrogen storage is essential to support a hydrogen-based energy economy,...
Vaccine data suggest immunity could mitigate dementia. What's the biology behind these apparent effects?
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 41, October 2026.
Barry Bloom and the convergence of immunology, infectious disease, and public health
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 41, October 2026. In early 2026, the world lost Barry Bloom, a great advocate for...
Profile of Michael N. Shadlen
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 41, October 2026. Neuroscientist and neurologist Michael N. Shadlen is a world leader in the...
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