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• • Tropical Storm Bertha Expected to Make
  Landfall in Louisiana on Wednesday

  Storm Surge, Gusty Winds and Slow-Moving Downpours Are Forecast Along the Gulf Coast

  

  July 22, 2026 -Tropical Storm Bertha, the second storm of the season in the Atlantic Ocean, was slowly approaching Louisiana early Wednesday.

  As of 5 a.m. Wednesday, the storm was about 110 miles southeast of New Orleans, had winds of 50 mph and was moving westward at around 5 mph.

  Bertha is forecast to make landfall in southeastern Louisiana on Wednesday, where 1 to 3 or 2 to 4 feet of storm surge, dangerous rip currents, tropical-storm-force winds and slow-moving downpours are all possible.

• • Antarctic Tourism Is a Climate Farce

  Its Environmental Cost Is Getting Harder to Ignore
  
  {ZME SCIENCE}

  July 21, 2026 -Those are the words of a former Antarctic tour guide we interviewed. For anyone interested in nature, few jobs sound more enviable. You spend months among penguins, orcas and glaciers, helping visitors experience one of the world’s most extraordinary and unspoiled places.

  But for some guides, like those we quote in this article, that privilege slowly became impossible to reconcile with their beliefs. Watching climate change unfold while helping thousands more visitors reach the continent eventually led them to leave the jobs they’d once dreamed of.

• • This SoCal Heat Wave Could Be Hottest of the Year

  5 Things to Know

  

  July 21, 2026 -This week could bring Southern California its most sweltering temperatures of the year — a heat wave made all the more miserable, and dangerous, by oppressive muggy conditions and little nighttime relief.

  “This looks to be the hottest stretch so far this year,” said Ryan Kittell, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Oxnard office.

  And it’ll be quite a stretch. The mercury could hit triple digits across much of the Southland Tuesday through Monday.

• • Provocative New Study Says New Orleans Cannot Be Protected Forever

  Is It Time to Plan a Retreat?
  
  {ZME SCIENCE}

  July 21, 2026 -New Orleans exists because it bargains with water.

  The city pumps it, walls it off, channels it, blesses it, fears it, and dances beside it. For more than three centuries, that uneasy bargain has made life possible on the shifting, sinking sediment of the Mississippi River Delta.

  But a provocative new paper argues that the bargain is no longer tenable.

• • Wu, Feds Unveil Plan to Tackle Sea Level Rise in Boston

  Planned Projects Are Estimated to Prevent More Than $40B in Projected Losses Through End of Century...
  
  {CommonWealthBEACON}

  July 20, 2026 -IF BOSTON IS going to avert the most catastrophic impacts of projected sea level rise this century, it needs to get building.

  A new landmark draft plan set to be released this week from the US Army Corps of Engineers in partnership with the city recommends 20 specific projects to shore up the most flood-prone parts of Boston.

  Some 20,000 buildings and 40 percent of the city — more than a quarter-million residents — at risk of flooding are depending on it.

• • Is the Colorado River in a Climate Doom Loop?

  We Caused a problem, and Our Efforts to Fix it Made it worse
  
  {COLORADO NEWSLINE}

  July 20, 2026 -As negotiations and potential lawsuits over the Colorado River intensify, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation – which is ultimately in charge of managing the river – would be smart to pull back from the high-stakes gambit and take a hard look at the science.

  First and foremost, in a new report from the University of Colorado Boulder, the best scientists in the business predict that flows in the Colorado River could drop 30% more by 2050 due to climate change, and that pre-climate flow levels are not coming back.

• • Boston Flood Protection Draft Plan Will
  Outline $10.5 Billion in Coastal Projects

  After Four Years of Work, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will Release a Draft Report This Week Containing Plans For Building Flood Protection Projects in Boston
  
  {WCVB5}

  July 20, 2026 -According to the USACE, over 40 percent of Boston residents live in areas that are at risk of coastal flooding, and inaction could lead to $54 billion in losses between 2040 and 2090.

  City officials say the report is due to be published on Friday, which will also mark the start of a public comment period. Residents will have until Sept. 18 to provide feedback before the USACE moves to future steps.

• • Denver Water’s 1.5 Million Customers Are
  Falling Way Short of Drought-Cutting Goals

  The Utility Set a 20% Reduction Goal, But...
  
  {THE COLORADO SUN}

  July 20, 2026 -When Denver Water looked back at the historically abysmal snowpack, and ahead to a historically scorching summer, the crucial agency for 1.5 million Coloradans set a target of 20% water use cuts to help solve challenges from the ongoing drought.

  It’s not working.

  At roughly the midpoint of the high season for lawn watering, which accounts for about half of Denver Water home use, customers have cut only about 2% of the five-year system average. Officials fear that after a weekend of 100-degree temps forecast for the Front Range, they’ll see even worse results as customers reel from a searing streak of daily highs and defend their lawns with amped irrigation.

• • Earth’s Hottest and Coldest Places Were Separated
  By an Astonishing 136 Degrees Celsius Last Week

  Capturing Both Earth’s Seasons and Its Warming Climate
  
  {ZME SCIENCE}

  July 20, 2026 -In the darkness of the Antarctic winter, the thermometer at Concordia Station dropped to minus 84.1 degrees Celsius (-119.4°F). Five days earlier, on July 13, Armstrong, a small community in northern Ontario, had reached 40.8°C (105.4°F), while this year’s highest reported temperature — 52.7°C (126.9°F) — came from Omidieh, Iran.

  Measured from Iran to Antarctica, the difference was 136.8 degrees Celsius (246.2°F), large enough to make Earth look like two different planets at once.

• • Antarctic Meltwater Is Making Glaciers Slide Faster Toward the Ocean

  A New Study Uses Boreholes Drilled Deep Beneath Antarctic Ice to Investigate Why the Continent’s Glaciers Are Accelerating
  
  {SciTecDaily}

  July 20, 2026 -More than half a kilometer beneath an East Antarctic glacier, sensors detected water pressure high enough to support almost all the ice above. The measurements provide the first direct confirmation that meltwater from the surface can reach the base of an Antarctic glacier, reduce friction and accelerate its movement toward the ocean.

  “The Antarctic ice sheet holds 90% of the world’s glacier ice. If it were to melt completely and drain into the ocean, sea levels would rise by about 60 meters,” says Professor Shin Sugiyama of Hokkaido University.

• • The Aral Sea, Once the World’s Fourth-
  Largest Inland Lake, Was Drained Dry

  Now It’s a Ticking Carbon Bomb
  
  {ZME SCIENCE}

  July 20, 2026 -The Aral Sea sits between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and was once the fourth-largest inland body of water on Earth. For the past 60 years, though, humans have bled it nearly dry irrigating cotton crops, leaving behind a salty plain the size of Ireland. Its loss has long been seen as an ecological and humanitarian problem, but new research shows that it has also been a significant driver of climate change.

  The Aral Sea is technically a lake. But when nearly any body of water is full and works as it should, organic matter collects on the bottom, where it remains trapped, often for centuries or millennia. “They accumulate carbon in the sediment,” explained Rafael Marcé, a research scientist at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Blanes, Spain, and the lead author of the study, which was published today in the journal Science. “They are carbon sinks.”

• • Tropical Storm Bertha Expected to
  Form Soon and Threaten Gulf Coast

  With Flooding Rain and Strong Wind Gusts
  
  {CNN Weather}

  July 20, 2026 - A tropical storm watch has been issued for the coast of the Florida Panhandle from the Ochlockonee River west to the Jefferson-Plaquemines Parish border in Louisiana. In these locations, tropical storm conditions are possible within the next 24 to 48 hours. Additional watches could be issued farther west along the Louisiana and Texas coast in the next day or two.

  Dry air and the depression’s large size have kept it from forming the persistent thunderstorms near its center that a healthy tropical cyclone needs to strengthen, despite fuel from near-record warm Gulf water.

• • Colorado Heat Wave Causing Roads, Multi-Use Paths to Buckle

  The Mudslides Stranded 21 People, Blocked Roads, flooded Main Street, and More
  
  {CBS NEWS}

  July 19, 2026 -Temperatures have continued to soar in Colorado, with many areas experiencing dangerous heat and highs near 100 degrees.

  Heat stress on our roads and multi-use paths is causing the concrete to buckle in some places.

  It's an issue often seen in the summer as temperature shifts cause concrete slabs to expand. This can cause the slabs to push against each other, building up pressure in the joints between them until the slabs rise or the concrete breaks.

• • California is Dialing Up Ratepayer Heat Protections

  This Seems Like a High Impact to the Community, Lower Impact to the Utility Decision, and an Obvious Way to Build Trust and Good Will
  
  {energy central}

  July 19, 2026 -Temp check: California IOUs can no longer shut off power to delinquent customers in 100-degree-Fahrenheit heat, as ordered by a recent CPUC vote. The new cutoff: 90 degrees. This decision follows two years of advocacy from consumer group Utility Reform Network.

  Next steps: Within six months, these utilities must introduce region-specific temperature thresholds by taking local context (like the number of seniors and children in a community) into account.

