An international group of researchers says that biodiversity conservation and scientific research are not benefiting from the vast knowledge about the world’s plants held by botanic gardens, because of fragmented data systems and a lack of standardisation. They call for a unified and equitable global data system for living collections to transform how the world’s botanic gardens manage and share information. This would enable them to work together as a ‘meta-collection’ to strengthen scientific research and conservation efforts.

A new international analysis published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences on 9 January finds that the Earth’s ocean stored more heat in 2025 than in any year since modern measurements began.

Agricultural soils are one of the world’s largest sources of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas nearly 300 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a century. New research suggests that a common agricultural byproduct may offer a powerful and practical solution. A study published in Biochar shows that straw-derived biochar, when applied using region-specific strategies, could reduce nitrous oxide emissions from China’s croplands by as much as 50 percent.

As climate change accelerates the melting of glaciers around the world, scientists are warning of a little-known risk flowing downstream with the meltwater: antibiotic resistance genes that have been locked in ice for thousands of years.

To explore the development and societal implementation of green transformation (GX) technologies for realizing a sustainable carbon-neutral society and fostering collaborative R&D, the Science Tokyo GXI and GX Frontier Visionary Initiative (GX-VI) organizes the Global Workshop for the GX key areas of decarbonization, energy systems, energy carriers, alternative fuels, and energy storage joining with MITEI (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative), EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute), and DLR (German Aerospace Center).

A call for both distinguished global experts and rising early - career stars to join a systematic, multi - dimensional platform for biodiversity research.

Two things are clear from a University of Michigan analysis of nearly 200,000 Twitter posts between 2012 and 2022. One, people are really good at identifying peak pollen season. And two, liberal users on Twitter were more likely than conservatives to ascribe shifting pollen seasons over the years to climate change.