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Greenland Meltwater May Amplify Europe’s Heatwave Risk
Freshwater from Greenland is increasingly relevant to Europe’s summer climate, but the evidence points to a complex risk multiplier rather than a simple one-way cause of heatwaves.
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Climate is the long-term pattern of temperature, rainfall, winds and other atmospheric conditions in a place or across the planet. It is shaped by natural systems including oceans, land, ice and the atmosphere, as well as by human activities that alter greenhouse gas concentrations. Climate influences ecosystems, water supplies, agriculture, health, infrastructure and weather extremes.
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El Niño Nears Historic Strength as Pacific Warms Fast
A rapidly intensifying El Niño is raising the prospect of a historic event, but whether it has already surpassed every modern predecessor depends on the measurement used.
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How Monsoon-Fed Wildfires Shaped Early Human Habitats
A high-resolution sediment record from Kenya’s Turkana Basin suggests that stronger ancient monsoons increased vegetation fuel and wildfire activity, creating rapidly changing habitats for early hominins.
Society
NAS Reviews Removal of Climate Guide for US Judges
The National Academy of Sciences has taken its climate-science guide offline while it commissions an independent review of how the chapter was developed.
Science
Global Ocean Temperatures Set a New July Record
A record July for global ocean surface temperatures underscores how long-term greenhouse-gas warming and a developing El Niño are combining to elevate climate risks worldwide.
Science
Europe’s Wildfires Are Exposing Buried Wartime Munitions
Europe’s severe wildfire seasons are turning long-buried munitions into an immediate emergency-response problem, forcing fire services and bomb-disposal specialists to work around the same advancing flames.
Society
Drought and Heat Test Europe’s Power Grid Resilience
Europe’s 2026 heat and drought have exposed how rising cooling demand, constrained river flows and stressed generation assets can combine into a sharper electricity-security risk.
Society
Can Scrapping a New Petrol Car for an EV Cut Emissions?
Replacing a newly bought petrol car with a battery-electric model can reduce lifetime climate emissions, but the result depends on use, electricity and what happens to the discarded vehicle.
AI
DeepMind WeatherNext Claims Earlier Cyclone Forecasts
Google DeepMind says its WeatherNext model can match a previous generation of cyclone forecasts roughly 24 hours earlier, but the result is a measure of forecast skill rather than a guarantee of an extra day for every warning.
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Canadian Wildfire Smoke Cut Europe’s Solar Potential
A new modelling study suggests that smoke from Canada’s record 2023 wildfire season reduced potential solar generation across North America and Europe, exposing an overlooked climate risk for electricity systems.
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UK Dry Spell Tests Water Systems and Ecosystems
A near rainless July across parts of the UK has turned an unusual weather statistic into a wider test of rivers, farms, ecosystems and water supply resilience.
Science
90°F in Arctic Russia: What the Heat Event Means
Temperatures above 90°F in northern Russia highlight an Arctic heat event, the feedbacks behind polar warming and what one record does—and does not—show.