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How will El Niño affect the weather in the UK?
"I have not seen an event like this developing in our forecasts before", said Professor Adam Scaife, head of long-range forecasts at the Met Office.He says the scale of the growing El Niño is unprecedented in modern climate records.As...
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Antarctic krill fishing is now concentrated in the exact pattern conservation rules were designed to prevent
The companies fishing for Antarctic krill have harvested so much so quickly that the season had to close in August 2026, three months before it was scheduled to end. That’s the second consecutive year of...
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El Niño set to be ‘strongest in living memory’, says Met Office
Heat is released from the ocean into the atmosphere, lifting global temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns.Scientists declare an El Niño when sea surface temperatures in a key area of the Pacific are 0.5C or more above average.Current measurements show...
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BBC Inside Science – Is the era of the cancer vaccine upon us? – BBC Sounds
Available for 32 daysThis week Merck (known as MSD in Europe) and Moderna announced that a personalised cancer vaccine had significantly improved the outcomes of melanoma patients. Is the era of the cancer vaccine, at last, upon us? What...
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Puerto Rico is rationing water, but many residents stopped trusting the tap long before the drought
Ivis García, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University -
Imagine turning on your kitchen faucet and nothing comes out. Not for an hour, but for two full days. Then the water returns, only to stop again two days later.That is what more than...
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Colorado River water conservation efforts get only halfway to a solution
In August 2026 the nation’s two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, both on the Colorado River, hit their lowest levels since they first began to be filled in 1936 and 1963, respectively.The federal...
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Just because the bill is low doesn’t mean energy is affordable
One light bulb. That was what electrification brought to my grandmother Mag’s two-story farmhouse in Boydton, Virginia. No one wrote down the year the rural electric cooperative workers brought the wire to her house in...
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Severe flooding raises deadly overdose risk in rural Appalachia, study finds – and the harm lasts for years
When she went to sleep on July 27, 2022, McKayla wasn’t worried about the storm that was raging outside her trailer in southeastern Kentucky. Intense storms came frequently in summer. While the creek in front...
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AI companies look to the ocean as a place to put more data centers
The artificial intelligence boom is driving unprecedented demand for data centers, raising concerns about their growing energy consumption, water use and carbon footprint. These challenges are making companies look beyond traditional land-based data centers.Some...
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Professor Emeritus Chiang Chung Mei, pioneering scholar of ocean wave dynamics and fluid mechanics, dies at 91
Chiang Chung "C.C." Mei, professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), a renowned hydrodynamicist whose work shaped the field’s understanding of ocean waves and their interactions with coastal and offshore structures, passed away peacefully at...
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Toronto mayor calls tariff fight “unnecessary,” says “we feel like we’re being bullied”
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow told CBS News that the escalating tariff fight between the U.S....
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