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• • Windy Coastal Storm Could Be a Bummer For Fall
  Foliage, Massachusetts' Drought-Impacted Trees

  The Formation of an Expected Coastal Storm Could Put a Damper On New England's Iconic Autumn Foliage
  
  {WCVB5}

  Sept. 22, 2026 -Prior to the forecasting of this storm, the foliage forecast for the season was looking promising. An uptick in rainfall during the second half of the summer helped to partially relieve drought conditions, and a strong El Niño was expected to help limit the cold air coming from our north.

• • The California Surf Spot With Epic
  Waves—and Rusty Metal Spikes

  Beach Erosion Has Uncovered Century-Old Hazards at the Wedge in Newport Beach, But...
  
  {THE WALL STREET JOURNAL}

  Sept. 22, 2026 -Ronan Collins is used to navigating giant waves and unpredictable currents when he paddles his surfboard out near the inlet that bisects this ultrawealthy beach town. He’s still getting to know the boulders, wooden pilings and shards of rusty metal.

  Southern California’s most dangerous surf spot, the Wedge, has become even sketchier in recent months.

• • The Ongoing El Niño Has Officially Reached Record Levels

  The U.S. Will Probably Experience the Biggest Effects

  

  Sept. 21, 2026 -What started as a wind shift in a remote stretch of the western Pacific Ocean nine months ago has developed into an El Niño of record proportions.

  In a sparsely populated portion of the central equatorial Pacific Ocean called the Niño 3.4 region, the average ocean temperature on Saturday reached 3.05°C (5.49°F) above average, the highest peak sea surface temperature anomaly on record.

• • Britain’s Hospitals Were Not Built for 96-Degree Summers

  ‘Way Too Hot’

  

  Sept. 21, 2026 -It was the fifth heat wave of the summer.

  By late morning one day last month, the air inside Queen’s Medical Center in Nottingham, England, was thick and uncomfortable. Sweat glistened on the faces of staff members hurrying around the sprawling hospital. Patients tossed in their beds.

  “It’s just getting to be way too hot; I am saying my prayers waiting for it to stop,” said Celia Burgess, 78, who was in a geriatric unit with two portable fans blowing in her direction. “I mean, they are trying, but it’s not much good. It’s these old hospitals.”

• • Babies ‘Will Face Almost Twice As Much’ Extreme
  Fire Weather in Europe than Their Great-Grandparents

  Children Born After 2025 Will Experience Three More Years of Brutally Fire-Conducive Weather As Global Heating Intensifies

  

  Sept. 21, 2026 -European babies will face almost twice as much extreme fire weather as their great-grandparents if climate action does not ramp up quickly, a study has found.

  Global heating under current policies will expose a child born in Europe in 2025 to three more years of brutally fire-conducive weather over their lifetime than someone born in 1950, the researchers found.

• • Cape Town Nearly Became the First
  Major City to Run Out of Water

  Cape Town’s Near Day Zero Crisis Offers a Stark Warning For Cities Facing Growing Water Stress
  
  {ZME SCIENCE}

  Sept. 21, 2026 -When Doctor Anthony Turton, a South African-born water scientist and leading thinker on water security and hydropolitics, did an interview with BBC News to speak about the water crisis in South Africa, he never knew how his life was about to change. The single interview was broadcast to communities across the globe, awakening countless professionals to the importance of honouring water resources.

• • Macron Asks EU to Relax Energy and
  Climate Rules to Ease Soaring Fuel Prices

  Cape Town’s Near Day Zero Crisis Offers a Stark Warning For Cities Facing Growing Water Stress
  
  {ZME SCIENCE}

  Sept. 21, 2026 -When Doctor Anthony Turton, a South African-born water scientist and leading thinker on water security and hydropolitics, did an interview with BBC News to speak about the water crisis in South Africa, he never knew how his life was about to change. The single interview was broadcast to communities across the globe, awakening countless professionals to the importance of honouring water resources.

• • How Saudi Oil Scientists Ended Up Working
  On the World’s Most Important Climate Reports

  Fossil Fuel Links of IPCC Authors, With Experts Declaring the Body’s Conflict of Interest Policy ‘Not Fit For Purpose’

  

  Sept. 21, 2026 -On her first day as an expert author on the world’s most important climate reports, Prof Julia Steinberger knew nobody else, so she sat down at a stranger’s table for breakfast.

  “Hi, I’m Julia. I’m from the University of Lausanne,” she said. The man across the table replied: “I’m Mustafa Babiker. I work with Saudi Aramco.”

  Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s state oil company, is responsible for more of the carbon emissions driving the escalating climate crisis than any other company in history, and the kingdom has long been a major blocker of climate action.

• • World Leaders in New York to Grapple With Climate

  Fuel Prices, AI and Disasters Complicate Things

  

  Sept. 21, 2026 -World and business leaders gathering this week in New York are grappling with the increasingly urgent costs of climate change , soaring energy prices and the human toll from this summer’s oppressive heat waves , prolific wildfires and a catastrophic Nepal flood.

  Every year as top government officials attend the United Nations General Assembly and business executives flock to New York City Climate Week sessions, global warming generates lots of talk but little action.

• • Climate Super-Pollutant from China’s
  Electric Grid Is Cooking the Planet

  The Nation’s Electric Utilities Release Vast Quantities of the World’s Most Potent Greenhouse Gas

  

  Sept. 20, 2026 -China’s electric grid has a dirty secret: Despite leading the world in renewable energy expansion, it is also the largest emitter of the planet’s most potent greenhouse gas.

  Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is a synthetic chemical that plays a critical role as an electrical insulator in high-voltage equipment. The gas is odorless, invisible, non-toxic and non-flammable. But it is also a climate killer, 24,300 times more effective at warming the planet than carbon dioxide on a pound-for-pound basis. Once released, sulfur hexafluoride remains in the atmosphere for 1,000 years.

• • U.N. Chief’s Test: Shaming Without
  Naming the World’s Climate Delinquents

  António Guterres Told World Leaders Gathered in New York That Their Efforts to Address the Climate Crisis Had Come Up “Abysmally Short.”

  

  Sept. 19, 2026 -The world’s top diplomat, António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, on Tuesday told world leaders their efforts to address the climate crisis had come up “abysmally short” and called on them to do what even climate-ambitious countries have been reluctant to do: stop expanding coal, oil and gas production.

