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El Niño goes viral — and scientists learn what makes people care about the climate 0
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- September 11, 2026
Glaciers shape the landscapes of Spitsbergen, an island of Norway’s Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.Credit: Arterra/Sven-Erik Arndt/UIG/Getty As warnings about a potential ‘mega’ El Niño grab headlines and spread through social media, communicators face a familiar challenge: how to persuade people to pay attention to climate risks — and act. Fighting climate change takes
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Critical zone processes limit alkalinity export from natural basaltic systems – Nature 0
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- August 30, 2026
Hartmann, J. et al. Enhanced chemical weathering as a geoengineering strategy to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, supply nutrients, and mitigate ocean acidification. Rev. Geophys. 51, 113–149 (2013). Article ADS Google Scholar Renforth, P. The negative emission potential of alkaline materials. Nat. Commun. 10, 1401 (2019). Article ADS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Knapp, W. J.
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These trees are making air quality in cities worse 0
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- August 20, 2026
Weeping willow trees are found in many cities globally.Credit: avada/Alamy Across Beijing, millions of weeping willows and poplar trees turn the megacity into a green metropolis. But compounds released by these trees are becoming a major contributor to air pollution1, finds a study. Beijing is not alone. Many trees planted in urban areas — species
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Ocean temperatures set to break all-time record: what’s next?0
- SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- August 13, 2026
Researchers are racing to determine the impact of rising sea surface temperatures on fragile marine ecosystems.Credit: Armando Babani/Getty The world’s oceans are on the brink of setting an all-time heat record, reaching temperatures that could roil marine ecosystems and sap the ocean’s ability to take up carbon dioxide from the air. “It just spells trouble
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A ‘super’ El Niño could transform the Amazon. Is the world’s biggest rainforest doomed?0
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- August 12, 2026
El Niño is back with a vengeance. A mammoth patch of warm water is growing in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is giving four-in-five odds that the disruptive climate phenomenon will turn into a “very strong” event by the end of the year. Some forecasters say this El
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Can AI models reliably forecast extreme weather events?0
- SCIENCE
- March 16, 2026
A meteorologist in Kolkata, India, highlights the approaching Cyclone Dana in October 2024.Credit: Rupak De Chowdhuri/NurPhoto via Getty Improvements in weather forecasting rank high among science’s success stories of the twentieth century1. Back in the 1970s, there were four tropical cyclones that killed tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people, whereas today
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