Tropical Storm Isaias should be a hurricane by Wednesday night and a Category 2 storm by Friday morning, the US National Hurricane Center estimates. Wind shear rising sharply in the last 24 hours before landfall may cap its strength at the coast.
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Smoke loggers on mule deer record air quality that differs tenfold from nearby stations
Colorado State University's open-source smoke logger, worn on mule deer collars, recorded air quality differing tenfold from the nearest monitoring stations. No deer in this year's Colorado and Utah deployment met unhealthy smoke, so the behavioral question the device was built for is still open.
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Long Island tower measurements trace summer city emissions to paints, cleaners and buildings
Researchers measuring emissions from a Long Island cell tower found paints, cleaners and building materials were major summer sources of urban VOCs. The team says the models cities and states use to forecast and regulate air quality do not accurately include these heat-sensitive sources.
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Twenty named storms by Sept. 28 put the northeastern Pacific well above its 30-year average
NASA counts 20 named storms and nine hurricanes in the northeastern and central Pacific by Sept. 28, against 1991-2020 averages of 13.5 and 7.4. Colorado State data put storm energy at more than double the norm, so the season is running stronger as well as busier.
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El Niño helps keep the Atlantic hurricane-free as the eastern Pacific logs eight
El Niño's wind shear has helped hold the 2026 Atlantic to seven named storms and no hurricanes while the eastern Pacific logged eight hurricanes. Both oceans draw on tropical waves born over Africa, and this year those waves fared very differently on either side of Central America.
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Who Eats Whom builds a searchable food web from 17,000 tagged iNaturalist sightings
The site holds about 17,000 tagged feeding observations covering some 5,700 species, contributed by roughly 2,000 observers in more than 100 countries. The team is still building tools to validate submissions.
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Kearny lost 85 percent of its Gila River allotment after a 1 percent snowpack
Kearny, Arizona, draws from the Gila River, and its own river commissioner made this cut. The federal Colorado River reductions that dominate Southwest water policy do not govern what the town of 2,000 receives.
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A PNAS study weighs irrigation's pumping emissions against 6.86 gigatons of avoided land clearing
Colorado State researchers modeled a United States where every field went rainfed, and found the replacement cropland would release 6.86 gigatons of carbon, or 363 years of what irrigation's own pumping emits in a year.
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Three Pacific cyclones spinning at once match what the spring El Niño outlook called
By September 3 the Northeast Pacific had 15 named storms and six hurricanes against the Atlantic's five and none, the split forecasters called back in spring. A basin tally, though, says nothing about where the rain lands.
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Nepal's glacier collapse highlights growing flood risk as Asia's 95,000 glaciers melt rapidly
The flood along the Nepal-China border came out of ice and rock rather than rain, and the same researchers who count 95,000 Asian glaciers expect up to three quarters of them gone by 2100, which makes this a siting question well before it is a climate one.
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A 75% Chance Of A Quiet Atlantic Is Not A 75% Chance Your Site Stays Dry
NOAA raised its below-normal odds for the 2026 Atlantic season by 20 points in August. The figure describes an ocean basin, and it says nothing about where a storm makes landfall.
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Solar got cheap in factories, not in subsidy bills, and a Hormuz shock tests the difference
The world added 600 terawatt-hours of solar generation last year, which the IEA calls the largest single-year jump for any electricity technology. The cost curve behind it is 47 years old.
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Yellowstone's geysers run on water, and 15,000 years of lake mud says drought can throttle them
A Montana State-led study in PNAS reads pollen, charcoal, arsenic and diatoms from closed lakes in the Lower Geyser Basin. Its framing: dry centuries brought less hydrothermal activity and more fire.
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