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• • He Studied How Emissions Are Heating Up U.S. Cities

  “Fundamentally, We Were Trying to Learn About These Systems to Prevent People From Dying Unnecessarily From Heat”
  
  
  

  Oct. 8, 2025 -Kevin Gurney: For a while, climate change was described in terms of polar bears and ice caps, not things that are part of daily life. But emissions are all around you — every action you take is a piece of that puzzle. And my work is making that invisible reality clear and visible.

  Recently, I had three grants funding my labs, which were all canceled or discontinued in early June.

  One grant was supported by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST. For 15 years, I was working with NIST to build a greenhouse gas monitoring and observing system at small scales for cities.

• • Small Islands May Be Losing Their Water Lifeline

  Study Looks at Sable Island as an Example of What is Happening to Many Other Islands
  
  
  

  Oct. 8, 2025 -Throughout centuries, Sable Island, a remote sand island near Canada, has provided sanctuary to rare seabirds, wild horses, plants, and insects, all while facing the constant threat of powerful Atlantic winds. Now, a study has found the island ecosystem is largely under threat. The problem is a surprising one: the island’s water quality is declining severely.

  Fresh water on the mainland comes from rivers, lakes, and aquifers. But on islands, a lot of the drinkable water comes directly from the rain. That makes islands different from the mainland, and Sable in particular is an interesting place to study.

• • A MacArthur 'Genius' Gleans Surprising
  Lessons From Ancient Bones, Shards and Trash

  The S&P Global Clean Energy Transition Index Has Surged Close to 50% Since Trump’s April Tariff Announcements
  
  {NPR}
  
  

  Oct. 8, 2025 -Kristina Douglass was doing the dishes in her slippers when she received the call from the MacArthur Foundation, giving her the news that she had received a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.

  "I told them I was in my office," she recalls, "but really I was at the kitchen sink, looking as surprised and stunned as I felt. It was a very surreal moment."

  Douglass, an archaeologist at Columbia University, received the $800,000 award for her research "investigating how past human societies and environments co-evolved and adapted to climate variability."

• • What Ignited California’s Most Destructive Fires

  California Wildfires Have Become Particularly Devastating in Recent Decades, But Their Origins Vary
  
  
  

  Oct. 8, 2025 -The Palisades fire, which killed 12 people and engulfed thousands of homes in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles in January, stemmed from an earlier blaze ignited by a 29-year-old who appeared to be obsessed with fire, officials said Wednesday morning.

  The Palisades fire, along with the Eaton fire, began ravaging large communities in Southern California on the same night, Jan. 7, in what became known collectively as the Los Angeles wildfires.

• • Wildfire Smoke Could Kill 71,000 Americans Every Year by 2050

  Most of Them Won’t Live Anywhere Near Fires
  
  
  

  Oct. 9, 2025 -When wildfire smoke from Canada turned New York City’s sky an eerie orange in June 2023, millions of Americans who’d never experienced such pollution got a glimpse of what has become routine for communities across the U.S. West. The smoke blanketed the Eastern Seaboard, closing schools and forcing residents indoors, a warning of what scientists now say will become far more deadly in the coming decades.

  A study published this week in Nature projects that wildfire smoke will cause approximately 71,000 excess deaths each year by 2050 under current emissions trends — an increase of roughly 30,000 deaths over today’s levels.

• • Where a Coastal Storm Will Bring High Winds,
  Waves and Coastal Flooding This Weekend

  The System Could Deliver Days of Beach Erosion Along the Eastern Seaboard
  
  
  

  Oct. 9, 2025 -A strengthening storm system is set to sweep up the East Coast this weekend, bringing days of expected rain, wind, rough surf and beach erosion along hundreds of miles from Florida to Long Island and southern New England. While the system won’t meet the technical requirements to be classified as a named storm, it will bring tropical stormlike impacts and could damage more homes in the recently battered Outer Banks.

  It remains unclear whether the storm will from there nudge back westward, bringing nasty weather closer to Interstate 95. For now, it looks like the worst weather will target coastal areas, though major cities — like New York, Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington D.C. — will still be plenty stormy.

• • She Found a Link Between Air Pollution and Infertility

  But Her Grant Was Canceled
  
  
  

  Oct. 8, 2025 -Shruthi Mahalingaiah: I am a physician scientist, which means I am a doctor who does research, specializing in environmental exposure and women’s reproductive health.

  Several years ago, I received a nearly $3 million federal research grant to start asking questions about air pollution exposures and reproductive health. No one was asking this.

  We looked at air pollution exposures at different life stages and outcomes for infertility, fibroids in the uterus and endometriosis, and menstrual cycle length.

• • UK: National Security Threatened by Climate Crisis

  UK Intelligence Chiefs Due to Warn
  
  
  

  Oct. 6, 2025 -The UK’s national security is under severe threat from the climate crisis and the looming collapse of vital natural ecosystems, with food shortages and economic disaster potentially just years away, a powerful report by the UK’s intelligence chiefs is due to warn.

  However, the report, which was supposed to launch on Thursday at a landmark event in London, has been delayed, and concerns have been expressed to em>the Guardian/em> that it may have been blocked by number 10.

• • He Studied How Emissions Are Heating Up U.S. Cities

  “Fundamentally, We Were Trying to Learn About These Systems to Prevent People From Dying Unnecessarily From Heat”
  
  
  

  Oct. 8, 2025 -Kevin Gurney: For a while, climate change was described in terms of polar bears and ice caps, not things that are part of daily life. But emissions are all around you — every action you take is a piece of that puzzle. And my work is making that invisible reality clear and visible.

  Recently, I had three grants funding my labs, which were all canceled or discontinued in early June.

  One grant was supported by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST. For 15 years, I was working with NIST to build a greenhouse gas monitoring and observing system at small scales for cities.