• • A Strong El Niño Spells More Climate Pain For the Philippines

  The Weather Phenomenon Will Bring More Extreme Weather, Its Effects Are Already Being Felt in a Country Reeling From a Series of Disasters
  
  {CLIMATE HOME NEWS}

  July 16, 2026 -The Philippines is caught in an extreme weather trap. Here, forecasts for a strong El Niño in the months ahead do not just indicate a period of drought – they also point to torrential rain and flooding.

  It could hardly come at a worse time, threatening communities that are still struggling to recover from previous typhoons, such as last year’s Typhoon Tino, as well as two strong earthquakes – in Cebu in September 2025 and last month’s 7.8-magnitude quake in Mindanao.

• • For Pregnant Women in Hong Kong, Extreme Heat Is a Silent Threat

  With No Warning
  
  {EARTH.ORG}

  July 16, 2026 -As climate change supercharges summers in Hong Kong and across Asia, pregnant women are enduring unprecedented heatwaves with virtually no warning from the medical systems designed to protect them. Despite clear clinical evidence linking rising ambient temperatures to miscarriage and preterm birth, a silence in antenatal clinics is leaving the region’s most vulnerable mothers entirely in the dark.

  Siti is six months pregnant and riding out Hong Kong’s summer alone in a Sham Shui Po sixth-floor walk-up. In months of prenatal visits at Kwong Wah Hospital, no one mentioned heat could harm her or her baby.

• • The World’s Cleanest Air Is a Secret Weapon for Climate Science

  Researchers at a Remote Australian Station Are Studying One of the World’s Last Pristine Air Masses to Answer Enduring Questions About Climate Change
  
  {Bloomberg}

  July 16, 2026 -Relentless winds sweep more than 10,000 kilometers (6,214 miles) across the Southern Ocean, from the fringes of South America to Tasmania’s craggy northwestern coast, delivering some of the world’s cleanest air to intake pipes near the top of an 80-meter-high tower.

  Untainted by pollution from the cities and industries that crowd the Northern Hemisphere, the air provides a unique sample of Earth’s atmosphere. It has made this isolated corner of Australia one of the world’s most important sites for monitoring humanity’s impact on climate change.

• • A Warmer World Will Be a Smokier One

  Higher Temperatures and Drought Conditions Are Contributing to More Intense Wildfires and...

  

  July 16, 2026 -When dense clouds of smoke from wildfires in Canada last smothered large parts of North America in 2023, the hazy skies were a shocking new phenomenon for many residents.

  But climate change threatens to make it a recurring problem.

  “What we’re seeing here is a dramatic increase in wildfires in North America,” said Jonathan Overpeck, a climate scientist and professor at the University of Michigan. As long as humans continue to burn fossil fuels, Dr. Overpeck said, global temperatures will increase, droughts will worsen, and there will be bigger, more frequent wildfires and smoke events.

• • National Academies Finds Growing Evidence
  Linking Climate Change to Disasters

  The Report is Likely to Rank Among the Institution’s Most Deeply Scrutinized Publications in Recent Years
  
  {GREENWIRE}

  July 16, 2026 -The nation's preeminent science institution released an anticipated report Thursday indicating that research into the connections between climate change and individual weather disasters have grown stronger over the last decade.

  It comes as an obscure panel tasked with writing the report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has been under intense scrutiny from the energy industry, conservative scholars and Republican lawmakers, who argued that the 252-page document is meant to help climate lawsuits against oil and gas companies.

• • Heat Waves Hurt the Grid in More Ways Than You Might Realize

  What More Harm Can the Heat Wave Bring
  
  {energy central}

  July 15, 2026 -This summer, extreme heat is hitting the US—hard. Take the recent Western heat dome, which raised temps up to four degrees above previous records. That’s “extremely hard to do statistically,” Erik Smith, a climate data analyst at EPRI, told Energy Central. “And research says that we’re going to see a lot more of those types of record-shattering events.”

  What this means for the grid: These unprecedented heat waves pile more demand on an already strained system. And in these extreme conditions, it’s hard to keep essential assets running.

• • Climate Change and Air Pollution Combo
  is a ‘Double Whammy’ for Health

  Days That Are Both Extremely Hot and Polluted Come With Higher Risks of Respiratory Ailments and Other Health Hazards

  

  July 15, 2026 -Soaring temperatures are expected to collide with wildfire smoke across parts of the United States this week, a combination that can pose health risks.

  As climate change drives up global temperatures past record levels, the frequency of days when it is both hot and polluted has also been increasing.

• • Why Corn Isn’t Entirely to Blame For ‘Corn Sweat’

  Corn Has Taken the Heat For Recent Midwest Summer Humidity—Unjustly, According to Corn Experts

  

  July 14, 2026 -It’s boiling hot in the U.S. Midwest—which means it’s time for “corn sweat” to hit the headlines, drawing ire from millions sweltering under sky-high humidity and adding insult to heat wave injury. Cities that include Minneapolis, Des Moines and Indianapolis will wilt under heat index temperatures nearing or even exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit for most of the week.

  The phenomenon of corn sweat has only gone mainstream within the past decade, although farmers and meteorologists based in the so-called Corn Belt—centered around Nebraska, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois—have long recognized the increased humidity that can occur over farm fields. But agricultural scientists say it’s time for the slander to stop: corn doesn’t “sweat” any more than other major crops. Rather the issue is the sheer amount of acreage that has been carefully managed to maximize yields.

• • A Record Heatwave Recently Hit Great Britain’s Grid

  And an Alleged Cover-Up
  
  {energy central}

  July 14, 2026 -The mismatch: Amid late June’s brutal temperatures, NESO (Great Britain’s independent grid operator) said frequency and voltage remained within statutory limits. But the evidence shows otherwise: Frequency dipped below operational limits multiple times as unplanned outages struck gas plants.

  The allegations: Whistleblowers claim that senior leaders were “risking blackouts to protect NESO’s reputation.” The whistleblowers allege that NESO operators were directed to “hide information that the grid was not secure at all times." NESO Chief Executive Fintan Slye has denied the claims—and the grid operator is bringing in an independent law firm to investigate them.

• • Scientists Sail to Greenland to Study Melting Ice Sheets

  The International Group of Scientists Aboard the RSS Sir David Attenborough Will Head to Greenland to Study Tidewater Glaciers
  
  {BBC}

  July 15, 2026 -A group of international scientists are heading to Greenland on the UK's polar research ship RRS Sir David Attenborough to study how quickly melting ice sheets are pushing vital ocean currents towards collapse.

  The team will depart from Harwich International Port in Essex on Thursday.

  It is hoped the data gathered on tidewater glaciers can be used to improve predictions for the future of Greenland's glaciers and their impact on the surrounding ocean as they melt.

• • Extreme Temperature Warnings in Place As ‘Heat Dome’ Bakes US

  Americans Warned to Be on Alert For Heat-Related Illness As Parts of Country Experience Record High Temperatures

  

  July 15, 2026 -Extreme heat warnings are in place for large swaths of the United States this week, as an unusual weather pattern eclipses record temperature highs.

  In Billings, Montana, residents experienced a sweltering 111F (43.9C) on Sunday, the hottest day in its history. Salt Lake City in Utah also hit an all-time record high on Sunday at 109F. Boston has seen more 90F days than average, according to NPR station WBUR-FM.

• • Europe Races to Protect Infrastructure From Heat

  Drones, AI and White Paint

  

  July 15, 2026 -As Europe's railways buckle under record heat, roads melt and power grids strain, countries are turning to an array of fixes for ageing infrastructure, from drones inspecting tracks and AI-powered sensors to a ?surprisingly simple tool: white paint.

  At Norway's Oslo airport on Wednesday, with temperatures set to hit 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), 10 C above normal for the time of year, workers doused the tarmac with water to keep it cool.

• • California Faces Highest Shark Numbers in
  Years As Great Whites Head North

  El Niño Climate Phenomenon Heating Waters Off Mexico But Incidents With Humans Remain a Rarity

  

  July 14, 2026 -California is set to see one of its sharkiest summers in a decade, with large numbers of juvenile great whites already on a reverse vacation from the warm waters of Mexico to cooler pastures along the western United States.

  The marine predator has become more common along the west coast in recent years, with stories of surfers seeing underwater behemoths closer to shore and scientists saying swimmers and ocean-lovers alike are probably already sharing their favorite beaches with great whites, whether they know it or not.

• • Maps Show Which States Are Getting Hit
  Hardest By Extreme Heat, Excessive Rainfall

  Maps Show Heat Alerts
  
  {CBS NEWS}

  July 14, 2026 -A heat wave continues to bake huge sections of the United States, lingering in parts of the desert Southwest and across the northern tier of the country. Across parts of the South, especially Texas, severe storms were forecast to bring heavy rain and possible flooding.

  Extreme heat warnings and heat advisories were set to remain in place through Thursday in northern states including Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, and stretching across the Northeast, covering an area that's home to at least 130 million people.

