AI Weather Forecasts Get a Major Boost Where 2–6 Weeks Gets Hard

Artificial Intelligence AI weather forecast lady looking at a weather map

A new machine-learning technique reportedly doubles AI weather-forecast skill two to six weeks ahead, improving warnings for extreme events and planning.

Finland has ordered Google to halt work at two AI data center sites over alleged illegal forest clearing, spotlighting Europe’s uneasy AI infrastructure boom.

Sea Surface anomalies across the Earth in July 2023 during the 2023-2024 El Niño event

A new study finds the 2023–24 El Niño pushed most tropical forests into months of record heat and drought—a preview of the next 20 years without deep cuts to emissions.

Bleeding resin (“kauri gum”) associated with collar-rot of lower trunk. The advancing lesion will spread laterally, eventually girdling the tree.

New modelling shows kauri dieback is turning some of New Zealand’s carbon-dense forests from vital climate sinks into long-term sources of emissions.

Packaging chips made by bioplastics (Thermoplastic Starch)

Murdoch University’s Bioplastics Innovation Hub is using AI to mine millions of natural enzymes for new plastic- and toxin-busting bioremediation tools.

Trump’s EPA repeals Biden carbon standards and moves to erase remaining climate rules for power plants, setting up fierce legal and political fights.

There is a growing movement—primarily among climate activists and some commentators—to name storms, especially hurricanes and other climate-related disasters, after major fossil fuel companies. The idea is to highlight the role these corporations have played in contributing to climate change, which is linked to more frequent and intense extreme weather events.

In a recently published paper, NASA scientists use nearly 20 years of observations to show that the global water cycle is changing in unprecedented ways. Most of these changes are driven by activities such as agriculture and could impact ecosystems and water management, particularly in certain regions.

Russia’s Shiveluch volcano erupted following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake off the eastern coast of the country, reported by state-run media outlet TASS.

Warming global climate is altering the vegetation structure of northern forests. This trend will persist through the end of the century, based on NASA research.