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December 30, 2025
EARTH OBSERVATION
Under CERES watch Earth radiation budget record reaches 25 years



Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 30, 2025
NASA's Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System, or CERES, has tracked Earth's energy budget from space for more than two decades using a suite of instruments flown on multiple satellites since 1997. The project, led from NASA's Langley Research Center, now draws on six operating sensors on Terra, Aqua, Suomi NPP, and NOAA-20, while two earlier units have ceased operations. The mission's record of instrument status, science findings, and team activities is documented through recurring Science Team M ... read more

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FIRE STORM
Multi core wildfire soot particles found to boost global warming impact
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 30, 2025
Traditionally, climate models have represented black carbon particles as having a single carbon core surrounded by a shell, but new work on wildfire smoke shows that about 21 percent of particles, e ... more
FIRE STORM
Wildland fires estimated to release more organic air pollutants
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 30, 2025
Wildland fires that burn forests, grasslands and peat may release more airborne organic compounds than previously recognized, according to a new analysis of emissions from 1997 to 2023. Researchers ... more
CARBON WORLDS
CO2 soon to be buried under North Sea oil platform
Esbjerg, Denmark (AFP) Dec 22, 2025
In the North Sea where Denmark once drilled for oil, imported European carbon dioxide will soon be buried under the seabed in a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project nearing completion. ... more
FARM NEWS
From farms to court, climate-hit communities take on big polluters
Paris, France (AFP) Dec 19, 2025
Farmers and fishermen hit by climate change are taking big corporate polluters to court - and experts say these David-vs-Goliath lawsuits are only set to multiply as the planet keeps warming. ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
From predator to plate: Japan bear crisis sparks culinary craze
Chichibu, Japan (AFP) Dec 24, 2025
Since Japan recorded a spike in deadly bear attacks, Koji Suzuki has struggled to keep up with booming demand for grilled cuts of the animal at his restaurant. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Iraqis cover soil with clay to curb sandstorms
Samawah, Iraq (AFP) Dec 28, 2025
Deep in Iraq's southern desert, bulldozers and earthmovers spread layers of moist clay over sand dunes as part of a broader effort to fight increasingly frequent sandstorms. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
'Make emitters responsible': Thailand's clean air activists
Bangkok (AFP) Dec 28, 2025
A finance specialist who struggled after running in smog and a doctor who fears for the health of his children are among the activists spearheading landmark air pollution legislation in Thailand despite political uncertainty. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Ivory Coast ruling party set for election landslide: early results
Abidjan (AFP) Dec 28, 2025
The ruling party in Ivory Coast was headed for a landslide victory in parliamentary elections, according to early results announced Sunday which already credit it with an outright majority in the national assembly. ... more

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SHAKE AND BLOW
One dead in southern Spain after flooding; Flash floods hit California
Madrid (AFP) Dec 28, 2025
One person was found dead and two were missing after torrential rains caused flooding in southern Spain, authorities and rescue services said Sunday, calling for extreme caution. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
'Shivering from cold and fear': winter rains batter displaced Gazans
Khan Yunis, Palestinian Territories (AFP) Dec 28, 2025
It only took a matter of minutes after the heavy overnight rain first began to fall for Jamil al-Sharafi's tent in southern Gaza to flood, drenching his food and leaving his blankets sopping wet. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Thais, Cambodians fear returning home despite border truce
Bangkok (AFP) Dec 28, 2025
At a Thai university-turned-shelter for displaced people, Kanlaya Somjettana is reluctant to go home even after a truce halted weeks of border clashes with Cambodia, fearing the violence may not be over. ... more
WEATHER REPORT
Sweden's death toll from storm rises to three
Helsinki (AFP) Dec 28, 2025
The death toll in Sweden rose to three after a storm battered Scandinavia Saturday and overnight, with thousands still without power on Sunday. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
6.6-magnitude earthquake hits off Taiwan
Taipei (AFP) Dec 27, 2025
A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Taiwan's northeastern coast on Saturday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, the second major tremor to hit the island within days. ... more
WEATHER REPORT
Two die in French Alps avalanches
Lyon (AFP) Dec 26, 2025
Two people died Friday in avalanches in winter resorts in the French Alps, local authorities said, calling on skiers to be wary of changing weather conditions. ... more
TECHNOLOGY NEWS


