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NISAR Radar Satellite Tracks Mexico City Ground Sinking at Over Half an Inch Per MonthLos Angeles, CA (SPX) ) Jun 03, 2026 The NISAR satellite has produced detailed radar maps of ground subsidence beneath Mexico City, showing parts of the metropolitan area sinking by more than half an inch - more than 2 centimeters - pe ... more  
Oxford-ETH Study Pinpoints Why Regional Rainfall Forecasts Remain Unreliable as Climate WarmsLondon, UK (SPX) ) Jun 03, 2026 A study led by the University of Oxford and ETH Zurich has identified a fundamental weakness in current climate models: their inability to accurately simulate the large-scale wind and circulation pa ... more  
Amazon Deforestation Policies Found To Leave Forest Degradation Largely UncheckedLondon, UK (SPX) ) Jun 03, 2026 Policies that have driven significant reductions in deforestation across the Brazilian Amazon over the past two decades have largely failed to address forest degradation - a slower, less visible, an ... more  
Online Tool Traces Any Location on Earth Back 320 Million Years Using New Tectonic ModelBerlin, Germany (SPX) ) Jun 03, 2026 An international team of earth scientists led by Utrecht University professor Douwe van Hinsbergen has launched a publicly accessible online tool that lets users determine what latitude any location ... more |
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Ancient Megafauna Extinctions Left Food Web Scars Felt Across Continents TodayLos Angeles CA (SPX) ) Jun 03, 2026 Between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, many of the world's largest mammals vanished from the Earth. Creatures such as saber-toothed cats with seven-inch fangs, elephant-sized ground sloths, woolly mam ... more  
Ancient Nile Dynamics Shaped the Rise of a Sudanese Empire for MillenniaLos Angeles CA (SPX) ) Jun 03, 2026 The ancient city of Napata, situated in what is now northern Sudan, served as a major urban and cultural hub of the Kushite empire for nearly a millennium. New research from University of Michigan a ... more  
UCLA Team Builds Programmable RNA Organelles Inside Living CellsLos Angeles, CA (SPX) ) May 01, 2026 Researchers at UCLA have developed a method to construct programmable artificial organelles inside living cells using RNA as both the structural material and the assembly blueprint, an advance they ... more  
European Cities Could Meet 28 Percent of Vegetable Demand Through Urban AgricultureBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 03, 2026 A new study by researchers from the Netherlands and Germany estimates that urban agriculture across European cities could produce up to 20 million tonnes of vegetables per year, enough to cover roug ... more |
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Arctic Winter Sea Ice Hits Lowest Extent on Satellite Record in 2026Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 03, 2026 Arctic winter sea-ice extent in 2026 reached its lowest recorded maximum since satellite observations began in 1979, narrowly surpassing the previous record set just one year earlier in 2025, accord ... more  
Iowa State Researchers Develop Priority-Ranking Framework To Guide Robot Rule ConflictsLos Angeles, CA (SPX) ) May 01, 2026 Researchers at Iowa State University have developed a formal framework that allows autonomous robots to rank and reconcile competing rules when following every rule simultaneously is impossible - a ... more  
Fruit flies survive, reproduce and recover under gravitational forces up to 13G in UC Riverside centrifuge studyLos Angeles, CA (SPX) ) May 01, 2026 Fruit flies subjected to gravitational forces many times stronger than Earth's pull not only survived but mated, reproduced, and eventually returned to normal behavior, according to new research fro ... more  
Sea Ice Barriers Shaped Bowhead Whale Recovery Across Arctic StocksAdelaide, Australia (SPX) ) May 01, 2026 An international study led by Adelaide University has found that bowhead whale populations are recovering only in stocks where large areas of hazardous sea ice once limited devastating hunting centu ... more 
Supercomputer Simulations Reveal How Vortex Rings Drive Dolphin PropulsionOsaka, Japan (SPX) ) May 01, 2026 Dolphins are renowned for their speed and agility in water, yet the precise fluid dynamics that make them such efficient swimmers have long remained elusive. Researchers at The University of Osaka h ... more |
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Satellite Data and Machine Learning Sharpen Volcano Eruption Forecasts for Earth and VenusLos Angeles CA (SPX) ) May 01, 2026 When Mauna Loa erupted in November 2022, the largest lava flow advanced directly toward Daniel K. Inouye State Highway 200, known as Saddle Road, a critical transportation corridor connecting commun ... more 
Wild Balkan berries keep gin taste steady as climate shiftsVranje, Serbia (AFP) April 24, 2026 As he threaded his way through the scrub in Serbia's southern hills, Slobodan Velickovic stopped to inspect the small indigo berries that have made the Balkans a key part of the global gin industry. ... more  
Chernobyl, 40 years since disaster: five things to knowChernobyl, Ukraine (AFP) April 26, 2026 Ukraine on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant - the worst civilian nuclear disaster in history. ... more 
