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Early El Niño sharpens climate risks as solar research advances

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3:28 PMThe New York Times

Early-Onset El Niño

Summary

El Niño is already disrupting weather patterns around the world, and its effects could intensify as the event approaches its expected peak in the coming months.

The key shift is timing: a climate pattern typically judged by its peak is already

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An early start extends the period of risk and leaves less time for communities and markets to prepare for worsening weather.

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10:53 AMThe New York Times

Effects of Record-Breaking El Niño Are Happening on 3 Continents

Summary

A powerful El Niño is already producing dry spells and crop failures across three continents, even though the climate pattern is not expected to peak until later this year.

The impacts are arriving before the event reaches its projected peak, increasing the risk of

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Early damage shows how climate shocks can spread through food and water systems before they reach full strength.

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10:13 PMBBC

Indian solar mission's new findings throw light on enduring Sun mysteries

Summary

India's solar mission is providing new observations of the Sun's corona, the outer atmosphere that reaches temperatures of millions of degrees despite lying above the much cooler surface. The findings address a longstanding question in solar physics: how the corona is heated and maintained at such extreme temperatures.

The key shift is the move from explaining coronal heating mainly through models to testing

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Understanding the corona is central to predicting space weather and protecting increasingly vulnerable technology in orbit and on Earth.

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2:36 PMThe New York Times

Brazil’s Disease-Fighting Mosquitoes

Summary

Scientists in Brazil are producing millions of mosquitoes in a specialized factory as part of an effort to reduce the spread of deadly tropical diseases. The program presents mosquito production as a public-health tool for a warmer world.

The approach treats the disease vector itself as an intervention target rather than relying only

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Brazil is testing whether industrial-scale mosquito control can keep pace with the growing health threat created by climate change.

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9:17 AMThe New York Times

See the 2026 European Solar Eclipse, in Photos and Videos

Summary

The 2026 total solar eclipse drew visitors from Iceland to Spain to witness the celestial event. Photos and videos document the eclipse and the crowds gathered along its path.

The eclipse’s broad geographic reach made it both a scientific event and a destination for

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Images and video give people outside the eclipse path access to an event that was otherwise limited by geography and timing.

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2:19 AMThe New York Times

Coming next summer: the ‘eclipse of the century.’

Summary

A total solar eclipse next summer is expected to darken parts of southern Europe and North Africa for six minutes or more. The path will pass over landmarks including the Rock of Gibraltar, Tangier’s casbah and Egypt’s temples at Luxor.

The unusually long period of totality will concentrate global travel demand along a narrow route

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The eclipse will be both a rare scientific spectacle and a major test of destination planning across multiple countries.

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12:58 AMThe New York Times

First Total Eclipse in Europe in Decades Turns Day to Night

Summary

People across Europe, from Iceland to Spain, have gathered along the eclipse’s path as the moon prepares to completely cover the sun for a short period.

The event is shifting from anticipation to observation, with visibility concentrated along a narrow path

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A rare astronomical alignment is turning precise geography and timing into the difference between witnessing totality and seeing only a partial eclipse.

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