El Nino: A phenomenon supercharged by climate change
Scientists warn the 2026-27 El Nino could become the strongest ever, exacerbating global heat,...
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A cotton T-shirt takes roughly 2,700 litres of water to produce, about what one person drinks in two and a half years, and most of that water is pulled from irrigation-stressed river basins in Central and South Asia thousands of kilometres from where the shirt is eventually sold
The water crisis hidden in your closet begins thousands of kilometres away, in drought-stricken...
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In the Atacama Desert of Chile, there are weather stations that have never recorded a single drop of rain in more than a century of operation, and yet a fog rolling in from the Pacific twice a week feeds lichens, cacti, and a fishing village that has drunk nothing else for 300 years
Where it never rains, fog from the Pacific sustains an entire ecosystem—and has kept a village...
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Climate change is turning northern farmlands into nitrogen pollution hotspots
Climate change could unleash nitrogen stored in dry soil, turning northern farmlands into...
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Sugar Prices Consolidate After Recent Surge
October NY world sugar #11 (SBV26) is down -0.35 (-2.09%), and October London ICE white sugar #5...
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The Sahara sends roughly 27 million tonnes of dust across the Atlantic every year, and the phosphorus in it is what stops the Amazon’s soils exhausting themselves, which means the largest rainforest on earth is quietly fertilised by the largest hot desert on earth.
The image is almost too neat. On one side of the Atlantic sits the Sahara, the largest hot desert...
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Climate shifts redraw the rainfall map of Maharashtra’s heavily dammed Bhima Basin
Climate change is fundamentally altering the rainfall patterns of India’s Upper Bhima River Basin,...
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No sun, no wind: Chinese scientists have managed to convert the impact of rain into electricity, and a small panel has already powered 50 lights at the same time
Rain is great for gardens, but could it also help keep the lights on? A research...
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1,316 Tons Of Carbon Trapped By One Small Animal
Quick Take Reaching 1,316 tons of carbon sequestration requires...
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Africa’s forests have flipped from carbon sink to carbon source
Africa’s forests are no longer helping fight climate change—they’re now making it worse by...
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Without rain for 13 years, the Dakhla Oasis attempts to build an ecovillage in the Sahara using fossil water, deep wells, ancestral architecture, and extreme solutions to survive the heat.
Dakhla Oasis relies on deep wells to build a permaculture ecovillage in the Sahara and cope...
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Once cold and steady, now erratic and dry: What is happening in the Nilgiris?
India’s first UNESCO-designated biosphere reserve is grappling with rapid climate shifts. Erratic...
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