Short-term heat stress and air pollution linked to increased suicide risk
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Analysis of 7,500 suicides in Utah finds suicide risk increases by 50% on hot days with bad air quality.
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Tour de force
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U and Université Côte d’Azur students again team up to tackle energy and climate solutions at the 2026 Wilkes Center “Hackathon.”
Read More‘Just-shoring’ puts justice at the center of critical minerals policy
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The clean energy transition depends on critical raw materials but mining them strains local communities and ecosystems. A new “just-shoring” framework argues supply chains must center justice alongside climate and security goals.
Read MoreCleaner ship fuel changed clouds, but not their climate balance
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After maritime shipping emissions were sharply reduced following a mandated switch in fuels, U scientists sprang into action to see how the change would affect cloud formation over North Atlantic.
Read MoreGreat Salt Lake levels remain low, yet salinity remains close to healthy targets
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Annual Strike Team report outlines new dust-mitigation strategies, successes in controlling salinity and fresh projections on lake’s direction
Read MoreWhat past global warming reveals about future rainfall
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“Proxies” in geologic record show rainfall was more intense, but less regular during the Paleogene.
Read MoreIndustry veteran expands Wilkes Center’s impact
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Fielding Norton brings expertise in climate- and insurance-technology to broaden the Wilkes Center’s role in society, including by supporting the innovation ecosystem and bolstering communities’ resiliency to climate change.
Read MoreA mathematics expedition to the frozen Arctic
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Students explore biological and physical properties of Arctic sea ice with U mathematicians Jody Reimer and Ken Golden.
Read MoreConflict, climate change and public health
The U’s Andrew Linke is one of 128 contributors to the Lancet Global Report, the most comprehensive assessment on climate change and health.
Read MoreInitiative fuels state leadership in responsible AI
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At its second annual symposium, the U One-U Responsible Artificial Intelligence Initiative showcased how it’s raising the state’s profile in ethical innovation.
Read MoreWoodrats’ dietary choices driven by constraints
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Researchers discovered that the costs of using too few or too many resources strongly influence dietary diversity in wild woodrats, complicating how we think about food webs, resiliency and invasive species.
Read MoreA molecule that enables microbes to eat methane
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U chemists discover critical steps bacteria take to oxidize potent greenhouse gas and how they interact in larger microbial communities.
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