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Environment Aug 21, 2026

UK forecasts 'biggest' El Nino will smash records, spark hottest year

This year's El Niño weather pattern will be the biggest in more than a century and could make 2027 the hottest year globally, Britain's national weather agency predicted Friday.

Paleontology & Fossils Aug 21, 2026

Twenty years and 7,500 fossils reveal what blurs Earth's marine fossil record

In productive marine environments, a square meter (10.8 square feet) of seafloor can be perforated by hundreds to thousands of isolated and interconnected tunnels through which crawl and writhe a cornucopia of clams, shrimp, ...

Ecology Aug 21, 2026

Shark DNA could hold answers to how we age

Age isn't just a number for one of the ocean's top apex predators. It's a mystery University of Georgia researchers are solving. A new UGA study has determined how to estimate the age of sharks by analyzing changes to individual ...

Ecology Aug 21, 2026

Antarctic krill fishing is now concentrated in the exact pattern conservation rules were designed to prevent

The companies fishing for Antarctic krill have harvested so much so quickly that the season had to close in August 2026, three months before it was scheduled to end. That's the second consecutive year of an early closing.

Environment Aug 21, 2026

What a record-breaking El Niño could mean for the world

This year's El Niño is on track to be the strongest on record, threatening to unleash extreme weather across the globe and make 2027 the hottest recorded year by far.

Environment Aug 21, 2026

Panama Canal to reduce shipping over El Niño-fueled drought

The Panama Canal will cut the number of ships passing through it starting next month because of drought caused by the El Niño phenomenon, the operator of the strategic waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific said Thursday.

Earth Sciences Aug 20, 2026

North Sea wind farm expansion may shift rain offshore, simulations suggest

Offshore wind farms are a key pillar of the energy transition. The European Union plans to expand offshore wind capacity in the North Sea by 2050. A new study by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon indicates that a very extensive ...

General Physics Aug 20, 2026

AI boosts sensitivity to double-Higgs signatures occurring about once per trillion collisions

Is the universe as stable as we think it is? That's one of the big questions that particle physicists worldwide are preparing to answer with the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC—the world's most powerful particle accelerator—when ...

Earth Sciences Aug 20, 2026

Dynamics of the Icelandic ice sheet altered North Atlantic seawater chemistry, environmental physicists reveal

Over the past 230,000 years, the growth and retreat of the Icelandic ice sheet have led to major changes in the seawater chemistry of the North Atlantic, caused by the interaction between volcanism and ice in Iceland. Scientists ...

Earth Sciences Aug 20, 2026

Rising ocean temperatures reduce the natural carbon storage capacity of seagrass meadows

A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment, with contributions from researchers at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), shows that higher seawater temperatures could significantly reduce ...

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