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A high-resolution computer model of how water moves through the Venice Lagoon projects that the city's Mose flood barriers would close about 248 days a year by 2095–2099 on a high-emissions pathway,…
Plant diversity in a grazed Eurasian steppe peaked where grazing was neither heavy nor absent, as a long-standing idea in ecology predicts, while the community of organisms in the soil underneath did…
Ying Yan, Ali A. Ameli and a colleague at the University of British Columbia report that a river basin does not convert rain into streamflow the same way twice. They analyzed about 1.7 million…
Eleven climate models were handed the same odd instruction: pour fresh water into the ocean all the way around Antarctica, at a steady rate, and do not stop. In every one of them, the area of sea…
Plastic shows up in Arctic snow, Arctic air, Arctic seawater and Arctic fish, and the explanation usually offered is distance. Particles ride winds and currents north from the places where plastic is…
A rebuilt global crop model puts the wheat lost to drought at 9.7% of yield on average, the loss to heatwaves at 5.8%, and the loss in seasons when heat and drought arrive together at 13.3%. Yuchuan…
The World Meteorological Organization forecast on Oct. 8, 2026, that sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific will reach record levels from October to December, as the El…
Botanists have described a new species of giant waterlily from the upper Orinoco basin in eastern Colombia. The description was published Oct. 7, 2026, in the journal Phytotaxa, under the name…
Researchers working at a natural carbon dioxide vent off the Italian island of Ischia have put a measured value on the seawater acidity at which seafloor shell builders give way: pH 7.7. Below it,…
Sea ice around Antarctica has been at record low daily extents since Oct. 2, 2026, surpassing the records set in 2023, the National Snow and Ice Data Center said in its monthly sea ice analysis. The…
Flood peaks arrived earlier at 52.2% of the river sites a global satellite survey could measure over 2008 to 2025, and at 27 of the 50 largest river basin outlets, researchers report in…
An autonomous ocean glider measured chlorophyll from the sea surface down through the water column during a marine heatwave in June 2023, and the two depths did not behave alike: the surface rise was…