• • One of the Planet’s Strongest Heat
  Domes Will Soon Scorch the East Coast

  The Immense Heat Dome Has Already Broken Temperature Records Across the Intermountain West and Canada

  

  July 14, 2026 -One of the planet’s strongest heat domes will be located over the north-central United States on Tuesday, with its outer edges reaching eastward toward the Mid-Atlantic.

  This same, sprawling area of high pressure brought remarkable 115-degree heat to Montana on Sunday and 100-degree heat to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on Monday. It’s rivaling another intense heat dome over northern Africa, making the two the strongest currently on Earth.

• • How a Heat Dome Differs From a Regular Heat Wave

  Online Searches for Heat Domes Have Surged

  

  July 13, 2026 -It’s been the summer of the heat dome.

  As this weather term surged to record popularity online, temperatures also reached record levels across parts of the United States and Europe.

  This same, sprawling area of high pressure brought remarkable 115-degree heat to Montana on Sunday and 100-degree heat to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on Monday. It’s rivaling another intense heat dome over northern Africa, making the two the strongest currently on Earth.

• • May and June Heatwaves Killed About
  2,700 People in England and Wales

  Extreme Heat Led to 440 Deaths a Day During June Peak

  

  July 13, 2026 -The heatwave that affected England and Wales in June killed about 440 people a day during its three-day peak, scientists have estimated. Across the whole of the June heatwave, plus the one in May, about 2,700 people lost their lives prematurely.

  The data starkly illustrates the danger of extreme heat, which is being supercharged by the climate crisis. More than 40% of the people affected would not have died without the 1.4C of human-caused global heating to date, according to the analysis. For comparison, about four people die each day as a result of road traffic collisions and about 35 a day because of alcohol and drug use, according to government statistics.

• • Wildfire Rages Near Paris As Heatwave Scorches Europe

  Last Heatwave Linked to Thousands of 'Excess Deaths', Say Scientists

  

  July 13, 2026 -A wildfire tore through a historic forest near Paris on Monday, forcing highway closures and mobilising water-bombing aircraft, while Spain's death toll from one of its deadliest wildfires rose to 13, as much of western Europe simmered in a string of heatwaves.

  The region is enduring its third heatwave of the summer, with tinder-dry vegetation and high temperatures fuelling blazes from the Iberian Peninsula to France. Many scientists say climate change is making wildfires more frequent and difficult to combat.

• • Climate Change is Costing People Sleep

  One More Thing to Blame on Climate Change
  
  {CLIMATE CENTRAL}

  July 12, 2026 -Sufficient sleep quality and duration are essential for people’s health and well-being, but hotter nighttime temperatures are making it harder for people to get the rest they need.

  Globally, the average person lost nearly 56 hours of sleep per year due to high ambient temperatures during the 2020-2025 period, according to a new analysis from Climate Central.

• • Colorado's Extended Stretch of Summer Heat Isn't Going Anywhere

  The Prolonged Stretch of Hot, Dry Weather is Also Increasing Wildfire Concerns Across Colorado
  
  {CBS NEWS}

  July 12, 2026 -A strong area of high pressure parked over the western U.S. will continue to bring well above-average temperatures across much of the state through at least next weekend.

  Sunday is a First Alert Weather Day as dangerous heat continues, with additional First Alert Weather Days possible if temperatures remain near record levels. Afternoon highs Sunday will climb into the mid to upper 90s across the Denver metro area. Mountain valleys will also be unusually warm, with highs in the upper 80s and low 90s.

• • Dangerous Heat Wave Threatens Oppressive
  Temperatures in Much of the US

  Temperature Records Expected to Be Broken

  

  July 11, 2026 -A widespread and dangerous heat wave was building across the U.S. on Saturday, with triple-digit highs expected in the Southwest and Great Plains this weekend before spreading eastward under a dome of high pressure that meteorologists say could trap oppressive temperatures for a week or more.

  Forecasters advised people to stay hydrated and find places to cool off, warning of temperatures 15 to 25 degrees Fahrenheit (8 to 14 degrees Celsius) warmer than normal in many areas, including at night — especially bad for people’s health because their bodies won’t have a chance to recover. The heat dome was expected to affect as much as two-thirds of the continental United States.

• • Heat Dome to Topple Records in Drought-
  Stricken Plains and Western States

  See Where Temperatures Could Reach a rare 110 Degrees and Amplify Fire Weather Risks

  

  July 11, 2026 -Another heat dome is coming. And it’s about to elevate fire risks and topple temperature records, with heat and/or fire weather alerts in effect for around 33 million people living in stretches of Western and Central states as of early Friday.

  This heat dome will first sizzle drought-stricken parts of the Intermountain West this weekend before expanding into the northern Plains and Upper Midwest next week.

• • Antarctic Ice Missing

  This June, Scientists Found Antarctica’s West Coast Was Missing a Chunk of Sea Ice the Size of France.
  
  {LOE.ORG}

  July 10, 2026 -Midsummer in the Northern hemisphere marks the dead of winter in Antarctica, usually a time when temperatures plunge and the surrounding ocean ices over, nearly doubling the continent’s size. But this June, scientists found Antarctica’s west coast was missing a chunk of sea ice the size of France.

  For more on this, we reached out to Ted Scambos, a Senior Research Scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. But he joined us from a visit to family in Hawai’i, where he must be defrosting after all his Antarctic research. To start, I asked him how unusual it is to see this lack of ice in midwinter.

• • How to Train For a Heatwave

  And Train, You Must
  
  {The Economist}

  July 10, 2026 -ENGLAND’S football team set up camp in West Palm Beach, Florida, on June 1st, almost two weeks before the start of the 2026 World Cup. That was so the players, many of whom were used to training in the mild climate of Britain, could adapt to the blistering heat of the host nations. But as July brings western Europe’s third heatwave of 2026, even those not competing in elite sports might wonder how they can train appropriately to beat the heat.

  Preparing for heat requires exposure to heat. That increases levels of blood plasma—the watery stuff which carries blood cells around the body—meaning the heart does not have to work as hard to pump blood, and can beat in a more leisurely manner for longer.

• • As It Celebrates the Nation’s Past,
  Philadelphia Braces for a Hotter Future

  Extreme Heat Tests Philadelphia’s Climate Resilience During a Weekend of Historic Celebrations

  

  July 10, 2026 -To Eric Klinenberg, a packed stadium in 101-degree heat offering limited water access for fans was a “formula for disaster.”

  This was the scene that met the sociologist, who wrote an acclaimed book about Chicago’s deadly 1995 heat wave, when he attended the World Cup France-Paraguay match at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field last Saturday. “It was dangerously mishandled,” Klinenberg said. He witnessed two people receiving medical treatment at the game, and the city reported 18 people were treated by medics at the game and at the FIFA Fan Festival in Fairmount Park on July 4. Five more people were transported to nearby hospitals.

• • As Europe Bakes, Eurostar Orders
  Trains That Can Cope With 55C Heat

  These Trains Will Enter Service in 2031 and Run Into the 2060s
  
  {CNN Business}

  July 10, 2026 Eurostar has specified that its new fleet of trains must be able to withstand sweltering temperatures of 55 degrees Celsius, or 131 degrees Fahrenheit, as it gears up for a radically altered European climate over the coming decades.

  The company, which operates high-speed trains connecting a handful of northern European cities, including London, Paris and Brussels, initially ordered up to 50 new trains that could handle temperatures of 45 degrees Celsius (113 Farenheit).

• • Extreme Heat Wave Triggers Fish Kill In Potomac River

  After Water Temperatures Hit Record-Breaking 94 Degrees
  
  {DAILY CALLER}

  July 10, 2026 -The Fourth of July heat wave that occurred on the East Coast triggered record-breaking temperatures in the Potomac River, specifically on the north side of Little Falls, Maryland, and it caused a huge fish kill, according to officials.

  The Maryland Department of the Environment said one of the entity’s biologists registered a 94-degree water temperature July 4, with United States Geological Survey (USGS) data showing that water temperatures had hit a peak of 98.4 degrees, per FOX Weather.

• • Temperatures Forecast to Reach Up to 117 Degrees in Western Heat Wave

  The Hottest Conditions Are Expected in southern California's Coachella Valley...
  
  {CBS NEWS}

  July 9, 2026 -Sweltering heat continued to permeate the western United States on Thursday, as forecasters warned that some desert communities could see temperatures soar to 117 degrees.

  The extreme heat is expected to span a wide swathe of the country — both within and beyond the West. Parts of Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas and Florida are all forecast to see triple-digit or near-triple-digit temperatures through at least the end of the week, according to the National Weather Service.

• • How to Build a Highway in the Age of Climate Change

  A San Francisco Bay Area Project is Raising Questions About What It Will Take to Fortify Highways Against Rising Sea Levels.

  

  July 9, 2026 -Between the view, the marshes, and the birds, Liat Meitzenheimer concedes the drive along California State Route 37 is scenic. Still, she avoids it for two reasons: congestion and flooding.

