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Research suggests that underground geologic hydrogen could be a valuable zero-carbon fuel source, with estimates of vast reserves and promising findings from mines like Kidd Creek and Bulqizë. However, commercially viable extraction remains a challenge, and further exploration is needed to unlock its potential.

The Met Office's Climate Dashboard explains the importance of glaciers, their observed mass loss over recent decades, and the methods used to measure glacier mass balance, highlighting the scientific consensus on climate-driven glacier retreat.

A new study using high-resolution lake sediment records from Lake Chala suggests the Mount Toba eruption 74,000 years ago caused only about half a degree of cooling for under two years, contradicting theories of a near-extinction volcanic winter.

Amazon's planned Texas data center could become the largest climate polluter in the U.S., with an on-site natural gas plant permitted to release 33 million tons of CO2 per year. The report highlights growing environmental concerns around AI infrastructure and Amazon's carbon emissions, which rose 16% last year despite climate pledges.

Amazon is reportedly building a massive 7.65-gigawatt gas power plant in Texas to power an AI data center, which would become the largest pollution source in the U.S., contradicting its net-zero climate pledge.

DeepMind's WeatherNext AI model, published in Nature, can predict hurricanes with unprecedented accuracy, giving forecasters about a day more lead time than existing models.

A comparison of the environmental impact between AI datacenters and animal agriculture, examining carbon footprints and resource usage.

The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be below normal due to a rapidly strengthening El Niño, with forecasters predicting fewer named storms and hurricanes.

The Genesis Mission aims to create a domestic end-to-end ecosystem integrating AI, quantum computing, and nuclear energy to accelerate scientific discovery and address climate, energy, and health challenges.

This thread analyzes the rapid intensification of a Super El Niño in 2026-2027, citing NOAA data and projecting significant impacts on global commodity prices, agricultural production, and supply chains, with implications for financial markets.

Despite the expiration of a key US tax credit in 2025, heat pump sales continue to rise, outpacing natural-gas furnaces. The article explores the reasons behind the sustained growth, including efficiency gains and seasonal trends.

This paper proposes TSSM, a triaxial state space model for global station weather forecasting that incorporates historical data aligned by period to improve long-horizon and extreme event prediction. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on the large-scale Weather-5K dataset and demonstrates strong robustness under missing observations.

Researchers have produced the first global map of the underground mycorrhizal fungal network, estimating it spans 110 quadrillion kilometers and stores massive amounts of carbon, with significant implications for climate regulation.

An analysis of California's dairy digester carbon offset program reveals that swapping methane for CO₂ may reduce short-term warming but locks in long-term warming, highlighting flaws in climate credit math.

This paper compares top-down and bottom-up approaches for collecting text-based data about disasters from news articles, using German news about landslides as a case study.

A study reveals that weathering of organic carbon can release CO2, amplifying warming, while silicate weathering still draws down CO2 but must work harder. This adds a small amplifying effect to human-caused warming over centuries.

A UN report reveals that by 2030, AI data centers could consume water equivalent to the basic annual needs of 1.3 billion people, with 80-90% of energy used for daily operations rather than training. Generating a single AI image uses over 1000 times more energy than a basic text task.

The Trump administration took down climate.gov, but volunteers and former staff preserved the data and relaunched it as a nonprofit site (climate.us), restoring lost climate information and planning to expand resources.

Anthropic becomes the first AI startup to join the Frontier carbon removal coalition, contributing to a new $915 million funding tranche that brings total pledges to $1.8 billion for carbon removal projects.

Nairobi entrepreneurs are adopting solar-powered grain mills to reduce costs and emissions. The article highlights Agsol's solar mill used by shop owner Milcah Wanjiru, which is cheaper than diesel and allows small batches.