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The 40-meter radio telescope at Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory

Caltech Clears the Way to Build the Most Sensitive Radio Telescope Ever

Caltech cleared the final design review for the DSA-2000, a field of roughly 1,650 radio dishes in the Nevada desert funded by Schmidt Sciences. Built to be the most sensitive radio telescope

June 16, 2026

by Technology Desk

A kangaroo, representing Australia's living marsupials studied in marsupial evolution research

Ancient Teeth From Riversleigh Point to a Tangled Start for Australia’s Marsupials

Three tiny fossil species from Queensland's Riversleigh deposits do not fit the marsupial family tree, and UNSW palaeontologists have proposed a new order, Keeunamorphia, to hold them. The find hints Australia's marsupials had several ancestors, not one.

June 15, 2026

by Technology Desk

NASA Terra MODIS image of Jeju Island Korea Strait February 19 2026 with sediment plume from Chinese coast and cloud vortices

South Korea’s Soft Corals ‘Slumped’ Off Jeju Island in 2024. Scientists Are Watching the Yangtze and the El Niño for a Repeat.

A Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology study describes an 80-kilometre stretch of Jeju Island's

NASA astronaut photograph from ISS of Texas Gulf Coast centered on Houston showing barrier islands and Lavaca Bay December 2020

A Texas Shrimper, a Louisiana Teacher and a Vietnamese Refugee Walked Into Formosa Plastics’ Taipei Meeting. Guards Dragged Wilson Out.

Diane Wilson, 78, Sharon Lavigne, 76, and Nancy Bui, 72, addressed shareholders at Formosa Plastics' annual

NASA Aqua MODIS satellite image of phytoplankton bloom off Mid-Atlantic coast Delaware New Jersey Maryland Virginia May 3 2026

The US Is Pulling Up a $386 Million Climate Ocean Sensor Network. The Blind Spot Arrives as a Very Strong El Niño Forms.

The National Science Foundation will dismantle nearly all in-water infrastructure of the Ocean Observatories Initiative — a $386 million, 900-sensor program designed to operate for thirty years and ten years into its

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA Suomi NPP VIIRS satellite image of South Asia at night showing lights of India Pakistan Bangladesh Sri Lanka

China’s Belt and Road Has Built 130 Million Tonnes of Carbon Into 105 Countries. Two New Studies Put the Bill on Steel.

Two peer-reviewed studies published Monday — one in Environmental Science & Technology, one in PNAS — pin 706 Belt and Road construction projects across 105 countries with more than 130 million tonnes

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

Bathymetric map of Mariana Trench produced by University of New Hampshire and NOAA showing deep western Pacific seafloor with Challenger Deep

Trump Just Opened the Pacific’s Marine Monuments to Industrial Fishing. Half a Million Square Miles Are No Longer Off-Limits.

An executive order signed Thursday strips commercial-fishing protections from the Mariana Trench, Papahānaumokuākea and Rose Atoll marine national monuments — over half a million square miles of Pacific Ocean that had been

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA Earth Observatory sea surface height anomaly map of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean during El Nino formation June 2023

NOAA Just Made El Niño Official. There Is a 63 Percent Chance It Becomes ‘Very Strong’ — and 2027 the Hottest Year on Record.

NOAA's National Weather Service declared El Niño formation on June 11, 2026, with a 63 percent probability of becoming a very strong event by November — only the fifth such occurrence since

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

Astronaut photograph from the ISS of Hurricane Milton Category 4 over the Gulf of Mexico October 8 2024

The Science That Pins Hurricanes on Fossil Fuels Is Under Coordinated Assault. The Scientists Are Organising a Defence.

An E&E News report finds the fossil fuel industry, the Trump administration, congressional Republicans and Republican attorneys general are running a multi-front, decade-long campaign against climate-attribution science — the field that ties

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA Terra MODIS satellite image of dense smog over the North China Plain February 2011

China Built More Coal Capacity in 2025 Than in Any Year of the Last Decade. Energy Security Was the Argument.

A Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air and Global Energy Monitor report finds China commissioned 78 gigawatts of new coal-fired power in 2025 — the largest annual addition in a

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA Landsat 8 satellite image of Bhadla Solar Park in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan India

Solar Just Overtook Gas Power in Asia. The 16 Terawatt-Hour Gap Is China’s.

A Carbon Brief analysis of Ember data finds Asia generated 1,727 terawatt-hours from solar in the year to April 2026, narrowly above the 1,711 it pulled from gas — the first time

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA TEMPO satellite image showing high morning nitrogen dioxide and reduced afternoon levels along the New York-Washington corridor on May 18, 2026

Climate Treaties Don’t List These Pollutants. A New Science Paper Says They Cause 15% of Global Warming.

An Ilissa Ocko–led paper in Science finds carbon monoxide, non-methane volatile organic compounds and black carbon are responsible for roughly 15 percent of human-driven global warming, yet none of them appear on

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA satellite view of smoke from Canadian wildfires drifting south into the United States

Wildfires Have Erased Four Years of America’s Clean-Air Progress, and the Trend Is Still Climbing

A University of Iowa study in Science finds wildfire smoke has reversed about four years of US ozone-pollution gains, with surface smog rising 4 percent since 2015 after an 11 percent decline

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

A wildfire burns through forest in New Mexico, the kind of dry, beetle-stressed landscape that increasingly turns into catastrophic fire

New Mexico’s Trees Are Dying Three Times Faster, and the Beetles Are Doing the Work the Climate Started

A new state and federal survey of 14 million acres of New Mexico forest found tree mortality tripled in 2025, with beetle-killed conifers up 211 percent. The pinon-juniper system that defines the

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

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Caltech Clears the Way to Build the Most Sensitive Radio Telescope Ever

Ancient Teeth From Riversleigh Point to a Tangled Start for Australia’s Marsupials

South Korea’s Soft Corals ‘Slumped’ Off Jeju Island in 2024. Scientists Are Watching the Yangtze and the El Niño for a Repeat.

A Texas Shrimper, a Louisiana Teacher and a Vietnamese Refugee Walked Into Formosa Plastics’ Taipei Meeting. Guards Dragged Wilson Out.

The US Is Pulling Up a $386 Million Climate Ocean Sensor Network. The Blind Spot Arrives as a Very Strong El Niño Forms.

China’s Belt and Road Has Built 130 Million Tonnes of Carbon Into 105 Countries. Two New Studies Put the Bill on Steel.

Trump Just Opened the Pacific’s Marine Monuments to Industrial Fishing. Half a Million Square Miles Are No Longer Off-Limits.

NOAA Just Made El Niño Official. There Is a 63 Percent Chance It Becomes ‘Very Strong’ — and 2027 the Hottest Year on Record.

The Science That Pins Hurricanes on Fossil Fuels Is Under Coordinated Assault. The Scientists Are Organising a Defence.

China Built More Coal Capacity in 2025 Than in Any Year of the Last Decade. Energy Security Was the Argument.

Solar Just Overtook Gas Power in Asia. The 16 Terawatt-Hour Gap Is China’s.

Climate Treaties Don’t List These Pollutants. A New Science Paper Says They Cause 15% of Global Warming.

Wildfires Have Erased Four Years of America’s Clean-Air Progress, and the Trend Is Still Climbing

New Mexico’s Trees Are Dying Three Times Faster, and the Beetles Are Doing the Work the Climate Started

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Bangladesh; India’s Biggest Ally or China’s Dragon Nest?

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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