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Earth to Record Third-Shortest Day on Aug. 5 as Timekeepers Plan First Negative Leap Second

Rapid, unexplained shifts in Earth’s rotation are complicating coordination of global time standards.

Trump Calls Ukraine War 'Ridiculous' and Touts August 8 Ceasefire

Continents Drying Out Faster Than Ice Melt, Driving Sea Level Rise

Scientists Urge Expanded Monitoring as Svalbard’s Winter Thaws

International Team Publishes Systems Framework to Diagnose Global Delta Risks

Global Wetlands Decline Puts $39 Trillion of Services at Risk

Sonification and Animation Reveal Chaotic Pole Dynamics During Ancient Magnetic Flip

Nearly 7,000 Dams Reoriented Earth’s Poles and Lowered Sea Levels

Accelerating Warming and Ocean Acidification Threaten German Coasts

Selective Fishing Halves Eastern Baltic Cod Size and Reshapes Their Genomes

Atlantic Cold Spot Traced to Century-Long Weakening of Ocean Circulation

Oceans Greening at Poles and Bluing at Equator, Study Finds

Amazon Rainforest Rain Patterns Intensify Over 40 Years, Study Shows

Marine Heatwaves Shatter Records in North Atlantic and South-West Pacific

Nigeria’s Mokwa Floods Kill Over 200, Leave 1,000 Missing

Industrial Iron Emissions Shift North Pacific Ecosystem Boundaries

Global Study Shows 39% of Glacier Ice Doomed; 1.5°C Target Could Double Preservation

21% of Global Ocean Has Darkened Since 2003, Study Shows

One-Fifth of Global Ocean Darkened, Shrinking Photic Zones

WMO Sees 80% Chance of New Global Heat Records by 2029