• How government use of AI could hurt democracy
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    Countries are eager to use AI to automate some government processes, but this risks eroding citizens’ trust and feelings of democratic control – because AI mistakes can ruin their lives
  • We may have finally solved an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray puzzle
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    The IceCube neutrino detector has allowed researchers to resolve a debate about what types of particles make up ultra-high-energy cosmic rays – but much remains unknown about these rare events
  • Artificial cooling 'urgent' for Great Barrier Reef after warming spike
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    A drop in shipping emissions has caused a surge in warming at the Great Barrier Reef, fuelling calls for drastic actions such as marine cloud brightening to lower the risk of coral bleaching
  • ‘It can’t withstand the heat’: fears ‘stable’ Patagonia glacier in irreversible decline
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Environment | The Guardian
    Scientists say Perito Moreno, which for decades defied trend of glacial retreat, now rapidly losing mass One of the few stable glaciers in a warming world, Perito Moreno, in Santa Cruz province, Argentina, is now undergoing a possibly...
  • Climate could warm another 0.5°C if we fail to capture far more CO2
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    Models suggest that meeting climate targets will be virtually impossible without steep emissions cuts paired with a huge expansion of carbon management technologies
  • Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    Urban trees lining streets fare better in dry spells than those in parks – now it seems that leaky water pipes are the reason for their endurance
  • How extreme rainfall in New Mexico is linked to wildfires
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Environment | The Guardian
    As the Texas flash flooding risk moved west, the National Weather Service pointed to the effect of burn scars from 2024 After the extreme rainfall in Texas on 4 July, the flash flooding risk moved to New Mexico, with 89mm (3.5in) of rain...
  • Step up restoration of ancient woodland before it is lost, Forestry England urged
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Environment | The Guardian
    Campaigners say just 5.8% of irreplaceable habitat at publicly owned sites has been fully restored in 10 years Forestry England needs to urgently step up its ancient woodland restoration before the irreplaceable habitat is lost for ever,...
  • Toxic Pfas above proposed safety limits in almost all English waters tested
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Environment | The Guardian
    Exclusive: 110 of 117 bodies of water tested by Environment Agency would fail standards, with levels in fish 322 times the planned limit Nearly all rivers, lakes and ponds in England tested for a range of Pfas, known as “forever...
  • Week in wildlife: a flying vole, a Wimbledon wagtail and some lovebugs
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Environment | The Guardian
    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  • One wrong move could be fatal: the divers risking their lives to save whales from ‘ghost nets’
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Environment | The Guardian
    Abandoned fishing equipment haunts our oceans, killing coral, turtles, sharks and whales. But in Colombia’s Gulf of Tribugá, ‘guardians’ are on call to free entangled marine animals After a day of scuba diving, Luis Antonio “Toño”...
  • Hay fever relief could come in the form of a nasal 'molecular shield'
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    Mice experienced far fewer hay fever symptoms when a pollen-blocking antibody was applied within their nose
  • Air pollution controls weaker for larger emitters, research finds
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Environment | The Guardian
    Diesel generators allowed to emit 48 times more nitrogen oxides than gas boilers producing same amount of energy Air pollution controls in some sectors are much weaker than others, researchers have found. A recent study looked at legal...
  • The Beatles to Virginia Woolf: UK tree of the year shortlist is rooted in culture
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Environment | The Guardian
    Woodland Trust’s 10 nominees from across the country highlight how trees inspire creative minds A cedar tree climbed by the Beatles, an oak that may have inspired Virginia Woolf and a lime representing peace in Northern Ireland are among...
  • It’s 12ft tall, covered in feathers and has been extinct for 600 years – can the giant moa bird really be resurrected?
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Environment | The Guardian
    Colossal Bioscience is adding the extinct animal to its revival wishlist, joining the woolly mammoth, dodo and thylacine. But scepticism is growing Standing more than three metres (10ft) high, the giant moa is the tallest bird known to...
  • Welcome to Prime Day, when thousands of product thumbnails blur together to form a giant pile of garbage | Anna Spargo-Ryan
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Environment | The Guardian
    I love a sale – but scrolling the list of Amazon’s deals is overwhelming to the point of delirium I’m a simple girl. My idea of fun is an annual event in which people are crushed in pursuit of half-price Christmas decorations. But those...
  • Why bizarre Cold War hoverboats are making a comeback
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    Sea-skimming crafts – which fly just above the water – were once considered Cold War relics of a failed Soviet experiment. Now, China and the US are resurrecting the technology as a possible Pacific conflict looms
  • Fatal genetic disorder treated by replacing the brain's immune cells
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    Microglia replacement therapy helps treat people with a rare genetic condition called ALSP, suggesting the approach could also work for other neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s
  • Zonal pricing is dead. Now Miliband should be less absolutist on his 2030 goals | Nils Pratley
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Environment | The Guardian
    The imperative ought to be to bear down on costs for consumers, starting with a more pragmatic approach to generation targets The chief executive of Ofgem, Jonathan Brearley, backed zonal pricing. Fintan Slye, the head of the National...
  • Extreme heat could lead to 30,000 deaths a year in England and Wales by 2070s, say scientists
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Environment | The Guardian
    Worst-case scenario of 4.3C of warming could result in fiftyfold rise in heat-related deaths, researchers say More than 30,000 people a year in England and Wales could die from heat-related causes by the 2070s, scientists have warned. A...