• • Climate Change Could Slash Global GDP By 24% By 2100

  A New Study Says Climate Change Could Wipe Out Nearly a Quarter of Global Income
  
  
  

  Oct. 7, 2025 -Unchecked greenhouse gas emissions could cause the world’s income to fall by nearly a quarter within the century, projects a new study published in PLOS Climate.

  “Climate change reduces income in all countries, hot and cold, rich and poor alike,” the study’s authors wrote in a press release.

• • Lower Sugarloaf, Labor Mountain Fires Burn

  Blewett Pass Remains Closed
  
  
  

  Oct. 7, 2025 -A month after they first sparked, officials expect the Labor Mountain and Lower Sugarloaf fires to burn until an end-of-season weather event finally extinguishes them.

  Both lightning-caused fires started on Labor Day, Sept. 1. The Lower Sugarloaf fire is burning 12 miles northwest of Leavenworth, and the Labor Mountain fire is burning 10 miles north of Cle Elum.

• • East Coast Could Soon Be Hit By a Storm

  Another Tropical System
  Veers Out to Sea
  
  
  

  Oct. 7, 2025 -A tropical depression is soon expected to form in the open waters of the eastern Atlantic, potentially strengthening into a tropical storm or hurricane named Jerry before nearing the northern Leeward Islands on Thursday, where it could bring heavy rain, gusty winds and rough seas.

  Although it’s too early to know the storm’s long-term path, early indications suggest it will curve out to sea before getting close to the United States.

• • The Very Hungry Microbes
  That Could, Just Maybe, Cool the Planet

  Could Their Appetites Be Harnessed to Slow Climate Change?
  
  
  

  Oct. 6, 2025 -Fifty miles off the Tuscan coast, in a sparkling blue expanse broken only by rocky, forbidding islets, including the real-life Island of Montecristo, ancient creatures are roosting beneath the waves.

  They spend their days feasting on an unlikely source of nourishment: methane, a potent greenhouse gas that leaks out of cracks in the seafloor.

• • India Considers Introducing Nationwide
  Climate-Linked Insurance Scheme

  India Could Be Among First Major Nations to Adopt Climate Parametric Insurance Scheme
  
  
  

  Oct. 6, 2025 -India's government has begun early-stage talks with local insurers about designing a nationwide climate-linked insurance program aimed at simplifying the payout process after extreme weather events such as heatwaves and floods.

  The scheme would adopt a parametric insurance model, where policyholders receive a pre-determined payout when specific weather thresholds such as rainfall, temperature or windspeed are breached.

• • The Very Hungry Microbes That
  Could, Just Maybe, Cool the Planet

  Could Their Appetites Be Harnessed to Slow Climate Change?
  
  
  

  Oct. 6, 2025 -Fifty miles off the Tuscan coast, in a sparkling blue expanse broken only by rocky, forbidding islets, including the real-life Island of Montecristo, ancient creatures are roosting beneath the waves.

  They spend their days feasting on an unlikely source of nourishment: methane, a potent greenhouse gas that leaks out of cracks in the seafloor.

• • How a Warming Planet is Wreaking Havoc on Your Skin

  It's Not Just UV Damage
  
  
  

  Oct. 6, 2025 -As dermatologist Maria Wei biked to her University of California San Francisco clinic one day in November 2018, she looked up at the white flakes drifting from the sky. She quickly realized it wasn’t snow falling, but ash.

  “It was ash from the 2018 Camp Fire which was 175 miles away,” says Wei. “I was wondering what the impact was on my lungs…and then I questioned, what about my skin?”

• • Maryland Judges Weigh Whether Cities
  Can Sue Over Climate Change

  Communities Including Baltimore and Annapolis are Asking the State’s Top Court to Revive a Case Accusing Oil Companies of Spreading Disinformation
  
  
  

  Oct. 6, 2025 -The Maryland Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on an issue facing judges nationwide: Whether or not local communities can sue oil companies over their role in climate change.

  The leaders of Baltimore, Annapolis and Anne Arundel County sued some of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies in 2018 and 2021, alleging a decades-long disinformation campaign to mislead the public about what causes global warming. The companies’ deception, they argued, encouraged the burning of oil and gas, which unleashed more of the greenhouse gases that are dangerously warming the world and causing damage in Maryland including storms, extreme heat and sea-level rise.

• • Supreme Court Shoots Down Challenge to WA Carbon Market

  The Cap and Invest Law
  
  
  

  Oct. 6, 2025 -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a high-profile challenge to Washington’s Climate Commitment Act, marking yet another victory for the state’s keystone climate policy.

  The lawsuit started with the private operator of a natural gas power plant in Grays Harbor County. The plant is required to buy pollution allowances to pay for the many tons of greenhouse gasses it emits into the atmosphere under the 2021 “Cap and Invest” law.

• • Humans Have Crossed 7 of 9 ‘Planetary Boundaries’

  Earth Has Breached a Critical Boundary For Ocean Acidification, With Potentially Grim Effects For Ocean Ecosystems and Human Livelihoods
  
  
  

  Oct. 3, 2025 -Our planet is sick, and its life-threatening symptoms are getting worse, a new report warns.

  Earth has been pushed past multiple physical and chemical boundaries crucial for keeping the world a livable place. Beyond already exceeded thresholds set by scientists for rising temperatures, biodiversity loss and chemical pollution, we have now also breached the boundary on ocean acidification. The milestone comes with grim ramifications for marine ecosystems and human livelihoods.

• • In the Arctic, the U.S. Shifts Focus
  From Climate Research to Security

  The Trump Administration is Emphasizing Defense Concerns Instead of Climate Research in the Rapidly Warming Arctic Region
  
  
  

  Oct. 3, 2025 -The Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the planet and is one of the most rapidly changing places on Earth. And the United States’ approach to Arctic research has also begun shifting.

  Instead of focusing largely on climate and environmental science, the Trump administration appears to be pivoting research efforts toward military and defense interests.

