A study by Colorado State University, Western Colorado University and others has found that the fastest-moving forest fires not only burn more area, but burn it more severely, making it harder for forests to recover by leaving fewer surviving trees to reseed the landscape.

Online conflict tends to advance social movements rather than undermine them, according to new research from McGill's Desautels Faculty of Management.

Accurately forecasting extreme temperature events remains a critical challenge for climate adaptation and disaster preparedness. Now, researchers have developed Hankelformer, a novel deep learning architecture that integrates structured Hankel-based augmentation with contrastive learning to significantly improve extreme weather forecasting. Tested on real-world extreme events including the 2021 Texas winter storm and the Pacific Northwest heat dome, Hankelformer achieved up to 34% reduction in prediction error compared to leading baseline models, offering a promising tool for reliable extreme temperature forecasting.

In some city districts, more than a third of pedestrian streets sit under tree cover. In others, the figure is barely ten percent. To make such gaps visible and give cities a more differentiated view, HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology) has added a new indicator to its existing Climate Action Navigator. Local governments and civil society organizations receive a free, street-level overview of where shade is present and where it is missing, so they can take targeted action such as planting trees or directing tourists toward shaded routes to attractions.

Across political ideologies, people in the U.S. overwhelmingly gravitate toward technologies presented as natural and reject those that seem unnatural. The findings offer insight on why some proposed climate solutions fail and help explain how greenwashing can take hold.