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%.
Tag: Earth
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
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.
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.
Swiss glaciers lost 5.5% of their volume in 2026 and nearly 20% in five years, GLAMOS reports, as a record-hot summer pushed melt to the second-biggest on recor
An open-source model reads a year of satellite data to map crops in Senegal, scoring 84% and beating the next-best by 28%, with limits on mixed fields.
Japan’s PANSY Antarctic radar, added to models for seven 2022 atmospheric rivers, lowered forecast errors and changed moisture transport by over 30%.
FarmFlux flies low with 12+ sensors to track methane, ammonia, ozone and particulates over Colorado and Texas now, then the Midwest and California in 2027.