• • Listen to the Sounds of Climate Change

  We Gathered Recordings of a Melting Glacier, the Amazon Jungle and the Underwater Arctic, All Soundscapes That are Rapidly Changing
  
  
  

  Oct. 3, 2025 -Climate change is usually measured and understood in numbers. But you can also experience the planet’s changing climate by listening.

  As part of this year’s Climate Forward conference, we wanted to find a new way for attendees to understand how our planet is changing. We spoke with scientists and researchers who are capturing natural soundscapes before they change forever.

• • The World is Banking on Planting Billions
  of Trees to Slow Climate Change

  But the Math Doesn’t Add Up
  
  
  

  Oct. 3, 2025 -Josep “Pep” Canadell, executive director of the Global Carbon Project, says he believes countries large and small need to think twice before pledging to collectively plant billions of trees as a primary emissions-reduction strategy to meet climate action goals.

  “We have somehow sold reforestation as a kind of easier path [to fighting climate change], and it’s not easy at all,” Canadell told Mongabay. “In my view, it’s not even easier than carbon capture and storage, a technology we’re still developing. That’s because when you bring humans into landscapes and try managing landscapes where people live, all of a sudden, this stuff becomes very complex.”

• • ‘Planetary Health Diet’ Could Save 40,000 Deaths a Day

  Diet Allows Modest Meat Consumption and Would Also Slash Food-Related Climate Emissions By Half
  
  
  

  Oct. 2, 2025 -Adoption of a plant-rich “planetary health diet” could prevent 40,000 early deaths a day across the world, according to a landmark report.

  The diet – which allows moderate meat consumption – and related measures would also slash the food-related emissions driving global heating by half by 2050. Today, a third of greenhouse gas emissions come from the global food system and taming the climate crisis is impossible without changing how the world eats, the researchers said. Food production is also the biggest cause of the destruction of wildlife and forests and the pollution of water.

• • What Extreme Heat Is Doing to Your Body

  Here’s What You Need to Know
  
  
  

  Oct. 2, 2025 -Kevin Miller can get a person to the brink of heat stroke in 30 minutes.

  In a chamber with a temperature of around 100 degrees, he starts them out on the treadmill, switching off between three minutes of walking and two minutes at an all-out sprint. Soon, they’re breathing faster, their blood vessels are dilating and their heart is working overtime to pump much more blood than usual through their body, fighting to get oxygen to their muscles and organs.

  In Miller’s lab, these participants are safe: He brings them close to the heat-stroke threshold of a 105-degree core body temperature in the name of science, to test the efficacy of different treatments.

• • An Island Nation on the Front Lines of Climate Change

  The E.P.A. Plan Would Allow Companies to Phase Out Hydrofluorocarbons in Cooling Equipment More Slowly
  
  
  

  Oct. 2, 2025 -Few countries face the existential threat of climate change as urgently as the Marshall Islands, where rising seas endanger land, livelihoods and culture. In this conversation, President Hilda Heine spoke with Somini Sengupta about the nation’s fight for survival on the front lines of a warming world. What does climate leadership look like when the stakes are nothing less than a country’s future?

  Click now to learn more.

• • Costly and Deadly Wildfires Really Are on the Rise

  The Past Decade In Particular Has Seen an Uptick in Devastating Blazes Linked To Climate Change
  
  
  

  Oct. 2, 2025 -The Los Angeles fires in January. Blazes in Canada in 2024. Hawaii burning in 2023. It seems as though every year, the planet has more huge wildfires that devastate communities. But so far, the science has been sparse on whether the most economically damaging fires really are on the rise.

  Now, a new study has found that catastrophic wildfires with both high economic costs and loss of human life are, indeed, happening more often, and that those fires are strongly linked to climate change. The past decade in particular has seen a significant uptick in costly, deadly fires, according to the study, which was published on Thursday in the journal Science.

• • Why It’s About to Feel Like Summer Again

  How This Extreme Ocean Heat Wave is Altering the Jet Stream and Contributing to Summer-Like Temperatures in October.
  
  
  

  Oct. 2, 2025 -The calendar says October, but it’s about to feel more like August across a stretch of central states.

  From areas around Omaha and Minneapolis to Chicago and Detroit, temperatures will soar well into the 80s to near 90 degrees through the weekend, with unusual warmth expected to spread farther eastward next week.

• • Unprecedented Water Rationing to Begin in WA’s Yakima Basin

  The Drastic Measure Comes on the Tail End of Washington’s Third Severe Drought in a Row
  
  
  

  Oct. 2, 2025 -Drought conditions east of the Cascade crest are so dire that state officials plan to cut off water for farmers, ranchers and more, something they’ve never done before.

  Reservoirs in the Yakima River Basin are expected to run out of water early next week, officials with the Washington Department of Ecology said in a release. To conserve what little water remains for fish and senior water rights holders in the 6,100-square-mile basin, the state will halt surface water use, including water drawn from rivers, streams and reservoirs, on Monday through the end of the month.

• • At Least 170 US Hospitals Face Major Flood Risk

  Experts Say Trump Is Making It Worse
  
  {KFF Health News}
  
  

  Oct. 1, 2025 -When a big storm hits, Peninsula Hospital could be underwater.

  At this decades-old psychiatric hospital on the edge of the Tennessee River, an intense storm could submerge the building in 11 feet of water, cutting off all roads around the facility, according to a sophisticated computer simulation of flood risk.

  Aurora, a young woman who was committed to Peninsula as a teenager, said the hospital sits so close to the river that it felt like a moat keeping her and dozens of other patients inside. KFF Health News agreed not to publish her full name because she shared private medical history.

• • Climate Science Is Alive and Well Online

  But More Is Despite the Trump Administration’s Best Efforts to Suppress It
  
  
  

  Oct. 1, 2025 -Researchers across the United States and the world who raced to protect climate data, public reports and other information from the Trump administration’s budget cuts, firings and scrubbing of federal websites are launching their own climate information portals.

