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#Butterfly ranges are shifting on every continent, with #climatechange and #extremeweather associated with 79% of recorded movements. A global study of 1,758 species also reveals major monitoring gaps in biodiversity-rich tropical regions. DOI: doi.org/rh8j
Climate change is reshaping butterfly ranges worldwide • Muser Press
The researchers call for broader and more inclusive monitoring to track how climate pressures and land-use change are affecting butterfly diversity.
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Greek officials and residents of a region west of the capital Athens on Wednesday began to assess the damage suffered by homes, businesses and farmland scorched by a #wildfire. #Greece
Greeks survey damage left by fires near Athens • Muser Press
Greek officials and residents of a region west of the capital Athens on Wednesday began to assess the damage suffered by homes, businesses and farmland
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#Floods and #landslides triggered by #monsoon rains have killed more than 100 people across #India since July, official data showed Wednesday, with thousands forced to flee their inundated homes.
India monsoon floods, landslides kill more than 100 since July: officials • Muser Press
Floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains have killed more than 100 people across India since July, official data showed Wednesday, with thousands
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#OceanX announced the completion of High Seas: Revealing Roo Rise, a 22-day scientific #expedition aboard R/V OceanXplorer to investigate one of the eastern Indian Ocean’s most ecologically significant and under-characterized high seas regions. #HighSeas #MarineEcosystems
OceanX expedition maps Roo Rise deep-sea ecosystems • Muser Press
A 22-day OceanX expedition has produced a new scientific baseline for Roo Rise, a little-studied region of the eastern Indian Ocean. Aboard R/V OceanXplorer,
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The EU-funded SYNCHRONY project brings together 27 international partners to strengthen #SouthernOcean observations, connect polar data and improve predictions of #climate and ecosystem change around #Antarctica.
EU launches project for Southern Ocean observing system • Muser Press
A new international research project will strengthen observations across the Southern Ocean and Antarctica as scientists seek to understand rapid changes in
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#SouthKorea registered on Sunday its highest #temperature since records began more than a century ago, according to the state weather agency. #ExtremeWeather #Climate
South Korea records its highest-ever temperature of 42.5 °C • Muser Press
South Korea registered on Sunday its highest temperature since records began more than a century ago, according to the state weather agency.
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Less than 10% of ancient permafrost #carbon redeposited in #Arctic coastal #sediments was respired, researchers report in Nature Geoscience. Microorganisms mainly decomposed younger marine organic matter. DOI: rdcu.be/fxqxD #AWI
Arctic coastal sediments keep much permafrost carbon buried • Muser Press
Nearshore sediments can retain ancient carbon carried into the ocean by coastal permafrost erosion, potentially limiting its rapid return to the active carbon
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Water erosion does more than remove soil carbon. It also reshapes microbial communities and accelerates carbon decomposition. In eroded upper slopes, SOC decomposition was 41%–48% higher, mainly within the top 40 cm of soil. #SoilCarbon #Microbiome #CarbonResearch 🔗: doi.org/10.1007/s442...
Heatwaves are warming our rivers too. Since the 1980s: 👉 Compound air–river heatwaves have tripled 👉 River heatwaves are 114% more frequent, 148% longer, and 95% more intense 👉 By 2100, under high emissions, 98.5% of river and atmospherric heatwaves could coincide. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Threefold increase in atmospheric–riverine compound heatwaves under climate change - Nature Geoscience
Co-occurring atmospheric and river heatwaves have tripled since the 1980s across the USA and Europe, and are projected to become the norm by 2100, according to model simulations.
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Hungary’s sole nuclear power plant will be shut down next week because of low #water levels in the river #Danube, Prime Minister Peter Magyar said Friday as central Europe slogs through the latest in a series of #heatwaves.
Hungary to shut nuclear plant as heatwave hits central Europe • Muser Press
The nuclear plant in Paks, south of Budapest, provides around 40 percent of Hungary's annual electricity generation.
