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Researchers have analyzed water samples collected during two expeditions aboard the research icebreaker Polarstern to investigate how life and changing conditions on the Antarctic continental shelf affect carbon carried into the deep ocean. Published in Nature Communications, the study reveals a surprising finding: Despite intense biological activity and major changes in the water masses, the amount and make-up of dissolved organic matter remain almost unchanged.

In the 1970s and '80s, frogs in Brazil's Atlantic Forest began dying off. Researchers have proposed various causes, from severe cold snaps to acid rain. Now, scientists believe they have solved this decade-old amphibian "cold case." The culprit, it seems, may be the highly contagious pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). It causes a deadly infectious skin disease, chytrid, in amphibians. The investigation was recently published in the journal Molecular Ecology. Researchers from the U.S. and Brazil studied specimens collected from Boracéia research station in the Atlantic . . .

Ocean currents move water around the globe in a vast circulation system.

Among the technical inquiries spanning topics like cyclodextrin polymers and mass spectrometry that were stacked in Damian Helbling's inbox was a question about four golden retrievers.

Antarctic blue whales appear to be creeping back from the brink of extinction after 50 years of protection. A new study estimates the total population at 4,018, up from 418 after the last reported whale catch in 1973.

Lucid (LCID) CEO Silvio Napoli admitted on the company's Q3 earnings call that, as recently as this summer, the automaker "did not even know where cars were." Buyers placed orders, Lucid took up to two weeks to locate and deliver a car, and some of those buyers walked away. That's a rough admission from a company sitting on thousands of unsold vehicles. And it's a problem Tesla ran into, and fixed, back in 2018 at more than ten times Lucid's current volume. more . . .

New EV prices edged up in October, but buyers still paid less than they did a year ago. The average transaction price for a new EV in the US was $56,220, up 1% from September and down 2.7% from October 2025, according to Kelley Blue Book, a Cox Automotive brand. more . . .

BYD's Flash Charging tech can charge an EV in as little as five minutes. Now, BYD is taking things a step further with integrated solar power and a robotic arm that plugs itself in. See how it all works in action. more . . .

A Norwegian Scania has already plowed mountain roads. Sweden's new fuel-cell range extender adds tanks and fueling equipment to a battery truck and needs a business case. The post Norway's Electric Snowplow Worked. Sweden Added Hydrogen Anyway. appeared first on CleanTechnica.

The collective memory of floods and droughts influences where people settle, how they build and how they prepare for the next climatic extreme. Over decades, that memory can fade, and communities may return to places that once proved dangerous. How such memory decayed over centuries is hard to observe because the climate past societies experienced is usually known only from their own records.

Two papers by Prof. Thomas A. Weber develop a rank-based method to track environmental change. They apply the idea to follow Geneva's warming climate, and generalize the approach to quantify shifts in spatial air-pollution exposure across Switzerland. The method compares observations with a historical baseline and shows how accounting for where people live changes the assessment of air-quality improvements.

"Last night we had a very big fight with an elephant in our tomato field," said Joeman Moyo, a farmer at Den Staat farm in South Africa's Limpopo region. "We used a torch . . . to make a fire. The elephant would go away but return when I put out the torch. I also burned a tire, but this did not scare it away for long. It kept coming back when the fire died down." Moyo, who looks after a 5-hectare (12.4-acre) plot, described an experience reflecting the challenges facing Den Staat's smallholder farmers, as elephants enter their fields at night and threaten crops that provide an . . .

Kenya's fitness boom runs on activewear built for stretch, sweat and shine yet almost no one asks what's actually in the fabric. By 7 a.m. on a Saturday, Riverside Square in Nairobi's Westlands neighborhood is already filling up. Dozens arrive in matching leggings and sports bras, water bottles clipped to armbands, ready for a running loop that will most often end with coffee. Four years ago, this was the routine of four friends and a goal to keep fit. Today it is We Run Nairobi, the city's largest free running community. On its best mornings, it pulls more than 1,200 people through . . .

Permafrost in many of Earth's northern regions is thawing, a process that unlocks greenhouse gases, threatens infrastructure, and could alter landscapes and ecosystems. The Arctic and subarctic are vast, and gaining a comprehensive picture of permafrost distribution is difficult, as it requires seeing under the ground. Now, with a new method that can map permafrost from the air, researchers may get a much more spatially cohesive view of permafrost thickness and distribution.

BYD and Geely have both approached the FIA about entering Formula 1, the sport's governing body confirmed. FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem named the two Chinese automakers while speaking at the New Economy Forum in Madrid, as first reported by Grande Prêmio. But there's no open process for a 12th team, and neither company has a deal. The FIA is also pushing F1 toward the kind of engine an EV maker has the least reason to build. more . . .

A recent Mongabay investigation by Elizabeth Claire Alberts and Andrés Alegría reveals that the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean, a swath of deep sea regulated by the International Seabed Authority, has received a surge of claim applications filed with the United States for mineral exploration and exploitation. While the ISA, a U.N.-associated body, is responsible for granting seabed mining permits in international waters, the U.S. is challenging that authority by receiving and reviewing applications of some companies. In doing so, it's citing U.S. laws, and not the United . . .