European countries top ‘scorecard’ on climate progress while US slips to 27th | Environment
Much of the world has made encouraging strides in reducing toxic problems such as water and air pollution…
New Horizons Pluto probe just woke itself up after 321 days of hibernation
Science Good luck getting your PC to do that after lunch NASA’s New Horizons probe has woken itself…
Scavenger animals are the missing link in Australia’s bird flu response. Three experts explain
Australia is racing to contain the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), which is now believed to…
Black hole theory: Synthetic ultrafast rotation amplifies electromagnetic waves
Artistic rendering of Penrose super-radiance: electromagnetic waves with selected rotation patterns are amplified as they interact with a…
Disturbance regimes drive widespread plant range disequilibrium in Europe alongside climate change
Plot and environmental data We retrieved 1,903,668 vegetation plots and 40,468,042 observation records from the European Vegetation Archive…
SpaceX crowding out competitors with tenfold AI satellite constellation increase
SpaceX has filed a new application with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission asking for permission to launch and…
Neil the seal is more than a viral animal. He’s become a global folk hero
I am one of Hobart’s many residents who travelled to a nearby beach to witness Neil the seal…
Trees keep absorbing carbon long after they stop growing
Trees do not necessarily keep growing for as long as they keep photosynthesizing, according to a new study…
Assessing corporate sustainability with large language models: evidence from Europe
ML framework overview Our end-to-end ML framework operates as follows (Fig. 1b; see the “Methods” and the Supplementary Information for…
Proxima Centauri b is our closest known habitable-zone exoplanet, just over four light-years away, and it may be warm enough for liquid water if it has kept an atmosphere. But that “if” is enormous: its red-dwarf star blasts it with extreme radiation strong enough, in some models, to strip an Earth-like atmosphere away.
Proxima Centauri b has a claim no other known exoplanet can match. It orbits the nearest star to…
In 1788, cats were brought to Australia after more than 200 years later, the country’s native wildlife is still paying the price | World News
The domestic cat arrived in Australia with the First Fleet in 1788, introduced as a familiar companion and…
Earth’s Longest Volcanic Ridge May Be an Underwater Moving Hotspot
Ninetyeast Ridge, the long, pale-blue line slicing through the Indian Ocean near 90 degrees east, is the largest…