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18-May-2026

Interactive hydrology makes a splash with students

Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo have developed a game-based rainfall–runoff model that allows users to explore how floods form by adjusting land and environmental conditions. A classroom study with high school students showed that interactive, trial-and-error gameplay with score-based feedback improved their understanding of complex hydrological processes.

Journal: Water Resources Research

15-May-2026

Study: Climate warming drives sustained oxygen loss in global rivers

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

According to a study published in Science Advances on May 15, global rivers are undergoing widespread and sustained deoxygenation driven by climate warming, among which tropical rivers are the most vulnerable ecosystems, with an urgent need to combat oxygen loss.

Journal: Science Advances

15-May-2026

New report charts path for climate-disease preparedness

American Society for Microbiology
Reports and Proceedings

The American Academy of Microbiology, the honorific leadership group and scientific think tank within the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) released a new report examining how climate change is reshaping the infectious disease landscape and what’s needed to strengthen global health preparedness in response.

15-May-2026

Scientists identify hidden accelerant in Antarctic ice loss

University of Maryland
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new University of Maryland-led study shows that meltwater flowing off ice shelves changes the ocean in ways that drive even faster melting—and most global climate projections don’t even include it.

Journal: Nature Geoscience

15-May-2026

Coal pollution is cutting solar power output, study finds

University of Oxford
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research led by the University of Oxford and University College London (UCL) has revealed that pollution from coal-fired power plants is significantly reducing the energy output of solar photovoltaic (solar PV) installations, particularly where these are expanding side by side. The findings have been published today (15 May) in Nature Sustainability.

Journal: Nature Sustainability

15-May-2026

Climate change costs lives by breaking down social connection

University of Sydney
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Climate change is widely understood as an environmental and economic threat, but new research from the University of Sydney shows it is also a growing social crisis, weakening the relationships people rely on to survive.

Journal: Nature Human Behaviour
Funder: Henry Halloran Urban and Regional Initiative Incubator Grant

14-May-2026

AMS Science Preview: “Ornamental twilight,” heat deaths, hurricane eyes

American Meteorological Society
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The latest research from journals of the American Meteorological Society discusses heat deaths and warning thresholds, forecasting "flaming clouds", hurricane reconnaissance, increased U.S. precipitation volatility, and more.

14-May-2026

Satellite launch pollution rapidly accumulating in the upper atmosphere

University College London
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The potent pollution from so-called “megaconstellation” satellite systems launched en masse into space since 2019 will account for nearly half (42%) of the total climate impact of space sector pollution by the end of the decade, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

Journal: Earth's Future

14-May-2026

Physics in uncharted waters: The mysteries of marine snow

University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Can “snow” fall in the ocean and influence the climate of the entire planet? It turns out that it can. Research conducted by scientists from the Faculty of Physics at University of Warsaw, published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics, helps us understand how microscopic “flakes” of dead organic matter collide and sink into the deep ocean, transporting vast amounts of carbon and affecting the pace of global warming.

Journal: Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Funder: National Science Centre of Poland Sonata Bis grant, Swiss NSF Ambizione grant

14-May-2026

New research reveals rapid methane release mechanism at the front of retreating ice sheets

University of Manchester
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international team of scientists has discovered that methane hydrates beneath the northwest Greenland continental shelf became rapidly destabilised by meltwater, releasing large stores of methane during ice-sheet retreat across the continental shelf.

Journal: Nature Geoscience