Sep 12, 2026 | Journal
For two weeks in June, a Saharan heat dome sat over Western Europe and broke records that had stood since the Second World War. France hit temperatures it had never seen in June. The UK, on 26 June, recorded its hottest June temperature on record: 36.7°C in Somerset....
Sep 11, 2026 | Journal
The hominin family tree has a persistent habit of needing redrawing every few years, and May 2026 added another line to the eraser. A team led by Qiaomei Fu at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing has pulled ancient enamel proteins...
Sep 10, 2026 | Journal
The framing of the AMOC problem has been wrong for years, and a paper in Nature Climate Change this August quietly corrected it. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation — the conveyor that pulls warm surface water north and returns cold, dense water south —...
Sep 8, 2026 | Journal
A climate scientist and a YouTube conspiracist do not occupy the same epistemic floor. Pretending they do is the original sin of the post-truth era, and it is not a sin committed by the audience alone — it is committed by the platforms, the press, and the institutions...
Sep 7, 2026 | Journal
Totten Glacier is the East Antarctic outlet that got cast as dependable. That reputation was always more shorthand than measurement: the glacier drains part of the Aurora Subglacial Basin, a vast interior catchment whose bed lies largely below sea level. Totten’s ice...