  A group of scientists and other experts who formerly worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently launched climate.us, where they eventually hope to replicate much of the public-oriented climate content from climate.gov.

• • Pope Leo Calls for Unity on Climate at a Divided Moment

  The Pope Invoked His Predecessor, Francis, for Whom the Environment Was a Core Issue
  
  
  

  Oct. 1, 2025 -In his first significant address on climate change, Pope Leo called on Catholics and citizens of the world on Wednesday to carry on the environmental advocacy of his predecessor, Francis, and not to treat it as a “divisive” issue.

  Leo spoke at the opening ceremony of a climate conference to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si, a groundbreaking papal document on the urgent need to protect the health of the planet. “The challenges identified in Laudato Si are in fact even more relevant today than they were 10 years ago,” he said.

• • Environmental Damage Puts European Way of Life At Risk

  EU Officials Warn Climate Breakdown and Wildlife Loss ‘Are Ruining Ecosystems That Underpin the Economy
  
  
  

  Sept. 29, 2025 -The European way of life is being jeopardised by environmental degradation, a report has found, with EU officials warning against weakening green rules.

  The continent has made “important progress” in cutting planet-heating pollution, according to the European Environment Agency, but the death of wildlife and breakdown of the climate are ruining ecosystems that underpin the economy.

• • Wildfire Rips Through One of Africa’s Largest National Parks

  More Than a Third of Etosha National Park in Namibia Has Burned
  
  
  

  Sept. 29, 2025 -Hundreds of Namibian soldiers have been dispatched to Etosha National Park, one of the largest in Africa, in an effort to contain a raging wildfire that has burned more than a third of the parkland, government officials said.

  The fire has destroyed precious grazing land and wildlife habitats and killed a handful of animals so far.

• • As Millions Face Climate Relocation, the Nation’s
  First Attempt Sparks Warnings and Regret

  Three Years After a Federally Funded Move, Indigenous Residents of Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles Report Broken Homes — and Promises
  
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  Sept. 26, 2025 - Leaving the tight-knit community his family had called home for five generations along the Louisiana coast was one of the hardest things Chris Brunet has had to do.

  But three years ago, he felt he had no other choice.

  The Gulf of Mexico’s swelling waters were gradually consuming Isle de Jean Charles — the narrow strip of land in Terrebonne Parish that has been the homeland for the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians since the 1830s.

• • A Tropical Storm or Hurricane Could
  Lash the Southeast Early Next Week

  Forecasters are Carefully Monitoring a Storm that Could Bring Flooding Rainfall, Damaging Winds and Rough Seas
  
  
  

  Sept. 26, 2025 -Two tropical disturbances were simultaneously swirling in the Atlantic on Friday, and one of them could bring dangerous weather to the Southeast U.S. early next week.

  The first, Humberto, is a Category 1 hurricane tracking across the open waters of the south-central Atlantic. The second is a disturbance currently dubbed 94L, an increasingly organized cluster of showers and thunderstorms nearing the Turks and Caicos that has a 90 percent chance of soon becoming a tropical storm.

• • Reimagining Urban Life Is One of
  Our Best Bets Against Climate Change

  Urban Life Is Due for a Makeover
  
  

  Sept. 27, 2025 -The decisive battle against climate change won’t be fought in the Amazon rainforest or on the open seas. It will be won, or lost, in the concrete streets and buildings where most of humanity now lives. Cities are the engines of our modern world, but they are also ravenous beasts, pumping out the majority of greenhouse gases, devouring energy, and stretching global supply chains to their breaking point. They’re most of our species congregates and where we decide how our societies are run.

  If we’re serious about building a sustainable future, the city is both our biggest liability and our greatest hope.

• • At a Times Event, Opposing Views on Climate Change Collide

  California’s Governor Assailed President Trump, and the U.S. Energy Secretary Called for Countries to Quit the Paris Agreement on Global Warming
  
  
  

  Sept. 24, 2025 -Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Wednesday that other countries should “absolutely” follow the lead of the United States and withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change.

  Speaking at The New York Times’s Climate Forward live journalism event, Mr. Wright said that supporters of the landmark pact, under which almost all nations have agreed to combat climate change, have “become a club of people that have lost sight of the interests of their own people.”

• • At Global Climate Summit This Week,
  U.S. Isolation Was on Full Display

  Countries Lined Up to Say They Would Accelerate Their Efforts to Cut Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
  
  
  

  Sept. 24, 2025 -At a climate summit at the United Nations on Wednesday, the vast majority of the world’s nations gathered to make their newest pledges to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade.

  Geopolitical heavyweights including China, Russia, Japan and Germany were there. Dozens of small island states were there. The world’s poorest countries, including Chad and the Central African Republic, were there. Venezuela, Syria, Iran — there, too.

  The United States was not.

• • At a Times Event, Opposing Views on Climate Change Collide

  California’s Governor Assailed Trump, and the U.S. Energy Secretary Called For Countries to Quit the Paris Agreement On Global Warming
  
  
  

  Sept. 24, 2025 -Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Wednesday that other countries should “absolutely” follow the lead of the United States and withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change.

  Speaking at The New York Times’s Climate Forward live journalism event, Mr. Wright said that supporters of the landmark pact, under which almost all nations have agreed to combat climate change, have “become a club of people that have lost sight of the interests of their own people.”

  As he spoke, about nine blocks east, across Midtown Manhattan, world leaders from China and more than 100 other countries pledged to strengthen their commitments to slow global warming.

