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Lebanon has the fastest rising rate of cancer cases — and deaths – in the world: Beirut has terrible air quality and is often submerged under a blanket of exhaust. And it's not just in the big cities (LINK) 22 October 2025

— According to the study, published in The Lancet, the frequency of new cancer cases in Lebanon has increased by an astounding 162% from 1990 to 2023, with cancer-related deaths increasing by 80% over that same period. In 2023, for every 100,000 people in the country, there were 233.5 new cancer cases.

New recycling method turns Teflon into toothpaste fluoride (LINK) 22 October 2025

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat (LINK) 22 October 2025

Study reveals the place where time moves 9% slower for humans: stationary bikes (LINK) 22 October 2025

Sea levels rising faster than they have in 4,000 years, Rutgers University study warns (LINK) 20 October 2025

NASA confirms Earth now has two moons until 2083: a little asteroid named 2025 PN7, discovered by the University of Hawaii, is officially a rare "quasi-moon": it travels almost exactly in sync with Earth (LINK) 20 October 2025

5th Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipation Summit (LINK) 17 October 2025

— One of the highlights of the summit was a discussion on the rapid development of neurotechnologies generally, and the brain computer interface (BCI) technologies in particular. GESDA decided to start gathering a core group of philanthropic foundations, banks, medical institutions and interested companies, as well international organizations, to help ensure that BCI technologies will be beneficial to all.

Two Swiss installations win European solar awards: climate-friendly positive-energy "Alte Schmitte" building complex in Güttingen, canton Thurgau, and the Stanserhorn funicular railway in Nidwalden (LINK) 17 October 2025

— The two projects had set new standards in sustainable construction and climate-friendly mobility, said the Swiss Solar Agency in a press release. Alte Schmitte produces around 400% of its own energy needs,the first positive-energy site in Switzerland to successfully integrate heritage-friendly solar architecture. The Stanserhorn funicular was singled out for its innovative energy concept and its systematic use of solar energy in public transport. The Stanserhorn funicular has an energy surplus of 131%.

Swiss scientists issue warning after discovering 'enormous' natural phenomenon: Globa warming 'is the main cause for the acceleration' (LINK) 16 October 2025

— Researchers from the monitoring group GLAMOS and the Swiss Academy of Sciences say that Switzerland's glaciers lost 3% of their total volume this year. As ABC News reports, that means Switzerland, home to more glaciers than any other European country, has now lost one-quarter of its ice mass over the past decade. "Glacial melting in Switzerland was once again enormous in 2025," the scientists said in a statement. Switzerland has already lost more than 1,000 small glaciers, scientists say, and that melting ice has a major impact on tourism, hydropower, agriculture, and more throughout Europe.

CO2 from wildfires increases by 9% as climate crisis supercharges infernos (LINK) 16 October 2025

German researchers find highly effective HIV antibody: can prevent infections and neutralize the virus in the laboratory (LINK) 15 October 2025

Researchers issue warning after making troubling discovery on expedition to Antarctica: third-lowest level of winter sea ice since satellite tracking began nearly 50 years ago (LINK) 15 October 2025

Study reveals the surprising age at which your brain reaches its peak: 55-60 (LINK) 15 October 2025

The world's first climate tipping point, irreversible planetary changes, has been crossed, scientists say: hard to reverse loss of warm-water coral reefs (LINK) 13 October 2025

— Time: "Scientists have found as many as 25 major tipping points, including the Amazon rain forest transforming from a lush forest that stores carbon emissions to a dry savannah, and the permanent melting of polar sea ice whereby the dark open water absorbs more heat compared to white snow, encouraging further melting."

Climate tipping points sound scary, especially for ice sheets and oceans — here's why there’s still room for optimism — (LINK)

— "Climate models that predict collapses are less accurate when forecasting interactions between multiple tipping points. Some interactions can push systems out of balance, while others pull an ecosystem closer to equilibrium. Other changes driven by rising global temperatures, like melting permafrost, likely don't meet the criteria for tipping points because they aren’t self-sustaining. Permafrost could refreeze if temperatures drop again."

— Climate scientist Timothy Lenton first identified climate tipping points in 2008. In 2022, he and his team revisited temperature collapse ranges, integrating over a decade of additional data and more sophisticated computer models.

