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UK, 9 February, 2026. A group of researchers from around the world, led by Dr. Gerry A. Quinn and Dr. Ronan Connolly from the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences (CERES), has just published a response letter in the International Journal of Public Health . Titled “Response: ‘Letter to the Editor: Lessons to Be Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic: Some Further Ideas’”, it directly follows up on their earlier paper, “What Lessons can Be Learned From the Managemen

As we reported recently , CERES co-founder, Dr. Michael Connolly, tragically passed away on August 25th, 2025. For a brief overview of this amazing scientist's life, see our recent obituary here . In this post, we want to provide a compilation of one of his main research interests of the last 15 years: using weather balloons to study the Earth's atmosphere, weather and climate. In 2014, with his son, Dr. Ronan Connolly (also a CERES co-founder), Michael published a series of

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 2024 Solar Superstorm Confirmed as Strongest Flare Event in 87-Year Record New Hemispheric Solar Flare Index Provides Critical Space Weather Data for Protecting Modern Infrastructure MEXICO CITY (November 13, 2025) : This week, the world saw yet another display of spectacular aurorae (November 11-12, 2025) at latitudes as low as El Salvador and Mexico. This was a year after similar unusually low-latitude aurorae events that captivated millions worldw