• • Iconic St. Mary’s Glacier Has Disappeared
  For Frst Time in Over a Century

  Future Snowfalls Can Replenish the Perennial Snowfield, But...
  
  {THE COLORADO SUN}

  Sept. 18, 2026 -Colorado’s iconic St. Mary’s Glacier has melted away for the first time in at least a century, a victim of rising temperatures in the high country, according to a glaciologist with Colorado State University.

  For decades, the perennial patch of snow and ice (that is, in fact, not a glacier) offered a rare and accessible year-round destination near Idaho Springs for skiers and a summertime escape for visitors looking to find snow.

• • Al Gore Is Still Sounding the Alarm About Climate Change

  The Former Vice President Will Speak Today On the Topic, in Advance of Climate Week

  

  Sept. 18, 2026 -It has been 20 years since the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” came out, and former Vice President Al Gore — who wrote and narrated it — continues to make a moral argument about the dangers of a warming planet. Today he will take it to a church.

• • Fight Intensifies Over the Fate of Homes Falling Into the Sea

  California Homeowners Are Building a Costly Rock Wall to Hold Back the Ocean

  

  Sept. 18, 2026 -Natalie Driessen drove down Beach Road on a mission, past neighbors whose houses fell into the sea and others now scrambling to prevent their property from collapsing next.

  She had a video from March that she wanted everyone to see. When she spotted an Orange County supervisor outside what was left of one mangled kitchen and living room, Driessen pulled out her phone to play the clip of the California Coastal Commission — the powerful state agency tasked with preserving beaches — discussing a home in her gated community.

• • Greenland and Antarctica Have
  Lost 12 Trillion Tonnes of Ice Since 1979

  Ice Loss Began Accelerating In the 1990s, According to a Major Scientific Study
  
  {euro news}

  Sept. 18, 2026 -Greenland and Antarctica have lost 12.5 trillion tonnes of ice since 1979, raising global sea levels by around 3.2 centimetres, according to a major scientific study.

  The researchers found that ice loss has accelerated in recent decades, particularly since the 1990s.

  Most of the loss is linked to warmer ocean temperatures, which cause glaciers to discharge more ice into the sea.

• • Some Visitors to St. Mary’s Glacier Surprised By Disappearance

  Some people Heading Out to Visit St. Mary’s Glacier in Clear Creek County Are in For a Big Surprise
  
  {FOX31}

  Sept. 17, 2026 -FOX31 hiked to the site Thursday and found a large and empty space where snow and ice once sat. The area is still just as stunning, even without the ice and snow. But the landscape looks dramatically different from what visitors saw just a few years ago.

  In August 2024, FOX31 visited the glacier, which was already shrinking. Scientists cited warming temperatures and a lack of snowfall this season as being to blame.

• • Climate Change Had Major Role In Triggering Nepal Floods

  The Combined Toll From The Deadly Incident Now Stands at 1,446 People Dead and At Least 6,669 Missing
  
  {ALAJAZEERA}

  Sept. 17, 2026 -Scientists say climate change was a core contributing factor in last month’s deadly glacial mountain collapse that flooded parts of Nepal and Tibet, killing more than 1,400 people and leaving thousands still missing.

  Researchers from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group said in a report released on Thursday that the disaster was not caused by a single extreme weather event, but rather a “compound crisis” shaped by long-term warming, glacier retreat, permafrost thaw and geological instability.

• • Warm Ocean Mystery Triggers Massive Antarctic Snowfall

  Adding 695 Billion Tons of Ice
  
  {HEALTHY HAPPY NEWS}

  Sept. 17, 2026 -A warming pool of tropical ocean water has been shown to be the cause of immense snowstorms over East Antarctica which contributed to a net gain of 695 billion tons of ice between 2021 and 2023. To put that tonnage into perspective, it’s about 4 years of annual ice loss according to a 2 decade study.

  The research team found that unusual atmospheric patterns transported warm tropical moisture directly to the frozen continent, creating record-breaking snowfall events that more than compensated for typical ice loss during this period.

• • 2025 Was Among Driest Years
  On Record For World’s Rivers

  Analysis of Global Resources Reveals Depletion In World’s Water Savings Bank to 42% Below Normal Levels Last Year

  

  Sept. 17, 2026 -Rivers across the world experienced one of their driest years in more than three decades in 2025, a comprehensive study of global water resources has found.

  The assessment of the global water cycle by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reveals a depletion in the world’s water savings bank: the amount of freshwater held on or under the ground, including groundwater, lakes, rivers, snow, ice moisture in the soil and inside plants and trees, was 42% below normal across the world last year.

• • The Surprising Reason There Have
  Been No Atlantic Hurricanes This Year

  El Niño Isn’t the Only Factor. Another Force Could Be Contributing to Fewer Storms and a Later Peak In the Season

  

  Sept. 16, 2026 -In the last 175 years of record-keeping, there have only been two years that featured zero hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean: 1907 and 1914.

  And in those years before satellites, it’s possible that some hurricanes may have been missed in the historical record.

• • Rising Seas Are Gobbling Up Beaches Around the World

  A.I. Might Restore Them

  

  Sept.16, 2026 -As the world’s oceans grow ever warmer and the seas rise ever higher, coastlines are retreating at a record pace. And with the rising tides, thousands of coastal communities are at risk. The United Nations warns that as many as 1.2 billion people could be displaced by 2050.

  But in the Maldives, a low-lying archipelago in the Indian Ocean, researchers are doing something remarkable: They’re growing beaches.

• • The Humble Tree Hole Turn Out
  to Be a Remarkable Climate Refuge

  A New Analysis Shows That Cavities Inside Trees Can Run Several Degrees Cooler Than the Surrounding Air During Heatwaves

  

  Sept. 16, 2026 -Just as humans head indoors for warmth in the winter and shade in the summer, tree-dwelling animals use the arboreal equivalent of caves for refuge from temperature extremes.

  At a time when climate change is supercharging heatwaves, holes and crevices in trees offer potentially life-saving cool spots for bats, birds and other creatures around the world, according to new research. When peak temperatures cross into heatwave territory, these holes are often more than 4°C cooler than the outside, according to a review of dozens of studies recently published in Forest Ecology and Management.

