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Alen Space begins SATMAR satellite validation over Bay of AlgecirasBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 26, 2025 Alen Space has completed the first demonstrator pilot campaign of VDES technology using its SATMAR satellite over the Bay of Algeciras in southern Spain. Over the past week, the company worked with ... more  
Deep Arctic gas hydrate mounds host ultra deep cold seep ecosystemBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 26, 2025 A multinational research team led by UiT The Arctic University of Norway has identified the deepest known gas hydrate cold seep on Earth during the Ocean Census Arctic Deep - EXTREME24 expedition, d ... more  
Neural network sharpens satellite ocean color in complex coastal watersTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 26, 2025 A recent study presents ACA-SIM, an atmospheric correction algorithm that uses satellite-in situ matchup data and neural networks to improve ocean color retrievals over coastal waters. The approach ... more  
Sunlight driven microplastic leaching reshapes dissolved pollution in waterTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 26, 2025 Microplastics have become widespread in rivers, lakes, and oceans, where particle numbers can reach thousands per liter in surface waters. Over time, contact with water and exposure to sunlight caus ... more |
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How Climate Policies that Incentivize and Penalize Can Drive the Clean Energy TransitionLa Jolla CA (SPX) Dec 26, 2025 A new study from a team of researchers that includes faculty from the University of California San Diego and Princeton University shows how a mix of subsidies for clean energy and taxes on pollution ... more  
Black carbon from straw burning limits antibiotic resistance in plastic mulched fieldsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 26, 2025 Researchers tracking how antibiotic resistance genes move from soil into soybean plants report that black carbon produced by straw burning can offset the resistance intensifying effects of plastic m ... more 
Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowableLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 A University of Cambridge philosopher argues that current evidence about consciousness is too limited to determine whether artificial intelligence becomes conscious, and that a reliable test for mac ... more  
Climate driven model explores Neanderthal and modern human overlap in IberiaBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 Researchers at the University of Cologne have developed a simulation model to examine how Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans may have encountered each other on the Iberian Peninsula during ... more |
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Economic losses from natural disasters down by a third in 2025: Swiss ReZurich (AFP) Dec 16, 2025 Global economic losses from natural disasters are projected to have dropped by 33 percent to $220 billion in 2025, despite the damage wrought by the Los Angeles wildfires, reinsurer Swiss Re said Tuesday. ... more |
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Kangaroos adjust hop posture to keep energy use steady at speedSydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 Researchers have shown how kangaroos increase hopping speed without a rise in energetic cost by changing posture to boost elastic energy storage in their tendons at higher speeds. The study, c ... more 
RNACOREX maps cancer RNA networks to predict patient survivalPamplona, Spain (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 University of Navarra researchers have created RNACOREX, an open-source software tool that reconstructs gene regulatory networks from RNA data and applies them to cancer survival analysis. The team ... more 
Salt rejecting hydrogel design targets long life solar desalinationTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 Researchers from Hebei University of Technology and Tsinghua University have developed a zwitterionic hydrogel evaporator that maintains high solar desalination performance while resisting salt crys ... more 
TanDEM X marks 15 years mapping Earth in 3DBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 Exactly 15 years ago, in December 2010, the German TanDEM-X mission began routine radar imaging of Earth to produce a global digital elevation model, launching a long-running Earth observation progr ... more |
Viral resistant bacteria still help drive deep ocean carbon transportLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 Marine bacteria help determine whether carbon remains near the ocean surface or sinks to deeper waters, but they live under constant threat from infection by viruses known as phages and frequently m ... more  |
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Flights cancelled, roads flooded as rare storm soaks UAEDubai (AFP) Dec 19, 2025 UAE airport authorities cancelled or delayed dozens of flights and roads were flooded in major cities as the heaviest rainstorm in months lashed the desert nation on Friday. ... more  
India's parliament passes bill to open nuclear power to private firmsNew Delhi (AFP) Dec 18, 2025 India's parliament on Thursday passed legislation to open nuclear power generation to private companies as part of the government's ambitious plan to nearly triple clean energy production within six years. ... more  
Hydrogen plays part in global warming: studyParis, France (AFP) Dec 17, 2025 Hydrogen has long been touted as a possible solution to the climate crisis, but it could also be a small part of the problem, a study warned on Wednesday. ... more  
EU move to ease combustion-engine ban 'historic mistake': Spain PMMadrid (AFP) Dec 17, 2025 The European Union's decision to walk back a 2035 ban on new petrol and diesel cars is a "historic mistake", Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Wednesday. ... more |
Spain to set up national climate shelter network: PMMadrid (AFP) Dec 17, 2025 Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced Wednesday that Spain would set up a national network of climate shelters to help people survive increasingly severe heatwaves. ... more 
Trump administration plans to dismantle leading climate centerWashington, United States (AFP) Dec 17, 2025 The Trump administration intends to dismantle one of the world's leading climate research institutions over what it said on Tuesday were concerns of "climate alarmism," despite opposition to the plan. ... more  
Global coal demand expected to hit record in 2025: IEAParis, France (AFP) Dec 17, 2025 Global coal consumption is expected to hit a record in 2025, the IEA said Wednesday, thanks in part to policy measures introduced by the Trump administration to boost the industry. ... more 
Brazil megacity Sao Paulo struck by fresh water crisisJoanopolis, Brazil (AFP) Dec 16, 2025 Brazil's megalopolis Sao Paulo faces a new water crisis as the lowest rainfall in a decade has turned its main reservoir into mere streams surrounded by cracked earth, prompting water rationing. ... more |
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Bible 1.0: How Ancient Canon Became Our First Large Language ModelsSydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 Modern large language models are treated as something radically new: vast statistical machines trained on almost everything humans have written, and able to regenerate knowledge on demand. Yet in structural terms, humanity has worked with something similar for millennia. ... more 
Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks likeAtlanta GA (SPX) Dec 16, 2025 When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing. ... more  
Deep ocean quakes linked to Antarctic phytoplankton surgesBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 Stanford researchers have identified a direct link between deep ocean earthquakes and the size of recurring phytoplankton blooms in the Southern Ocean. Phytoplankton are microscopic, plant-lik ... more 
Insect radar survey finds vast summer air traffic above United StatesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 Around 100 trillion insects are estimated to be flying above the contiguous United States on a typical summer day, according to a new analysis that uses weather radar networks to quantify aerial ins ... more |
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Ligament clues refine picture of how early hominins movedBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 When scientists reconstruct how fossil hominins moved, they usually examine bone morphology and muscle attachment sites to track the evolution of bipedalism, but soft tissues such as joint ligaments ... more |
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Ocean warming drove past Greenland ice stream retreatLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 New research reconstructs how warming ocean waters triggered a major retreat of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) over the past 20,000 years, providing context for its current instability. ... more 
SAR11 ocean bacteria form distinct ecological teams across coastal and open watersSydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 A study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology has identified how SAR11, one of the ocean's most abundant bacterial groups, diversifies into dis ... more  
Tundra fire surge reshapes Arctic landscapeLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 Wildfires on Alaska's North Slope have been more active in the last century than at any point in the previous 3,000 years, according to a study published in the journal Biogeosciences. The research ... more 
Turkmenistan's battle against desert sandBokurdak, Turkmenistan (AFP) Dec 18, 2025 Residents in the remote Turkmen village of Bokurdak have long depended on the Karakum Desert for their livelihoods, cultivating every square metre they can in a constant battle with nature. ... more |
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