Marine #heatwaves can jam the ocean’s biological carbon pump, altering plankton communities and slowing #carbon transport to the deep sea, affecting #climate regulation. Nature Communications | DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Despite mountain glaciers providing #Tajikistan with abundant reserves in the otherwise arid region of Central Asia, access to clean, safe drinking #water is still a privilege in the poor country.

The Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a UN-backed initiative seeking carbon neutral investments by banks, announced Friday its immediate shutdown – at a time of faltering #climate commitments in the United States and Europe.

Jane Goodall, the celebrated primatologist and conservationist, has died

A paper in Nature Communications identifies 85 previously undocumented lakes beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. These subglacial lakes fill and drain with a variety of patterns, revealing interconnected hydrological pathways channeling large volumes of water under the ice sheet. ⚒️ 🧪

Breaking! In a new paper published in @plos.org, former @ipbes.net Executive Secretary @annelarigauderie.bsky.social and #TransformativeChange Assessment co-chairs explore how stopping biodiversity loss is contingent on transformative change.🌍🏡 🧪 https://plos.io/4oZQEUI @lucasgaribaldi.bsky.social

#Pope Leo XIV joins environmental experts and campaigners from around the world for a #climate conference near Rome Wednesday featuring “Terminator” star Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The project comes as #China presses ahead with the $167 billion Yaxia project upstream of Riew on the river known in #India as the Siang, and in Tibet as the Yarlung Tsangpo.

A new PNAS study on yellow warblers reveals how #climate change is reshaping #wildlife, linking genes, traits, and stress markers to show how species struggle to keep pace with a warming world. 🧪🐤🧬 DOI: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

#Europe is a world leader in the fight against #climatechange but must do more to improve its resilience against global warming, the European Union’s environment agency warned on Monday. #Report #Environment

Over 1000 views already on my newly published paper! In the paper, I explored practical ways to increase sustainable meal choices and I uncovered something highly impactful using a new approach… www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus... #sustainablefood #greennudges

Over the last year, Nature’s Careers team has been tapping into its global community of readers, writers, friends and colleagues to compile a list of laboratory hacks to help make scientists’ working lives easier. Here’s a list of 99 of those hacks. #Academicsky 🧪

#Namibia began deploying hundreds of soldiers on Sunday to fight a #fire that has burned through a third of the vast #Etosha National Park, one of Africa’s largest game reserves, officials said. 🔥

A UC Riverside study in Science finds that Earth’s carbon cycle may not just balance climate – it can overcorrect. Rapid carbon burial could turn global warming into a future ice age. 🧪🌍 DOI: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

A new Nature Communications study shows that #climatechange may make Europe’s #hailstorms less frequent but more destructive, with southern #Europe facing more tropical-like storms producing very large hail. 🧪https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-62780-0

Changing water temperatures and human-driven introductions of fish have altered the composition of fish populations in streams and rivers across the USA over the past three decades, a study in Nature suggests. go.nature.com/47ZCcWH 🧪

A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity explores the effects of mining for the renewable energy transition on biodiversity and social conflict. go.nature.com/4nMyiF5 🧪

More marine life is living on some World War II munitions disposed of on the Baltic Sea’s seabed than on the sediment surrounding it, according to a paper in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/48yFNLy 🌊 🧪

President Donald Trump used his UN comeback address Tuesday to champion fossil fuels and deride green technologies on the eve of a #climate summit called by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to galvanize countries into issuing updated emission-reduction plans. #UN #US

A new study in Scientific Reports shows how merging #climate scenarios improves #flood risk predictions across 70% of Earth’s land, giving policymakers clearer guidance for climate #adaptation. DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧪🌍

Hong Kong shut schools and cancelled flights on Tuesday as Super #TyphoonRagasa neared the financial centre with a force that officials warned would be among the most destructive in the city’s recent history. #China #Philippines #ExtremeWeather

Global banks are continuing to pour far more money into #fossilfuels than into #cleanenergy, despite their public commitments to support the energy transition. The world’s 65 largest banks financed more than twice as much fossil fuel activity as sustainable power projects between 2021 and 2024.

More than 60,000 people died from #heat in #Europe during last year’s record-breaking summer, a benchmark study said Monday, in the latest warning of the massive toll #climatechange is having on the continent. 🧪🌡️🌍 DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

In 2023, the #ocean absorbed 10% less CO₂ than expected as record #heat drove outgassing, especially in the North Atlantic, a study in Nature Climate Change shows. 🧪🌊☀️🌍 DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Warmer climate boosts north German vineyards... for now

Increases in wildfires are expected to cause a notable increase in premature deaths, according to two studies in Nature. go.nature.com/4mynauQ go.nature.com/4nJoxI5 #medsky ⚒️ 🧪

A study in Nature Climate Change shows that the ocean carbon sink unexpectedly declined in 2023 despite record-high sea surface temperatures (SSTs), primarily due to SST-driven outgassing of CO2 in the subtropics. 🌊 🧪

