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.
Tulane University and an international research team have discovered that parts of East Africa’s crust are too strong to split, revealing that ancient volcanic dehydration hardened the region’s lithosphere, according to a Nature study published on November 5, 2025.
A global study spanning 217 tropical cyclones and 14.8 million deaths across nine countries has found that people continue dying for weeks after storms end. The most common post-cyclone deaths are from kidney and metabolic diseases, not injuries, revealing a silent global health crisis in the wake of extreme weather.
Satellite data show the ground is sinking by as much as 15 cm (6 inches) per year in Arizona’s Willcox Basin, the fastest rate in the state. Scientists say decades of groundwater extraction for irrigation have permanently compacted the land.
A study published in Geophysical Research Letters reveals that blue auroral emissions over Kiruna, Sweden, on October 21, 2023, reached an altitude of 200 km (124 miles), far exceeding predictions from established atmospheric models.
A new analysis of more than 300 Type Ia supernovae by astronomers at Yonsei University, published on November 6, 2025 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, finds evidence that the Universe’s expansion has already begun to slow — challenging the long-standing idea of an accelerating cosmos driven by dark energy.
Data from ESA’s Solar Orbiter, published on November 5, 2025 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, show magnetic fields at the Sun’s south pole flowing toward the pole at 10–20 m/s (33–66 ft/s). The discovery overturns decades of theory about how the Sun’s magnetic field circulates.
Researchers have identified satellite-detected magnetic anomalies up to eight days before the M7.7 earthquake that struck Myanmar on March 28, 2025, according to a study published in Scientific Reports on October 22, 2025.
A new Nature study reveals a massive, melt-rich magma body beneath Mayotte at 23 ±1 km (14 ±0.6 miles) below sea level, estimated to hold over 200 km³ (48 miles³) of material containing 22–42% melt. This reservoir is possibly connected to the system that fed the large submarine eruption of Fani Maoré in 2018–2019.
An EF1 tornado confirmed near Alta, Wyoming, in the Teton Canyon area of the Caribou–Targhee National Forest on October 15, 2025, was officially verified on October 28. It is the third tornado ever recorded in Teton County and the first October tornado on record in Wyoming.
A strong cold front will drive frigid Arctic air deep into the United States this weekend into next week, November 10, 2025 onwards, bringing December-like temperatures, widespread freezes, and the season’s first snow for some areas east of the Rockies.
