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World’s oceans hit highest temperature on record as El Niño grows
The waters far away from El Niño's Pacific hunting ground are also extremely warm, including around the UK and Europe.The western English Channel has seen almost continuous marine heatwave conditions for more than three years, peaking at 7C above...
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UK’s rarest bird of prey rears new chicks in secret location
These slender, long-winged raptors make an epic annual migration to Africa in winter and return to Europe to nest over summer, often setting up home in agricultural fields. But little is known about the behaviour of juvenile harriers once...
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Torfaen becomes global hotspot for carbon emissions after wildfires
Melanie Simmonds, head of Save the Children Wales, said: "In Wales and across the world, children are breathing in smoke from wildfires, coping with extreme heat and losing the freedom to play outdoors because the air is no longer...
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Using thunderquakes to X-ray Earth – a new study shows urban seismology in action
When lightning strikes, it superheats the air around it and creates a shock wave that we hear as thunder. But thunder doesn’t just travel through the atmosphere to our ears.When that energy reaches the ground,...
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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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Niger coup attempt: Is Russia proving better at protecting friends than fighting enemies in West Africa?
Niger's government is facing threats on two fronts: extremist militant groups attacking the state, and grievances within its armed...
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