• • Earth Lost More Than 12 Trillion Tons of
  Ice From Greenland, Antarctica In 47 Years

  The Numbers Behind the Melting Ice Are Both Mind-Bogglingly Huge and Deceptively Small
  
  {NBC NEWS}

  Sept. 16, 2026 -About 12.5 trillion tons (11.3 trillion metric tons) of ice from glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979, which is enough frozen water to stack ice five feet deep across the continental United States, according to a major scientific report.

  A warming Earth is accelerating the melting of the planet’s two major ice sheets, with five-sixths of the melt not coming from hotter air, but from warmer waters eating away at the ice sheets from below and the sides, with glaciers flowing into the oceans, according to a study in Wednesday’s journal Scientific Data<. That’s bad news for future sea level rise, the study’s authors said.

• • France Recorded At Least 817 Excess
  Deaths During July 27-August 20 Heatwaves

  The Count Includes All Deaths Regardless of Their Cause

  

  Sept. 16, 2026 -France recorded at least 817 excess deaths between July 27 and August 20, when the country was hit by exceptionally high temperatures, the national health agency said on Wednesday.

  This would bring the total recorded so far to ?about 8,000 excess deaths since June and the start of a series of heatwaves

• • This Year’s El Niño Is Expected to Be the Most Powerful Yet

  Early Indicators Point to Extreme Weather, With the Pacific Rim Already Hit and More Likely In Store For the U.S.
  
  {THE WALL STREET JOURNAL}

  Sept. 15, 2026 -This year’s El Niño is heating up to be one of the strongest on record.

  The global weather disrupter has already stoked wildfires in Asia, hurricanes in the Pacific and fishery closures in South America.

  The worst may be yet to come. The World Meteorological Organization, a United Nations agency, recently forecast that a very strong El Niño will persist through winter, warning of flooding, drought and extreme heat.

• • Disaster Survivors Sticking Together

  Grace, Humanity and Friendship in the Stories of Disparate Americans Hit By Climate Chaos

  

  Sept. 15, 2026, By David Gelles -Extreme weather is hitting more people with each passing year. Thirty-eight percent of Americans say their community has been affected by severe storms, floods or fires in the past year, according to Gallup.

  So when I set out to write about those whose lives had been upended by extreme weather, I knew it wouldn’t be too hard to turn up examples.

• • El Nino Reaches Super Status: Where
  Will It Bring Rain, Drought and Heat?

  Forecasters Say the Pacific Ocean Warming Pattern Could Be the Strongest On Record
  
  {ALJAZEERA}

  Sept. 15, 2026, -A powerful El Nino is taking shape in the Pacific, and it is reshaping weather across the globe.

  El Nino is a natural climate pattern caused by warmer-than-usual water in the central and eastern Pacific.

  Data from the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), released on September 14, 2026, shows El Nino has breached the temperature rise threshold of 2C (3.6F), thus becoming “very strong”, informally known as a super El Nino.

• • Is Wildfire Risk Increasing in the Midwest?

  The Fires That Just burned Through Minnesota May Be a Sign of More to Come

  

  Sept. 14, 2026 -On the night of July 6, a storm moved over northern Minnesota near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The boreal forest there, composed of species like balsam fir, spruce and pine, was extremely dry after a flash drought and unusually warm temperatures sapped the trees of their moisture.

  As the storm blew across the sky, rain didn’t even reach the ground. Many of the 700 lightning strikes did.

• • As the Fight for a Key Climate Goal Falters,
  Some Begin a Fight for Survival

  Vulnerable Countries That Fought For That Paris Agreement Target Face a Brutal New Reality.

  

  Sept. 14, 2026 -The most ambitious part of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, only came about because of a campaign by some of the world’s poorest and most defenseless countries.

  Caribbean participants tacked up posters saying “1.5 to stay alive,” and the prime minister of Tuvalu said any temperature rise beyond that mark would “spell the total demise” of his and other low-lying island nations. In the final stage of negotiations, some were chanting, “1.5.”

• • Trump Administration Removes Climate
  Pollution Limits On Power Plants

  The Announcement Was Made Monday at a Meeting of G20 Energy Ministers In Houston, Texas.
  
  {CNN Climate}

  Sept. 14, 2026, - The Trump administration has finalized the repeal of regulations that limit the amount of planet-heating pollution coal and gas-fired power plants are allowed to produce, the latest step in a sweeping effort to dismantle climate and clean air protections.

  “For over 15 years, the Obama and Biden administrations implemented a war on coal to destroy reliable and affordable energy. The Trump Administration has come in to protect American energy and to make sure you can afford to keep the lights on,” said Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

• • Wealthy Europeans Are Moving North as Temperatures Climb

  Regions of Northern Spain, France and Italy Become More Attractive For Buyers As Wildfires and Droughts Hit Southern Hot Spots
  
  {THE WALL STREET JOURNAL}

  Sept. 13, 2026 -After nearly a decade in Spain’s Costa del Sol, the heat was becoming unbearable for Gabriele Pohl. Temperatures soaring above 100 degrees Fahrenheit were making it difficult to go out during the day, and water shortages were making her business, which uses horses to coach business leaders, untenable.

  Last winter, she and her husband moved to Tomiño, a small town in Galicia, in northern Spain, close to the Portuguese border. “You go northwest if you want enough water, you want good temperatures, you want green fields, you want good food and good wine,” said Pohl, 58 years old.

• • Buildings Are Sinking and Cracking
  In One Of Europe’s Largest Cities

  Global Warming's Latest Threat
  
  {CNN Climate}

  Sept. 11, 2026 - As blistering temperatures baked London this summer, people started to notice strange things happening to their houses: zig-zagging cracks suddenly appeared across walls, doors got stuck, windows warped.

  Extreme heat brings many problems for a country not built for it: Schools close, train tracks buckle and — it turns out — houses sink. .

• • Climate-Resilient “Super Reefs”

  A Number of Coral Reefs Show Signs of Being Heat-Resilient, Which Some Scientists Are Saying Inspires Hope For Safeguarding One of the Most Precarious Ecosystems On the Planet
  
  {LOE.ORG}

  Sept. 11, 2026 -As global sea temperatures rise due to climate change, coral reefs around the world are struggling through mass bleaching events. But the ocean is looking a lot more colorful than scientists previously thought. New research has identified nearly one-third of the world’s coral reefs as climate resilient. That’s three times more than was previously estimated. Teresa Tomassoni is an oceans correspondent with our media partner Inside Climate News who took a reporting trip to the Marshall Islands to cover these “super reefs”.

