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Chilling the body with drugs could limit brain damage from stroke
Researchers are exploring whether pharmaceutical cooling of the body could reduce brain cell death after stroke. The approach mimics hibernation by lo…
AI could be trapped in a 'Carbon Valley' unless action is taken soon
Artificial intelligence infrastructure demands enormous energy consumption, potentially locking the technology into carbon-intensive patterns unless p…
'River in the Sky': China's doomed plan to create a 'cloud seeding corridor' tells us how far the country will go to solve its climate crisis
China is pursuing an ambitious and controversial cloud seeding project that would create a "river in the sky" to transport moisture across vast distan…
Ancient squirrel poop from Arctic permafrost contains DNA from mammoths, bison, horses and big cats
Researchers analyzing ancient squirrel feces from Arctic permafrost have uncovered a genetic time capsule spanning thousands of years of ice-age biodi…
El Niño has started and the weather could get weird
The World Meteorological Organization formally declared El Niño's arrival, confirming what climate models have predicted for months. Forecasters asses…
Heading for the Atlantic Ocean to study the impact of climate change on ocean circulation
Researchers are embarking on an Atlantic Ocean expedition to investigate how climate change affects the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (A…
Indian millets contain distinct lipid fingerprints with anti-diabetic and anti-inflammatory potential
Researchers have identified a diverse array of lipids in Indian millets, including previously unknown compounds that show promise for treating diabete…
Climate models are missing the first warning signs of deadly Middle East heat waves, study finds
Climate models fail to capture the atmospheric precursors that ignite deadly heat waves in the Middle East, according to new research. While these mod…
World's rarest great ape decimated by 4 days of extreme rain, with 7% of population lost to cyclone
Cyclone Senyar killed approximately 58 Tapanuli orangutans in Indonesia, reducing the world's rarest great ape population by 7 percent. The extreme ra…
Arctic Ocean reaches tipping point that could be dire for marine life
The Arctic Ocean has crossed a threshold that threatens its entire food web. Vanishing sea ice now allows sunlight to penetrate waters that were previ…
A Texas-size chunk of winter sea ice is missing from Antarctica — and it's probably not coming back
A patch of Antarctic sea ice roughly the size of Texas has failed to form over the Bellingshausen Sea off western Antarctica, marking a dramatic depar…
A new approach to the EU's promised cross-border climate action
The European Union faces a strict emissions reduction target: 90% below 1990 levels by 2040, with 5 percentage points allowed through climate action o…
El Niño is officially here, and will be among the strongest ever recorded, NOAA announces
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared El Niño officially underway, with forecasters assigning a 63 percent probability that the…
Northern permafrost switches from carbon sink to carbon source earlier than thought in models including deep soil carbon
Northern permafrost is switching from a carbon sink to a carbon source faster than climate models predict, according to research on deep soil carbon d…
Beneath our feet lies a fungal superhighway stretching 68 quadrillion miles
Scientists have mapped the world's underground fungal networks for the first time, revealing a staggering biological infrastructure that spans 110 qua…
A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could destroy the ozone layer
Researchers modeling the atmospheric effects of nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan have found that a regional war in the tropics would inflic…
Burned as waste for years, this overlooked plant material is poised to reshape how nylon gets made
Researchers have identified a pathway to manufacture adipic acid, a key component in nylon production, from plant waste rather than petroleum. This sh…