  • Inhaled insulin may free children with type 1 diabetes from injections
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    Inhaled insulin is effective for controlling blood sugar levels in children with diabetes, providing them with a faster-acting, needle-free option to manage their condition
  • Brit finds ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ creature in garden that’s never been seen before in UK
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Daily Express :: Nature Feed
    Anita McMillan was out walking in the countryside near St Austell when she spotted the pygmy shrew in the wild, and made the major discovery
  • Astronomers found a completely new type of plasma wave near Jupiter
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma can produce a truly novel kind of extraterrestrial wave near its poles
  • Peculiar plant could help us reconstruct ancient Earth’s climate
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants – and this unique process provides valuable clues for understanding past and present ecosystems
  • 5 things you didn’t know about sea-level rise
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Conservation International Blog
    It’s indisputable: Around the world, seas are rising at a faster rate than at any time in recorded history. But there’s more to this story than you might realize.
  • Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS might be the oldest comet ever seen
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion years old, almost twice the age of our sun
  • With the world in crisis, many say end globalisation. I say that would be a mistake | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Environment | The Guardian
    Terms like ‘deglobalisation’ have become commonplace, but what we need is true multilateralism. Erecting walls won’t bring us peace and prosperity Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the president of Brazil The year 2025 should be a time of...
  • ‘It was filthy and it stank terribly’: how Europe’s dirtiest river was brought back to life
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Environment | The Guardian
    €5.5bn project has transformed the Emscher from ‘the sewer of the Ruhr’ to a place where nature is starting to flourish Strolling beside the Emscher, the Tyczkowskis say it is the stench that they remember most about the river’s darker...
  • 'World's smallest volcano' measuring just 60cm tall discovered 'emitting gas'
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Daily Express :: Nature Feed
    The volcano, discovered by locals near the village of Cusco, was not volcanic in the traditional sense, but still posed a potential risk to the environment
  • Climate anxiety meant I could no longer work as a pilot. But I love flying – and I know we can transform aviation | George Hibberd
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Environment | The Guardian
    There’s no shortage of ideas for how to make air travel greener. But it has to start within the industry – and with workers George Hibberd appears alongside fellow pilot Todd Smith in the Guardian documentary Guilt Trip I love flying....
  • Guilt Trip: pilots torn between flight and the fight for the planet - documentary
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Environment | The Guardian
    Commercial pilots George Hibberd and Todd Smith grapple with the reality of their dream jobs, torn between childhood ambitions of flying and the impact of their industry on the world beneath them. From the cockpit, they witness...
  • Surgical robots take step towards fully autonomous operations
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    An AI system trained on videos of operations successfully guided a robot to carry out gall bladder surgery on a dead pig, with minimal human assistance
  • Stunningly intimate octopus image wins aquatic photography prize
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    Kat Zhou has won the Aquatic Life category in the 2025 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition, while a shot of a death-defying leap by a lemur took the top prize
  • Will we ever feel comfortable with AIs taking on important tasks?
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    An example from the history of mathematics shows how views on the trustworthiness of artificial intelligence can quickly start to change
  • Is this the raciest conference invite ever?
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    Feedback has been invited to an event next year in Shaoxing, China. It's an academic conference promising "revolutionary thinkers who are redefining human intimacy through cutting-edge robotics and AI"
  • Plans to genetically screen newborns for rare diseases are problematic
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    The UK's health secretary has announced a 10-year plan to check newborns for a huge range of rare conditions. There are major medical and ethical issues with this, argues neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan
  • Provocative new book says we must persuade people to have more babies
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    The population is set to plummet and we don't know how to stop it, warn Dean Spears and Michael Geruso in their new book, After the Spike
  • The cosmos is vast, so how do we measure it?
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly? Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explains
  • Slay the new slang: check out a guide to social media’s baffling lingo
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    Language is evolving rapidly in a world of social media. Our millennial reviewer finds Adam Aleksic's Algospeak to be a much-needed helping hand
  • Antidepressant withdrawal symptoms may be less common than we thought
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    Previous estimates have suggested that more than half of people who stop taking antidepressants experience withdrawal symptoms, but now a review of the evidence suggests this isn't the case, at least for short-term use.
  • Exercise helps fight cancer – and we may finally know why
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    Exercise seems to help prevent cancer and reduce the growth of tumours, and that protective effect may be due to the way working out changes the gut microbiome
  • Oldest proteins yet recovered from 18-million-year-old teeth
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    The oldest protein fragments ever recovered have been extracted from fossilised teeth found in Kenya's Rift Valley, revealing the remains belonged to the ancient ancestors of rhinoceroses and elephants
  • Why falling in love with an AI isn’t laughable, it’s inevitable
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    It’s easy to sneer at people who say they’ve fallen in love with ChatGPT. But we've been developing confusing feelings for bots for decades longer than you might think, writes Alex Wilkins. With so many people feeling lonely, can that be...
  • Colossal's plans to "de-extinct" the giant moa are still impossible
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    After a controversial project claiming to have resurrected the dire wolf, Colossal Biosciences has now announced plans to bring back nine species of the extinct moa bird
  • A youthful brain and immune system may be key to a long life
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    Maintaining good overall health is key to living a long life, but we may want to particularly focus on the state of our brain and immune system
  • 1500 deaths in the recent European heatwave were due to climate change
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    We now have the ability to rapidly assess the impact of climate change after extreme weather events – a first of its kind analysis has shown that it nearly tripled the death toll from the most recent European heatwave
  • Herpes virus could soon be approved to treat severe skin cancer
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    A cancer-killing virus could soon be approved for use after shrinking tumours in a third of people with late-stage melanoma
  • The truth about ivermectin’s supposed health benefits
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    Interest in the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin skyrocketed during the covid-19 pandemic, but evidence for many of its supposed health claims are lacking
  • What will be the climate fallout from Trump's 'big beautiful bill'?
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    The “One Big Beautiful Bill” just signed by President Trump will slash support for clean energy, leaving the US far short of its Paris Agreement pledge
  • 70,000 years ago humans underwent a major shift – that’s why we exist
    Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from New Scientist - Climate Change
    Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants managed to people the rest of the world
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