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Environment Aug 22, 2025

UN says workers' health 'severely impacted' by rising heat

Rising global temperatures are having an ever-worsening impact on the health and productivity of workers, the United Nations said Friday, urging immediate action to tackle the dangers of heat stress.

Biotechnology Aug 19, 2025

Satellite imagery-driven models support chickpea farmers in the field

A new study introduces a machine learning tool that combines satellite imagery and weather data to monitor chickpea crop health. The system accurately estimates Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Leaf Water Potential (LWP) across ...

Earth Sciences Aug 15, 2025

Study explains mystery of former crater lakes in the highest mountain range of the Sahara

An interdisciplinary research team led by scientists from Freie Universität Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology has shown how deep lakes formed more than 9,500 years ago in the craters of the Tibesti Mountains ...

Environment Aug 14, 2025

Report confirms record-high greenhouse gases, global temperatures, global sea level, and ocean heat in 2024

According to the 35th annual State of the Climate report, greenhouse gas concentrations, the global temperature across land and oceans, global sea level, and ocean heat content all reached record highs in 2024, and glaciers ...

Ecology Aug 12, 2025

Marine heat wave forecasts help predict coral bleaching, fish kills and algal blooms

Just as the 2019–20 summer is remembered for devastating bushfires, the summer of 2024–25 is likely to be remembered for Australia-wide marine biological disruption associated with marine heat waves.

Environment Aug 4, 2025

Exceptional Nordic heat wave stumps tourists seeking shade

Nordic countries are relieved after battling an exceptional heat wave which shattered the hopes of foreigners seeking to cool off in the far north—a disappointment meteorologists warn is likely to be repeated.

Environment Jul 31, 2025

Faster global warming linked to Chinese aerosol cuts

Chinese air quality improvements are likely to have contributed to accelerated global surface temperature warming, according to a research paper, with the Asian landmass warming at twice the global average.

Earth Sciences Jul 31, 2025

Weather-tracking advances are revealing astonishing extremes of lightning

It was a single lightning flash that streaked across the Great Plains for 515 miles, from eastern Texas nearly all the way to Kansas City, setting a new world record.

Environment Jul 29, 2025

As US climate data-gathering is gutted, Australian forecasting is now at real risk

This year, Australia has experienced record-breaking floods, tropical cyclones, heat waves on land and in the ocean, drought, coral bleaching, coastal erosion and devastating algal blooms. Over the past five years, insured ...

Earth Sciences Jul 22, 2025

Researchers use AI to identify landslides and target disaster response

Researchers from the University of Cambridge are using AI to speed up landslide detection following major earthquakes and extreme rainfall events—buying valuable time to coordinate relief efforts and reduce humanitarian impacts.

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