2026 Global Carbon Budget: fossil CO₂ down 0.4% to 38.2 Gt; oil -1.9%; total CO₂ 43.3 Gt; 150 Gt left—under four years at today’s rate; El Niño may sway sinks.
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Study shows viscosity controls marine snow decay: stickier particles deliver over 6× more carbon to depth; >10 Gt leave the surface, ~2 Gt get sequestered.
Hurricane Melissa left 4.8M tons of debris and 120,000 roofs gone; Jamaica faces a $12.2B hit (56.7% of GDP) with insurance covering about 2%.
UMass-led work finds weaker shale erodes 3x faster than hard rock, shifting sediment sources and implying higher mountain CO2. Tested with 10Be in quartz in a 4
During 2020–22, the Upper Colorado Basin lost 4.2 cubic miles of groundwater—almost twice the Lower’s 2.3. Since 2004, the basin is down 14 cubic miles.
El Niño has Manaus choking—PM2.5 above 135 closed schools—while satellites track a long Amazon fire season and a 40% undercount near Santarém.
A new model of Thwaites Glacier that treats a wide grounding zone doubles projected sea-level rise to 30 mm by 2100 and raises coastal flood risk.
SFU-led study projects Canadian wildfire costs at $43B per year by 2100 and over $2.1T this century, while excluding major health, evacuation and infrastructure
Study finds fire-driven ozone has cut Amazon carbon uptake by about 24% of fire emissions, with damage focused in the Arc of Deforestation and largely preventab
Europe’s 2026 summer brought 41 days of strong heat stress, 52% under very strong conditions, four top-10 heat waves, and river flows at lows since 1992.