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Rising emissions, depleting water and vanishing land—UN scientists: AI is threatening natural resources for billions

United Nations University
Reports and Proceedings

Ahead of the World Environment Day, a new study by the United Nations scientists warns about the rising environmental footprints of AI and its lasting impacts on climate, water, and ecosystems

Hail conditions on the move as winter crops face rising risk

University of New South Wales
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research led by UNSW suggests as the climate warms, the conditions that produce hailstorms are drifting towards the poles – leaving winter crops exposed.

Journal: Nature Climate Change
Funder: National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy, QBE Insurance

Attribution constraints reveal stronger future intensification of the upper‑level Hadley circulation

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By applying an “attribution constraint” method based on optimal fingerprinting to correct systematic biases in CMIP6 climate models, the study significantly improved the projection reliability on the the upper‑level Hadley circulation.

Journal: Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters

Researchers advance first-of-its-kind AI tool for translating life-saving weather warnings across the US

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Nearly 69 million people in the United States speak a language other than English at home, yet weather warnings have long been issued almost exclusively in English. A new study documents how the National Weather Service is using artificial intelligence to change that, developing a comprehensive translation program that delivers life-saving forecasts and alerts in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Samoan, French and other languages.

Journal: Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems
Funder: NOAA Weather Program Office

Environmental engineers reshape understanding of airborne pollution particles

Virginia Tech
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research from Virginia Tech is poised to upend how scientists think about the structure of these tiny airborne droplets and what that means for predictions around air quality, pollution spread, and climate models.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Cutting methane could slow the recovery of the ozone layer

University of Reading
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The more aggressive the methane reduction, the slower the ozone layer’s recovery.

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters

Invasive pythons & hurricanes drive opposite population shifts in endemic Florida rodents

South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A 7-year study reveals the endangered Key Largo woodrat has plummeted post-Hurricane Irma and python invasion, while the co-occurring cotton mouse unexpectedly increased—offering critical insights for island biodiversity conservation.

Journal: Biological Diversity
Funder: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Distant winds can drive massive tropical warming deep below the ocean surface

University of California - Santa Barbara
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Against the backdrop of a rapidly warming climate, it’s become vital to better understand the mechanisms behind heat uptake and transfer into the deep ocean. Data show that between 1970 and 2020, approximately 89% of the excess heat from climate change was absorbed by the oceans, not the atmosphere.

Journal: Geology

Sensitivity of Antarctic ice to climate change sharply increased after Ice Age shift 1 million years ago

Institute for Basic Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience [1] by researchers at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea shows that the Antarctic ice sheet became more sensitive to climate forcing following a major shift in Earth’s ice age cycles about one million years ago, providing new insight into how ice sheets respond to long-term climate change.

Journal: Nature Geoscience
Funder: Institute for Basic Science

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