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Cold baths, climate shelters as Southern Europe heatwave intensifiesClimate

Cold baths, climate shelters as Southern Europe heatwave intensifies

Rome, Italy | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Authorities across Southern Europe urged people to seek shelter Sunday and protect the most vulnerable as punishing temperatures from…
SourceSourceJune 29, 2025 Full article
Image: AI art of Earth - climate change effects (s. science, climate, Muser)
Climate Science Digest: June 25, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: June 25, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (June 25, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 25, 2025 Full article
Image: AI art of Earth - climate change effects (s. science, climate, Muser)
Climate Science Digest: June 24, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: June 24, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (June 24, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 24, 2025 Full article
Image: Glass Bottles (s. microplastics)
More microplastics in glass bottles than plastic: studyScience

More microplastics in glass bottles than plastic: study

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Drinks including water, soda, beer and wine sold in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in plastic bottles,…
SourceSourceJune 20, 2025 Full article
Satellite Image: Georgetown, Guyana
Image of the day: Georgetown on Guyana’s flood-prone Atlantic coastNews

Image of the day: Georgetown on Guyana’s flood-prone Atlantic coast

Georgetown, capital of Guyana, sits on South America’s northern coast, where the Demerara River meets the Atlantic Ocean. Once a Dutch settlement and later the…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 19, 2025 Full article
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How did life survive ‘Snowball Earth’? In ponds, study suggestsScience

How did life survive ‘Snowball Earth’? In ponds, study suggests

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Earth has not always been so hospitable to live. During several ice ages, the planet's surface was almost completely…
SourceSourceJune 19, 2025 Full article
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Longer exposure, more pollen: climate change worsens allergiesNews

Longer exposure, more pollen: climate change worsens allergies

Paris, France | AFP Runny nose, itching eyes, worsening asthma symptoms -- the effects of hay fever are nothing to sneeze at, experts say, warning of…
SourceSourceJune 18, 2025 Full article
Solar panels and wind turbines
Energy transition: how coal mines could go solarNews

Energy transition: how coal mines could go solar

Bangkok, Thailand | AFP Disused coal mines could be refashioned to place vast fields of solar panels, a new report suggests, providing an unlikely solution to…
SourceSourceJune 18, 2025 Full article
Still life with the scales of justice (climate,green justice, Youths sue Trump over US climate orders)
Verdict due for Sweden’s ‘Queen of Trash’ over toxic wasteNews

Verdict due for Sweden’s ‘Queen of Trash’ over toxic waste

Stockholm, Sweden | AFP A court in Sweden will rule Tuesday in the country's biggest environmental crime trial, where a self-proclaimed "Queen of Trash" and four…
SourceSourceJune 17, 2025 Full article
Airplane flying above a building - noise exposure
Greenwashing rife in EU aviation: consumer groupsNews

Greenwashing rife in EU aviation: consumer groups

Brussels, Belgium | AFP | Muser NewsDesk The European aviation industry is awash with misleading climate-related claims, consumer groups said Tuesday, over a year after the…
SourceSourceJune 17, 2025 Full article
Image: a lush green forest filled with lots of trees
Amazon trees reveal survival tactics under intense sunlight and heatClimate

Amazon trees reveal survival tactics under intense sunlight and heat

Amazon canopy trees adjust their energy use under extreme light and drought, revealing critical limits for photosynthesis and implications for satellite monitoring Summary: In the…
SourceSourceJune 15, 2025 Full article
Image: Beach during Golden Hour, French Polynesia
Value oceans, don’t plunder them, French Polynesia leader tells AFPNews

Value oceans, don’t plunder them, French Polynesia leader tells AFP

Nice, France | AFP French Polynesia pledged this week to create the world's largest marine protected area to safeguard its seas -- and it hopes to…
SourceSourceJune 12, 2025 Full article
Image: MRI scanner (s. child brain development, climate change)
Child brain development shaped by prenatal exposure to extreme climate eventsClimate

Child brain development shaped by prenatal exposure to extreme climate events

A new study by Graduate Center researchers looks at the impact of in utero exposure to both extreme heat and a natural disaster Summary: Children…
SourceSourceJune 12, 2025 Full article
Small iceberg floating in ocean water under a bright sky with the Sun visible above - climate change effects (s. science, climate, Muser)
Climate Science Digest: June 12, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: June 12, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (June 12, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 12, 2025 Full article
Image: houses in Ittoqqortoormiit, formerly Scoresbysund, Greenland
Greenland ice melted much faster than average in May heatwave: scientistsClimate

Greenland ice melted much faster than average in May heatwave: scientists

Copenhagen, Denmark | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Greenland's ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the past average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland,…
SourceSourceJune 11, 2025 Full article
Image: Smartphone on earth with stethoscope on a heart
Mount Sinai Health System earns several prestigious national honors for environmental excellenceNews

Mount Sinai Health System earns several prestigious national honors for environmental excellence

One of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area receives three major sustainability awards from Practice Greenhealth Mount Sinai Health System…
SourceSourceJune 9, 2025 Full article
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USP and FAPESP bring innovative technologies to international startup fair in FranceNews

USP and FAPESP bring innovative technologies to international startup fair in France

VivaTech is one of Europe's leading technology and startup events; USP and FAPESP will take researchers and disruptive technologies to the event in the areas…
SourceSourceJune 6, 2025 Full article
Graphic news (s. climate, science, nature)
Slain UK journalist’s book on saving the Amazon publishedNews

Slain UK journalist’s book on saving the Amazon published

London, United Kingdom | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Three years after UK journalist Dom Phillips was murdered, his widow and colleagues have published the book he…
SourceSourceJune 6, 2025 Full article
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Older companies lead the way on sustainability, new research showsScience

Older companies lead the way on sustainability, new research shows

In a new article published in Frontiers in Organizational Psychology, Daria Haner, Dr Yilei Wang, Dr Deniz Ones, and Dr Stephan Dilchert, Dr Yagizhan Yazar,…
SourceSourceJune 5, 2025 Full article
Satellite Image: flooded areas along the Râul Negru tributary of the river Olt in central Romania
Image of the day: Flooding spreads across central RomaniaNews

Image of the day: Flooding spreads across central Romania

Severe flooding inundated parts of central and northern Romania in late May 2025 after days of continuous rainfall overwhelmed rivers and urban drainage systems. Streets,…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 4, 2025 Full article
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Composites are going low-carbonNews

Composites are going low-carbon

Researchers at EPFL and its startups are exploring innovative composites that are self-repairing, self-curing and reusable, in an effort to help drive the transition to…
SourceSourceJune 4, 2025 Full article
Small iceberg floating in ocean water under a bright sky with the Sun visible above - climate change effects (s. science, climate, Muser)
Climate Science Digest: June 3, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: June 3, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (June 3, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 3, 2025 Full article
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Climate strategies of agri-food giants insufficient: studyNews

Climate strategies of agri-food giants insufficient: study

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Nestle, PepsiCo and other agri-food giants are "unlikely" to bring about meaningful greenhouse gas reductions in the sector…
SourceSourceJune 3, 2025 Full article
Image: Sea waves
Oceans feel the heat from human climate pollutionScience

Oceans feel the heat from human climate pollution

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Oceans have absorbed the vast majority of the warming caused by burning fossil fuels and shielded societies from…
SourceSourceJune 2, 2025 Full article