New study ranks Washington, D.C. as second greenest city in U.S. (LINK) 13 October 2025

Nobel-winning economists Duflo and Banerjee will leave US for Switzerland (LINK) 10 October 2025 2025

— The University of Zurich said that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, known for their work in development economics, will move from the US to Switzerland, amid Donald Trump's attacks on universities. Now at MIT, they will establish a new center for development economics.

— The couple will each have an endowed professorship at UZH funded by the Lemann Foundation, the university said. They will also establish and co-lead the new Lemann Center for Development, Education and Public Policy, with an aim to foster policy-relevant research and connect researchers and education policymakers around the world, it added. "We are delighted that two of the world's most influential economists are joining UZH," university president Michael Schaepman said. Duflo said the new Lemann Center would enable the couple, who will retain part-time positions at MIT, to "build on and expand our work, which bridges academic research, student mentorship and real-world policy impact."

Decades of studies link suicide risk with common hair loss treatment finasteride (LINK) — ground.news: 7 media reports (LINK) 10 October 2025 2025

Plastic pollution treaty not dead in the water, says UN Environment Chief (LINK) — ground.news: 47 media reports (LINK) 10 October 2025 2025

— Luis Vayas Valdivieso, Ecuador's ambassador to Britain who chaired the last three of six negotiation rounds, has announced he is stepping down, leaving the process rudderless. The Guardian reported that staff from Andersen's UNEP team held a covert meeting on the last night in Geneva, aimed at coaxing members of civil society groups into pressuring Vayas to quit. Andersen: "I did not know and obviously had not asked anyone to do something of this sort."

Study finds increased glacier sensitivity to global warming from midcentury, with glaciers losing their capacity to affect the local climate and cool themselves (LINK) 10 October 2025 2025

Scientists just discovered what the earliest animals actually looked like: more like humble sea sponges than glowing jellyfish (LINK) 9 October 2025

Molecular discovery that won Nobel Prize in chemistry is likened to 'Harry Potter' enchanted handbag: could play a part in solving some of humanity's greatest challenges (LINK) 8 October 2025

— AP: From capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or sucking water out of dry desert air, the trio's new form of molecular architecture can absorb and contain gases inside stable metal organic frameworks.The frameworks can be compared to the timber framework of a house, and Hermione's famous beaded handbag, in that they are small on the outside but very large on the inside, according to Olof Ramström, a member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. "Metal-organic frameworks have enormous potential, bringing previously unforeseen opportunities for custom-made materials with new functions," according to Nobel Chemistry chair. The committee cited the potential for using the frameworks to separating so-called "forever chemicals" from water.

Scientists in Japan uncover biological cause of Long COVID brain fog: people with Long COVID experience widespread increases in AMPA receptor activity, a type of molecule crucial for learning and memory (LINK) 8 October 2025

Scientists reveal what a single photon really looks like for the first time: reseachers uses quantum simulations to vizualize the shape of a photon emitted by a single nanoparticle — in this case, it's lemon-shaped. (LINK) 8 October 2025

Google AI news announced in September: " AI upgrade for Chrome, a new visual search option in AI Mode and the next step in bringing helpful robots into the physical world" (LINK) 8 October 2025

Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded for work in quantum mechanics (LINK) 7 October 2025

Nobel Prize for medicine awarded to immune system researchers (LINK) 6 October 2025

Study finds US asthma inhalers produce same emissions as 500,000 cars (LINK) 6 October 2025

Before and after images of Rhône Glacier and others show glaciers vanishing before our eyes (LINK) 5 October 2025

If Earth had not collided with Theia 4.5 billion years ago to create the moon, you would not be reading this, say Berne scientists (LINK) 3 October 2025

— Scientists timed Earth's early formation using a short-lived radioactive marker, manganese-53, which decays into chromium-53. Using this chronometer, the team reached age estimates with an accuracy better than one million years – razor sharp for the dawn of planet-building. Without the delivery of a crucial payload of water and other ingredients, Earth could have remained a rocky world with little water, even while orbiting within the Sun’s so-called habitable zone. Publication in Science Advances, 1 August 2025.

How Jane Goodall changed our view of chimps (and humans) forever (LINK) 2 October 2025

— In the space of one woman's lifetime, the study of animal tool use has grown from a single blade of straw to a bouquet of functional objects — used by monkeys, crows, dolphins, orcas, humpback whales, and even bees and other insects. Tool use is no longer considered a defining human trait. Nor is cultural transmission.

Swiss glaciers shrank 3% this year, the fourth-biggest retreat on record (LINK) 1 October 2025