  The highway, about half of which is two-lane, is often backed up with people commuting between affordable communities in Solano County to the east and jobs in pricier Sonoma and Marin counties to the west. It also is a regional link to Napa Valley and other destinations, much of it built on embankments, bridges, and causeways that span marshes precariously close to San Pablo Bay. That makes it prone to flooding, which has led to occasional closures.

• • The Chickens Were Doing Just Fine. Then the Heat Wave Killed Millions

  The Birds Are Particularly Vulnerable to High Temperatures, and France’s Torrid June Took a Heavy Toll

  

  July 9, 2026 -They were meant to die, just not like this.

  The chickens were 19 days away from a date at the slaughterhouse when temperatures climbed disastrously inside the long shed where they spent their nights. Over the course of several hours on June 23, during France’s hottest stretch on record, 1,500 keeled over. By the time Isabelle Renaudier opened the door, one-third of the flock was dead.

  “It broke my heart,” said Ms. Renaudier, who had been raising the birds at her family farm in northwestern France for supermarkets, butchers and rotisseries.

• • The Administration Has a New Climate Change Office

  It’s Headed By a Climate Critic
  
  {POLITICO}

  July 9, 2026 -The Trump administration has reconstituted a governmentwide program that tracks how climate change is transforming the country, after having gutted it last year as part of a purge of programs that didn’t line up with its worldview.

  The U.S. Global Change Research Program is now headed by Matthew Wielicki, a former University of Alabama geochemist, according to his public postings on social media and confirmed by a second person familiar with the program, granted anonymity over fears of reprisal.

• • Western Europe Endures Hottest June
  on Record Amid Historic Heatwave

  Globally, Last Month Was the Second-Hottest June Ever Recorded
  
  {EARTH.ORG}

  July 9, 2026 -Western Europe just endured its hottest June ever recorded owing to a record-breaking heatwave that afflicted much of the region during the latter part of the month, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.

  The strongest-ever heatwave to hit the region was the second in less than a month. Scientists said such a heatwave would have been “virtually impossible” just 40 years ago and chances of it occurring at this time of year in 2003, the year Europe was hit by its first major heatwave of this century, would have been “tens to hundreds times” lower. It was followed by another heatwave in early July.

• • Can We Stop El Niño Before It Starts?

  CA Controversial Geoengineering Proposal Suggests That Brightening Clouds Off South America Could Weaken a Burgeoning El Niño, But...

  

  July 8, 2026 -Throughout the coming months, El Niño is forecast to bring droughts, heat waves and other extreme weather to every continent on Earth. The cyclical climate event, driven by unusually warm ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, has been gaining steam, with water temperatures reaching record highs. But a new study published Wednesday in Science Advances suggests that it may be possible—in theory, if not in practice—to blunt the grim cycle of disasters by seeding clouds off the coast of Peru and Chile, where El Niño originates.

  The idea is to spray sea salt into the lower atmosphere, making nearby clouds more reflective. With less sunlight penetrating to Earth’s surface, the ocean would become cooler, depriving El Niño of the warm water it requires.

• • Climate Change Is Helping an Invasive Predator
  Wreak Havoc on Iconic Alaskan Fish

  The Uncanny Ability of Northern Pike to Navigate Saltwater Have Enabled Them to Lay Siege to Southcentral Alaska’s Salmon and Trout

  

  July 8, 2026 -Corey Ercolani pulled a northern pike from a gillnet and slit its belly with a knife. Inside its guts lay fresh evidence of a growing biological crime: a dead juvenile salmon. A coho, or silver salmon, to be exact.

  A technician with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Ercolani had set the net a few hours earlier on a recent June morning. He stretched it across Lake Creek, a lily-padded outflow from Nancy Lake, a popular sportfishing and recreational area near Willow, Alaska.

• • Warming Could Ravage a Third of Plants Used by Amazon Communities

  Hotter Temperatures and Harsher Droughts Could Cause Indigenous Societies to Suffer

  

  July 8, 2026 -Over centuries, the Amazon’s hundreds of Indigenous societies have built up an abundance of knowledge about the rainforest’s thousands of plant species and how to use them.

  This vast library of botanical know-how is under growing threat from climate change, according to a new study in the journal Nature.

• • European Countries Top ‘Scorecard’ On Climate Progress

  While US Slips to 27th

  

  July 8, 2026 -Much of the world has made encouraging strides in reducing toxic problems such as water and air pollution that have long plagued communities. But there is still a widespread lack of progress among countries in dealing with the climate crisis, according to the latest edition of an influential environmental scorecard.

  The biennial Yale University index again ranks Estonia as the best-performing of 177 assessed countries, after strong recent efforts to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and protect its ecosystems. Luxembourg is second, and the UK is third, having moved up from fifth place in the 2024 index.

• • Strong El Nino Event Could Raise Extreme Weather Risks in China

  This According to State Media

  

  July 8, 2026 -A strong to super-strong eastern Pacific-type El Nino event is expected to form this summer and autumn, raising risks for extreme weather such as flooding and heatwaves across China this year and the next, state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday, citing forecasts by the National Climate Centre.

  Sea-surface temperatures in the equatorial central and eastern Pacific have been rising since the beginning ?of June, with the index in key regions reaching 1.60 degrees Celsius, up 0.64C from May, Xinhua said, adding that the National Climate Centre expected further sea temperature rises.

• • Unions in Europe Press For New Worker
  Protections to Counter Heat Stress

  Climate Crisis Prompts Calls For Workplace Temperature Limits and Rights to Heat Breaks and Adjusted Working Hours

  

  July 8, 2026 -As Europe’s sweltering summer continues, trades unions are mounting a push for new laws to counter deadly heat stress that is linked to an estimated 230 workplace deaths a year.

  This year’s toll may be even higher, with 1,300 excess European deaths already connected to the June heatwave by the World Health Organization, and other estimates running as high as 20,000.

• • Oil Companies Are Profiting As the World Gets Dangerously Hot

  The Scientific Consensus is That Burning Fossil Fuels Drives the Climate Crisis, Yet the World’s Biggest Oil Companies Are Planning to Increase Production

  

  July 7, 2026 -As the world swelters in ever more dangerous heat, why are oil companies being allowed to turn up the gas instead of paying for the consequences of their greed?

  That ought to be the question on everyone’s minds amid baking heat domes over much of the northern hemisphere, temperature records being smashed day after day, children dying in locked cars, hospitals filling with heatstroke victims and emergency services tackling wildfires.

• • Europe May Face 'More Deadly Weeks' As New Heatwave Builds

  A Warning From the World Health Organization (WHO)

  

  July 7, 2026 -The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday that Europe could face “more deadly weeks” ahead, with another intense heatwave forming over the Atlantic.

  Temperatures in Portugal and southern Spain are expected to climb to 43 degrees Celsius (109 degrees Fahrenheit) in the coming days.

  WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge held an emergency call on Monday with representatives from 41 countries in the region, the European Commission and civil society groups to discuss lessons from the recent heatwave and preparations for the next one.

• • These Workers Tell Us How They Do Their Jobs in 116-Degree Heat

  India Regularly Experiences the Type of Blazing Weather the U.S. Has Faced This Summer
  
  {THE WALL STREET JOURNAL}

  July 6, 2026 -Scholars have long suspected there is a link between heat and economic development, arguing that hot weather saps energy and productivity by increasing absenteeism and causing more workplace errors.

  That is particularly relevant to India where hundreds of millions of people still work outdoors in occupations such as farming, while indoor workers in places like factories rarely have air conditioning. It could be relevant to parts of the U.S. and Europe, where a “heat dome” has pushed temperatures above 100 degrees in recent weeks.

• • The Chickens Were Doing Just Fine.
  Then the Heat Wave Killed Millions

  The Birds Are Particularly Vulnerable to High Temperatures, and France’s Torrid June Took a Heavy Toll

  

  July 6, 2026 -They were meant to die, just not like this.

  The chickens were 19 days away from a date at the slaughterhouse when temperatures climbed disastrously inside the long shed where they spent their nights. Over the course of several hours on June 23, during France’s hottest stretch on record, 1,500 keeled over. By the time Isabelle Renaudier opened the door, one-third of the flock was dead.

  “It broke my heart,” said Ms. Renaudier, who had been raising the birds at her family farm in northwestern France for supermarkets, butchers and rotisseries.

• • New Jersey Experiences 25 Suspected Heat Deaths After
  Record-Breaking Temperatures Over July 4th Weekend

  What Can Happen Next?
  
  {DAILY CALLER}

  July 6, 2026 -According to officials, it’s suspected that at least 25 people have died due to the historic heat wave that is hammering New Jersey and millions of other Americans throughout the nation, doing so since the lead up to July 4th and continuing into the holiday weekend.

  During a news conference, state officials said the cause of the deaths was the heat dome that has been roasting areas of the eastern and central United States. (RELATED: Strengthening El Niño Suppressing Tropical Development, Officially Puts Atlantic Hurricane Season Behind Schedule)

• • California’s Vanishing Sand Dunes Threaten Its Coast

  Aerial Photos Combined With Lidar Data Show the Extent of the Problem
  
  {ZME SCIENCE}

  July 6, 2026 -California has lost 60% of its coastal sand dunes since the mid-1800s, a new study shows.

