A new way to measure hurricanes using earthquake-monitoring equipment could improve storm forecasting, support public safety, and enhance understanding of Earth’s atmosphere.

A 360-million-year-old fossil plant named Ganiopteris from Jiangxi Province, China, is the earliest seed plant with ovules borne directly on leaves. The fossil preserves complete megasporophylls with ovules on their undersides; these megasporophylls form a strobilus terminating the axis. The discovery reveals that the evolutionary shift from axial- to leaf-borne ovules occurred at least 40 million years earlier than previously known and offers insights into the origin of Permian glossopterids.

A new study spearheaded by the Ateneo de Manila University VORTEX Research Lab and the Manila Observatory together with PAGASA and Tokyo Metropolitan University may pave the way for accurately forecasting heavy monsoon rains up to several days in advance.

Efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 °C could unintentionally place growing pressure on the world’s food supply, according to a new perspective published in Environmental and Biogeochemical Processes. The analysis warns that climate commitments relying heavily on afforestation and other land-based carbon removal strategies may reduce global cropland by 12.8% by 2100.