Emmanuel Guillerm's model attributes 1.5C of the Dead Sea's 2.8C deep-water warming from 1979 to 2019 to the lake's own falling level. Saltier brine cools itself less as it evaporates, so the same loop may help explain ancient salt beds that formed without an exceptionally hot climate.
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Penn State researchers found Masaya's caldera sank then rose across six years of satellite radar, while its Santiago crater deflated throughout. The authors read that as two reservoirs behaving separately, something monitoring has to account for at a volcano within 21 km of 2 million people.
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University of Washington researchers say NASA's SWOT satellite can measure water levels on more than 85% of 800,000 km of Asian irrigation canals. The mission was never designed for canals, so the map points to monitoring from hardware already in orbit, with its scores checked against US canal measurements.
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Duke's Sarah Cooley and colleagues measured a snow-and-ice cooling effect of -14.4 W/m2 over Northern Hemisphere lakes, against -8.2 over nearby land. Climate models often do not separate lakes from land, though the study as reported does not say how much that misstates the seasonal energy balance.
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NASA-led researchers mapped 1,943 valleys under Greenland's ice from faint bumps in satellite maps of its surface, about a third of them new. The map is meant to improve future versions of BedMachine Greenland, a high-resolution dataset of the terrain beneath the ice.
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Jha and Byrne varied the rate at which dry air mixes into convective plumes across ERA5 and CESM2, and found it significantly moves moist-heat extremes outside the tropics, which means a swept parameter sits underneath the wet-bulb projection.
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Tide researchers report that adding the springlike force of internal tides lets models match observed tides without simulating those waves directly. They say warming and stratification are already changing tides, though their account does not say by how much.
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Nanjing University modeling finds that expanding Gobi-area solar to almost 11 times its current footprint would cut springtime particulate concentrations across northern China by nearly 14%. Coarse dust rose to 65% of the country's airborne particulate pollution by 2023, from about 55% in 2013.
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Attribution science usually asks what two centuries of fossil fuel burning did to a heat wave. A Stanford group asked what the ten years since the Paris Agreement did, and found a measurable answer in Europe's worst recent heat.
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A Geophysical Research Letters paper compares coupled CMIP6 runs against atmosphere-only runs fed observed ocean temperatures, then adds the bias back and watches the jet move south again. Northwestern Pacific bias was particularly important.
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Elena Terzic and Ivica Vilibic compiled cruise and float measurements from 1950 to 2025 and found the Mediterranean's warming and salinification accelerating far below the surface layer, fastest of all in the deep Adriatic.
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Shortening structures turn up more often on smooth ground than on rough. Correcting for that detection bias raises Mercury's radial contraction from 8.3 to 11.6 kilometres, and the authors say even that is probably low.
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Mercury's lumpiest terrain carries the fewest shrinkage wrinkles, which the authors read as impact debris burying the record. Correct for that and total contraction rises to as much as 23 km, with the thermal models still to be redone.
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Fredrik Alriksson's team sampled 32 connected networks in northern Sweden and found that a tenfold rise in water surface came with 35 times longer residence and a 1.8-fold tilt from downstream export toward the atmosphere.
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Gareth Funning and Axel Periollat map where subduction faults are locked rather than when they will break, and their algorithm marked the Kamchatka segment that later failed, working from what one author calls a relatively limited data set.
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Two reanalyses and one climate model all sent too little longwave heat down to the sea surface during Japan's JARE64 cruise, and the shipboard record points at cloud phase and air temperature rather than at how much cloud the models make.
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A Geophysical Research Letters team paired aurora cameras with ground receivers across the US and Canada, and found hours of amplitude scintillation and 10-metre positioning error in mid-latitudes long treated as quiet.
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A Birmingham-led team grew the sample from 55 observed tropical-origin cyclones to several thousand simulated ones, and the return period that falls out for a Lili-scale wind event is shorter than the observed record could ever have revealed.
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The events lack the high-frequency energy that standard detection depends on, which is why they went uncatalogued. The busiest stretch, 2018 to 2020, lines up with a satellite-confirmed speed-up of the Thwaites ice tongue.
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One 2025 study puts smoke-attributable US deaths at 41,380 a year for the 2010s and 71,420 by 2050. That turns a summer emergency into a line item public health and workplace planners carry every year.
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