  In addition to protecting coastal communities from flooding, dunes support a wide range of plants and animals. But they’re also vulnerable. They occupy some of the most favorable land for human development and are also highly threatened by sea level rise.

  To protect dunes, scientists need a comprehensive picture of where these ecosystems are located, but existing datasets tend to be incomplete. To get the full picture, Baxter et al. compared historical maps to the current locations of sand dunes to see how their extent and distribution have evolved over time. To find the current locations of sand dunes, the researchers used aerial photographs and lidar data, which they analyzed using a combination of machine learning and manual identification.

• • Europe’s Air Conditioning Culture Wars Heat Up

  Cooling Down has Become Political Amid Record Highs

  

  July 5, 2026 -As the afternoon heat rose to a dizzying 41.7C (107F) in eastern Brandenburg on Sunday, taking German temperatures to unprecedented highs, Mario, 65, took precautions but did not panic. Two years ago, a fierce heatwave had prompted him to buy a powerful device that few Germans own: an air conditioning unit.

  “The summers are slowly getting warmer,” says the retired handyman in Neuzelle on the German-Polish border, whose bungalow is now among the 6% of German homes with fixed air-conditioning. “And as you get older, the heat gets harder to endure.”<

• • The Pacific Ocean is Running a Fever

  Why That’s an Ominous Sign

  

  July 5, 2026 -Across the Pacific Ocean, there’s a massive marine heat wave covering an area more than eight times the size of the contiguous United States — and it could have profound ripple effects for weather events around the globe in the coming weeks and months.

  This area makes up about 13.5 percent of Earth’s total surface, stretching from the Philippines to Peru — where people are flocking to the beach during the Southern Hemisphere winter — and northward to the coasts of Hawaii and California.

• • How Philadelphia Turned a Deadly Heat
  Wave Into Protections That Could Help Millions

  A Deadly 1993 Heat Wave Led to a Pioneering Program That Scientists Say Continues to Save Lives

  

  July 2, 2026 -Thanks to Thomas Jefferson, we know that July 4, 1776, was a pleasant day in Philadelphia with temperatures that topped out in the mid-70s.

  Two hundred and fifty years later, visitors who descend on the city to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence — and to watch a World Cup match on July 4 — will find a far more sweltering reality.

  A dangerous heat dome over the Eastern United States for the next several days is forecast to send temperatures into the triple digits, break records across multiple states and pose health risks for tens of millions of Americans.

• • How the National Zoo is Keeping Animals Cool in the Extreme Heat

  As Temperatures Soar Past 100 Degrees, Lions and Tigers Get Frozen Treats...

  

  July 4, 2026 -With temperatures soaring into the triple digits in D.C. this week, keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo have been working to make sure the animals stay cool.

  The zoo’s now 5-month-old baby elephant, Linh Mai, has been spending hours going in and out of the pool in her area before resting on the sandy shore nearby — “all tuckered out,” said Annalisa Meyer, a zoo spokesperson.

• • Trump’s July 4 Plans Face Unexpected Challenge

  Blazing Heat
  
  {THE HILL}

  July 3, 2026 -As Americans prepare to celebrate the country’s 250th birthday this holiday weekend, organizers of Freedom 250 events in Washington are scrambling to deal with the extreme heat.

  Some 200,000 people have attended the Great American State Fair and FIFA Fan Fest so far, according to a Freedom 250 spokesperson, and even more are expected to attend Saturday’s “Salute to America Celebration & Fireworks” event.

• • Billions Unlocked As Green Climate Fund
  Agrees to Spend More and Save Less

  The Board of the UN’s Flagship Climate Fund Has Agreed to Allowed Management to Invest More in Projects in Developing Nations...
  
  {CLIMATE HOME NEWS}

  July 3, 2026 -The Green Climate Fund (GCF) will have nearly $6 billion more to spend on emissions-reduction and climate adaptation projects in developing countries, after its board agreed to a management proposal to reduce the proportion of money it has to keep in reserve.

  At a meeting in Tajikistan this week, the government representatives who make up the fund's board endorsed the proposal to revise its financial rules so that it no longer has to set aside one dollar for every dollar it spends.

• • See Where Millions Lack Air Conditioning as U.S. Heat Dome Peaks

  A Post Analysis Found About 3 Million Households Without a Cooling System in Areas Where Temperatures Will Be Intense...

  

  July 3, 2026 -As temperatures soar to triple digits and record temperatures across a swath of the United States this week, a Washington Post analysis has found that about 3 million households in areas of major or extreme heat risk lack air conditioning.

  About 93 percent of homes have air conditioning nationwide, as do 96 percent of households in the areas with high heat risk this week, according to The Post’s analysis of data from the National Weather Service and the Census Bureau.

• • Boston Hits 100 Degrees For Second
  Consecutive Day as Heat Wave Continues

  More Comfortable Weather Settles in Wednesday Before It Turns Warmer Again Thursday
  
  {WCVB5}

  July 3, 2026-Friday brings dangerous heat and humidity to the Boston area and Massachusetts with a StormTeam 5 Weather Alert in effect.

  The city hit 100 degrees for the second consecutive day around 3 p.m.

  “There really is no relief, no matter where you happen to look. Plenty of humidity sticking around throughout more than half of the country,” said StormTeam 5 Meteorologist David Williams.

• • New York Hits 100 Degrees as High Temperatures Stifle Eastern U.S.

  Heat Wave Updates

  

  July 2, 2026 -Aggressive heat swept across the New York region as sweltering weather stifled the Northeast on Thursday, disrupting travel and prompting emergency measures as states took precautions against hazardous heat and humidity ahead of a holiday weekend.

  The heat wave toppled records?, many set during another sweltering summer nearly 60 years ago?.? The temperature in Central Park reached 100 degrees by 2 p.m., according to the National Weather Service, the first time it was that hot there since July 18, 2012, and it tied its daily record set in 1966.

• • Net-Zero Champion Europe Snared By Climate Change On Its Doorstep

  Climate Adaptation Effort Has Lagged the Net-Zero Drive

  

  July 2, 2026 -The June heatwave that broke a series of temperature records in Europe has focused minds on the urgency of adapting to global warming in a continent once complacent about its relatively gentle climate and its ambitious goals on reducing emissions.

  The European Union has ?sought to be a leader in addressing climate change, and was one of the first major economies to set a legally binding target to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

• • The World’s Biggest Iceberg Has Finally Melted Away

  A23a Had More Adventures Than Most
  
  {The Economist}

  July 2, 2026 -Nothing would remain but water. That is the way of ice. Fresh water poured into salt water, and each absorbed the other. Some observers thought they saw a bluer tinge in the ocean round about. In its dying months, A23a carried parallel blue lines of meltwater on its scarred surface. Each represented a crack that would soon gape wider. It drifted, at about 30km a day, in runnels of its own blood.

  Intermittently, as others grew or decayed, it was the biggest iceberg in the world. It took up 3,500-3,900 square kilometres: more than two Greater Londons, Rhode Island or St Petersburg, depending on your vantage point. It weighed, at a brave estimate, about a trillion tonnes.

• • In Guatemala, Indigenous Women Build Climate
  Resilience With Old and New Farming Methods

  Ancestral Knowledge Combined With Climate-Smart Techniques is Boosting Food Security and Increasing Family Incomes in the Lake Atitlán Region
  
  {CLIMATE HOME NEWS}

  July 2, 2026 -Lake Atitlán is one of Central America’s most critical local sources of drinking water, and is surrounded by volcanoes, a thriving tourism industry and an ancient Mayan culture. The Sololá region has long been home to Indigenous communities who have been attracted to its fertile land and pristine natural resources.

  But in recent years, this site of natural beauty in Guatemala’s highlands has had to contend with the growing impacts of the climate and nature crises. Climate change is disrupting the rain cycle and significant areas of land show signs of erosion and loss of soil fertility. These changes are threatening crop production and pushing local people into food insecurity.

• • This July 4th Could Be Hottest Ever in Parts of U.S.

  Maps Show the Forecast Expected to Break Records
  
  {CBS NEWS}

  July 2, 2026 -This July Fourth could be the hottest on record for millions of Americans as a massive heat wave traps more than half of the United States under a heat dome through the holiday weekend.

  Dangerously high temperatures ramped up Wednesday from the Midwest to the East Coast, forecasters said. Between daily high temperatures and warm overnight lows — which won't be low enough to offer much relief — more than 300 records are expected to be set by Saturday.

• • Will It Be Stormy Or Dry For
  July 4th Fireworks Where You Live?

  See Where a “Ring of Fire” Weather Pattern Could Produce Disruptive Thunderstorms

  

  July 2, 2026 -Fireworks won’t be the only thing lighting up the sky Saturday evening across the United States. As the heat dome in the East will be losing strength, Mother Nature will be lighting some fireworks of her own — in the form of thunderstorms.

