Science correspondent with a background in oceanography. Covers climate, ocean systems and environmental research.
The United States has launched a second round of strikes against Iranian military targets in two days after an Iranian drone hit a Panama-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, threatening a fragile interim peace agreement signed earlier this month.
The European Commission has issued preliminary findings that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be brought under the EU's Digital Markets Act — a move that would impose sweeping new obligations on the world's two dominant cloud providers.
Researchers combining satellite and buoy records report the circulation has weakened by about four percent since the 1980s. They caution that the trend is small relative to natural year-to-year swings.
Volunteers have counted the same sites each spring for ten years.