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November

Cryosphere decline — ice sheets, mountain glaciers, sea ice, permafrost and snow cover — beyond safe planetary limits, putting conditions for human society at risk (LINK) 13 November 2026

Global warming remains unchecked, experts warn at UN's COP31 climate summit: planet is still on track to warm nearly 5 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100, a rise that would devastate coral reefs, disrupt agriculture and forests and melt most of the world's ice (LINK) 12 November 2026

Mass stranding in NZ, on remote Cape Palliser, on nation's North Island, leaves maybe 43 dead pilot whales (LINK) 5 November 2026

— Newser: When the whales were first discovered on Thursday morning, at least 20 of them were already beached and only four remained alive. Those survivors didn't make it through the day, according to conservation charity Project Jonah. Reuters reports that two whales were successfully refloated, though it's not clear if they were among the four original survivors that eventually perished. Pilot whales are known for mass strandings, though the causes remain unclear.

CERN: UK-led scientists detect signals at the smallest scale ever explored: 'Zeptoverse' is a subatomic world about 100 billion times smaller than an atom, using the Large Hadron Collider(ground news LINK) 3 November 2026

— Researchers observed a rare event where a beauty quark decays into two muons, occurring only once in 10 billion instances, providing a unique method to study particles within the Zeptoverse.

Mosquitoes are picky eaters — and scientists just figured out why they prefer certain people: different mosquito species are attracted to distinct human scent signatures (LINK) 3 November 2026

— SciTechDaily: In a study involving 119 volunteers, researchers at Florida International University (FIU) found that three major disease-carrying mosquito species consistently preferred different people. Not a single participant was attractive to all three. The findings, published in iScience, challenge the idea that some people are universally irresistible to mosquitoes. Instead, attraction appears to depend on how individual species detect the chemicals and microorganisms associated with human skin.

WHO approves trials for two new Ebola vaccines (LINK) 2 November 2026

Common pesticide used in U.S. agriculture, chlorpyrifos, linked to 2.5 times the risk of Parkinson's disease (LINK) 1 November 2026

— Science Daily: The chemical can interfere with the brain's ability to remove damaged proteins, leading to the loss of nerve cells essential for controlling movement.