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ESA's Hera Mission Approaches Asteroid Didymos for First Post-Impact Survey of NASA's DART Deflection Experiment
Launched in 2024, ESA's Hera spacecraft is on track to rendezvous with the binary asteroid system Didymos-Dimorphos in November 2026, conducting the first detailed post-impact survey of humanity's first planetary defense test.
NTU Study Identifies 5.3 mm/yr Sea-Level Rise Threshold Beyond Which Indo-Pacific Coral Reefs Cannot Survive
Research published in Nature Communications in August 2026 finds that 76% of surveyed Indo-Pacific reef sites lack the capacity to keep pace with current sea-level rise trends, threatening coastal protection for millions.
UNCCD COP17 Opens in Ulaanbaatar as Pastoralists Demand Space to Move, Survive, and Restore Degraded Rangelands
The 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification convened in Mongolia on 17 August 2026 under the theme 'Restoring Land. Restoring Hope,' placing rangelands and pastoralist communities at the centre of global land restoration efforts.
ESA's Proba-3 Creates Artificial Solar Eclipse Hours Before Real One Sweeps Across Europe
On 12 August 2026, ESA's precision formation-flying mission generated its own eclipse from orbit, imaging the Sun's inner corona with the ASPIICS telescope just hours before a natural total solar eclipse crossed Greenland, Iceland, and Spain.
Siberian Methane Emissions Have More Than Doubled in a Decade, Satellite Study Published in Science Reveals
Research co-led by UK scientists at the National Centre for Earth Observation shows Arctic warming is unlocking frozen carbon, with emissions growing 5% per year and potentially adding 25 million tonnes annually by 2050.
IUCN Red List Update Warns Deep-Sea Mining Threatens Two-Thirds of Hydrothermal Vent Molluscs with Extinction
A July 2026 update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species reveals that 62% of mollusc species endemic to deep-sea hydrothermal vents are at risk from emerging seabed mining operations, as the agency marks its 60th anniversary.
Atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa Reaches 432 Parts Per Million, Setting New All-Time Record in May 2026
Data from NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography confirm that the annual CO2 peak at Mauna Loa Observatory hit 432 ppm in May 2026, the highest concentration in millions of years and a 2.7 ppm increase over the previous year's peak.
World Weather Attribution Finds Climate Change Tripled Likelihood of Deadly 2026 South Asia Pre-Monsoon Heatwave
A rapid attribution study published in May 2026 concluded that human-induced warming made the extreme heat across India and Pakistan approximately three times more likely and intensified temperatures by about 1°C, exposing hundreds of millions to dangerous conditions.