Around 354 million people in North America and Europe are likely to have been affected by fine particulate matter pollution from the 2023 Canadian wildfire season, a paper published in Nature suggests. go.nature.com/42iffKC ⚒️ 🧪

A study in Nature Climate Change shows that dragonfly species with mating-associated wing ornamentation have disproportionately gone extinct and lost habitat because of climate change and wildfire. go.nature.com/4nvkfDS 🔒

A study in Nature links 213 heatwaves from 2000–2023 to human-driven #climatechange, showing 180 fossil fuel and cement producers significantly contributed to rising intensity and frequency. 🌡️🌍🧪 DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The #EU agreed on a broad emissions-cutting target on Thursday to bring to a UN conference in Brazil, sparing the bloc potential diplomatic embarrassment but risking its reputation as a #climate champion.

A paper in Nature suggests a quarter of heatwave events from 2000-23 would have been near impossible without anthropogenic climate change. The paper also indicates that major carbon emitters are responsible for around 50% of the increase in intensity of these events. ⚒️ 🧪

Marine #heatwaves are devastating #clownfish and #anemones in the Red Sea. A study in npj Biodiversity links extreme heat to near-total collapse of this iconic mutualistic partnership. 🧪🌊🌍 #Biodiversity #ClimateChange DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s441...

UC Santa Barbara scientists find cloud seeding could destabilize El Niño, raising concerns about geoengineering impacts. Earth's Future | DOI: doi.org/10.1029/2025... #ClimateChange #ENSO #SolarGeoengineering

Scientists estimated Wednesday that rising temperatures from human-caused #climatechange were responsible for roughly 16,500 deaths in European cities this summer, using modelling to project the toll before official data is released. #Health #Europe

A group of young Americans say President Donald Trump is trampling their inalienable rights through an aggressive push for #fossilfuels and a crusade against federal #climatescience -- and on Tuesday, a rural courtroom in Missoula, Montana will be their stage in a closely watched showdown. #US

Nature spoke with several people who are leading the fight in the United States to reinstate funding, retain scientific knowledge and protect institutions such as the NIH and the US National Science Foundation. #Academicsky 🧪

Rising #oceans and flooding caused by #climate change will threaten the homes and livelihoods of more than a million Australians by 2050, while deaths from heat-related illness will soar, a landmark report warned Monday ahead of Canberra’s release of emission reduction targets this week. #Australia

Post-drought rehydration triggers a preventive immune response in plants, revealing targets to enhance crop resilience by linking drought stress recovery with improved pathogen resistance, according to a paper in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/3I8vq6i #plantscience 🧪

For the third year running toxic blue-green #algaeblooms that look like pea soup and smell like rotten eggs have covered much of #LoughNeagh, the largest lake in the #UK and #Ireland. But this summer, the thick green veneer — so widespread it is visible from space — has been worse than ever.

Nearly one-quarter of heatwaves would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without global warming — and can be attributed to the emissions of individual energy producers go.nature.com/3Kir39u

Wildfires in the western United States are worsening air quality in the West but, paradoxically, may be improving it in the East DOI: doi.org/10.1126/scie.... More studies in this digest: doi.org/10.1038/s415... doi.org/10.1126/scia... doi.org/10.1038/s443... 🧪🌍🧬🐘

Europe’s biggest #carmakers are to hold talks with #EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Friday as the industry pressures the bloc to revise plans to end combustion-engine vehicle sales by 2035.

New research in Nature Geoscience shows northerly winds, not westerlies, are driving West Antarctic #iceloss by trapping ocean heat and accelerating ice shelf melt. DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A paper in Nature suggests a quarter of heatwave events from 2000-23 would have been near impossible without anthropogenic climate change. The paper also indicates that major carbon emitters are responsible for around 50% of the increase in intensity of these events. ⚒️ 🧪

Rising river temperatures in Alaska threaten Chinook salmon growth, putting Indigenous food security at risk; Dolly Varden may thrive as rivers warm, according to a study in 'Scientific Reports'. DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🔍 Behind the Paper: 'Urban Footprints: Assessment of Urban Walkability and Thermal Comfort in a Changing Climate'. 🛟 As climate change drives extreme heat, understanding human thermal comfort is vital to designing walkable urban spaces.🔗 bit.ly/4plv39w @natureportfolio.nature.com #SocSky

#EU lawmakers gave a final green light Tuesday to a #law on slashing back the mountains of #food wasted in Europe each year, and curbing the environmental impact of so-called fast #fashion. #FoodWaste #FastFashion #Environment

#Mangrove soils rely on iron oxides to trap #carbon, a process now shown to be at risk from land use change. Nature Communications | DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #Amazon #CarbonCycle 🧪

Deforestation is responsible for nearly 75% of dry season rainfall reduction in the Amazon rainforest since 1985, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/3I2xPzr ⚒️ 🧪