Sudden shifts in the Southern Westerly Winds 15,000 years ago - after the last Ice Age - triggered a massive growth of peatland swamps.

A new study has introduced the first Malaysia specific model for estimating the social cost of carbon, offering policymakers a clearer path toward meeting the country’s climate and biodiversity goals while protecting economic growth. The research, published in Carbon Research, highlights how Malaysia can leverage its extensive forest resources to reduce climate damages, lower mitigation costs, and accelerate progress toward net zero emissions.

MIT researchers designed a device that quickly recovers drinking water from an atmospheric water harvesting material. The system uses ultrasonic waves to shake the water out of the material, recovering water in minutes. 

In light of the ongoing fifteen-year megadrought in Chile, an international team of researchers, including Francesca Pellicciotti from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), addressed a bold future scenario. Their findings: by the end of the century, the considerably worn-out glaciers will not be able to buffer a similar megadrought. They call for coordinated global climate policies to develop effective water management strategies. The results were published in Communications Earth & Environment.

SRL Editor-in-Chief Allison Bent has appointed Hongfeng Yang as the first deputy editor-in-chief of its journal Seismological Research Letters (SRL).

The earliest evidence of an internal ‘GPS’ system in an animal has been identified by researchers, which could help explain how modern birds and fish evolved the ability to use the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate long distances.

An international team of scientists, including a senior researcher at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, has uncovered new evidence of ancient wildfires that reshapes our understanding of Earth’s turbulent Early Triassic epoch, about 250 million years ago.