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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 14-Jan-2026 08:11 ET (14-Jan-2026 13:11 GMT/UTC)

7-Aug-2025

Urgent manifesto on climate change responds to extreme regional weather

Communications and Institutional Research Office, City University of Hong Kong
Business Announcement

As Asia grapples with a surge in extreme weather events, from record-breaking rainfall and typhoons to prolonged heatwaves, one of the world’s leading climate scientists is sounding the alarm with an eight-point manifesto aimed at combating climate change now.

6-Aug-2025

New study links 2023 Maui wildfire to spike in suicide, overdose

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Deaths by suicide and drug overdose significantly increased in the aftermath of the August 2023 Maui wildfire, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The study, led by Alex Ortega, dean of the Thompson School of Social Work and Public Health, and Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula, chair of the Department of Native Hawaiian Health, in the John A. Burns School of Medicine, both at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, along with Jonathan Purtle, associate professor at New York University’s School of Global Public Health, is one of the first to show that wildfires can lead to immediate deaths from suicide and drug overdose.

Journal: Journal of the American Medical Association

6-Aug-2025

Global hunt for ‘positive tipping points’

University of Exeter
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Experts are calling for a global effort to identify “positive tipping points” to accelerate the green transition – and have devised a method to find them.

Journal: Sustainability Science

6-Aug-2025

Decline of seed-dispersing animals hinders fight against climate change

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

International team of researchers issues global warning about the need to include frugivores in conservation, forest restoration, and climate change mitigation strategies.Seeds consumed by animals germinate more and faster and establish themselves in safer places to grow.

Journal: Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

6-Aug-2025

Climate change is altering nitrogen composition in Arctic rivers, study finds

NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Climate change is starving the Arctic Ocean of essential nutrients, with the region's six largest rivers now delivering far less of the type of nitrogen that marine ecosystems need to survive.

Journal: Global Biogeochemical Cycles

6-Aug-2025

Unprecedented heat in North China: how soil moisture amplified 2023's record heatwave

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

North China faces extreme heat, with temps hitting 40°C+ in 2023—breaking 60-year records. A new study links the heatwave to high-pressure systems and dry soils, warning such events may become normal due to climate change. Urgent adaptation needed for energy, health, and crops.

Journal: Earth's Future

6-Aug-2025

Arctic freshening and worse connected oceans: that was the marine world at the end of the Cretaceous period

University of the Basque Country
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Ocean health 66 million years ago analysed in an international study with the participation of EHU researcher Vicente Gilabert and published in Nature Communications

Journal: Nature Communications

6-Aug-2025

Growing shade trees can cut chocolate’s environmental impact

University of Queensland
Peer-Reviewed Publication

University of Queensland research shows emissions from the global chocolate industry could be reduced by growing more shade trees over farms in the region that supplies 60 per cent of the world’s cocoa.

Journal: Nature Sustainability
Funder: Lindt Cocoa Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, Joint Cocoa Research Fund of CAOBISCO and ECA, Women’s Research Assistance Program

6-Aug-2025

Experts urge shift in heatwave strategy to save lives

University of Sydney
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Hot air is just one contributor to heat stress. Health experts say we need a radical rethink to prevent more deaths during heatwaves.

Journal: Nature

5-Aug-2025

On-board camera footage offers bird’s eye glimpse into seabird flights and feeding behaviour

Lancaster University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have captured unique on-board footage of Indian Ocean seabirds speeding just above the waves to catch flying fish on the wing.

The footage, obtained by lightweight bird-borne cameras formed part of a study of the lives of seabirds in the waters around the remote archipelago they call home.

Two red-footed boobies - a tropical cousin of the more familiar gannet – were carefully fitted with the tiny cameras to record how they catch their favourite food; flying fish. Of 15 capture attempts, 14 were towards flying fish while in flight and one was an underwater dive.

Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Funder: Bertarelli Foundation