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Since returning to power, President Donald Trump‘s administration has approved five new #pesticides considered by many to be “forever chemicals,” a class of toxic substances facing increasing restrictions around the world. #PFAS
Forever chemicals and pesticides under Trump: what to know • Muser Press
Since returning to power, President Donald Trump's administration has approved five new pesticides considered by many to be PFAS "forever chemicals," a class
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A strengthening #ElNiño that could shatter all-time records is “adding fuel to a planet already on #fire” and pushing the world into “uncharted territory,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Friday.
Strengthening El Niño 'adding fuel to a planet already on fire': UN chief • Muser Press
A strengthening El Niño that could shatter all-time records is "adding fuel to a planet already on fire" and pushing the world into "uncharted territory," UN
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Record-breaking #heatwaves in May and June led to an estimated 2,877 excess deaths in England, the #UK #Health Security Agency said Wednesday. #Toll
May, June heatwaves caused 2,877 extra deaths in England: govt • Muser Press
Record-breaking heatwaves in May and June led to an estimated 2,877 excess deaths in England, the UK Health Security Agency said Wednesday
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Research using examples from Delhi and London shows how #housing, work and urban design can expose vulnerable residents to greater harm from #extremeheat and reduced #daylight, supporting calls for thermal and daylight #justice. DOI: doi.org/rhq5
Heat and daylight deepen inequality in cities • Muser Press
Housing quality, working patterns and neighbourhood design shape how people experience extreme heat and reduced daylight in cities. Researchers at the
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How do Europeans navigate climate change and overlapping crises? Green European Revisited (Telešienė, Groß & Hadler, eds., 2026) uses ISSP Environment data to examine environmental attitudes, activism, trust in science, and sustainable practices across Europe. 📖 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Green European Revisited
This book examines how environmental attitudes and behaviours evolving across Europe in age shaped by climate crisis and other crises emerging polycrisis.
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[Research] 🐥 🌊 Seabirds trade survival now for more chicks next year, a trade-off mediated by migration. Field experiments on 251 wild kittiwakes in Alaska shows how these birds reallocate energy across the seasons. bit.ly/4wWfjwC 🧪 doi.org/rhct
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What makes it more worrying is that it coincides with the return of #ElNiño, the weather pattern that warms surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean — and periodically disrupts global #climate. #US #MarineHeatwave #California
Whales at risk, hungry pelicans: Marine heatwave hits California • Muser Press
On a boat off the coast of California, Sara Lesser gazes wistfully at dozens of dolphins playing in the vessel's wake. This summer, extreme heat is making such...
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Firefighters battled massive blazes tearing through forests across #France and #Spain Monday, as authorities warned of a fresh #heatwave set to engulf the scorched French wine-growing region around the major city of Bordeaux. #Wildfires #Europe
France, Spain battle 'monster' wildfires with more heat on the way • Muser Press
"We are dealing with a perimeter of 280 kilometres encompassing 77,000 hectares (190,000 acres)," Barcones told state broadcaster TVE of the wildfire.
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Adolescents and young adults generally had the highest dietary #GreenhouseGasEmissions per person between 2000 and 2019, while people aged 60 and over contributed the largest share of the global increase as older populations grew. DOI: doi.org/rhbw
Young people lead dietary emissions as seniors drive the rise • Muser Press
The analysis covered 141 food products across 22 age groups in 149 countries. Over the study period, global dietary emissions increased by 2.1 gigatonnes of CO2...
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#Wildfires fanned by scorching temperatures and strong winds swept through parts of western #Europe on Friday, triggering a state of #emergency in the Spanish capital region and prompting France to seek aid from the European Union.
Deadly wildfires in Europe force thousands to flee • Muser Press
Wildfires fanned by scorching temperatures and strong winds swept through parts of western Europe on Friday, triggering a state of emergency in the Spanish
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Human-caused #climatechange has intensified a #drought across #Europe with extreme heat, rather than low rainfall driving the exceptionally dry conditions, a team of international scientists said Thursday. DOI: doi.org/10.25560/131...
