A study of American and Canadian universities found most are including climate change in the curriculum for future urban planners, but they vary widely in their approaches to preparing the future professionals for mitigating, adapting to and being resilient to climate change in their profession.

A research team, led by the University of Liverpool, has developed new approach to measure ocean memory and found that the North Atlantic Ocean has a memory of approximately one-two decades, significantly surpassing previous estimates of a few years.

A team of astronomers has found that Venus has never been habitable, despite decades of speculation that our closest planetary neighbour was once much more like Earth than it is today.

This Incident Brief by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) provides a rough estimate of the value of the threatened properties by Hurricane Helen based on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data from the Sentinel-1 satellite of the European Space Agency. The analysis is focused on seven cities, which were reportedly hit hardest by Helene, namely Asheville, Black Mountain, and Chimney Rock in North Carolina, Greenville in South Carolina, Steinhatchee and Tampa in Florida, and Valdosta in Georgia.