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Global crop models underestimate rice vulnerability to extreme heat

Peking University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Peking University, August 12, 2026: Rice is a staple food for more than half of the global population, yet how climate change will affect future rice production remains uncertain. A major challenge is that previous assessments often focused on rising average temperatures while overlooking the impacts of extreme heat events.

Journal: Science Advances

LA wildfires had lasting mental health impacts for the most vulnerable residents

University of Southern California
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Almost one year after the fires, elevated levels of anxiety and depression were concentrated among Angelenos who already faced social and economic hardship.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

Early Cambrian fossil discovery sheds light on early cephalopod origin and evolution

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international research team has discovered the earliest known siphuncle-bearing cephalopod from the early Cambrian of South China, providing new insights into the group’s early origin and evolutionary history.

Journal: Nature

New Gobi fossil rewrites a chapter of mammal evolution

American Museum of Natural History
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A remarkably preserved fossil from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert is reshaping scientists’ understanding of mammal evolution during the age of dinosaurs. The new species reveals that a group of extinct mammals known as zhelestids were not close relatives of modern placental mammals as many researchers thought for decades.

Journal: Nature

Sage’s 10-Year Impact Awards celebrate research with lasting influence

SAGE
Grant and Award Announcement

Sage has awarded its seventh annual 10-Year Impact Awards, recognizing three academic papers that have demonstrated enduring influence over the decade since their publication. This year’s awards honor the most-cited articles published in Sage journals in 2015.

6.5 million Americans live in landslide hazard zones

American Geophysical Union
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research to be published Wednesday, 29 July in AGU's journal Earth’s Futurehas found 6.5 million Americans live in homes on or near landslide-prone slopes. Although much of the U.S.’s steepest terrain is in the west, the study finds over half of the people exposed to landslides live closer to the east coast, simply due to higher population densities in that region. The researchers also found people in rural areas have less capacity to recover than their urban counterparts.

Journal: Earth's Future

Cambridge scientist builds new holistic scoring system for dietary protein which reveals some disturbing truths for people and planet

Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge
Peer-Reviewed Publication

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom — Consumers are increasingly confronted with competing claims about which protein sources are healthiest, most sustainable, and best value for money. A new study published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems argues that existing food labels tell only part of the story and introduces a new multidimensional framework designed to evaluate protein sources more holistically.

Journal: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

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