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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 25-Dec-2025 09:11 ET (25-Dec-2025 14:11 GMT/UTC)

Biomass-based carbon capture spotlighted in newly released global climate webinar recording

Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University
Meeting Announcement

A public YouTube recording highlights how nature-based biomass solutions could deliver gigaton-scale carbon removal while supporting sustainable development

Oxford-led study estimates NHS spends around 3% of its primary and secondary care budget on the health impacts of heat and cold in England

University of Oxford
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Analysis of 4.37 million patient records in England finds resources asymmetrically impacted by winter cold and summer heat, with about 64% linked to common cold days while very hot days drive sharp same-day demand surges

Journal: The Lancet Planetary Health

How changing your diet could help save the world

University of British Columbia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For many of us, the holiday season can mean delightful overeating, followed by recriminatory New Year’s resolutions.

But eating enough and no more should be on the menu for all of us, according to a recent UBC study. It found that 44 per cent of us would need to change our diets for the world to warm no more than 2 C.

Dr. Juan Diego Martinez, who led the research as a doctoral student at UBC’s Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, discusses the study’s findings and the simple dietary changes we can all make.

Journal: Environmental Research Food Systems

Japanese eels, climate change, and river temperature

PNAS Nexus
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The distribution of Japanese eels (Anguilla japonica) at the northern edge of the species’ range appears to be shaped by river water temperature, which is influenced by watershed geology and land use.

Journal: PNAS Nexus

Invisible but deadly: Scientists warn of a growing global threat from amoebae in water and the environment

Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A group of environmental and public health scientists is sounding the alarm on a largely overlooked but increasingly dangerous group of pathogens: free living amoebae. In a new perspective article published in Biocontaminant, the researchers highlight how these microscopic organisms are becoming a growing global public health threat, fueled by climate change, aging water infrastructure, and gaps in monitoring and detection.

School meals could unlock major gains for human and planetary health

University College London
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Healthy, sustainable school meals could cut undernourishment, reduce diet-related deaths and significantly lower environmental impacts, according to a new modelling study led by a UCL (University College London) researcher.

Journal: The Lancet Planetary Health

Study: More eyes on the skies will help planes reduce climate-warming contrails

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers typically analyze images taken by geostationary satellites to identify regions of the sky where contrails form, but new research shows adding images taken by low-Earth-orbiting satellites would help identify many more such regions. Pilots could avoid these regions to reduce aviation’s climate impact.

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters
Funder: U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Office of Environment and Energy

Leaves’ pores explain longstanding mystery of uneven tree growth in a carbon-enriched world

Duke University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An engineering perspective on how trees transport and use water reveals why there is a large disparity around the world between how trees' growth rates are responding to an atmosphere with more food in the form of carbon dioxide.

Journal: Nature Climate Change
Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China, European Research Council

How climate policies that incentivize and penalize can drive the clean energy transition

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from a team of researchers that includes faculty from the University of California San Diego and Princeton University shows how a mix of subsidies for clean energy and taxes on pollution can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.

Journal: Nature Climate Change

Researchers show impact of mountain building and climate change on alpine biodiversity

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators, explored the impact of mountain building and climate cooling over 30 million years across five major mountain systems in the Northern Hemisphere and revealed that these processes are key drivers of the rich plant diversity found in the Earth's alpine biome.

Journal: Science Advances

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