← All categories
Research & Innovation
Read the latest climate science from peer-reviewed studies, IPCC reports, and research institutions. Coverage includes new findings on warming projections, atmospheric science, oceanography, and climate modeling from Nature, Scientific American, and NASA.
Atmospheric rivers, thick clouds and rising warm ocean water opened Portugal-sized polynya in Breid Bay's winter sea ice in August 2024, Geophysical Research Letters study finds
Polynyas are patches of open water surrounded by sea ice, where heat and moisture can pass freely between the ocean and atmosphere.
Researchers reconstruct ex-tropical cyclone rainfall from Biggenden banded snail shell oxygen isotopes and radiocarbon dating, spanning snail's 2013-2018 life in Queensland park
The chemical record of a snail shell is allowing scientists to reconstruct a record of past storms from the recent—and maybe distant—past.
Sun and Thompson's models show Atlantic cross-hemispheric overturning persisting for centuries after North Atlantic Deep Water formation shuts down
A new study suggests cross-hemispheric overturning circulation could continue for centuries, even as North Atlantic Deep Water formation shuts down.
Nigerian and South African researchers' TiO₂-BiOI nanocomposite on activated coal fly ash removes all bacteria from Osogbo household well water after six hours of sunlight, study finds
Nigerian researchers have shown that TiO₂-BiOI nanocomposites supported on activated coal fly ash can completely remove bacteria from contaminated household well water within six hours of sunlight exposure.
England's east coast loses at least 183 homes to erosion and landslides in 16 years; councils demolish them as unsafe, £1.1m cost, Environment Agency pays about £482,000 for 61
Exclusive: Homes demolished along east coast after being deemed too vulnerable to live in, figures reveal Seaside communities along the east coast of England have lost at least 183 homes to coastal erosion and landslides over the past 16 years, figures obtained by the Guardian reveal.
Australia's BOM reports record weekly central Pacific sea-surface temperatures as El Niño strengthens weeks before expected December peak; readings top 30C for first time in parts of tropical Pacific
El Niño has continued to strengthen, with several key measures now in record territory.
Lake sediment from Victoria's Croajingolong National Park shows British colonization ended Gunaikurnai cool burns, replacing open woodland with forest where eucalypt cover rose from 9% to 34%
New research reveals how British colonization transformed Australia's open woodlands into dense forests, increasing wildfire risks long before climate change.
Wildfires burn drained Indonesian Borneo peatlands for weeks, spreading haze to Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines; Indonesia holds a third of global tropical peatland
For weeks on end, parts of Indonesian Borneo have resembled an Armageddon landscape with masked residents immersed in a putrid, red-brown haze as wildfires devour peatlands near homes and farms.
ICLR 2027 caps authors at 20 submissions each and first-timers at one, as entries head toward 62,000, up from 490 a decade ago
Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03153-5 Researchers question whether these will work to stem the deluge of manuscipts.
Nature correspondence says Cassidy Buhler's case for running open-weight AI models on local institutional servers rests on weak evidence for its energy-savings predictions
Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03245-2 Decentralized AI needs more evidence on energy use
Study finds alkalinity release rate, not total supplied, governs crystal growth and strength in sulfate-activated slag cements using clinker-based activators
New research shows that the rate at which clinker-based activators release alkalinity, rather than the total amount supplied, controls crystal growth and strength in low-carbon sulfate-activated slag cements.
Liaoning Normal University researchers' MCC-ED framework combines contextual interaction, closed-loop graph fusion, and event contrastive learning, posts state-of-the-art event detection on ACE-2005 and MAVEN
Researchers at Liaoning Normal University have developed MCC-ED, a multi-module AI framework that combines contextual interaction, closed-loop graph fusion, and event contrastive learning to achieve state-of-the-art event detection results on the ACE-2005 and MAVEN benchmarks.
Empa researchers led by Mirjana Dimitrievska show barium zirconium sulfide emits light more efficiently than earlier measurements suggested; synthesis defects suppress emission in thin films
Researchers have experimentally shown that chalcogenide perovskites can emit light more efficiently than previous measurements...
Study finds no carbon removal technology ready for large-scale use in the Netherlands, which plans 20-25 million tonnes of removals a year by 2040
No carbon removal (CDR) technology is ready for large-scale deployment in the Netherlands, despite the country's plans to scale removals to 20-25 million tonnes annually by 2040, according to a study published last week.