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For 16 years, Hungarian journalists learned to survive in one of two worlds. One was a patronage-heavy, pro-government machine; the other an adversarial independent sector. So when Antónia Mészáros was tapped to host the official relaunch of Hungary’s main public television channel, she did not hesitate to step up and help mark a clean break with the past. When she was called into the offices of M1, the broadcaster was operating with only a skeleton staff after many of its employees had left or been fired following the ouster of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán from office in April. Under Mr. Orbán, public media had become a mouthpiece of the government, with heavy-handed bias in its reporting and favoritism in its offices. Ms. Mészáros had worked in Hungarian public broadcasting as a journalist before being part of mass layoffs in 2011, and hosted a talk show in Hungary for several years afterward, until going to work for UNICEF. The opportunity to host a special day of programming now, she says, gave her the honor of symbolizing a free, credible, and professional public media ethos. “I’m convinced that there’s a genuine effort being made,” Ms. Mészáros says.

The seventh annual report by an international coalition led by Oregon State University scientists says the Earth's climate system is quickly becoming unstable and that while signs of important societal changes are emerging, greater and faster action is necessary. "Rapid destabilization is now a diagnosis rather than a warning for the future," said one of the report's co-lead authors, William Ripple, distinguished professor emeritus in the OSU College of Forestry. "The accelerating expansion of renewable energy and advances in battery storage are encouraging, but they are only part of the transformation needed to stabilize the climate system. A more resilient and sustainable future depends heavily on big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, effective adaptation and ecosystem protection. "Published today in BioScience, "The 2026 state of the climate report: challenges and opportunities" notes that of the 16 climate indicators the coalition tracks, seven are at record extremes and multiple others are also trending in the wrong direction, raising concerns about interacting feedbacks and an increasing risk of crossing critical tipping points.

The spacecraft delivered materials and equipment for new research studies to the station.

Mud from a fjord shows an Atlantic air pattern brought wetter, colder spells to southern Greenland, a clue to how its ice may fare. Greenland’s ice is shrinking as the planet warms. But in the island’s southwest, rainfall and snowfall have been influenced by the same North Atlantic air-pressure pattern for at least 5,000 years. When that pattern tipped one way, the region turned wetter and colder. The record comes from mud on the floor of a Greenland fjord, and it suggests snowfall, not only temperature, shaped how the area’s ice grew and shrank. It doesn’t yet show how glaciers there will respond to the warming ahead. Johan Faust, a researcher at MARUM, the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen in Germany, led the work with colleagues in Germany, Norway, Denmark and Canada. A seesaw in the airThe pattern is called the North Atlantic Oscillation. It’s the difference in air pressure between a low that sits near Iceland and a high near the Azores, and it’s strongest in winter. When that difference is large, the pattern is in its positive phase. Northwestern Europe and southwestern Greenland both get more rain and snow.