I’m a science journalist and researcher at The Watchers, contributing to the Epicenter edition, where I cover peer-reviewed scientific research and emerging discoveries across Earth and space sciences. With a background in astronomy and a passion for environmental science, I’ve worked in shark and coral conservation in Fiji, conducting reef and shark-behavior research, contributing to mangrove restoration, and earning PADI Open Water and Coral Reef Certifications. I bring a blend of scientific rigor and storytelling to illuminate the discoveries shaping our planet and beyond.
I’m a science journalist and researcher at The Watchers, contributing to the Epicenter edition, where I cover peer-reviewed scientific research and emerging discoveries across Earth and space sciences. With a background in astronomy and a passion for environmental science, I’ve worked in shark and coral conservation in Fiji, conducting reef and shark-behavior research, contributing to mangrove restoration, and earning PADI Open Water and Coral Reef Certifications. I bring a blend of scientific rigor and storytelling to illuminate the discoveries shaping our planet and beyond.
A sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) is a rapid wintertime heating of the polar stratosphere that disrupts the polar vortex and raises the odds of cold outbreaks across the Northern Hemisphere within weeks.
Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow corridors of concentrated water vapor that move through the atmosphere and deliver massive amounts of rain and snow to mid-latitude coasts. These “rivers in the sky” shape flood seasons in the U.S. West Coast and Europe and are closely monitored because their intensity, duration and landfall location determine whether they bring beneficial moisture or trigger destructive floods.
Extreme rainfall triggered widespread flooding and a fatal landslide in northern Italy on November 17, 2025, destroying homes in Brazzano di Cormons and causing extensive damage across the Gorizia area.
A polar vortex is a rotating mass of cold, dense air in the winter stratosphere, extending vertically from about 10–15 km (6.2–9.3 miles) to 50 km (31 miles) altitude and typically monitored at levels like 10 hPa at roughly 30 km (18.6 miles) above the surface. Its strength and shape influence the jet stream, altering the probability of cold-air outbreaks across North America and Europe for several weeks after major disturbances.
Astronomers confirmed the first coronal mass ejection ever observed from another star at about 130 light-years away, using LOFAR and XMM-Newton, according to research published this week in Nature.
A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry identifies equatorial upwelling of phosphorus-rich deep water as the primary driver behind the record Sargassum blooms affecting the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and northern South America. Researchers show that this nutrient supply strengthens nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria living on Sargassum, giving the algae a competitive advantage that has intensified since 2011 and contributed to a new negative record of biomass this year.
A meteoroid impact near Apollinaris Mons triggered more than one hundred new slope streaks that were imaged by ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter on December 24, 2023. Additional analysis shows the impact and streak formation occurred between 2013 and 2017, offering a rare example of modern surface change on Mars that scientists can link directly to a specific event.
High-resolution observations from the Virtual Telescope Project on November 13, 2025, revealed multiple fragments and debris structures in the inner coma of comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), confirming a post-perihelion breakup.
A study published on October 30, 2025, reveals how the May 2024 super geomagnetic storm dramatically reshaped the ionosphere across the Asia-Pacific, producing intense hemispheric asymmetries that challenge existing space weather models.
Archaeologists in southeastern Mexico uncovered a vast ceremonial complex at Aguada Fénix, dating to about 1 000 B.C. The site measures nearly 1.4 km (0.9 miles) long, 400 metres (0.25 miles) wide, and 9–15 m (30–50 ft) high, making it the oldest and largest known monument in the Maya region.