• • An Australian Magnate’s Challenge to Trump:
  ‘Come See What’s Happening to My Land’

  The Executive Chairman of the Mining Company Fortescue, Invited President Trump to See The Damage Australia Experiences as the Planet Heats Up
  
  
  

  Sept. 24, 2025 -Andrew Forrest, the executive chairman of the mining company Fortescue, attacked President Trump for his refusal to accept climate science and he invited Mr. Trump to see the damage Australia is experiencing as the planet heats up.

  “There’s real damage being done to people’s lives all over the world by your president propagating a complete myth that global warming isn’t happening,” Mr. Forrest said.

• • Her Country Is Sinking. What She’s
  Asking From the Rest of the World

  The Marshall Islands
  President Spoke Up
  
  
  

  Sept. 24, 2025 -Hilda Heine, president of the Marshall Islands, said on Wednesday she was disappointed in President Trump’s speech at the United Nations, in which he said climate science was created by “stupid people” and called it a “hoax.”

  “The Pacific Islands Forum, which makes up all of the countries in the Pacific, they’ve declared that climate change is the greatest security threat to the Pacific region over and over again,” she said. “So, it’s nothing that is questionable.”

• • Hurricane Season to Get Busier

  With Two Storms That May Threaten East Coast
  
  
  

  Sept. 24, 2025 -Hurricane season is about to turn much busier in the Atlantic.

  After historically low levels of hurricane activity through much of September, influenced by record warm subtropical waters, two hurricanes may form and swirl simultaneously in the western Atlantic by early next week. And while it’s too early to forecast their exact path, early signals suggest the disturbances could track toward the East Coast in the coming days.

• • Scientists Placed a 6-Mile Fiber-Optic Cable in Front of a Glacier

  It Recorded 56,000 Icebergs Breaking Off
  
  
  

  Sept. 23, 2025 -On Greenland’s coast, glaciers meet the sea in narrow fjords that have been carved over hundreds of thousands of years. Ice cliffs tower hundreds of meters high.

  At a glacier’s terminus, where those cliffs crash into the waters of the Atlantic, small (bus-sized) chunks of ice slough off all the time. Occasionally, a stadium-sized iceberg plunks into the water.

  All this glacial calving impacts sea level rise and global climate, but there’s a lot that researchers don’t yet know about how calving happens. Now, scientists have gotten a detailed look at the whole process using a fiber-optic cable on the seafloor 500 meters from a glacier’s calving front. The findings were published last month in Nature.

• • Flooding Rains Could Hit a Swath
  From the Plains to Appalachia This Week

  Find Out Where
  
  
  

  Sept. 23, 2025 -Flooding rainfall could pour onto areas in a wide stretch from the southern Plains to the Appalachians from Tuesday into Thursday.

  An area of low pressure ejecting east out of the Rockies will trek across the country and ingest Gulf moisture, leading to a multiday risk of locally dangerous downpours from central to eastern states.

• • In Georgia, a ‘Sponge Park’ Floods So the Neighborhood Won’t

  Dozens of Houses Were Razed Across A Flood-Prone Neighborhood In Atlanta, Mitigating Floods
  
  
  

  Sept. 22, 2025 -The park downhill from the center of Atlanta has a playground, a splash pad, pavilions for parties, basketball courts, winding walking paths — and, perhaps most important to many residents, a field of open land in a neighborhood that had long been starved for green space.

  But a year ago, the reason for the park’s existence revealed itself yet again: Hurricane Helene unleashed a deluge on Georgia. Much of the 16-acre park, named for Rodney Cook Sr., a longtime local politician, was submerged. The neighborhood around it was not. And that was the plan.

  Click now to learn more.

• • Volcanic Eruptions in One Hemisphere
  Linked to Floods in the Opposite One

  Asymmetric Volcanic Plumes May Shift Equatorial Weather Patterns and Increase Tropical Streamflow
  
  {EOS}
  
  

  Sept. 22, 2025 -Throughout Earth’s history, so-called volcanic winters have radically altered Earth’s climate. In these events, gases expelled by powerful eruptions form aerosols that reflect the Sun’s radiation and prevent it from warming the planet.

  But eruptions’ effects on Earth systems don’t stop with temperature. Large eruptions can have diverse, down-the-line impacts such as altered rainfall, damaged crops, and, according to a new study, disrupted seasonal flood patterns.

• • Hong Kong Braces for Fierce Winds as Super Typhoon Nears

  What You Nee to Know:
  
  {Bloomberg}
  
  

  Sept. 22, 2025 -Hong Kong is facing a night of destructive winds and drenching rain as Super Typhoon Ragasa tracks toward the financial hub, potentially becoming the most damaging storm since Mangkhut in 2018.

  The storm is packing top sustained winds of 205 kilometers per hour, and the weather bureau has issued its third-highest storm warning, which is dubbed signal No. 8.

  Widespread disruptions are expected from heavy rains, destructive winds and punishing waves over the next 24 hours, with passenger flights in and out of Hong Kong suspended for 36 hours from 6 p.m. local time on Tuesday.

• • Nicholas Spada Spent Months Analyzing Smoke From the LA Fires

  People Have a Right to Know, and ‘Air Is Everything.’
  
  
  

  Sept. 21, 2025 -Nicholas Spada was used to fielding urgent requests when wildfire smoke blanketed cities. But these weren’t the usual calls.

  For one thing, it wasn’t even fire season.

  Winter was supposed to be the quiet period when wildfires die down and researchers like Spada perform instrument maintenance, write grant proposals and go home for dinner. But...

• • Buffalo Tests Its Status as a Climate Refuge

  But Can Western New York Retain Its Insulation From the Worst Outcomes of Climate Change In the Future?
  
  
  

  Sept. 19, 2025 -At a Puerto Rican cultural center on Buffalo’s West Side, young dancers in bright skirts swayed to the sound of drums in an Afro-Carribean tradition carried across generations.

  Eighteen-year-old Darnel Davila maintained a steady beat, striking his drum in time with each snap of the skirts.

