2026 Global Carbon Budget: fossil CO₂ down 0.4% to 38.2 Gt; oil -1.9%; total CO₂ 43.3 Gt; 150 Gt left—under four years at today’s rate; El Niño may sway sinks.
Study shows viscosity controls marine snow decay: stickier particles deliver over 6× more carbon to depth; >10 Gt leave the surface, ~2 Gt get sequestered.
Models suggest Earth’s gravity focused 150 GW into 2.5% of the Moon’s mantle, keeping pockets hot and helping yield 2‑billion‑year lunar basalts.
Hurricane Melissa left 4.8M tons of debris and 120,000 roofs gone; Jamaica faces a $12.2B hit (56.7% of GDP) with insurance covering about 2%.
Cryo-EM and modeling show TACO1 near the mitoribosome A site stabilizes incoming tRNA, explaining relief of proline stalls and links to mitochondrial disease.
ExoMars saw hydrogen chloride spike over fresh Alba Mons fissures in early summer, defying the usual pattern and hinting at seepage from a dormant magma chamber
UC Riverside linked Tijuana River wastewater to La Jolla air 22 miles away; up to 76% survived in seawater, and levels fell 86% after a diversion.
Scientists report heme signatures and red-blood-cell-like structures in a 115-million-year-old Aratasaurus bone, with debate over whether they’re true blood cel
Postcard-size suit fabric spent 1,645 Martian days in dust; study finds Mars grit is less abrasive than lunar but ultrafine, electrostatically sticky, and chemi
UMass-led work finds weaker shale erodes 3x faster than hard rock, shifting sediment sources and implying higher mountain CO2. Tested with 10Be in quartz in a 4