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 ESA-SSTL Twin HydroGNSS Satellites Return Water Cycle Data During Commissioning London, UK (SPX) ) Jun 03, 2026  Just three months after launch, the twin HydroGNSS satellites built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd for the European Space Agency are producing early science measurements, detecting water-linked ... more | |
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NISAR Radar Satellite Tracks Mexico City Ground Sinking at Over Half an Inch Per Month Los 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 Warms London, 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 Unchecked London, 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 Model Berlin, 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 | |
 Ancient Megafauna Extinctions Left Food Web Scars Felt Across Continents Today Los 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 Millennia Los 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 Cells Los 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 Agriculture Berlin, 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 | |
 Arctic Winter Sea Ice Hits Lowest Extent on Satellite Record in 2026 Sydney, 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 Conflicts Los 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 study Los 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 Stocks Adelaide, 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 | |
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Supercomputer Simulations Reveal How Vortex Rings Drive Dolphin Propulsion Osaka, 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 | |
 Satellite Data and Machine Learning Sharpen Volcano Eruption Forecasts for Earth and Venus Los 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 | |
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Wild Balkan berries keep gin taste steady as climate shifts Vranje, 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 know Chernobyl, 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 | |
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From radiation to invasion: a Chernobyl worker's two wars Slavutych, 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 | |
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Researchers Identify a Stopping Phase That Governs How Large Strike-Slip Earthquakes End Kyoto, 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 | |
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Fossil Evidence Points to Giant Apex-Predator Octopuses in Cretaceous Seas Sapporo, 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 | |
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Neural Network Trained on a Single Call Detects Blue Whale Songs Across Ocean Basins Sydney, 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 | |
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Satellite Framework Unlocks Hidden Crop Sowing and Emergence Dates at Field Scale Los 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 cities Najaf, 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 | |
 Bangladesh's tigers stalk uncertain future in Sundarbans Satkhira, 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 | |
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Tropical forest loss eases after record year: researchers Paris, 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 | |
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