  Around the periphery of this powerful area of high pressure will be a corridor dubbed the “ring of fire” — a meteorological pattern that describes stormy weather tracking along the edges of a heat dome.

• • See How Europe’s Heat Waves Melted the Alps’ Glaciers

  Huge Volumes of Exposed Ice Are Now Starting to Vanish

  

  July 2, 2026 -Europe’s recent heat waves erased the snow atop Switzerland’s glaciers far earlier in the year than normal, exposing bare ice that could melt away in extraordinary volumes in the coming months.

  “We are now in a state where we should normally be in August,” said Matthias Huss, a glaciologist at the Swiss university ETH Zurich. “It is really a worrying situation.”

• • More Living Shorelines Could Come to States Bordering
  Chesapeake Bay if the Region’s Senators Get Their Way

  As Virginia, Maryland and Delaware Face More Floods, Their Elected Officials Want to Use Federal Dollars to Deploy Natural Mitigation Techniques

  

  July 1, 2026 -Norfolk, Virginia, has remained the poster child for cities facing land subsidence and flooding in the country, struggling through an onslaught of storm surges and blue-sky flooding that become more frequent every year. But while a major storm has not hit the city directly since Hurricane Matthew in 2016, it is one of the many places looking to congressional funding as a way to fund preemptive land management projects to protect their shorelines and their residents.

  Although city leaders currently plan to rehabilitate their shorelines every seven years, the Norfolk Coastal Storm Risk Management program is now suggesting they change that schedule to every five years due to erosion trends.

• • Urban Trees Aren’t Just Nice, Scientists Say — They’re Mandatory

  Researchers Are Calling For Cities to Double Down On One of the Simplest Yet Most Powerful Solutions to Many Problems

  

  July 1, 2026 -They tower overhead and sway in the wind and often teem with squawking birds, yet trees are easy to ignore. Urbanites rush by them without noticing, and without appreciating all the work they do: Trees reduce temperatures, mitigate flooding, and provide habitat for animals.

  City leaders are no exception to this oversight. As mayors around the world pledge to reduce municipal greenhouse gas emissions, they’re missing the literal low-hanging fruit of bolstering urban forests, dozens of scientists argue in a new essay. “We have to elevate it from something that is nice to have to something that we require — like, mandatory,” said Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez, an ecologist at Bangor University in the United Kingdom and lead author of the piece, which published today in the journal PLOS Climate. “In the same way that we treat education, security, transportation, it has to be elevated to that level.”

• • Extraordinary Heat in US Northeast Arrives
  to clash with Fourth of July Revelry

  A Heat Dome — High-Pressure Systems Above a Region That Trap Heat and Humidity — Has Been Smothering Parts of the U.S., From the Midwest to the East Coast

  

  July 1, 2026 -Multiday warnings of extreme heat landed in New York, Boston and Philadelphia on Wednesday as sultry weather pushed east just ahead of Fourth of July celebrations in a region that revels in its role as a historic hub of U.S. independence.

  Temperatures in the high 90s Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius) were forecast for the Northeast; Philadelphia and Boston could top 100 by Thursday. Throw in humidity, and the real-feel heat index will be even higher at times, the National Weather Service said.

• • Data Center Boom Collides With Record Heat

  Testing the Power Gr
  
  {POLITICO}

  July 1, 2026 -Data Center Alley is facing a climate test.

  Searing temperatures this week could push energy demand to record levels on the mid-Atlantic’s electric grid, which fuels the country’s data center boom in Virginia.

  To relieve some of the pressure, the Department of Energy granted permission Tuesday to the region’s grid operator, PJM Interconnection, to potentially force data centers to use backup diesel generators.

• • Tracking Dangerous Heat in the U.S.

  Dangerous Levels of Heat Are Forecast in the South, Northeast and Midwest

  

  July 1, 2026 -About 133.7 million people — 40 percent of the population of the contiguous United States — live in the areas expected to have dangerous levels of heat.

  The heat index is a measure of how hot it really feels outside, taking into account humidity along with temperature. The measurement is used to indicate when the level of heat is dangerous for the human body while in the shade. When out in the sun, a person could perceive that temperature as being higher by up to 15 degrees Fahrenheit (8.3 degrees Celsius).

• • With Extreme Heat Now a Public Health
  Crisis, Local Data Can Save Lives

  The Impacts of Extreme Heat Vary Widely Across Countries and Cities, and Approaches Tailored Using Data Can Target Solutions At Vulnerable Groups
  
  {CLIMATE HOME NEWS}

  June 30, 2026 -As thousands gathered in London for one of the year’s largest climate gatherings last week, Western Europe faced its most severe heatwave ever recorded. The irony was not lost.

  Across Europe, over a dozen countries issued urgent heat warnings and the World Health Organization recorded over 1,300 excess deaths. In London, where air conditioning is rare in buildings and on trains and buses, temperatures soared past 36 degrees Celsius (97F) and schools closed early. The mayor announced the city’s first heat action plan - an important step.

• • In France, a Funeral Home is Overwhelmed
  as the Heatwave's Death Toll Rises

  France Recorded at Least 1,000 Excess Deaths From Last Wednesday to Sunday

  

  June 30, 2026 -Undertaker Zouhaier Hertelli is receiving panicked calls from families, retirement homes, and even the police desperately trying to find space in refrigerated mortuary storage for people who died during the heatwave that has been gripping France.

  There were at least 1,000 excess deaths from last Wednesday to Sunday, France's public health agency said, adding that the numbers were not final and were bound to increase.

• • Around 162 Million At Risk as U.S. Braces For Holiday Heat Wave

  Wildfires Rage in the West
  
  {NBC NEWS}

  June 29, 2026 -Millions of people will have to brace themselves for an exceptionally hot July Fourth week as most of the U.S. prepares for a heat wave — all as deadly wildfires continue to burn in the West.

  Around 162 million people are under heat alerts from the Great Plains to the Northeast, spanning 35 states. The heat is expected to ramp up through the week, with temperatures soaring into the upper 90s and 100s. Heat index values — or what the heat actually feels like to the human body — could reach 105 to 115 degrees.

• • Hundreds of Thousands of Chickens Die as
  France Suffers Its Hottest Day on Record

  Record Temperatures Have Been Causing Mass Poultry Deaths in western France Since June 22
  
  {ZME SCIENCE}

  June 29, 2026 -The heat wave, with temperatures exceeding 40° Celsius (104° Fahrenheit), is also behind the drowning of 40 people. Météo-France, the French national weather service, wrote in a statement that June 24 and 25 were the hottest days recorded in France since records began in 1947.

  Yann Nedelec, head of ANVOL, a French poultry-sector organization, estimated that at least several hundred thousand poultry in both indoor and outdoor farms died, though he told Reuters it was too soon for a precise death count.

• • France Keeps Health Emergency Plan at
  Highest Level in Case of Another Heatwave

  Scientists Have Said the Heatwave Was The Worst Recorded in Europe, Where the Climate is Changing Faster Than the Global Average

  

  June 29, 2026 -French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Monday he was keeping the country's health emergency response plan, ORSAN, at its highest level for the coming days in view of "a possible recurrence of a heatwave episode".

  Lecornu was speaking at the start of a government crisis meeting to review how the country ?dealt with a severe heatwave over the past week and how it could prepare for future heatwaves.

• • France Recorded 1,000 Excess Deaths During Heat Wave

  First Estimates Published By the National Health Agency Listed Hundreds More Deaths Per Day Compared With the Daily Death Rate in Previous Months

  

  June 29, 2026 -Large solar arrays take up valuable space on land. So many nations are floating the idea of, well, floating solar panels on water bodies such as lakes and reservoirs. But the technology is generally discussed for warmer climates. The presumption is that icy conditions would impact the panels’ supporting structures.

  A new study refutes that notion. Using simple materials, researchers at Western University in Canada have designed a floating solar system that worked through an icy Canadian winter and efficiently generated clean energy.

• • Where Dangerous Heat Will Envelop the Midwest and East This Week

  High Temperatures Could Soar Past 100 Degrees For Several Days As Extreme Humidity Develops

  

  June 29, 2026 -A dangerous heat dome will intensify over the Eastern United States this week, pushing temperatures into the triple digits and probably breaking hundreds of records across three dozen states. It will rival the strength of the deadly heat dome that has recently hit Europe.

  This weather pattern will bring a combination of stifling, tropical levels of humidity, high temperatures that could soar past 100 degrees for several consecutive days and little relief after dark, with overnight low temperatures hovering near 80 at times in major cities across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. From parts of the Plains to the East Coast, heat index values could surge toward 110 degrees.

• • Swiss Glaciers Melting At Alarming Rate
  in June As Europe Faces Extreme Heat

  Over the Past Century, This Tipping Point Usually Only Arrives in Mid-August On Average
  
  {euro news}

  June 28, 2026 -The snow and ice accumulated by Swiss glaciers over the winter is expected to have completely melted away by Monday, Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS) reported.

  The drastic loss is due to the heatwave that has swept over Europe. From that day onwards, every additional day of melting between now and October will shrink the size of the glacier.