• • Glaciers Crumble as Earth Warms

  The Flash Flooding That Occurred the Morning of August 26, 2026 Completely Destroyed Areas Such As Gyirong Port
  
  {LOE.ORG}

  Sept. 11, 2026 -The devastating August 2026 flash floods in Nepal and Tibet were triggered in part by a glacial collapse, a phenomenon likely to become more frequent as the Earth continues to rapidly warm due to human caused climate change. Alton Byers, a mountain geographer with the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado—Boulder who has worked in the Himalayas, joins Host Paloma Beltran to explain why climate change is making mountains and glaciers more unstable, and how early warning systems and less development in floodplains could prevent future loss of life.

• • Climate Solutions Most Likely to Reach
  ‘Positive Tipping Points’ Revealed By Scientists

  Global Shift Towards Clean Electricity Could Trigger ‘Cascade’ Of Progress, Helping Reduce Air Pollution, Cut Waste and Revive Oceans

  

  Sept. 10, 2026 -A rapid global shift to clean electricity could trigger a “cascade” of progress towards repairing the damage to the planet by the climate crisis, according to a report identifying the environmental solutions most likely to bring about change.

  The analysis focuses on “positive tipping points” – thresholds beyond which a sustainable technology or practice becomes increasingly cheap, widespread or politically popular, allowing progress to become self-propelling.

• • Say Goodbye to Summer. Not Just This Year’s

  The Season's Imperilled By Climate Change. It Was Nice While It Lasted
  
  {The Economist}

  Sept. 10, 2026 - You tip out the sand from the suitcases and stash them in the attic. The days are shortening; children trudge unwillingly back to school. Gloaty out-of-office emails no longer dominate your inbox. In the northern hemisphere, summer is ending—and, it increasingly seems, not just this year’s summer.

  For the idea of summer cherished in the West, and immortalised in songs and films, may be moribund too. The crackle of possibility on the season’s first warm day; the hazy sense, in lush midsummer, of getting away with something; the storing up of memories to revisit in bleaker times, like power in a solar battery: as the past few broiling months demonstrate, this version of summer—precious, fleeting and electric—is gravely imperilled by climate change.

• • How El Niño Could Bring Punishing
  Conditions to the West Coast This Winter

  This Far-Reaching Wave Of Warm Water Could Combine With Storms and Higher Tides to Cause Severe Coastal Impacts

  

  Sept. 10, 2026 -An unusually strong and far-reaching wave of warm water is building along the coast from western South America to Mexico, fueled by the ongoing El Niño. It’s expected to reach the U.S. West Coast in the coming weeks, where it will raise sea levels and drive flood risks in the months ahead.

  Damaging impacts from the wave include flooding and beach erosion, including on coastal highways like California’s Pacific Coast Highway, as well as rippling effects for nearby marine life.

• • As Science Comes Under Attack at UN Talks,
  Climate Movement Splits Over How to Respond

  A Rift Over How IPCC Messages Are Produced and Turned Into Policy is creating Tensions In the World’s Most Influential Coalition of Climate NGOs
  
  {CLIMATE HOME NEWS}

  Sept. 10, 2026 -With June’s UN climate talks inching towards gridlock, a group of diplomats calling themselves "Friends of Science" issued a stark warning: climate science was under attack in Bonn.

  The coalition, spanning the world's richest to its most vulnerable nations, pointed the finger primarily at those who think "science threatens their economic prospects" - a thinly-veiled reference to fossil fuel-dependent states accused of casting doubt on long-held scientific tenets in the UN climate process.

• • Climate ‘Feedback Loops’ Could
  Worsen Global Warming By 30%

  Emissions of Planet-Heating Methane and CO2 From Natural Sources Are Worsening the Climate Crisis

  

  Sept. 10, 2026 -Rising global temperatures caused by the burning of fossil fuels are transforming the world’s forests, wetlands and tundra to the point they are releasing emissions that could further worsen global heating by as much as 30%, a new study has found.

  As the world heats up, permafrost in the high latitudes is thawing, fiercer wildfires are burning in drying forests and wetlands and lakes are warming. All of these changes are themselves causing the release of planet-heating methane and carbon dioxide locked in trees and soils, therefore worsening the climate crisis, the paper states.

• • Can an Entire Arctic Ecosystem Evolve
  to Adapt to the Climate Crisis?

  Scientists Are Trying to Answer If the Future Of Alaska’s Streams and Tundra May Depend Not On Survival Of the Fittest But On How Species Adapt Together

  

  Sept. 9, 2026 -On Alaska’s North Slope, scientists tread carefully across clumps of tussock grasses toward a fast-flowing stream draining the imposing Brooks Range of ice and snow. Near Galbraith Creek, they string out a mist net for white-crowned sparrows. The birds have recently arrived from southerly latitudes, intent on feasting on the insects that will soon descend on the tundra like storm clouds.

• • In England — Yes, England — Tea and
  Cantaloupe Grow as the Climate Warms

  As British Farmers Confront Intense Heat Waves Tied to Climate Change, Some Are Cultivating New Crops Rarely Grown In Their Country

  

  Sept. 9, 2026 -It was an overcast morning in August, and the humid air hanging over a gentle east-facing slope in England felt unnervingly tropical.

  “You could be in Sri Lanka,” said Mark Wyatt as he surveyed the dozens of rows of plants that stretched in front of us. Mr. Wyatt, the owner of 100 acres of land in the southeast area of Sussex, explained that this particular hillside, positioned between a nearby reservoir and a wood, inhabited a strange atmospheric pocket that trapped moisture.

• • Scientists Say August Was Earth’s
  Hottest Month They’ve Measured

  Global Heat is Stuck On High

  

  Sept. 9, 2026 -Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold, due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Nino, according to the European climate service Copernicus.August’s sizzle also helped push the globe and the United States to swelter through the hottest Northern Hemisphere summer scientists have measured.

