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Wildfire-driven deforestation rates in California among highest in world

University of California - Davis
Peer-Reviewed Publication

California has one of the highest rates of wildfire-driven deforestation in the world, and the trend has accelerated over the past three decades, according to a UC Davis study.

Journal: Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Funder: California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

Quaise Energy on track to build world’s first power plant using superhot geothermal energy

Science Communications
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Quaise Energy is on track to build the world’s first power plant using superhot geothermal energy. A Quaise analysis presented at the 2026 Stanford Geothermal Workshop validates the company’s belief that its first plant could produce at least 50 megawatts of clean, renewable electricity. That energy, produced from only a handful of wells, would be available 24/7.

Meeting: 51st Stanford Geothermal Workshop

Climate scientists present policy package on eve of Dutch-Colombian summit

Universiteit van Amsterdam
Reports and Proceedings

This week, the Netherlands, together with Colombia, is organising an important international climate summit in Santa Marta, Colombia. For the first time, the phasing out of fossil fuels is the central focus, a topic now even more prominent due to the war in the Middle East. Twelve climate researchers affiliated with the University of Amsterdam (UvA) are presenting a policy brief for a just and feasible fossil fuel phase-out at this summit. ‘This is not a utopia, but an international obligation and economically and practically feasible.’

Frontiers in Science Deep Dive webinar series: Halting and reversing biodiversity loss by 2030 critical to avoid disastrous effects on human well-being

Frontiers
Meeting Announcement

Discover how a “Nature Positive” approach can halt and reverse the global decline in biodiversity and help to prevent the destabilization of Earth’s systems that support human well-being.

Hanyang University ERICA researchers trace chicken domestication on the Korean Peninsula

Hanyang University Research Strategy Planning Team
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Korean Peninsula plays a significant role in tracing the spread of domestic chickens across East Asia. Recently, researchers from Hanyang University ERICA presented the first biomolecular evidence of prehistoric chickens on the Korean Peninsula, confirming they were reared managed during the Proto-Three Kingdoms period. This methodology can now be applied to the vast collections of animal bones housed in Korean museums.

Journal: Journal of Archaeological Science

Paleobiology: Fossil true bug with remarkable claws

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Peer-Reviewed Publication

LMU researchers have discovered a previously unknown species of true bug equipped with claws.

Journal: Insects

Pacific annular warming elevates the 2026/27 El Niño prediction

Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research (OLAR)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of researchers shows that a rare and extreme annular warming pattern in the tropical Pacific, combined with the accumulation of warm water in the upper western Pacific in spring 2026, will collectively drive a super El Niño event toward the end of this year.

Journal: Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research

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