ENERGY TECH
The Quantum Age will be Powered by Fusion
Gerroa, Australia (SPX) Dec 19, 2025
Fusion is the cosmic process that powers stars, shapes galaxies, and enables the chemical diversity needed for life. From the earliest stars to modern planetary systems, fusion converts hydrogen into heavier elements, forging the matter that makes up worlds, atmospheres, and living organisms. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
UN urges end to arbitrary detentions in Guinea-Bissau
Geneva (AFP) Dec 26, 2025
The UN rights office welcomed Friday the release of six opposition members detained since last month's coup in Guinea-Bissau but insisted all arbitrary detentions in the west African country must end. ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Elusive wild cat feared extinct rediscovered in Thailand
Bangkok (AFP) Dec 26, 2025
An elusive wild cat long feared extinct in Thailand has been rediscovered three decades after the last recorded sighting, conservation authorities and an NGO said Friday. ... more
ABOUT US
Chinese villagers win battle against forced cremation after protests
Beijing (AFP) Dec 26, 2025
Protests in rural China have thwarted government attempts to enforce cremation in place of traditional burials, demonstrators say, as economic pressures fuel unrest in poor areas. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Last Christians gather in ruins of Turkey's quake-hit Antakya
Antakya, Turkey (AFP) Dec 25, 2025
Saint Peter's, one of the world's oldest rock churches, is a sacred rallying point for the isolated Christians still left in quake-hit Antakya in southeastern Turkey, the city known in ancient times as Antioch. ... more
FIRE STORM
Grief, trauma weigh on survivors of catastrophic Hong Kong fire
Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 24, 2025
Hong Kong fire survivor Yip Ka-kui has turned happy holiday photos into a heartfelt tribute to his beloved wife a month after she died in the huge blaze that destroyed their home. ... more
DEMOCRACY
Disputed Myanmar election wins China's vote of confidence
Lashio, Myanmar (AFP) Dec 23, 2025
Myanmar's military-run elections are being pilloried abroad and shunned at home, but neighbouring China has emerged as an enthusiastic backer of the pariah poll. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Sudan's El-Fasher under the RSF, destroyed and 'full of bodies'
Cairo (AFP) Dec 19, 2025
When Sudanese nurse Asmaa returned to the Darfur city of El-Fasher, she found only bodies where her neighbours once lived and no sign of the family she had come to save. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Heavy rain, flash floods hit California
Los Angeles, United States (AFP) Dec 25, 2025
Torrential rains unleashed flash floods and warnings of debris flow across southern California's fire-scarred areas, as a series of Christmas storms pummeled the state, with downpours and high winds forecast through Friday. ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
OPERA satellite data sharpens US crop and water management
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 26, 2025
OPERA the Observational Products for End-Users from Remote Sensing Analysis project was created in 2021 at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory to supply federal agencies with satellite products that mat ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Alen Space begins SATMAR satellite validation over Bay of Algeciras
Berlin, 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
EXO WORLDS
Deep Arctic gas hydrate mounds host ultra deep cold seep ecosystem
Berlin, 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
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WATER WORLD
Neural network sharpens satellite ocean color in complex coastal waters
Tokyo, 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
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Sunlight driven microplastic leaching reshapes dissolved pollution in water
Tokyo, 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
CLIMATE SCIENCE
How Climate Policies that Incentivize and Penalize Can Drive the Clean Energy Transition
La 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
FARM NEWS
Black carbon from straw burning limits antibiotic resistance in plastic mulched fields
Tokyo, 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
ABOUT US
Climate driven model explores Neanderthal and modern human overlap in Iberia
Berlin, 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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