• • El Niño is About to Raise
  California’s Sea Levels By a Foot

  Bad News When Winter Storms Roll In
  
  {CNN Climate}

  Sept. 8, 2026 - The sea level along California’s coast will increase by about a foot by mid-October due to the influence of El Niño, which is driving a large volume of water northward from offshore of Mexico and Central America.

  This water is coming in the form of a coastal “Kelvin wave,” and it will mark the arrival of one of the first significant impacts of the powerhouse El Niño taking shape in the tropical Pacific. According to Dillon Amaya, an oceanographer at North Carolina State University, the wave is a clear signal that El Niño has arrived in California.

• • At Regional Summit, Pacific Islands Ask For
  COP31 Support For Clean Energy and Finance

  Pacific Nations Want the Annual Climate Conference to Deliver Funding For Renewables and Ocean Protection, As the UN Warns Of Devastating Sea Level Rise
  
  {CLIMATE HOME NEWS}

  Sept. 7, 2026 -At a key leaders' summit in Palau, Pacific island nations burdened by worsening climate change impacts and costly fossil fuel imports called for November's COP31 climate summit to deliver finance to help the region transition to renewable energy and build more resilient communities.

  Heads of government from the 18-member Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) – which includes COP31 co-president Australia – met in Palau's capital Koror for a week-long summit, where they demanded access to climate finance, ocean action and a regional boost for renewables at COP31.

• • We’re the Mayors of Paris, Milan and Phoenix.
  The Heat Crisis Has Us All Facing the Same Question

  Our Three Cities Are Learning From Each Other About How to Protect Residents...

  

  Sept. 7, 2026 -This summer, mayors met in London during the heatwave that ironically threatened to derail London Climate Action Week.

  As temperatures broke records across the UK and Europe, leading some climate talks to be suspended or cancelled, we found ourselves seeking shelter and comparing how our cities prepare for extreme heat: how we protect vulnerable residents, communicate risk, and redesign neighbourhoods for hotter summers.

• • UN Sets Out Narrow Path Back to 1.5C
  Warming After Inevitable Overshoot

  Leading Scientists Say Warming Must Peak at 1.8C to Be Able to Reverse Course This Century, But...
  
  {CLIMATE HOME NEWS}

  Sept. 7, 2026, -Governments must slash emissions further and faster, and keep every climate promise they have made for the planet to be able to return to 1.5C of warming by the end of the century after an inevitable overshoot, a group of prominent climate scientists has said.

  In a flagship new report sketching out a way not to lose the most ambitious Paris Agreement goal, the scientists said that global temperatures need to peak at no higher than 1.8C above pre-industrial levels to give the world “a fighting chance” to reverse course. They added that plans to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere can only play a limited role in this effort and cannot substitute for emissions cuts.

• • The Winners and Losers of Maine’s Race
  to Armor Its Shoreline Against Climate Change

  Property Owners In Coastal Towns Build Sea Walls, Triggering a Spate Of Local Ordinances Regulating Where the Rocks Come and Where They Go

  

  Sept. 7, 2026 -Supersonic shockwaves shook the bones of Charlie Hamblen’s historic Maine farmhouse more than a dozen times last year, travelling over half a mile from blasts at a nearby quarry.

  The quarry is one of two active in Gorham, a vibrant and growing town of nearly 20,000 residents a few miles west of Portland, and its frequent blasts are emblematic of a broader trend spanning Maine in recent years: The state’s construction aggregate industry is booming, thanks at least in part to climate change, as property owners erect or repair stone walls to protect against sea level rise, flooding and erosion.

• • French Winemakers Forecast 30-Year Low
  Harvest After Severe Drought and Heat

  Estimates Suggest Drop In Production With Vineyards Also Concerned ‘Smoke Taint’ From Wildfires May Affect Quality

  

  Sept. 7, 2026, -French vineyards hit by severe drought and heatwaves are expected to report a 30-year low in wine production after the country’s hottest ever recorded summer, according to the agriculture ministry.

  Initial estimates suggest winemakers will produce just under 34m hectolitres from this year’s harvest: a drop of 6% on last year, and 17% less than the 2021-2025 average.

• • Can Studying Heat Waves in Real Time Save Lives?

  Heat Drove Medical Emergencies Across the Country Last Summer. Tracking Those Changes More Quickly Could Help Doctors Prepare

  

  Sept. 4, 2026, -The volume of patients in Dr. Robert Brewer’s upstate New York emergency room isn’t always predictable, but when there’s a heat wave, he knows he needs to staff up.

  Heat waves mean more dehydration and kidney problems. As patients’ bodies struggle to regulate temperature, dilating blood vessels strain their hearts, sometimes leading to heart failure. Brewer sees more frustration, outbursts and patients less able to manage mental health conditions. Last summer, when the Northeast was hit with uncharacteristically severe heat waves as climate change continues to worsen, all that was especially true.

• • Nepal’s Catastrophic Flood Heralds a New Age of Disasters

  The Sheer Scale of the Himalayan Deluge Shocked Even Climate Scientists
  
  {Bloomberg}

  Sept. 4, 2026, -The giant wave of rock, ice and debris that swept through 100 kilometers (62 miles) of Nepalese valleys last week is the deadliest illustration yet of how climate change is fueling mountain disasters of epic proportions.

  Scientists have long predicted quicker melting of snow and ice and accelerated thawing of permafrost in high mountain areas that are warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. For years they have documented the results: more frequent rockfalls, avalanches, lake outbursts, flash floods and landslides.

• • The World’s Oceans Just Hit Their
  Hottest Temperature Ever Recorded

  At a Time of Year When They Should Be Cooling
  
  {ZME SCIENCE}

  Sept. 4, 2026 -On August 22, the average surface temperature of the planet’s extra-polar oceans hit 21.1°C (70°F), the highest daily level in recorded modern history.

  The timing makes the record especially concerning. This is because global ocean temperatures typically reach their peak around March and April. However, this new high arrived in late August, as an unusually strong El Niño adds extra heat to a planet already facing background warming because of human activity.

• • Nepal Bet Big on Hydropower

  One Devastating Flood Just Put That Strategy to the Test
  
  {ZME SCIENCE}

  Sept. 4, 2026 -Nepal’s long-held policy of harnessing hydroelectricity and using it for economic growth has met new challenges: potential catastrophic floods in the snow-fed rivers amid rising global temperatures.