  Davila and his family came to Buffalo in 2017 after Hurricane Maria, one of the deadliest disasters in Puerto Rico’s history. It ripped through his hometown of Loiza, tearing the roofs off of buildings, and caused the longest blackout in U.S. history.

• • Plans Bloom for a Microforest in Princeton
  as New Jersey Residents Tackle Rising Heat

  Cities and Towns Battle Rising Temperatures and Climate Change
  
  
  

  Sept. 18, 2025 -For years, it’s been just a patch of grass in the middle of a small park. Soon the ground will be a botanical marvel of sorts, tilled and teeming with some 20 varieties of native trees and shrubs jammed together to trigger super-charged growth.

  The microforest-to-be is part of an environmental trend inspired by the late Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki, who discovered more than 50 years ago that, with proper soil preparation and a calculated mix of local plants, a clump of densely planted seedlings could grow quickly into lush compact woodlands.

• • Exxon Urges Europe to Repeal Rules to
  Make Companies Track Climate Pollution

  Its Chief Executive Called the E.U. Regulations One Part of a “Very Misguided Effort to Kill Oil”
  
  
  

  Sept. 18, 2025 -The chief executive of Exxon Mobil is pressing lawmakers in Europe to abandon a sustainability law, calling it part of a “very misguided effort to kill oil and gas as a way of addressing climate change.”

  The comments by the chief executive, Darren Woods, in an interview this week with The New York Times, came just days after U.S. officials denounced the European Union’s policies to swiftly reduce planet-heating emissions of greenhouse gases. The continent has experienced one of its hottest summers on record and its governments are taking steps to protect their people and their economies from the hazards of extreme weather, which are being exacerbated by the burning of coal, oil and gas.

• • Wildfire Smoke Will Kill Thousands More by 2050

  Pollution From Fires, Intensified By Rising Temperatures, is On Track to Become One of America’s Deadliest Climate Disasters
  
  
  

  Sept. 18, 2025 -If the planet continues to warm at its current rate, exposure to wildfire smoke will kill an estimated 70,000 Americans each year by 2050, according to new research.

  The results are some of the strongest evidence yet that climate change endangers people in the United States, said Marshall Burke, an environmental economist at Stanford University who contributed to the study. For Americans, “the impacts are much larger than anything else that has been measured,” Dr. Burke said.

• • Climate Change May Have Killed More Than
  16,000 People in Europe This Summer

  Researchers Warn That Preventable Heat-Related Deaths Will Continue to Rise With Continued Fossil Fuel Emissions
  
  
  

  Sept. 18, 2025 -Climate change caused 16,469 deaths in European cities this summer, new research estimates.

  This summer was the fourth hottest in European history, and its effects on the continent’s population have been widely reported. Spain experienced its most intense heat wave in history in August 2025. Türkiye saw its highest recorded temperature ever (50.5°C, or 122.9°F). Finland saw an “unprecedented” three straight weeks of 30°C heat.

• • A Trump Administration Playbook:

  No Data, No Problem
  
  
  

  Sept. 18, 2025 -When the Trump administration said last week that it would stop requiring thousands of industrial facilities to report their planet-warming pollution, the move fit a growing pattern: If data points to a problem, stop collecting the data.

  At the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, experts are no longer tracking the most expensive extreme weather events, those that cause at least $1 billion in damage.

• • Can Hybrid Grapes Solve the Climate
  Change Dilemma for Wine Makers?

  It’s a Fringe Movement So Far, But Hybrids Have Proven They Can Make Good Wine and May Be Better Able to Withstand Climate Change and Disease
  
  
  

  Sept. 18, 2025 -Unlike almost every other grower and winemaker in California, Mr. Niess, the proprietor of North American Press in Sonoma County, is focusing squarely on hybrid grapes, crosses between Vitis vinifera, the species that accounts for all the best-known wine grapes, and various grape species native to North America.

  In a state known for its great cabernet sauvignons, chardonnays and pinot noirs, and for how easily vinifera grapes have grown in its sunny climate, Mr. Niess’s engagement with hybrids would seem to place him on the edge of irrelevancy. Yet the reverse is true. Mr. Niess is in the vanguard of a growing interest in hybrids throughout the wine-producing world.

• • California Just Aligned Its Carbon Market With Washington’s

  Here’s Why That Matters
  
  
  

  Sept. 18, 2025 - California’s lawmakers over the weekend extended the state’s carbon market for years — and rebranded it to mirror Washington’s landmark climate policy.

  The two West Coast states are pulling to the head of the national pack in their efforts to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions while the federal government boosts the coal, gas and oil industries.

• • See Where Wildfire Smoke is Getting Worse In the U.S.

  Wildfires Are Causing More Than 40,000 Premature Deaths Per Year — and That Rising Temperatures Will Lead to Even More
  
  
  

  Sept. 18, 2025 - Every year, millions of Americans’ lungs are filled with wildfire smoke — smoke that stretches from the northwest tip of Washington state to the East Coast’s most populated cities. It’s blown in from thousand-acre Canadian wildfires and from blazes in the American West. That smoke penetrates into the bloodstream and deep into organs, triggering lung and heart disease.

  And, according to a new study, it’s already killing 41,000 people per year — or more than all the fatalities from traffic crashes in 2024.

• • Watch the Sea Claim Yet Another House on N.C.’s Outer Banks

  Erosion, Rising Seas and Churning Storms Have Caused the Collapse of a Dozen Homes on That Stretch of Seashore Over the Past Five Years
  
  
  

  Sept. 17, 2025 -The sea has claimed yet another home along a stretch of the Outer Banks in North Carolina, where erosion, rising seas and churning storms have caused the collapse of a growing number of oceanfront houses.

  The latest incident came Tuesday, when an unoccupied, two-story, wood-shingled home crumbled into the surf in the small community of Buxton, along the north end of Hatteras Island.