Climate change making Europe drought 'more severe': study • Muser Press
Human-caused climate change has intensified a drought across Europe with extreme heat, rather than low rainfall driving the exceptionally dry conditions, a
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#AcidMineDrainage may add substantially more CO₂ to metal production than current carbon assessments capture. Its long-term #emissions could exceed the conventional #copper production footprint in one Spanish #mining region by more than tenfold. DOI: doi.org/hccbb7 #CarbonFootprint
Acid mine drainage could greatly increase metal mining carbon footprints • Muser Press
Startling result in the first comprehensive quantification of CO₂ emissions from acid mine drainage neutralization for metal mining in academic peer reviewed literature
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The EU’s food safety agency said Wednesday it has dramatically reduced the acceptable daily intake level of the so-called forever chemical #TFA, following new evidence of its effect on a key hormone that regulates the body’s metabolism. #Health #PFAS
EU watchdog reduces safe level of exposure to 'forever chemical' TFA • Muser Press
The EU's food safety agency said Wednesday it has dramatically reduced the acceptable daily intake level of the so-called forever chemical TFA, following new evidence
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New on #IIASAInsights: How does a climate forecast change as it spreads across social media? Dmitry Erokhin and Nadejda Komendantova draw on two recent studies to explore how online platforms shape climate conversations and why this matters for resilience. 👉 iiasa.ac.at/blog/jul-202...
One climate forecast, many online conversations
What happens when an El Niño forecast reaches social media? Drawing on two recent studies, IIASA researchers Dmitry Erokhin and Nadejda Komendantova explore how the same climate information is discuss...
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Environmentalists in #France were outraged Tuesday as parliament looked set to authorise some farmers to use two bee-harming #pesticides banned in France but allowed in the European Union. #Bees #Agriculture #Politics
Uproar in France over reintroduction of bee-harming pesticides • Muser Press
Environmentalists in France were outraged Tuesday as parliament looked set to authorise some farmers to use two bee-harming pesticides banned in France but
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Who gets published in elite #ScienceJournals? An analysis of 110,303 submissions links publication outcomes to institutional prestige, team size, research topic and author country, with the strongest differences appearing during editorial screening. DOI: doi.org/rgjq #AcademicPublishing
Who gets published in elite science journals? Prestige and country play a role • Muser Press
Publication rates at two major general science journals varied substantially with institutional prestige, research field, team size and author location,
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Australia’s #GreatBarrierReef is at a very high risk of extreme and widespread bleaching and “ecosystem collapse” linked to this year’s #ElNiño weather phenomenon, top scientists warned Tuesday. #Climate #CoralBleaching
Great Barrier Reef at risk of 'collapse', scientists warn • Muser Press
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is at a very high risk of extreme and widespread bleaching and "ecosystem collapse" linked to this year's El Niño weather
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With nearly 1,000 active fires and an area as large as Belgium already burned, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says his country is facing one of the “most intense” #wildfire seasons in its history. #Canada #Climate
Canada faces one of its most intense fire seasons • Muser Press
Canada's 270 million hectares of boreal forest -- that is forest in high-latitude environments -- comprises 28 percent of the world's boreal zone. It is
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Researchers have copied massive quantities of publicly-available #climate and environmental #data from NASA onto a Swiss #supercomputer to train artificial intelligence models -- and for safekeeping amid US funding cuts. #AI #Research
Swiss researchers hoard vast trove of NASA climate data • Muser Press
Researchers have copied massive quantities of publicly-available climate and environmental data from NASA onto a Swiss supercomputer to train AI models - and...
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Aquatic oxygen loss is linked to climate change, nutrient pollution and #biodiversity decline. Researchers say it should be included in the #PlanetaryBoundaries framework. DOI: doi.org/hcbznq #Deoxygenation #Oceans
Aquatic deoxygenation threatens Earth system stability • Muser Press
Researchers led by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the UC San Diego assessed aquatic deoxygenation in relation to the 9 processes included in the Planetary Boundaries framework.
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