Climate & Atmosphere

1+ hour, 12+ min ago   (32+ words) The Atlantic hurricane season 2026 is making the record books—for what hasn't happened. As of Tuesday, the basin has yet to produce a single hurricane, marking the longest......

56+ min ago   (247+ words) Rainwater connects the biogeochemical cycles of the land and the atmosphere. It’s effectively a chemical conveyor belt that delivers compounds to the ground during a process called wet deposition. But recent improvements in analytical techniques revealed that VOCs are present…...

20+ min ago   (408+ words) With the increase in DC voltage levels in aircraft electrical networks up to 540 VDC, it is essential to improve the understanding and characterization of fault arcs. This article focuses on the characterization of opening electric arcs in air, between 100 and…...

20+ min ago   (419+ words) Hanzhong granitic residual soil exhibits a pronounced rainfall-sensitive response, but the evolution of hydraulic participation and failure pathways under different rainfall intensities and slope inclinations remains insufficiently understood. Physical model tests and coupled Geo-Studio simulations were conducted under three rainfall…...

49+ min ago   (490+ words) The controller continuously tracks circuit changes and updates operating parameters during the pulse. Engineers at compact fusion company nT-Tao have brought a 50-megawatt pulsed-power subsystem into active service. The hardware delivers high-energy bursts to the company’s C3 prototype, a machine designed…...

51+ min ago   (446+ words) Published Sep 16, 2026 9:21 AM EDT Data centers don’t just undergird the avalanche of AI slop polluting our social media feeds — they’re spewing an awful lot of physical slop as well. On top of the noxious air pollution, as well as the…...

1+ hour, 12+ min ago   (599+ words) A series of reintroductions have seen the bison return to a landscape in Mexico’s Chihuahua Desert after a 200 year absence. Having acted as ecosystem anchors for the vegetation is this vital biosphere reserve for millennia, their return is seen as…...

2+ hour, 7+ min ago   (493+ words) LONDON, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Google has agreed its biggest carbon-removal deal yet, backing a project in Brazil run by developer Terradot that aims to both cut methane emissions from rice farming and capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, executives told Reuters....

1+ hour, 41+ min ago   (915+ words) An already-strong El Niño just turned super as the phenomenon crosses into unprecedented territory. The natural climate cycle has been strengthening at a breakneck pace since it was first declared in June and is stronger now than it’s ever been…...

2+ hour, 29+ min ago   (719+ words) About 12.5 trillion tons (11.3 trillion metric tons) of ice from glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979, which is enough frozen water to stack ice five feet deep across the continental United States, according to a major scientific report. A…...