  The tipping point—known as "glacier loss day"—has come significantly earlier than usual. Since data collection started over two decades ago, only once has the tipping point arrived even earlier, when it came on June 26 in 2022.

• • Feeling Like a Hairdryer This Weekend in Southern Colorado

  With High Fire Danger
  
  {KOAA NEWS}

  June 27, 2026 -It's going to be HOT HOT HOT this weekend in southern Colorado as the jet stream ramps up across the state. High pressure to the southeast, and low pressure to the northwest both combine to ramp up the wind speeds which mix down along the Front Range heading into the afternoon. Red Flag Warnings are in effect for essentially all areas west of I-25 today. In the mountains, wind gusts of 50-55 mph are possible. Humidity will drop to 5-15% this afternoon.

  Today's temperatures will be in the 90s to triple digits, so remember to drink plenty of water if you'll be spending a lot of time outside. You're already starting to become dehydrated when you feel thirsty.

• • Climate Adaptation in Africa Needs Investment, Not Imported Solutions

  Across Africa, Communities Have Implemented Vital Climate Adaptation Measures – But...
  
  {CLIMATE HOME NEWS}

  June 26, 2026 -For generations, African communities have lived on the frontlines of climate disruption, managing erratic rainfall, prolonged droughts and the slow erosion of their livelihoods, which depend on predictable seasons.

  When the rains failed across Southern Africa in 2024, it was but the latest chapter of a crisis already long underway. During that season, maize crop failures of 40-80% devastated farming communities in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi, where roughly 70% of people depend on rain-fed agriculture. Governments already stretched by debt were forced to raid development budgets, trading long-term growth for emergency relief.

• • Central Europe Sizzles As Heat Records Are
  Smashed in Switzerland, Denmark and Czech Republic

  In Switzerland, a Record 38.8 C (101.8 F) Was Set in the City of Basel

  

  June 26, 2026 - Temperatures soared to record highs from Switzerland to the Czech Republic and Denmark on Saturday, as a heat wave that baked western European countries this week moved to central and eastern parts of the continent.

  Unusually high temperatures were recorded even in the Nordic countries not known for sweltering summers. Denmark’s Meteorological Institute reported a record 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in Ødum north of Aarhus — the warmest day since records there began in 1874.

• • The Future of Duxbury Reef

  Changes May Be Coming For California’s Marine Protected Areas,..

  

  June 26, 2026 -Kent Khtikian pointed at a seemingly barren inch of reef. His hair, curly, long and grey blew wildly in the wind underneath a tan cowboy hat. He hunched over and kneeled close to a tiny tide pool, observing how a small, black periwinkle snail wiggled its way into a protected corner of rock.

  Khtikian has lived in this small Marin County town of Bolinas since 1986, a stone’s throw away from Duxbury Reef—one of the largest shale reefs in North America, nearly two miles long. He is, in many ways, the local face of protecting Duxbury, spearheading a volunteer program to educate visitors about the reef.

• • Heat Wave Blasting Europe is the Worst Ever Recorded

  The Extreme Heat Would Have Been “Virtually Impossible” 50 Years Ago

  

  June 26, 2026 -Millions of people are sweltering under Europe’s worst heat wave ever recorded, researchers said Friday. Because of temperature increases driven by climate change, they said, Europeans are suffering from temperatures that would have been “virtually impossible” 50 years ago.

  The phenomenon melting long-standing temperature records is due to a heat dome parked over Europe, with clear skies and strong sunshine intensifying the effect for large swaths of the continent. Temperature records have been broken in France, the United Kingdom and Spain, with red alerts issued in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

• • Britons Ordered To Remove Air Conditioning
  From Homes in 40C Heat Under Net Zero Crackdown

  They Say AC, Despite the Heat, Should Serve Only as a "Last Resort"
  
  {GBI News}

  June 25, 2026 -Britons have been ordered to remove air conditioning from their homes - despite the country baking in up to 40C heat this week - under a fresh Net Zero crackdown.

  Planning officials at councils have told residents to take down their cooling units over concerns about carbon dioxide emissions.

• • Greens Call For Emergency EU Leaders’ Summit Over Extreme Heat

  The European Green Party Says Heads of State and Government Should Meet to Strengthen the Green Deal
  
  {POLITICO}

  June 25, 2026 -EU leaders should gather for an emergency summit to strengthen protections against extreme heat and reinforce the bloc's climate efforts, said the European Green Party on Thursday.

  Western Europe is suffering under a record-breaking heat wave this week, with temperatures in many countries inching close to or even exceeding 40 degrees Celsius.

• • Why Carbon Capture and Storage Won’t Fix Our Climate Crisis

  False Promises
  
  {PROPUBLICA}

  June 25, 2026 - For more than 40 years, oil companies have been funding research at prestigious universities into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Among their favored fixes is carbon capture and storage.

  An investigation by ProPublica and Drilled has found that boosters of CCS have ignored evidence of the technology’s limitations, or overstated its potential, and convinced the world it could be effective.

• • Texas’ Refusal to Plan for Climate
  Change Created a Crisis in Corpus Christi

  Stubbornly Unrealistic Assessments of the Region’s Reservoir System Turned This Year’s Drought Conditions Into an Emergency

  

  June 25, 2026 - A decade ago, Corpus Christi’s regional water plan projected shortages as soon as 2050. The next plan, released five years later, shortened that timeline to 2030.

  The next plan, released this year, said shortages were imminent, putting city leaders in a desperate scramble to avoid an emergency.

• • Hundreds in Spain May Have Died From Record Heat, Agency Warns

  With Temperatures This Week Over 110 Degrees In Some Parts of Spain, Researchers In Madrid Projected the Heat Wave Has Caused 212 Excess Deaths Since Sunday

  

  June 25, 2026 -More than 200 people may have died in Spain in recent days as a result of the record heat wave that has gripped much of Europe this week, according to data from a national monitoring system that estimates excess deaths.

  Researchers at Spain’s leading public health agency in Madrid, using models based on a decade of mortality records, and temperature and demographic data, projected the heat wave has caused 212 excess deaths since Sunday.

• • Americans Want to Apologize for Doubting Europe’s Heat

  Record Temperatures Feel Even Hotter Without Air Conditioning
  
  {THE WALL STREET JOURNAL}

  June 25, 2026 -Lucy Kloc, a Floridian living in the U.K., used to make fun of her British boyfriend for complaining about the summer heat. How bad could it be, the Jacksonville native thought? She’s endured humid, 90-degree-plus summers most of her life.

  “Before, I was like ‘This is nothing, you’re just being a weenie about it,’” said Kloc, who moved to Manchester last year. Now sweating her way through a record-breaking heat wave, Kloc is ready to admit that she was wrong.

• • Saharan Dust Could Add an Apocalyptic
  Hue to Europe’s Unrelenting Heat

  Powerful Winds Are Carrying Dust From Africa As Far As Southern England, As a Heat Dome Keeps Temperatures Rising

  

  June 25, 2026 -A storm off the coast of Portugal and the heat dome over central Europe have worked together to produce conditions in the atmosphere that are forcing dust high into the air in Africa. Winds are carrying the dust as far away as France and Britain, where, as it falls to the ground, it may bring a reddish tint to the cities and towns still baking in one of Europe’s worst heat waves in years.

  The air pattern is moving high above Europe in waves, and along its edge it is bringing a chance of rain and even thunderstorms, first to Spain and Portugal on Thursday. By Friday and Saturday, it may reach southern England, while France has a slightly higher chance of rain on Sunday.

• • How a ‘Super’ El Niño Could Disrupt Renewable Energy

  Solar Power May Drop in Places Like California and Southeastern China, While Hydropower Dries Up in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Southern Africa
  
  {CLIMATEWIRE}

  June 25, 2026 -This year's rare "super El Niño" could be the world's next energy market shock, analysts say, threatening renewable energy production in some places as it drives extreme heat.

  The climate phenomenon arrives as the monthslong Iran war strains global oil markets — and prompts some world leaders, particularly in Europe and China, to consider an expansion of their renewable portfolios. Studies show that solar, wind and hydropower tend to take a hit in certain regions during El Niño years, as cloud cover, wind patterns and rainfall change.

• • Britain Breaks June Temperature
  Record as Deadly Heatwave Grips Europe

  Early Summer Heat Risks Damage to Crops

  

  June 25, 2026 - The temperature in Britain hit a record high for June on Thursday as large parts of Western Europe were in the grip of a deadly early summer heatwave that has killed dozens, disrupted power supplies, and shut schools and cultural landmarks.

  French and British authorities warned busy people to adapt their daily routines to avoid the risk of over-heating.

  "We are just at the start of seeing an increase in people going to emergency wards," French health minister Stephanie Rist told a news conference.

• • Ex-NOAA Employees Re-Create a Valuable
  Climate Data Site Shut Down by Trump

  The Site's Disappearance Made It Harder for the Public and Other Users of NOAA Data to Access Trustworthy Climate Change Information
  
  {NPR}

  June 25, 2026 -Scientists, educators, farmers and the broader public now have a new website for climate information in the United States. The site, Climate.us, launched this week and fills a void left when a government-run climate information website was shut down last year by the Trump administration.

