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10-Jun-2026

The Earth is accumulating heat at an accelerating rate. Global warming reached 1.37°C in 2025

University of Leeds
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Strong and consistent evidence shows that the entire climate system is continuing to heat, driving rapid global warming. Human activities pushed global warming to 1.37°C in 2025, and its level is projected to surpass 1.5°C in about four years. Crucially, the rate at which heat is accumulating in the Earth system suggests high levels of future warming. These are some of the key findings from the latest Indicators of Global Climate Change (IGCC) report, published today in Earth System Science Data.

An international team of more than 70 scientists, including IPCC Lead Authors, Contributing Authors, and Chapter Scientists, from 56 institutions across 17 countries contributed to this year’s IGCC study.

Journal: Earth System Science Data

10-Jun-2026

Biochar triggers a five-year soil recovery cascade in acidifying rice paddies

Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Soil acidification is a growing threat to food production, especially in intensively managed agricultural regions where repeated fertilizer use can gradually make soils more acidic, reduce nutrient availability, and increase the mobility of toxic metals. A new five-year field study published in Biochar shows that biochar may do more than simply neutralize acidic soils. It can help organize a coordinated recovery process across the entire soil ecosystem.

Journal: Biochar

10-Jun-2026

World’s leading soil science congress opens in Nanjing for the first time in China

Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University
Meeting Announcement

The 23rd World Congress of Soil Science, often regarded as the “Olympics” of the soil science community, opened in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. Held from June 8 to 12 under the theme “Soil and the Shared Future of Humankind,” the congress marks the first time in its nearly 100-year history that this premier global academic event in soil science has been hosted in China.

10-Jun-2026

Sea-level rise has increased frequency of extreme coastal flooding worldwide, study finds

Tulane University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Human-caused sea-level rise has dramatically increased the frequency of extreme coastal flooding worldwide, making events once expected every 100 years occur about 12 times more often on average, according to a Tulane-led study published in Nature Climate Change. Using long-term tide gauge records and climate model simulations, researchers found that climate change has made these flooding events roughly four times more likely since 1900.

Journal: Nature Climate Change

10-Jun-2026

What was previously a once-in-a-century storm surge now occurs every eight years

MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Storm surges and extreme water levels along coastlines occur significantly more frequently today than at the beginning of the 20th century. A new study in the journal Nature Climate Change shows that what was statistically expected to occur only once every 100 years around 1900 now occurs, in global average, about every eight years. This corresponds to an increase by a factor of about twelve. The team of authors includes Prof. Ben Marzeion from the Institute of Geography and MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen.

Journal: Nature Climate Change

10-Jun-2026

Hurricane rainfall and landslide risk on the rise in Southern California

Stanford University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Climate change could make historically rare tropical cyclones more common in Southern California, significantly expanding landslide risk across the region by 2050.

Journal: Nature Climate Change
Funder: Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

10-Jun-2026

New study shows land shifts, sea level rise occur more rapidly than previously thought

University of Central Florida College of Engineering and Computer Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For almost a century, researchers have known that vertical land motion — the lifting and sinking of the ground — affects sea level locally. As the ground sinks, the sea level rises relative to the land. Scientists also assumed this process generally occurred at a steady rate over time. But a research team that includes Thomas Wahl, a UCF researcher and associate professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, has found that ground subsidence has undergone phases of variable change, creating significant implications for coastal communities.

Journal: Nature Geoscience