Paris Stefanoudis, University of Oxford Sunlit coral reefs are perhaps the most famous marine habitat and many people will have snorkelled over or dived down to one at some point. Home to a quarter of all known ocean life, these “rainforests of…
Andreas Muller, University of South Florida The 2022 Nobel Prize in physics recognized three scientists who made groundbreaking contributions in understanding one of the most mysterious of all natural phenomena: quantum entanglement.…
Matt McDonald, The University of Queensland In a crucial meeting for tackling the climate crisis, almost 200 countries will come together in Egypt at the start of November for a “Conference of…
Love Dalén, Stockholm University and Anders Götherström, Stockholm University The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology…
Will Gorman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Bentham Paulos, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Galen Barbose, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Hurricane Ian’s catastrophic winds and flooding are likely to bring long-lasting power outages…
Patrick W. Keys, Colorado State University; Curtis Bell, US Naval War College; Elizabeth A. Barnes, Colorado State University; James W. Hurrell, Colorado State University, and Noah Diffenbaugh, Stanford University Imagine a future…
Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Gemma Ware, The Conversation This episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast is about the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. Thwaites is among the largest glaciers on Earth and…
Kevin Trenberth, University of Auckland There’s an old joke about the fellow who has his left foot in a bucket of ice water and the right in a bucket of hot water,…
Emily E. Schlickman, University of California, Davis; Brett Milligan, University of California, Davis, and Stephen M. Wheeler, University of California, Davis More than 90 large fires were burning across the parched Western…
Kevin Hamilton, University of Hawaii In 2021, an expedition off the icy northern Greenland coast spotted what appeared to be a previously uncharted island. It was small and gravelly, and it was…
William Gallus, Iowa State University A heat dome occurs when a persistent region of high pressure traps heat over an area. The heat dome can stretch over several states and linger for…