Madeleine Cuff
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Environment reporting for @newscientist. Board member @AllToilets. Cornish Londoner. Veg enthusiast.
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Joined July 2011
It’s a real “pinch me” moment today - my first cover feature for @newscientist is out! Find out what life after 1.5C of warming means in this week’s magazine. You can also read online:
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Delighted to have been shortlisted for science & technology journalist of the year at the Press Awards
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RT @newscientist: In this week’s issue: why extreme weather is here to stay - and what that means for us all. Grab a copy in shops now or….
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Longer, more intense heatwaves, more slow-moving rainstorms… have we broken the jet stream? . My latest cover feature for @newscientist is now live.
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Scientists are scrambling to understand how climate change may be interfering with the winds that carry our weather, with potentially catastrophic consequences
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RT @jamesNESW: The powerful Santa Ana winds fanning #lafires are the latest in a “very highly improbable sequence of extreme climate and we….
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Fast-moving wildfires are burning long after the regular fire season is over due to an unlikely sequence of extreme weather events that may have been exacerbated by climate change
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How to make a giant snowflake, featuring: .A crack team of (very game) academics .One tarpaulin .One kettle .One bicycle pump .One empty drinks bottle .A very, very cold room.
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We assembled a crack team to create a record-breaking snowflake. Along the way, we learned just how impressive the natural kind really are
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We might finally know why 2023 & 2024 have seen record breaking temperatures . Folks, it’s probably not good news.
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A decline in low-lying cloud cover means Earth is absorbing more solar radiation, which could explain 0.2°C of missing heat scientists have been struggling to account for
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Mind well and truly blown by this feature, which is also beautifully written by @hvthomson
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Reperfusion technologies that can reanimate human brains are raising the possibility that death could be a reversible condition, even hours after a cardiac arrest
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This is fascinating (and not a little terrifying)
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Using GPT-4o, the model behind ChatGPT, researchers have replicated the personality and behaviour of more than 1000 people, in an effort to create an alternative to focus groups and polling
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You can also get your science news over on the blue site
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Great story from my colleague @jamesNESW - you can lead a horse to water. #COP29.
Methane super-emitters received more than 1200 alerts of leaks from oil and gas infrastructure in 2024, some with the climate effect of hundreds of thousands of cars. Leaks got fixed less than 1% of the time. #COP29.
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RT @BarbMcQuade: Great description from @PeteButtigieg of how disinformation is eroding our democracy.
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Billions of dollars of infrastructure - including plenty of fossil fuel kit - set to become stranded assets as water levels in the Caspian Sea drop
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Water levels in the Caspian Sea are set to fall dramatically as the climate gets hotter, posing a major threat to economic activity and ecosystems in the region
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Divers thought it was a shipwreck. In fact, it was the world's largest coral
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The mega-coral measures 34 metres by 32 metres – making it larger than a blue whale – and it is thought to be three centuries old
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RT @newscientist: The world’s largest coral has just been discovered by accident in the Solomon Islands. Measuring 34 metres by 32 metres,….
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The mega-coral measures 34 metres by 32 metres – making it larger than a blue whale – and it is thought to be three centuries old
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RT @EdinburghZoo: We are calling for tighter restrictions on fireworks following the death of Roxie, our endangered red panda kit, on bonfi….
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RT @jamesNESW: CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels in 2024 are set to blow past last year’s record, dashing hopes this year will see th….
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An annual accounting of CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels and land use change finds no sign emissions will peak this year
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RT @Peters_Glen: 📢Global Carbon Budget 2024📢. Despite some predicting a peak in global fossil CO2 emissions, we estimate growth of 0.8% [-0….
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RT @catdl: We are hiring an Assistant Magazine Editor here at New Scientist to join the print team #journalismjobs.
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New Scientist seeks an Assis. Magazine Editor to help curate weekly eye catching content that will appeal to readers.
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This gives us a more accurate pre-Industrial baseline. Using this new approach, scientists say humanity had caused 1.49°C of warming by 2023. In short: the 1.5°C level “has now in effect been reached” against this baseline. 4/END. Read more 👇 .
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Most assessments of global warming use 1850-1900 as a baseline, but researchers have now established a new pre-industrial reference by using Antarctic ice cores to estimate the average temperature...
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