  The Aug. 26 floods that originated on the Nepal-China border, and which knocked out around 10% of installed power from the national grid, has prompted a debate on whether Nepal should rethink its overall strategy or just adopt better-engineered plants. Amid this, the flood could jeopardize the country’s clean energy targets and push it to adopt more solar power.

• • Why States Are Cutting Back on Their Climate Goals
  

  Ambitious Aims Have Given Way to Political Anxiety Over Prices as Many States’ 2030 Emissions Targets Appear Increasingly Out of Reach

  

  Sept. 4, 2026, -After President Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris climate agreement during his first term, many Democratic-led states passed their own laws to curtail carbon emissions.

  But most states that set goals for 2030 are not on track to meet them. Now, with voters worried about inflation, and with the war in Iran raising energy prices, some states have begun to cut back or abandon those goals instead.

• • Keeping Global Warming Below 1.5°C Is No Longer Possible

  We Must Now Remove Carbon
  
  {ZME SCIENCE}

  Sept. 3, 2026 -Humanity is certain to exceed the warming limit set by the Paris Agreement, a legally binding treaty meant to cap the world’s carbon emissions, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

  Now, to reduce severe threats to human health, food security, water supplies, and more, societies will need to reach net-negative greenhouse gas emissions by not only cutting those emissions, but expanding carbon dioxide removal projects, a pathway called “overshoot, peak and decline.”

• • France Records Its Hottest Summer Since
  Measurements Began Over a Century Ago

  Environment Minister Said on Thursday

  

  Sept. 3, 2026, -Firefighters relentlessly tackled wildfires throughout the summer, even in normally cooler and wetter regions in the north and Brittany, as France experienced one of its driest years ever. A historic fire devoured forests near Bordeaux and forced a quarter of a million people to evacuate from their homes.

  “We have experienced the hottest summer ever recorded since measurements began in 1900,” Environment Minister Monique Barbut said at a presentation of the climate report covering the months of June, July and August.

• • Many Italians Long Resisted Air
  Conditioning. Then Europe Got Hotter.

  Amid Record-Breaking Temperatures On the Continent, Households and Businesses in Italy Are Increasingly Installing Cooling Units

  

  Sept. 3, 2026, -Domenico Rizzo, a baker in Sicily, long sweated out the heat. Through years of stifling Italian summers, Mr. Rizzo, 40, refused to install air-conditioning units in his bakery, fearing the cold air would make his muscles ache.

  Three years ago, he finally surrendered, setting up one wall-mounted air-conditioner in the bakery, using the unit mainly to dehumidify the store rather than to cool it. (Air-conditioning, he said, dries out the bread.)

• • Climate Goals Missed, U.N. Says World
  Must Now Remove Carbon at Scale

  Carbon Removal Combined With Emissions Reduction is the Only Remaining Pathway to Avert Catastrophic Levels of Warming

  

  Sept. 3, 2026, -The world has failed in its goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial times, the United Nations said on Wednesday, in a sober assessment that laid out a new goal for fighting climate change that would set the world on an uncertain path.

  A decade ago, most of the world’s countries agreed in Paris to try to limit global temperature rise to “well below” two degrees Celsius while aiming for the more ambitious target of 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit.

• • UN Warns El Nino Could Be
  ‘Off the Charts’, Strongest In Decades

  The World Meteorological Organization Says Forecasts Show Nearly 100 Percent Likelihood That El Nino Will Continue Through February
  
  {ALJAZEERA}

  Sept. 3, 2026, -El Nino is set to intensify to exceptional levels in the coming months and persist into early 2027, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has warned, raising the prospect of worsening droughts, floods and extreme heat across the globe.

  The United Nations weather agency said on Thursday forecasts show a nearly 100 percent likelihood that El Nino will continue through February, the strongest level of certainty it has ever expressed in an El Nino/La Nina update.

• • Lessons From a Summer of Nuclear Shutdowns

  Climate Change Klling Nuclear Power
  
  {POLITICO}

  Sept. 2, 2026 -Nuclear power is buzzing. Nations worldwide are pouring money into an atomic renaissance to confront rising temperatures and exploding electricity demand.

  But climate change showed this summer how those plans could be at risk.

  Nuclear plants across Europe were forced to halt or curtail generation in August as heat waves and drought plunged river levels to record lows, depriving reactors of cooling water.

• • Global Warming Will Exceed Limit, UN Says
  

  Maps Path to Get
  Back Below Danger Zone

  

  Sept. 2, 2026, -In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming’s harms. So now the world must figure out how to get temperatures below the danger zone and back to safety, officials say.

  Earth is soon going to exceed the safe temperature threshold agreed upon by the world in the 2015 Paris climate accord because of warming from the burning of coal, oil and gas, according to a bleak first-of-its-kind report issued by the United Nations Environment Programme Wednesday.

• • Climate ‘Overshoot’ Is Coming—Are We Ready?

  If Global Warming Remains Above 1.5 Degrees Celsius, a New U.N. report says “there are no good Outcomes.”

  

  Sept. 2, 2026 -Fossil fuel emissions are pushing Earth’s climate toward a dangerous new phase of climate “overshoot,” scientists warned Wednesday in a new report from the United Nations Environmental Programme.

  The report, Limiting Overshoot, projects that global temperatures will exceed the 1.5-degree Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warming threshold identified in the Paris Agreement within a few years, intensifying deadly climate impacts. It says the best chance of restoring a safe climate is to begin cutting greenhouse gas emissions immediately...

• • Our Smoky, Sweaty, Itchy, No Escape, Very Long Summer

  Blame Climate Change

  

  Sept. 2, 2026, -Heat. Humidity. Wildfires. Smoke. Ticks. Algae.

  Summer just isn’t what it used to be.

  Extreme weather is pushing up temperatures and making storms more intense. Persistent heat is scrambling routines and upending traditions. Climate change is contributing to disasters around the world, from raging wildfires in Indonesia to the recent glacier collapse in Nepal.

• • Global Heating Will Hit At Least 1.8C, UN Warns

  And There Are ‘No Good Outcomes’

  

  Sept. 2, 2026, -Global heating will reach at least 1.8C under even the most optimistic future, well beyond the Paris agreement goal of 1.5C, according to a UN report that warns every fraction of temperature rise intensifies destructive extreme weather, glacier melt, ecosystem loss, and island and coastal city submersion.

