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AI-generated imageForecasters are adopting AI weather models faster than ever, but new research finds these systems can misjudge how strong a storm's winds actually get, even when they look convincing on screen.
AI-generated imageThe pause does not mean sea ice loss has stopped, since the remaining ice is thinner and now swings more with year-to-year weather.
AI-generated imageRecovering these metals from coal ash and mining waste using biological methods, rather than energy-intensive chemicals, could ease reliance on mined reserves concentrated in a handful of countries.
AI-generated imageDetecting hazardous rainfall patterns as they form, rather than after flooding starts, could give city responders extra time before water rises.
AI-generated imageSatellite data suggest a chemical reaction inside the volcano's stratospheric plume destroyed methane, offering a possible new way to verify future methane-removal technologies.
AI-generated imageResearchers warn that crossing 1.5°C for good could trigger irreversible changes like ice sheet collapse and rainforest dieback, not just gradual extra warming.
AI-generated imageLong-term climate records show today's disruption between the two ocean basins looks unlike anything volcanic eruptions produced in past centuries, making it harder to forecast rainfall patterns that depend on their connection.
AI-generated imageLab tests found some fish versions of a serotonin-handling protein respond to antidepressants at doses over ten times lower than the human version, at concentrations already found in polluted waterways.
AI-generated imageResearch from the UK and the US Mid-Atlantic shows that seawater is invading farmland from below and from the edges faster than farmers can hold it back, threatening land that produces an outsized share of food in both regions.
AI-generated imageModels suggest the ocean region that soaks up the most human carbon dioxide could flip into a major source of it for centuries after net zero, complicating hopes that carbon removal can quickly undo warming.
AI-generated imageTracking the chemical fingerprint of nitrogen shows fertilizer runoff surges into the Gulf during wet weather, adding to a decades-long pattern of nutrient pollution and warming that other research links to coral and reef stress.
AI-generated imageA sudden mass failure of ice and rock high in the Himalayas shows how melting glaciers and unstable mountain slopes can combine into disasters that current warning systems cannot catch.
AI-generated imageTwo model-based analyses suggest that record-breaking heatwaves may exceed even what current climate projections anticipate, complicating efforts to prepare infrastructure and health systems for future extremes.
AI-generated imageMore than 388 recorded glacial lake outburst floods and an accelerating expansion of lakes across the Himalaya-Karakoram are pushing India and neighbouring countries to build risk rankings and warning systems faster than the lakes themselves are changing.
AI-generated imageAs catastrophic flooding in Japan showed the scale of extreme rain events, researchers elsewhere are testing whether seeding clouds could ever be used to manage such extremes, though the technology's effects remain modest and uncertain.
AI-generated imageA more than 24-hour eruption forced Indonesia to close eight airports and pushed volcanic gas high enough into the atmosphere that satellites tracked it drifting across two islands.
AI-generated imageModeling shows beaver dam-building alone could store 120 million cubic meters of water and create 2,200 square kilometers of fire-resilient land in a region already facing severe drought and wildfire risk.