• • Top Scientists Find Growing Evidence That
  Greenhouse Gases Are, in Fact, a Danger

  The Assessment Contradicts the Trump Administration’s Legal Arguments For Relaxing Pollution Rules
  
  
  

  Sept. 17, 2025 -The nation’s leading scientific advisory body issued a major report on Wednesday detailing the strongest evidence to date that carbon dioxide, methane and other planet-warming greenhouse gases are threatening human health.

  The report, published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, is significant because it could complicate the Trump administration’s efforts to revoke a landmark scientific determination, known as the endangerment finding, that underpins the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is driving climate change.

• • In the Philippines, a New Protected
  Seascape Safeguards ‘Super Reefs’

  The Move to Conserve Climate Resilient Corals is Part of a Growing International Movement to Save Vital Ecosystems Most Likely to Survive a Warming Ocean
  
  
  

  Sept. 17, 2025 -The Philippines has designated more than 200 square miles of its coastal waters as a national protected area to safeguard some of the world’s most climate resilient coral reefs.

  The new Panaon Island Protected Seascape hosts vibrantly colored and dense coral reefs teeming with schools of juvenile fish, sea turtles, sea anemones and other marine life—a sharp contrast to many of the country’s reefs, which have been steadily declining over the last four decades.

• • Top Scientists Find Growing Evidence
  That Greenhouse Gases Are, in Fact, a Danger

  The Assessment Contradicts the Trump Administration’s Legal Arguments For Relaxing Pollution Rules
  
  
  

  Sept. 17, 2025 -The nation’s leading scientific advisory body issued a major report on Wednesday detailing the strongest evidence to date that carbon dioxide, methane and other planet-warming greenhouse gases are threatening human health.

  The report, published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, is significant because it could complicate the Trump administration’s efforts to revoke a landmark scientific determination, known as the endangerment finding, that underpins the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is driving climate change.

• • Climate Change Could Drastically
  Reduce Aquifer Recharge in Brazil

  The Global Climate Crisis Could Significantly Impact the Natural Replenishment of Brazilian Aquifers, Reducing the Groundwater Supply Across the Country
  
  {ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS NETWORK}
  
  

  Sept. 17, 2025 -This is the conclusion of a study by scientists from the University of São Paulo’s Institute of Geosciences(IGc-USP) and the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). The scientists analyzed the impact of various climate scenarios on water availability by the end of the century. The study was published in the journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.

  Groundwater is water that accumulates below the Earth’s surface in geological formations called aquifers. It slowly infiltrates the soil after rainfall and supplies wells, springs, rivers, and ecosystems. In Brazil, an estimated 112 million people (56% of the population) rely totally or partially on this source.

• • Corals Won’t Survive a Warmer Planet

  Many Are Already Dying, Leaving Shorelines and Marine Ecosystems Vulnerable
  
  
  

  Sept. 17, 2025 -If global temperatures continue rising, virtually all the corals in the Atlantic Ocean will stop growing and could succumb to erosion by the end of the century, a new study finds.

  The analysis of over 400 existing coral reefs across the Atlantic Ocean estimates that more than 70 percent of the region’s reefs will begin dying by 2040 even under optimistic climate warming scenarios.

• • Climate Change Solutions: 50 States, 50 Fixes

  A State By State Accounting of Climatic Fixes
  
  
  

  Sept. 17, 2025 - Now more than ever, environmental solutions may seem out of reach. But they’re happening all over the country. This year, we’ll be highlighting one thing that’s working in every state.

• • Europe’s Extreme Summer Weather Could Cost It Billions

  Heat Waves and Flooding Could Cost the EU $50 Billion In Damage to Buildings and Crops As Well As a Loss of Productivity
  
  
  

  Sept. 16, 2025 -Europe suffered intense weather this summer. Now, it’s learning the economic cost.

  The record-breaking temperatures, droughts and floods could cost the region’s economy at least 43 billion euros, or $50 billion, a study shows.

  The report, which was released Monday and presented to European Union lawmakers, focused on the extreme weather that took place from June to August, with the aim of helping the bloc adapt to what scientists say is one of the fastest-warming regions on the planet.

• • Heat Waves Aren’t Just Natural Disasters

  Study Finds Hidden Fingerprints On Our Hottest Days
  
  
  

  Sept. 16, 2025 -Half of the increase in heat wave intensity since pre-industrial times can be traced to the greenhouse gas emissions from just 180 fossil fuel and cement producers, according to a new study. Each of these entities has emitted enough greenhouse gases to cause multiple heat waves that would have been virtually impossible in the absence of climate change.

  The analysis represents an advance in attribution science, a growing field that assigns and quantifies the contributions of different causes to climate change and extreme weather events. It’s become clear from these analyses that climate change is making heat waves worse.

• • Melting Glacier Creates a New Island in Alaska

  This Type of Transformation Is a Hallmark of Climate Change
  
  {NBC NEWS}
  
  

  Sept. 16, 2025 -A melting glacier in southeastern Alaska has birthed a brand-new island in the middle of a growing lake, according to recent images captured by NASA satellites.

  The 2-square-mile island is a small mountain known as Prow Knob, which was once surrounded by a frozen expanse known as the Alsek Glacier. As the glacier thawed and retreated, meltwater flooded the region.

• • The Siberian Tundra Is Exploding

  New Research Helps Explain Why
  
  
  

  Sept. 16, 2025 -The first crater was found in 2014 in the far north of western Siberia, the result of a spontaneous underground explosion that sent earth flying in all directions. More discoveries followed, with some of the holes more than 150 feet deep.

  The cause was a mystery at first, but scientists eventually linked the exploding land to climate change and rising temperatures. As the permafrost thaws, they determined, pockets of methane can form below the surface.

• • Diplomacy Accelerated Shipping Climate Action

  It’s Time to Seal the Deal
  
  {Climate Home News}
  
  

  Sept. 16, 2025 -Many eyes in the climate community are focused on COP30 in Belem this November, but there’s another critical climate moment happening now in September: London International Shipping Week.