  The report by the Nairobi-based UN Environment Programme confirmed overshooting the 1.5C goal inscribed in the landmark Paris agreement of 2015 was now “unavoidable” and, despite some progress in addressing the human-caused climate crisis driven by burning fossil fuels, likely in the next few years.

• • Nepal Puts Cost of Disaster at $5
  Billion, Blaming Climate Change

  The Country is Seeking Urgent Help From a Special U.N. Climate Fund, But...

  

  August 31, 2026 -Putting the cost of recovery at $5 billion, a senior Nepali official said his country had requested urgent financial help from the United Nations’ special fund for climate-disaster recovery.

  The official, Maheshwar Dhakal, the climate change chief in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forest and Environment, explicitly asserted that human-caused climate had been a factor in last week’s horrific glacial collapse and flooding. In an interview on Monday he framed the event as an inequity in which decades of greenhouse-gas emissions from richer nations are harming vulnerable countries like his that can’t cope.

• • Summer a ‘Near Lock’ to Become
  Warmest and Most Humid Across U.S.

  Average Temperatures Are On Track to Surpass the Notoriously Hot Dust Bowl Summer Of 1936.

  

  August 31, 2026 -This summer has broken so many temperature records that each new one can feel almost routine.

  But the biggest record of all may be about to fall.

  Five out the 10 warmest summers on record in the contiguous United States have occurred in the past decade, pushed along by the tailwind of climate change.

• • Summer a ‘Near Lock’ to Become
  Warmest and Most Humid Across U.S.

  Average Temperatures Are On Track to Surpass the Notoriously Hot Dust Bowl Summer of 1936

  

  August 31, 2026 -This summer has broken so many temperature records that each new one can feel almost routine.

  But the biggest record of all may be about to fall.

  Five out the 10 warmest summers on record in the contiguous United States have occurred in the past decade, pushed along by the tailwind of climate change.

• • The Strongest El Niño in a Generation
  Is Wreaking Havoc on Global Economy

  The Weather Phenomenon is Already Roiling Industries, From Shipping to Copper to Fish Feed
  
  {THE WALL STREET JOURNAL}

  August 29, 2026 -For Clément Ray, chief executive of French insect-protein company Innovafeed, El Niño has been a welcome arrival. “It’s perfect timing for us,” he said.

  Innovafeed breeds black soldier flies in a factory in northern France and turns the larvae into an ingredient for fish feed and other products. Until recently, it has been a premium product, a greener alternative to the fish meal that underpins the $300 billion-plus aquaculture industry. But...

• • The Colorado River Is Drying Up

  The West Is Running Out of Easy Choices
  
  {ZME SCIENCE}

  August 28, 2026, - The Colorado River and its reservoirs, which supply water for about 40 million people and 30 tribes across seven states and two countries, is drying up.

  Lake Mead on the Arizona-Nevada border, which has the largest storage capacity of any reservoir in the United States, hit its lowest recorded levels on 7 August. Water levels in Lake Powell, located on the Utah-Arizona border, reached their own record low about a week later.

• • European River Cruises Upended As
  Drought and Low Water Take a Toll

  The Danube and Rhine Are At Record Lows This Summer, Disrupting Hundreds Of Cruises...

  

  Aug. 28, 2026 -Ships running aground. Long bus rides. Canceled excursions. Europe’s scorching heat and widespread drought have drained water levels on the Danube and Rhine rivers to record lows this summer, upending hundreds of river cruise itineraries and ruining vacations.

  While low water levels are common on European waterways in late summer and early fall, the severe drought has drained several river basins simultaneously since July, wreaking havoc on an industry popular for its logistical ease and relaxed style of travel.

• • Highway Reborn as Public Park

  The Four-Lane Great Highway Used to Run Along the Pacific Ocean on the West Side of San Francisco, Where It Was At Risk of Flooding From Sea Level Rise
  
  {LOE.ORG}

  August 28, 2026, - The four lane Great Highway used to run along the Pacific Ocean on the west side of San Francisco.

  But in April 2025, this pavement became a little slice of paradise. Now visitors to Sunset Dunes Park can bike, walk, skate, and play next to the water.

  Zach Lipton is a volunteer with the nonprofit Friends of Sunset Dunes and he joins us now to talk about this highway’s transformation.

• • Climate Change Impacts and Projections
  in Central America and the Caribbean

  Central America and the Caribbean Are Experiencing Pronounced Warming, Shifting Rainfall Patterns and Intensifying Extreme Events, All Driven By Rising Greenhouse Gas Concentrations
  
  {nature index}

  August 28, 2026 -Analysis of water footprints in a semi-arid valley in Mexico has revealed how declining rainfall and higher temperatures since the late 1980s have driven substantial increases in irrigation demand. By quantifying green (rainfall), blue (surface and groundwater) and grey (pollution assimilation) water footprints for key crops, researchers demonstrated that extreme dry years now require up to 73% more water for viticulture than for olive cultivation. This temporal assessment highlights the growing unsustainability of current practices and provides a quantitative basis for developing more rational water-use strategies in agricultural landscapes facing climate stress.

• • A Melting Glacier Contributed
  to the Deadly Nepal Floods

  We Can Expect More Like This
  
  {NPR}

  August 28, 2026 -More than a thousand people are missing and at least 400 people are dead after flash flooding tore through Nepal and Tibet early Wednesday. According to initial assessments, a massive chunk of ice snapped off a glacier and tumbled thousands of feet into the valley below. Rock, ice and mud plunged down for miles, washing away communities along the river.

  Scientists say glaciers in this region, and around the world, are increasingly unstable because of human-caused global warming. Across the mountains of Nepal and Tibet, climate change is causing glaciers to melt at an alarming rate.

• • Why Are El Niños Getting Stronger?

  1,000-Year-Coral Record Points to Climate Change
  
  {nature}

  August 27, 2026 -For Julia Cole, a palaeoclimatologist who uses corals to study Earth’s past climate, the powerful El Niño event now gaining strength in the Pacific Ocean comes as no surprise. It looks like part of a century-long pattern of strong El Niño events happening more often as the planet heats up because of human-caused climate change. “It doesn’t look like a fluke,” she says.

