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In the heart of Illinois, while researching wildlife disease, I made a discovery that stunned me: More than half of the raccoons I sampled were infected with Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease. Most Americans have never heard of it. But this neglected tropical disease is no longer confined to the tropics. It’s here, in the United States, …

A groundbreaking global study, recently published in Nature, reveals surprising findings about the state of ancient carbon storage and its impact on the atmosphere. For decades, scientists have assumed that carbon trapped deep in soils and rocks, often for thousands or even millions of years, was securely contained, unaffected by the forces of nature and human activity. However, a new …

The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, is facing growing criticism from scientists who say their “worst fears” were realized when Wright revealed that the Trump administration would “update” the US’s premier climate crisis reports. Wright, a former oil and gas executive, told CNN’s Kaitlin Collins earlier this week that the administration was reviewing national climate assessment reports published by past …

Chemical pollution is “a threat to the thriving of humans and nature of a similar order as climate change” but decades behind global heating in terms of public awareness and action, a report has warned. The industrial economy has created more than 100 million “novel entities”, or chemicals not found in nature, with somewhere between 40,000 and 350,000 in commercial …

332 Hidden Canyons Discovered Under Antarctica – And They Could Be Accelerating Climate Change  SciTechDaily Scientists map Antarctic seafloor canyons to help predict climate breakdown  The Guardian Scientists Map Antarctic Canyons to Better Predict Climate Impacts  ShiaWaves Scientists Create Most Detailed Map of Antarctic Underwater Canyons To Date  The Inertia Source link

Tropical Storm Dexter formed along a stalled front a few hundred miles east of the North Carolina coast and about 300 miles west-northwest of Bermuda at 11 p.m. EDT Sunday, August 3. Dexter’s formation date of August 4 (in Greenwich time) comes over a week before the typical August 15 appearance of the season’s fourth named storm, based on 1991-2020 climatology. …

Scientists have mapped 332 Antarctic canyon networks to help assess the future course of climate breakdown. The research, published in the journal Marine Geology, shows in high resolution submarine valleys that can reach down more than 4,000 metres, more than twice the depth of the Grand Canyon in the US. The resulting data shows that the canyons may have a …

Kamala Harris leaves an opening for a California climate champion  Politico The California Governor’s Race Was in Limbo. Now It’s Wide Open.  The New York Times With Kamala Harris out, the governor’s race is wide open. ‘Welcome to the thunderdome’  Los Angeles Times Kamala Harris reveals whether she will run for California governor  Fox News Kamala Harris declines California run – could she try …

A ‘Dagger in the Heart’ of Climate Change Regulation  The New York Times Trump bids to scrap almost all pollution regulations – can anything stop this?  The Guardian E&E News: EPA used an unexpected argument to kill the endangerment finding  POLITICO Pro Repealing greenhouse gas emissions rule could cost American drivers more, not less  USA Today US reversal on key climate finding spells uncertainty …

We now live in the Pyrocene, a proposed new geologic epoch of high wildfire activity brought about by human-caused climate change. The occurrence of extreme fire weather is now roughly double compared to the preindustrial period, according to a study released just this week. The Pyrocene has brought a long summer of wildfire smoke in 2025 across North America, where plumes …