From radiation to invasion: a Chernobyl worker's two warsSlavutych, Ukraine (AFP) April 25, 2026 Nikolay Solovyov was on shift the night of April 26, 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Instead of fleeing, he chose to fight his 'first war' against radiation. ... more 
Researchers Identify a Stopping Phase That Governs How Large Strike-Slip Earthquakes EndKyoto, Japan (SPX) ) May 01, 2026 Researchers at Kyoto University have identified a distinct seismic signal - a negative phase in near-fault waveforms - that marks the abrupt arrest of large strike-slip earthquakes and carries signi ... more |
Fossil Evidence Points to Giant Apex-Predator Octopuses in Cretaceous SeasSapporo, Japan (SPX) ) May 01, 2026 New research from Hokkaido University has found that the earliest known octopuses were not small, cryptic animals hiding in reef crevices but enormous apex predators that dominated Cretaceous marine ... more 
Neural Network Trained on a Single Call Detects Blue Whale Songs Across Ocean BasinsSydney, Australia (SPX) ) May 01, 2026 Researchers at UNSW Sydney have trained a neural network to detect blue whale songs in decades-long acoustic recordings using just a single example call, achieving an accuracy of 99.4 percent across ... more 
Satellite Framework Unlocks Hidden Crop Sowing and Emergence Dates at Field ScaleLos Angeles CA (SPX) ) May 01, 2026 A new satellite-based analytical framework developed by researchers from Mississippi State University and collaborating institutions can accurately estimate crop sowing and emergence dates at the fi ... more  
'No pilgrims': regional war hushes Iraq's holy citiesNajaf, Iraq (AFP) May 4, 2026 In Iraq's holy city of Najaf, the majestic shrine of Imam Ali stands quiet, its vast courtyards no longer echoing with the multilingual whispers of pilgrims from before the Middle East war. ... more |
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Bangladesh's tigers stalk uncertain future in SundarbansSatkhira, Bangladesh (AFP) April 28, 2026 Tigers are so feared in Bangladesh's vast Sundarban mangroves that locals invoke spirits to protect against them. But experts say it is the big cats themselves that need defending. ... more 
Tropical forest loss eases after record year: researchersParis, France (AFP) April 29, 2026 The pace of tropical forest destruction slowed in 2025 after record losses the year before but remained at worrying levels equivalent to 11 football fields per minute, researchers said Wednesday. ... more 
Indonesia orangutan forest cleared for 'carbon-neutral' packaging firmBangkok (AFP) April 29, 2026 Vast tracts of Indonesian rainforest home to endangered orangutans have been cleared for plantations supplying a maker of 'carbon-neutral' packaging, an investigation by AFP and The Gecko Project has found. ... more  
Indonesia, Japan discuss defence ties after Tokyo unlocks arms exportsJakarta (AFP) May 4, 2026 The defence ministers of Indonesia and Japan met in Jakarta Monday to sign a defence cooperation agreement, underlining the need to safeguard regional peace and stability in the face of global tumult. ... more |
 
Bali drowning in trash after landfill closedDenpasar, Indonesia (AFP) April 30, 2026 Buckets of blooms adorn Yuvita Anggi Prinanda's sidewalk flower stall in Bali, but their perfume can't mask the stench of accumulating trash bespoiling parts of the resort island famed for its natural beauty. ... more 
'Our streets aren't bins': Abidjan young people's war on trashAttecoube, Ivory Coast (AFP) May 1, 2026 On a street in a working-class neighbourhood in Abidjan, a small group of young people scrubbed rubbish-clogged drains while barefoot children played nearby. ... more 
Europe climate report signals rising extremesParis, France (AFP) April 29, 2026 Europe endured a historic heatwave across Nordic countries, shrinking glaciers and record sea temperatures in 2025 as the fast-warming continent faces more frequent climate extremes, a new report showed Wednesday. ... more  
WHO, ICRC, MSF denounce rise in attacks on health servicesGeneva (AFP) May 3, 2026 Three of the world's top health agencies issued a joint statement Sunday denouncing the international community's failure to protect health care workers, hospitals and patients in conflict zones. ... more |
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Reconstruction of Turkey's quake-hit Antioch sparks anxietyAntakya, Turkey (AFP) April 29, 2026 Selahattin Yogurtcuoglu pulls out his chair to chat with neighbours outside his home in Turkey's Antakya, just as he used to - but nothing is the same since the 2023 earthquake that devastated the ancient city. ... more 
Magnitude-6.0 earthquake strikes central Philippines: USGSManila (AFP) May 4, 2026 A magnitude-6.0 earthquake struck the central Philippine island of Samar at 2:09 pm (0609 GMT) on Monday, the United States Geological Survey said. ... more 
Massive search continues for two missing US soldiers in MoroccoRabat (AFP) May 3, 2026 Two US soldiers that disappeared while on a training deployment in southern Morocco were last seen near seaside cliffs and may have fallen into the ocean, a US defense official confirmed to AFP. ... more 
Rebels take key military base in Mali's northBamako (AFP) May 1, 2026 Mali's army and its Russian mercenary allies surrendered a strategic northern military stronghold to armed rebels on Friday, as Tuareg separatists and jihadists wage a unified front to bring down the country's junta. ... more |
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