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For decades, the question of who lives next to an oil or gas well has been answered one country at a time. The United States has a number. Canada has one. Each was built to its own design, with its…
Around midday on March 12 and 14, 2024, at the end of the Chilean summer, Millie Spencer and Robert Clasing flew a small drone over the bare ice of a volcano in Chile's Ñuble region. The wind over…
Nature Communications published a catalog of the viruses living in the deep-sea sediment of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone on Sept. 29, 2026, and its authors report that more than 99% of the…
Joey J. Voermans and Alexander V. Babanin of the University of Melbourne and colleagues report that wave buoys moored in a patch of open water inside East Antarctic sea ice recorded wind-driven waves…
Microbes consume more than 70% of the methane dissolved in the surface water of African lakes, according to measurements across 79 of them published Sept. 29 in Nature Communications. Lakes are large…
The European Union's Copernicus Marine Service published the 10th edition of its annual open-access Ocean State Report Sept. 30, 2026, adding 18 new peer-reviewed chapters on the state of the global…
The authors' sketch of how newly formed particles feed droplet nuclei in each regime. Red arrows mark the estimated direction of future change under an intermediate emissions scenario. — Fig. 4 from…
El Niño, the periodic warming of the tropical Pacific that reshapes weather around the world, may be about to reach a strength never recorded. Only months ago the ocean was in the opposite state: in…
The American West is answering two problems on the same ground, and the two answers have been drawn up separately. There is not enough water, so farmland is taken out of production. Fire keeps…
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization published the 2026 edition of its flagship forest assessment on Sept. 28, at the opening of the agency's Committee on Forestry (COFO) in Rome. The report puts…
The sticky substances soil microbes release while they are alive are a major route into the soil's longest-lasting carbon store, researchers at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan report. Their…
More than a third of the forest the world lost in 2022 was cleared to make goods that were finally bought in another country, according to a peer-reviewed study published Sept. 28, 2026 in…