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For First Time on Record, Panama's Ocean Fails to Flip

Weakened trade winds disrupt vital cold-water 'upwelling' in Gulf of Panama

(Newser) - For the first time in at least four decades of record keeping, the annual upwelling event in the Gulf of Panama, on Panama's southern coast, was a no-show in 2025. This process, typically driven by northern trade winds each dry season (between December and April), brings cool, nutrient-rich...

In Norway, a World First in Carbon Storage

Oil giants team up to lock away industrial CO2 emissions in unprecedented undersea initiative

(Newser) - Norway just marked a world first. The Northern Lights consortium, backed by Equinor, Shell, and TotalEnergies, has launched a commercial carbon-storage initiative that involves injecting captured CO2 under the North Sea seabed. The operation, announced Monday, aims to help curb climate change by intercepting emissions from industrial sites across...

New Findings on Crucial Atlantic Current a Huge 'Wake-Up Call'

Scientists say collapse of AMOC currents system is no longer just a remote possibility

(Newser) - A new study suggests that the collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation—a key current system that helps regulate the planet's climate—can no longer be considered a remote possibility. The AMOC, which brings warm water from the tropics to Europe and the Arctic, is currently at...

The Toll of Deforestation: 500K Dead Humans
The Toll of Deforestation:
500K Dead Humans
NEW STUDY
Aug 27, 2025 1:10 PM CDT

The Toll of Deforestation: 500K Dead Humans

Tropical land clearance brings deadly heat to millions, per new research

(Newser) - Deforestation in the world's tropical rainforests has claimed over half a million human lives due to heat-related illnesses in the past 20 years, a new study reveals. Researchers found that as rainforests are cleared in areas like the Amazon, Congo, and Southeast Asia, local temperatures rise. The loss...

'Coolcations' Are Creating New Summer Hotspots

Are you all packed for Iceland?

(Newser) - Forget frying on a Mediterranean beach. This summer, tourists are increasingly avoiding some of the normal and hotter summer vacation destinations and instead chasing cooler and quieter trips in the mountains and forests of northern Europe, reports CNBC . "Coolcations" are turning countries like Iceland, Slovenia, and Scotland into regular...

Scientists Create 'Superfood' to Boost Honeybee Survival Rates
Scientists Have a New Plan
to Save the Honeybees
NEW STUDY
Aug 22, 2025 10:24 AM CDT

Scientists Have a New Plan to Save the Honeybees

Lab-made 'superfood' helps colonies produce more surviving young bees

(Newser) - Researchers at the University of Oxford have created a new "superfood" designed to help honeybees survive amid environmental pressures like habitat loss and changing climate. The supplement, developed after 15 years of study, contains the six sterols—special lipids essential to bee development—that bees typically obtain from...

Paris Braces for a Very Hot Future
Paris Braces for a
Very Hot Future
Aug 20, 2025 7:15 PM CDT

Paris Braces for a Very Hot Future

City scrambles to plant trees, upgrade cooling infrastructure

(Newser) - Paris is bracing for a future when summer temperatures could reach a staggering 122 degrees Fahrenheit—a scenario that's no longer just science fiction, according to city officials and climate scientists. Faced with repeated record-breaking heat waves, the French capital is scrambling to prepare for breakdowns in everything...

Alpine Glacier Sees a 130-Year First

Ventina glacier has melted so much geologists now can only monitor it remotely

(Newser) - Italy's Ventina glacier, one of the biggest in northern Lombardy, has melted so much due to climate change that geologists can no longer measure it the way they have for the past 130 years. After this year's hot summer, geologists discovered that the simple stakes used as benchmarks...

It Doesn't Look Good for North America's Reindeer
It Doesn't Look Good for
North America's Reindeer
NEW STUDY
Aug 17, 2025 1:40 PM CDT

It Doesn't Look Good for North America's Reindeer

Wild caribou in Canada and Alaska could decline up to 80% by 2100 amid warming climate

(Newser) - Reindeer populations across the Arctic are facing a steep decline, with researchers warning that numbers could drop by as much as 80% by the end of this century. The finding, led by scientists from the University of Adelaide and the University of Copenhagen, highlights the North American herds—known...