  That observation is based on a reconstruction by Cole and her colleagues of sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean in the millennium before the Industrial Revolution, published today in Science1. According to the analysis of coral skeletons from the Galapagos Islands, the past century has seen strong El Niño events happening more frequently than in the 1,000 years before human-generated greenhouse-gas emissions began to warm the planet.

• • Climate Change Raises Risk of Disasters Like Nepal Floods

  Glaciers and Permafrost in the Himalayas Are Melting Faster as Temperatures Rise

  

  August 27, 2026 -Climate change is heating up the Himalayas and supercharging the risk of disasters like the deadly flash flooding in Nepal and Tibet, though scientists are still determining the exact cause of this week’s catastrophe.

  A group of glaciologists and geologists said on Thursday that the flooding was probably unleashed after an enormous chunk of bedrock collapsed underneath a glacier, triggering a landslide high in the mountains. At the same time, a chunk of ice snapped off the glacier itself and cascaded thousands of feet to the valley below, the scientists said.

• • Denver Water Approves Oct. 1 Ban On
  Lawn Watering, Threatening Fines

  “Hottest Metro July On Record” Calls For Drastic Measures to Save Reservoirs
  
  {THE COLORADO SUN}

  August 26, 2026 -Denver Water for the first time made Oct. 1 the hard cutoff for lawn watering for its 1.5 million customers, under threat of fines, saying 2026 so far is the hottest year ever recorded in the metro area and calling for drastic measures to preserve dwindling reservoirs.

  Customers may still irrigate on their designated two days a week through Sept. 30, the agency’s board ruled Wednesday, but will face warnings and fines for any use of irrigation sprinklers beyond that date. Limited hand watering will still be allowed. With no end to the drought in sight, the agency also warned the lawn watering cutoff is indefinite and will last at least through next spring, with summer 2027 rules depending on the coming snowpack.

• • What El Niño's Return Means For
  the Panama Canal,and Global Trade

  The Panama Canal Authority Walked Back a Previous Pledge to Not Limit Passage as It Gears Up For a Longer-Than-Usual El Niño Season

  

  August 26, 2026 -Just two years after the worst drought in the Panama Canal's history forced ships to wait weeks for passage and triggered multi-million-dollar bidding wars for transit slots, El Niño is again threatening the rainfall that feeds the waterway.

  With El Niño strengthening and reservoirs shrinking, the industry is bracing for a repeat ?of the disruption at one of the world's most important waterways — and some ships are already taking long detours via Africa.

• • Hundreds Missing as Wall of Water Sweeps
  Away Villages in Nepal and Tibet

  At Least 160 People Were Killed When Floods Tore Through a Himalayan River Valley Between Nepal and Tibet

  

  August 26, 2026 -At least 160 people were killed and hundreds of others were missing in Nepal and Tibet on Wednesday after a massive chunk of ice from a highland glacier crashed to the ground, sending torrents of floodwater, mud and debris cascading through river valleys and destroying settlements, officials said.

  Officials in Nepal reported 157 deaths. So far, Chinese officials have reported three deaths in Tibet, an autonomous region of China, but the toll was expected to rise. The Chinese state news agency Xinhua said there had been “significant” casualties at the Gyirong port of entry, at the border with Nepal.

• • A Relentless Heat Dome Expands From Texas to California

  Challenging Records

  

  August 25, 2026 -The states of Texas and Oklahoma are no strangers to extreme heat during summer.

  So when temperature records are being challenged in these notoriously hot places, it catches a meteorologist’s attention.

  On Monday, Dallas tied its hottest overall day on record, with an average temperature of 97.5 degrees Fahrenheit. It reached a blistering 109 degrees during the day after a low of just 86 degrees.

• • The World Inches Toward Catastrophic Climate Events

  ‘Bigger Shocks Are On the Way’

  

  August 24, 2026 - In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future,” a heat wave combined with a breakdown of the electrical grid in India kills 20 million people. The devastation causes the world’s nations to unite to combat climate change.

  Scientists have long warned that the world will experience more intense extreme weather events like heat waves, storms, floods and droughts. But what once seemed like the realm of fiction is now discussed as a possibility, even an inevitability.

• • Thousands Rally in Stockholm Over Climate
  Crisis Weeks Ahead of General Election

  Sweden Won't 'Sweeten' the Climate Issue?
  
  {euro news}

  August 24, 2026 -The protest comes as experts in Sweden have warned that the government's climate policy jeopardises the country's emissions-cutting goals to reduce CO? emissions from transport by 70 percent by 2030 and to achieve net-zero emissions by 2045.

  More than 10,000 people marched in Stockholm, the Swedish capital, on Sunday in a protest against human-made climate change, weeks ahead of a 13 September general election where the issue is top among Swedish voters' concerns..

• • The Ocean Just Broke a Temperature Record
  That May Have Stood for Millennia

  Marine Heat Waves Currently Cover 42 Percent of the Planet’s Oceans

  

  August 24, 2026 -As a record-breaking El Niño builds in the Pacific and large swaths of the globe’s oceans are affected by marine heat waves, a significant record has fallen.

  According to data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service, average global sea surface temperatures have reached a new high, rising to nearly 70 degrees Fahrenheit late last week — potentially for the first time in millennia.

• • See the Invisible Force Driving
  Destructive Floods Across the United States

  The Atmosphere Has Been Much More Waterlogged Than Normal, Loading the Dice For Extreme Rainfall

  

  August 23, 2026 -Some of the most extreme weather in the United States this summer has been driven by an invisible force pooling in the skies above: water vapor.

  Although recent destructive floods in Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, New York, Texas, West Virginia and many other states may seem geographically disconnected, they share a link to something happening thousands of miles away, in a remote stretch of the tropical Pacific Ocean.

• • Dangerous and Prolonged Heat Wave to Grip Southern States

  Even After Sunset, There Will Be Little Relief...

  

  August 23, 2026 -A prolonged and dangerous heat wave is set to grip parts of the Southern United States this week, as forecasters warned that temperatures are expected to soar into triple digits, with daily records at risk of being broken.

  The most intense heat is initially expected across the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley before shifting west into parts of the Southwest later in the week.

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• 6 Things We Can Do About Climate Change
• Climate Change Positive Thoughts (free e-Book)
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