  This can be a moment to put industry’s muscle behind the decisions that need to be made to reap the benefits and accelerate the opportunity presented by the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) April embrace of the Net-Zero Framework, which is to be formally adopted by governments next month.

• • Teen Starts an Online Journal on the
  Power of Economics to Confront Climate Change

  A High-School Student Launched Karbon Economics to Explore Systems That Can Shape Solutions to the Climate Crisis
  
  
  

  Sept. 15, 2025 -Mira Shah was in sixth grade five years ago when a brush fire ignited on the hill in front of her house. Shah had heard that global warming was making natural hazards like wildfires more common and destructive. But climate change seemed like an abstract threat until a fire burned so close to home.

  Then, in January, a series of catastrophic fires ravaged several Los Angeles communities, not far from one of Shah’s cousins and an aunt. Climate change made the hot, dry, windy conditions that fueled those fires 35 percent more likely, according to the international research organization World Weather Attribution.

• • Systematic Attribution Of Heatwaves
  to the Emissions of Carbon Majors

  A Landmark Analysis Published in Nature Directly Links Emissions From 180 Major Oil, Gas, Coal, and Cement Producers to Hundreds of Deadly Heat Waves Since 2000
  
  {energy central}
  
  

  Sept. 15, 2025 -Researchers examined 213 extreme heat events across 63 countries since 2000 and found climate change made them up to 200X more likely. Half of that extra heat can be traced back to emissions from carbon majors.

  Just 14 entities—including ExxonMobil, Shell, and China’s coal industry—were responsible for as much warming as the other 166 companies combined.

• • Seattle Weather: Spike in Temperatures
  Could Pose Wildfire Risks

  The Feasibility of Moon Mining Is Not Yet Proven, But the Future of Supercomputing May Depend On the Ability to Extract Helium-3 From the Lunar Surface
  
  
  

  Sept. 15, 2025 -Sunday’s fall-like weather, including cloudy skies, a cool breeze and some raindrops in parts of Western Washington, didn’t faze the wildfires that have been burning for weeks.

  For that to happen, the region would need to see a lot more rain, National Weather Service meteorologist Harrison Rademacher said.

• • Bali Battles Worst Floods in More Than a Decade

  At Least 17 Dead As Torrential Downpours Trigger Landslides, While Heavy Rain Lashes India, Pakistan and Australia
  
  
  

  Sept. 15, 2025 -At least 17 people have been confirmed dead in Bali, Indonesia, after the island’s worst flooding in more than a decade.

  Torrential rain last Tuesday and Wednesday triggered widespread flooding and landslides, leaving a trail of destruction. Eight victims were found in Denpasar, the island’s capital, and rescue teams continue to search for several others who remain missing.

• • US Withdrawal Highlights COP30’s Deeper Challenge

  The US is Withdrawing From the Paris Agreement and Will Not Send Negotiators to COP30 in Brazil, Raising Concerns About the Viability of Global, Multilateral Climate Action
  
  {Energy Central}
  
  

  Sept. 15, 2025 -While the US exit is seen as a major blow, COP29 president Mukhtar Babayev noted that China, Australia, Brazil, Turkey, and EU nations are taking more active roles.

  At COP29, wealthy nations pledged at least $300B per year by 2035 for climate adaptation and mitigation in poorer nations, but contributions remain well below that figure as defense spending rises and aid budgets shrink.

• • Satellite Data Shows New York City is Still Sinking

  And So Are Many Big US Cities
  
  
  

  Sept. 15, 2025 - Big parts of New York City are sinking at different rates. This was first reported in 2023, when researchers theorized that the weight of skyscrapers may have a role to play. Now, a series of studies is showing that NYC continues its sink at a remarkably steady rate.

  They found that New York’s sinking is due to factors ranging from long-lost glaciers to land-use practices. While the changes may seem small at less than 2 millimeters per year, they can alter local flood risk related to sea level rise, and over the course of several years, they can do some serious damage.

• • A Tiny Town in Idaho Dodged Incineration in 2024

  Will The Next Wildfire Take It Out?
  
  
  

  Sept. 14, 2025 -During a 2024 wildfire season described as “unprecedented”, the tiny central Idaho town of Stanley and nearby Redfish Lake Lodge narrowly missed incineration by two fires: the Bench Lake and then the Wapiti blazes.

  It took heroic firefighting efforts and favorable turns in weather conditions for the town – a mountain mecca for tourists from around the world – to survive without the loss of a single life or home.

• • A Storm Is On the Cusp of Forming In the Atlantic

  The Next Storm Will Be Named Gabrielle
  
  
  

  Sept. 14, 2025 - After nearly three weeks without a storm anywhere in the Atlantic — as hurricane season hits its peak — a storm that would be named Gabrielle is likely to form later this week.

  The system is poised to become a major hurricane over the central Atlantic, with the National Hurricane Center estimating that there’s a 90 percent chance a system will develop within the next two days. It will gradually strengthen through the remainder of the workweek as it drifts northwest, then could rapidly intensify southeast of Bermuda this weekend.

• • Extreme Heat Spurs New Laws
  Aimed at Protecting Workers Worldwide

  Governments Around The World Are Enacting Measures to Try to Protect Workers From the Dangers of Heat Stress
  
  
  
  

  Sept. 13, 2025 - For years, researchers have raised the alarm about the dangers of extreme heat in the workplace. Now, as more workers get sick — and sometimes die — from increasingly intense and frequent heat waves, labor laws are barely keeping up with the new hazards of climate change.

  This summer it was so hot in southern Europe, where temperatures passed 115 degrees Fahrenheit, that local governments in many areas of Greece, Italy and Spain ordered outdoor work to stop in the afternoons for several weeks.

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