Cloudbursts Spurred by Climate Change Leave 300+ Dead

Flash floods triggered by sudden, intense downpours hit India, Pakistan hard

(Newser) - Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed at least 300 people in India and Pakistan and left scores of others missing, officials said Friday, as rescuers brought to safety some 1,600 people from two mountainous districts in the neighboring countries. Flooding began a day earlier in Indian-controlled Kashmir...

Climate Change Is Making 'Coastal Squeeze' Worse

Seaside homeowners erecting coastal 'armor' (i.e., barrier walls) may be hastening beaches' demise

(Newser) - It may seem to be common sense if you own beachfront property to protect it by building sturdy barriers between your abode and the water, especially as sea levels continue to rise. However, this measure of self-defense is actually contributing to the demise of America's shorelines, because as sea...

Wildfires Descend on Major Greek City

Thousands flee as blazes sweep Greece and southern Europe

(Newser) - As wildfires driven by scorching winds and relentless heat creep toward the heart of Patras, Greece's third-largest city, a wave of evacuations and devastation sweeps across southern Europe, highlighting the mounting toll of an unforgiving heatwave, the BBC reports. Fanned by high winds and temperatures nearing 100 degrees...

This Is the 'New Reality' in Canada
This Is the
'New Reality'
in Canada
Aug 12, 2025 6:25 AM CDT

This Is the 'New Reality' in Canada

Country experiencing its second-worst wildfire season on record, with 710 active fires currently

(Newser) - With more than 470 wildfires raging out of control across Canada and 7.3 million hectares already scorched, experts warn that this year's crisis signals a troubling new reality fueled by a warming climate. This is Canada's second-worst wildfire season on record so far after 2023 , with...

4 Mega-Dry Zones Have Formed Across Earth
4 Mega-Dry Zones Have
Formed Across Earth
NEW STUDY
Aug 11, 2025 8:01 AM CDT

4 Mega-Dry Zones Have Formed Across Earth

Groundwater pumping and climate change fuel rapid continental water loss

(Newser) - Continents have lost so much freshwater in the past two decades that they now outpace melting ice sheets as the main driver of global sea level rise, according to an alarming new study. Researchers at Arizona State University say nearly 70% of this water loss stems from heavy groundwater...

France's 'Water-Gate' Is Shaking Up the Bottled Water Industry

Filtration, climate change, contamination cover-up claims shake the water industry

(Newser) - France's bottled water giants are facing a reckoning, with the spotlight on whether labels like Perrier can still claim the title "natural mineral water." The controversy follows media reports that a third of mineral water sold in France had been quietly filtered to remove contaminants, a...

An Iconic Glacier Has Begun a Retreat

Argentina's Perito Moreno Glacier had long been thought stable

(Newser) - An iconic Argentine glacier, long thought one of the few on Earth to be relatively stable, is now undergoing its "most substantial retreat in the past century," according to new research. The Perito Moreno Glacier in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field for decades has been wedged securely in...

Phoenix Just Had Its Hottest August Day Ever

City hit 118 degrees Thursday

(Newser) - Phoenix experienced its hottest August day ever recorded Thursday, with temperatures hitting 118 degrees Fahrenheit. The previous record high for August was 117 degrees, set in 2011, 2015, 2020, and 2023. Thursday also broke the record for the warmest overnight low, AZFamily.com reports. Temps only got down to 94...

It's an Unwelcome First for Australia's 2 Biggest Reefs

Great Barrier and Ningaloo reefs experience mass bleaching simultaneously

(Newser) - Two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef has seen its sharpest annual decline in coral cover since records began 40 years ago, with scientists warning this iconic ecosystem may be nearing a tipping point, per the Guardian . The latest survey from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)—covering 124...

Pentagon Does a 180 on Hurricane Satellite Data

Military data deemed essential will continue to flow through 2026

(Newser) - The Pentagon has reversed course and will continue to provide satellite weather data that hurricane forecasters deem essential, at least through September 2026. Previously, the Navy had planned to cut off this data as part of a broader Defense Department modernization initiative, raising alarm among scientists as hurricane season...

Experts Warn of Tehran's Water Crisis: 'Day Zero' Is Coming

Drought, mismanagement, climate change push water reserves to the brink

(Newser) - Iran's capital is staring down a water crisis so critical that experts warn "day zero"—when taps in Tehran might simply stop running—could hit in a matter of weeks. Drought and heat are nothing new in Iran, as are water shortages, but this time, the...

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