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From 10 to 21 November 2025, the world will gather in Brazil for the UN Climate Summit COP 2025, where countries will negotiate new climate measures.

Increased discharge of groundwater contributes to further thawing, creating a feedback loop that transports pollutants Warming temperatures and increased precipitation in the Canadian High Arctic are

Switzerland will become drier and hotter, experience less snow and face heavier rainfall in the future.

The IASI-NG instrument (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer-New Generation) flying on the Metop-SGA1 weather satellite has sent back its first data.

Study identified more than 3,000 hotspots: 'We need to know where these emissions are coming from to resolve them' Montreal's methane emissions are unevenly distributed across the island, with the highest concentrations in the city's east end, McGill researchers have found. The worst polluters include the city's largest snow dump, which emits methane at levels comparable to the city's current and former landfills, and natural gas leaks.

Further excavations at Oxfordshire-s -dinosaur highwaycontinued this summer to uncover Europe-s longest sauropod dinosaur trackway.

An international research team has deciphered the seismic signals from a volcano like no other: Tanzania's Oldoinyo Lengai, the only volcano in the world to produce "cold" lava.

Research from The University of Manchester has uncovered how something as simple as walking and taking photographs can reveal powerful stories about people's lives and the places they live.

An EPFL engineer has illustrated some of the complex ways in which climate change will affect hydropower facilities, taking the Gries dam in Valais Canton as a case study.

New suite of space weather forecasting models focuses on how space weather can influence the thermosphere and ionosphere here on Earth.

From Europe-s new Metop Second Generation A1 satellite, METimage pictures Earth in extraordinary detail EUMETSAT has released the first Earth images from its METimage instrument on board the recently

An international team, including scientists from the University of Fribourg, has succeeded in extracting two ice cores over 100 metres long from a glacier in Tajikistan. A real technical and logistical feat at an altitude of 5,800 metres. The two-week expedition, which began on September 24, aims to safeguard several millennia of climatic history.

Unique project provides data on greenhouse gas balance in Lünten Forest It stands out even from a distance: the 30-metre-high tower, which attracts attention with its imposing height and four-square-metre platform accessible via 160 steps.

Part 5 of the series 'From university to the world': Münster research team studies billion-year-old drill cores from South Africa - witnesses to Earth's earliest climate history Between four and two

Glacial melting in Switzerland was once again enormous in 2025. A winter with low snow depth combined with heat waves in June and August led to a loss of three per cent of the glacier volume.

Geologist Akbar Huseynov investigated how underground fluids have moved through the Earth's crust over millions of years.

The WIVERN research project has been selected for the European Space Agency's (ESA) eleventh Earth Explorer satellite mission.

Hillwalkers setting out to bag a Munro are being asked for their help to bag a meteorite too, as scientists race against time to recover precious samples of a space rock which lit up the skies over Scotland this summer.

International research team including Göttingen University identifies origins of niobium Rare rocks buried deep beneath central Australia have revealed the origins of one of the world's most promisin

Scientists at The University of Manchester are calling for the creation of a global network of air monitoring stations to track the movement of airborne plastic pollution, which may be travelling further and faster around the planet than previously thought. In a new review, published in the journal Current Pollution Reports today, the researchers have examined the current scientific research on how tiny plastic fragments - called micro and nanoplastics - enter the air, where they come from, and the mechanisms that transport them across vast distances.

When the Soviet Union's collapse means no glacier data for decades in Tajikistan Too little snowfall is now also shaking the foundations of some of the world's most resilient 'water towers', a new study led by the Pellicciotti group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) shows. After establishing a monitoring network on a new benchmark glacier in central Tajikistan, the international team of researchers was able to model the entire catchment's behavior from 1999 to 2023.

Disaster relief workers in the U.S. are now able to predict emergency shelter needs within five minutes of an earthquake, thanks to a team of Carnegie Mellon University students.

The far south of New Zealand (Aotearoa) offers a globally unique setting for cloud research: it is among the most pristine, clean and yet accessible regions on Earth.

Message from When it comes to clouds, the region in the far south of New Zealand (Aotearoa) is unique in the world: it is one of the most untouched, cleanest and yet accessible regions in the world.

Lisa Ardoin, a PhD student at the Faculty of Science's Glaciology Laboratory, spent three months in Antarctica as part of the European Beyond EPICA mission.

Antarctica is at risk of abrupt and potentially irreversible changes to the continent's ice, ocean and ecosystems.

When the devastating magnitude 7. Wenchuan Earthquake struck central China in May 2008, it triggered more than 60,000 landslides, reshaping the slopes of the Longmen Shan mountains.

Governments across the continent still have very little knowledge of what lies beneath their soil, Research Fellow Gerald Arhin (UCL Science, Technology, Engineering & Public Policy) writes in The Conversation.

On March 28, 2025, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck the Southeast Asia country of Myanmar along the Sagaing Fault, killing thousands and causing widespread damage.

Lava planets may sound like science fiction, but they're very real for astrophysics Lisa Dang , who is studying them as a larger team of international researchers looking to further explore their inner workings.

A peatland complex in the Congo Basin which is known to be a globally important carbon store is twice as old as previously thought, according to a new scientific study.