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Ancient stalagmites reveal exceptions to Asia–South America monsoon seesaw over the past 450,000 years
In places like South Asia, Africa and parts of the Americas, monsoon rains supply water for drinking, crops and hydropower for billions of people. Understanding the patterns that monsoons tend to follow can help people plan ...
Child-led citizen science helps Ecuadorian community tackle beach pollution and shape environmental decisions
Pollution from human-generated waste in marine ecosystems has reached critical levels, with cigarette butts (CBs) among the most persistent and harmful pollutants. Globally, an estimated 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are discarded ...
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Oct 23, 2026
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Scientists find key to predicting some El Niño events 12 months ahead
Scientists have identified the conditions that make it possible to predict some El Niño and La Niña events up to a year in advance, potentially giving communities and decision-makers significantly more time to prepare for ...
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Oct 23, 2026
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Strategic new protections could link 13 Pacific deep-sea reserves into connected network
Protected areas have been set up to shield deep-sea life from the impacts of seabed mining in the Pacific Ocean. However, new research led by scientists at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) and published in Nature Ecology ...
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Oct 23, 2026
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Sinking Antarctic ice reveals a hidden lake's massive water loss
The Kronshtadskiy subglacial lake near East Antarctica's Amery Ice Shelf was hidden beneath Antarctica's ice, but its drainage left a mark visible from space as a broad depression that deepened by more than 6 meters (20 feet) ...
El Niño then and now
El Niño is part of a natural climate pattern that occurs roughly every two to seven years, bringing warmer-than-normal water to parts of the equatorial Pacific. The most recent very strong El Niño events, in 1997–98 and 2015–16, ...
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Oct 23, 2026
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East Asia's summer rain belt has shifted north over decades, reshaping rain and heat risks
A joint research team from KAIST and the APEC Climate Center has found that the East Asian summer front has migrated north over the past half century, with the shift exceeding 200 km (124 miles) in late summer. This raises ...
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Oct 23, 2026
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Just 3% of the world's glaciers account for over half of glacier ice loss
Glaciers ending in lakes, oceans or ice shelves make up 3.2% of the world's glaciers, but lost 134 billion metric tons (148 billion tons) of ice each year between 2000 and 2019, accounting for more than half of all glacier ...
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Oct 23, 2026
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How farming helped cause two medieval tsunamis in an Italian lake—and why the danger has returned
On Jan. 3, 1117, a strong earthquake shook northern Italy. A manuscript of the 12th century, kept today in the Vatican Library, recorded what came next: "The lakes also rose so much that very few of those living in the villages ...
Microplastics in sediment could trace decades of human activity worldwide
In a review article recently published in the journal Earth-Science Reviews, researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Leicester ...
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Oct 22, 2026
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More than 20 years of data challenge one-size-fits-all view of Arctic cloud-forming particles
As the climate gets warmer, the number of particles that make up clouds in the Arctic may increase or decrease, depending on the specific area. A new study indicates that the Arctic should be divided into three parts rather ...
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Oct 22, 2026
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Global warming may have halted an emerging ice age, study suggests
Two thousand years ago, the Arctic remnants of a once-vast ice sheet started to grow again. It was the beginning of a new glacial period, more conversationally known as the next ice age—but by the 1960s, summer temperatures ...
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Oct 22, 2026
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Earth's hemispheres may have worked together to drive past ice ages
New research from the University of St Andrews has uncovered a previously unknown process that may have helped drive Earth into past ice ages. Published today (Oct. 22) in the Journal of Climate, the paper links ice sheets ...
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Oct 22, 2026
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Wildfires cause Amazon to emit 1.17 billion more metric tons of CO₂ than it absorbs
From 2010 to 2024, the Amazon rainforest—the largest tropical rainforest on the planet—released an average of 1.17 billion metric tons more carbon dioxide (CO₂) into the atmosphere than it absorbed each year. Wildfires were ...
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Oct 22, 2026
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Scientists discover dangerous water oscillations between Lake Varna and Black Sea
For years, pilots have observed strong and unusual currents in the 2.4-kilometer-long (1.5-mile-long), 300-meter-wide (984-foot-wide) canal connecting Lake Varna with the Black Sea. Maarja Kruusmaa, an academician and professor ...
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Oct 22, 2026
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How a massive ice shelf buttressed the last ice age's glaciers—and what it could mean for Antarctica today
About 20,000 years ago, an enormous, floating ice shelf more than a mile (1.6 kilometers) thick helped lock in three of the largest ice sheets in northern Canada and Greenland. When that ice shelf disappeared, it helped unlock ...
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Oct 21, 2026
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Salt marshes are proving to be powerful allies in building a climate-resilient coastline
Salt marsh sediment and vegetation can remain largely intact even during extreme storm surges. This was demonstrated in a large-scale experiment in which researchers transported sections of salt marsh to an experimental facility ...
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Oct 21, 2026
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Reconstructing 16,000 years of summer temperature change in the Western Balkans
Researchers at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) have reconstructed approximately 16,000 years of summer temperature changes from sediments collected at Lake Prokoško in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The findings show how the Western ...
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Oct 21, 2026
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How life on Earth experiences climate change
Climate change can look very different at the scale of a forest, field or hillside. A new review shows how changes in vegetation and atmospheric conditions can cause local microclimates to warm at very different rates from ...
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Oct 21, 2026
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Forgotten samples from Greenland's Cold War base reveal warmer summers during ancient ice-free period
The site of a former U.S. military base in Greenland was ice-free at a time when summers were a few degrees warmer than today, according to a new University at Buffalo–led study of ancient sediment recovered from beneath ...
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Oct 20, 2026
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