  The new site was created by former employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) — the government's lead scientific agency for climate, weather and ocean monitoring — who worked on Climate.gov until they were laid off last year as part of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cutbacks.

• • Our Cities Were Designed for the Weather of the 1950s and ’60s

  Researchers and City Planners Are Coming Up With Innovative Techniques to Help Cities Adapt to a Warmer Climate
  
  {THE WALL STREET JOURNAL}

  June 24, 2026 -U.S. cities have a climate problem. Their architecture, road layouts, transportation systems and other infrastructure were designed for weather conditions that are becoming a thing of the past.

  “A lot of infrastructure we’re still using now was built for the weather of the 1950s and ’60s,” says Costa Samaras, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. “This is not the weather that we have now, and it’s not the weather that we’ll have in the future as it continues to be altered because of the emissions that lead to climate change.”

• • How Climate Change Is Reshaping Hiking Trails in the White Mountains

  Unhappy Trails To You
  
  {NHPR}

  June 24, 2026 -Steep, rocky, and unforgiving: Among hikers, New Hampshire’s trail network has a reputation.

  “When the trails … in New Hampshire were laid out, they were laid out to maximize adventure, challenge,” said Matt Moore, senior operations manager for Appalachian Mountain Club Trails.

  It’s common for trails in the White Mountains to follow direct routes up slopes, eschewing twists and turns, or switchbacks, that would moderate their ascents. The trail crews that charted these routes in the 1920s and 1930s often crafted them with string, using lengths to mark a straight path up the slope, Moore said.

• • Indigenous Cultural Practices Are a Climate Solution, Report Finds

  Indigenous Lands Are Recognized As Crucial For Climate Mitigation and resilience...

  

  June 24, 2026 -As the impacts of climate change continue to escalate, a growing number of climate scientists and policymakers cite Indigenous lands as a model for their rich biodiversity and effective carbon storage. But that recognition has not always translated into space for Indigenous leaders in climate negotiations, access to climate resilience funding, or enforcement of human rights standards.

  That has been the case for decades. But the problems do not stop there. New research shows that approach overlooks the key role that Indigenous knowledge and culture can play in mitigating climate change. It also reveals a dangerous misconception that has taken hold in global climate discussions: the idea that Indigenous lands are so rich because they are remote or sparsely populated.

• • Drought Causes Northern Colorado Farm to
  Cancel Its Pumpkin Patch For the 2026 Season

  Denver7's Northern Colorado and Eastern Plains Reporter Peter Choi Explains How Drought is Affects Farms Across Northern Colorado
  
  {DENVER7}

  June 24, 2026 -A Northern Colorado pumpkin patch will not return this fall, and the family behind it says drought conditions are to blame.

  Sonrise Farm in Severance recently announced it will not open its pumpkin patch for 2026 after learning it likely will not receive irrigation water in August, a critical time for growing pumpkins.

• • Global Warming Has Made Europe’s Heatwave 2-4°C Worse

  The Continent is Warming Faster Than Any Other
  
  {The Economist}

  June 24, 2026 -ON THE MORNING of June 24th the Shaw Library at the London School of Economics was meant to be full of people discussing the impacts of climate change as part of London Climate Action Week. It was not to be. Britain’s Met Office had, for only the second time, issued a “red” warning about temperatures high enough to pose risks even to the fit and healthy. The organizers decided they could not proceed with their meeting—the subject of which was “Extreme heat: Improving governance and strengthening action”.

  Qualitatively, the European heatwave that started on June 18th is not unusual. A horseshoe of lower pressure—a so-called omega block—is sustaining an area of high pressure over the western part of the continent. The air near the surface in this high-pressure region came from the south-east, rather than off the Atlantic, and so started off fairly warm. High pressure above stopped it from losing its heat through convection, a process that produces clouds. A lack of clouds let the Sun stoke things further. Temperatures rose.

• • Extreme Heat is Melting National Records Across Europe

  With More Coming Thursday
  
  {CNN Weather}

  June 24, 2026 -• Record temperatures: France, at the epicenter of the extreme heat, endured its hottest day since records began on Tuesday. The UK and Spain hit new records for any day in June. Europe is sweltering under a fierce heat dome, bringing dangerous conditions to swaths of the fastest-warming continent. More records are likely tomorrow.

  • Deadly impact: At least 40 people have drowned seeking relief from the heat since June 18, the French Prime Minister announced yesterday. Heat-related deaths are difficult to track in realtime, though Météo-France compared this heat wave to one in 2003 that killed nearly 15,000 people.

• • A Storm Chaser Came Across Star-Shaped Hail For the First Time

  I'm an Avid Storm Chaser Who Found the Baseball-Size, Bizarre Hail in Arthur, Illinois

  

  June 23, 2026, by Matthew Cappucci -Anyone who knows me knows I have a thing for hail. An avid storm chaser, I’ve replaced 10 windshields. My dimpled, dented truck looks like a golf ball. I keep a freezer in the back seat.

  But the hail I encountered earlier this month in Arthur, Illinois, was unlike any other stones I’ve seen. They were as wide as baseballs — but shaped like stars.

• • Europe Created Heat-Wave Protections

  Now Comes the ‘Crash Test’

  

  June 23, 2026 -After a heat wave 23 years ago caused 70,000 deaths across this continent, European countries took steps to try to minimize the suffering next time around.

  They created early warning systems, organized cooling shelters and helped hospitals get better prepared. Paris built a registry of elderly and vulnerable residents, who get check-in calls when temperatures climb.

• • UN Chief Says Fossil Fuel Industry Must
  Cut Methane for Warming “Relief”

  The UN Secretary-General Urges Drastic Reductions in Methane Emissions, Starting With the Energy Sector...
  
  {CLIMATE HOME NEWS}

  June 23, 2026 -UN chief António Guterres called on Tuesday for stronger action to cut emissions of planet-heating methane, taking aim at the fossil fuel industry’s practices and profits, and pointing to coal, oil and gas as the root of today’s climate and energy crises.

  In a major speech at London Climate Action Week, with the British capital under a heatwave warning, the UN Secretary-General said countries had not done enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with what is needed to keep warming below the globally agreed goal of 1.5C.

• • As the World Warms, the Risk of Snakebites is Rising

  Climate Change is Increasing Human-Snake Encounters

  

  June 23, 2026 -On a humid Thursday morning, the Ramathibodi Poison Center in Bangkok thrums with activity. Four staff members field roughly 130 emergency hotline calls every day. By 11 a.m., they have already answered 42. Some callers are worried they’ve consumed something toxic. Others are medical students seeking advice on treating overdose patients. But every day, several physicians call from across Thailand looking for advice on treating snakebite victims.

  The nurses, pharmacists, and paramedics fielding the calls answer several questions: Is the snake in question venomous? Should they intubate the patient or simply dress the wound? Will it require an antivenom, and if so, where can they find it?

• • Northwest Potentially In for ‘One of the Strongest El Niños We’ve Had,’

  This, Accoding to Climatologists
  
  {KUOW NPR}

  June 23, 2026 -Warming temperatures at the equator could paradoxically bring the Northwest a wet fall and high winter snowpack, according to climatologists.

  The West could be in for “one of the strongest El Niños we’ve had,” Larry O’Neill, Oregon’s state climatologist, said Monday. The ocean and atmospheric weather pattern that occurs every few years and touches all parts of the West typically brings with it warmer and drier temperatures from August through winter, but during a super El Niño — of which there have been only three since 1980 — it does the opposite, bringing greater rain and mountain snowpack.

• • How Climate Change Gets Under Your Skin

  Exploring the Ways Climate Change Affects Your Health

  

  June 23, 2026, by Matthew Cappucci -Doctors agree: Climate change is a hazard to your health. Leading medical journals warn that rising greenhouse gas emissions will result in millions of needless deaths and undermine decades of hard-won progress in public health.

  Some of these risks are obvious. The immediate effects of extreme heat and wildfire smoke on the lungs and heart are easy to recognize — and particularly dangerous for those who are already immunocompromised or in poor health. Heat-related mortality has been rising since the 1990s, and wildfire smoke is now linked to tens of thousands of illnesses and deaths every year.

• • 40 People Drown As France Seeks Relief From Record Heat

  Hundreds of Temperature Records — Including Some All-Time Records — Have Fallen Across France

  

  June 23, 2026 -A record-breaking heat dome has scorched France, where officials and local reports have said at least 45 people have died amid the high temperatures, including 40 by drowning. Officials have said many young people went swimming in unsupervised locations seeking relief.

  In remarks Tuesday about the heat crisis, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu described the heat wave as “an episode of exceptional intensity” and said temperature records are being broken “every day and night.” The French government was planning for several scenarios, including the possibility that the heat extends into July. According to local reports, three of the deaths were elderly people who succumbed to health issues related to heat and two were children who died in a hot car.

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