An international study led by the University of Eastern Finland and the Finnish Meteorological Institute has demonstrated that the formation and properties of lower-atmosphere clouds are highly sensitive to changes in atmospheric aerosol concentrations. This finding is significant as it impacts the assessment of how much human-induced fine particles have slowed down climate warming caused by greenhouse gases. The study was published in the prestigious Nature Geoscience journal.

In the wake of the 2023 Türkiye earthquake doublet, a rapid investigation of surface ruptures proved crucial for emergency response teams and scientific research. Experts from the Institute of Earthquake Forecasting, China Earthquake Administration successfully utilized post-earthquake high-resolution satellite imagery to precisely map the coseismic surface ruptures and conduct seismic hazard assessments of the East Anatolian Fault Zone. Notably, their application of China’s domestically produced GF-series high-resolution satellite images significantly advances global earthquake emergency research.

Terrestrial carbon cycle dynamics remain one of the greatest sources of uncertainty in climate projections, with diverging estimates of ecosystem carbon uptake, affecting the accuracy of Earth system models.

To address these challenges, CONCERTO (Improved CarbOn cycle represeNtation through multi-sCale models and Earth obseRvation for Terrestrial ecOsystems), was launched in January 2025.

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock — and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in the Earth’s mantle may be the reason why.

MIT oceanographers discovered big fish like tuna and swordfish get a large fraction of their food from the ocean’s twilight zone — a cold, dark layer about half a mile below the surface.