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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 22-Nov-2025 02:11 ET (22-Nov-2025 07:11 GMT/UTC)

New study looks at (rainforest) tea leaves to predict fate of tropical forests

Northern Arizona University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Northern Arizona University and the Smithsonian went to the top of a Panamanian rainforest to simulate heat death in leaves and measure the effects on surrounding leaves. The results were encouraging: Tropical forests may be less sensitive to climate change than originally feared.

Study identifies molecular changes associated with hotter weather and preterm birth

Emory University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An Emory University study, published Friday by Science Advances, provides the first evidence that exposure to higher temperatures during pregnancy is linked to specific molecular changes in mothers that are also associated with preterm birth.

Journal: Science Advances

First-ever full Earth system simulation provides monumental new tool to understand climate change

Association for Computing Machinery
Grant and Award Announcement

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 26-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling in recognition of their project “Computing the Full Earth System at 1 km Resolution.” The award honors innovative contributions to parallel computing toward solving the global climate crisis.

AMS Science Preview: Railways and cyclones; pinned clouds; weather warnings in wartime

American Meteorological Society
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research published "early online" in AMS journals discusses topics including the vulnerability of China's high-speed rail to tropical cyclones, war's impact on meteorology, how cities make each other warmer, whether trees or buildings provide better urban shade, and the discovery of "pinned" clouds over Texas industrial facilities.

Journal: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Cute little marsupials pack a punch at mealtimes

Flinders University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Native Australian animals range from high-hopping kangaroos to fast-running emus – but clever little bettongs also have a special ability to find and eat the food they love.

Flinders University researchers have discovered the secrets behind a superpower of these tiny relatives of kangaroos which allows them to crack open seeds that would break the jaws of most animals. They hope the research will help conservation efforts, including finding suitable locations to reintroduce populations severely impacted by predation and habitat loss.

Journal: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Funder: Australian Research Council

Quantum calculations expose hidden chemistry of ice

University of Chicago
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) and collaborators at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) have used quantum mechanical simulations to reveal how tiny imperfections in ice's crystal structure dramatically alter how ice absorbs and emits light.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Monsoon storms will bring heavier rains but become weaker

University of Reading
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Climate change will make monsoon storms in South Asia wetter and weaker, with more storms pushing further inland across India.

Journal: Journal of Climate

Cancel fossil fuel extraction contracts to combat climate change

University of Barcelona
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The countries participating in the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30), currently taking place in Brazil, must cancel fossil fuel concessions in order to keep the Paris Agreement alive. This is the main message of a paper published in the journal Nature and signed by experts Martí Orta, Gorka Muñoa and Marcel Llavero, from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona, and Guillem Rius, from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).

Journal: Nature

Researchers warn of the need for Brazil to turn promises into practical actions at COP30

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In an article published in a scientific journal, the group emphasizes that Brazil must align its domestic policies with international commitments.The scientists emphasize the need to “reverse anti-environmental policies, enforce laws to combat deforestation, and strengthen sustainable development actors to turn promises into concrete actions through legislative reforms, the restoration of environmental licensing, and the protection of indigenous peoples’ rights

Journal: International Environmental Agreements Politics Law and Economics
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

The road ahead: Why conserving the invisible 99% of life is fundamental to planetary health

Applied Microbiology International
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new paper outlines how scientists came together to put together the first microbial conservation roadmap under the leadership of Applied Microbiology International President, Professor Jack Gilbert.

In July 2025, IUCN formally launched the MCSG within its Species Survival Commission, co-chaired by Professor Gilbert and Raquel Peixoto (KAUST / ISME). This came out of a meeting that Professor Gilbert led in May of conservation experts and microbiologists to define the premise of conservation in a microbial world.

This is the first global coalition dedicated to safeguarding microbial biodiversity, which is the ‘invisible 99% of life’, to ensure that microbes are recognized as essential to the planet’s ecological, climate, and health systems.

Journal: Sustainable Microbiology

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