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Marcus Thorne
Focuses on climate modeling, extreme weather event attribution, conservation efforts, and plastic pollution mitigation.
ScienceNew research finds more than 40% of children under 10 worldwide already endure at least 20 additional days of dangerous humid heat each year because of human-caused climate change, more than any other age group.
ScienceNew federal guidance says power plants built solely to run data centers do not have to follow Clean Air Act monitoring rules that apply to plants supplying the public grid. Critics say the change removes oversight just as huge gas plants are being proposed to feed America's AI boom.
ScienceA glacier collapse on the Nepal-Tibet border triggered a flash flood that killed at least 165 people and left hundreds missing, including dozens of American pilgrims. It is the second such disaster on the same river system in just over a year.
ScienceUnderwater microphones and artificial intelligence have revealed the scale of illegal blast fishing in Indonesia's Coral Triangle, recording an explosion roughly every hour for more than a year.
ScienceKeiko Fujimori was sworn in as Peru's president in late July after a razor-thin election win. Environmentalists and Indigenous leaders fear her pro-mining, pro-oil agenda could harm the Amazon.
ScienceA major El Niño event that began around June 2026 is warming the Pacific faster than any comparable event in 45 years of satellite data, raising the odds that 2026 or 2027 becomes the hottest year on record.
ScienceAs cuckoos and swifts begin their autumn journey south from Britain, a new international scientific review warns that many migratory bird populations along the route they follow are shrinking fast.
ScienceA 21-year survey of 53 European summits shows warmth-loving plants are spreading across the continent's high mountains, but researchers found local temperature rises alone cannot explain how fast this happens at any single site.
ScienceThe ancient arthropod, whose blue blood underpins global vaccine safety testing, is among ten finalists in the Guardian's annual poll. Voting closes ahead of a result due on 17 August.
ScienceEurope is heating up at roughly twice the global average rate, according to the EU's Copernicus climate service, and this summer's heatwaves have already caused thousands of excess deaths across the continent.
ScienceA female Amur tiger named Umit has been released into a Kazakh nature reserve, marking the first practical step in a decade-long plan to restore a big cat population lost since the mid-20th century.
ScienceAfter the US National Science Foundation rejected renewed funding for a 64-year marmot study, UCLA researchers turned to OnlyFans to raise money. The account, called OnlyMarms, is free and strictly G-rated.
ScienceSimultaneous fires in France and Spain have triggered one of Europe's largest peacetime evacuations in decades, burning a combined area larger than any previous wildfire in Spanish history. A fresh surge in temperatures threatens to undo the fragile progress firefighters have made.
ScienceA week of record-breaking temperatures in June wiped £1.15 billion from the UK economy in lost output and stripped 24 million hours from the working week, according to new research from the London School of Economics and an Italian climate institute.