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• • 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.

• • 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.

• • An Annual Blast of Pacific Cold Water Did Not Occur

  Researchers Are Trying
  to Figure Out Why
  
  
  
  

  Sept. 12, 2025 - Each year between January and April, a blob of cold water rises from the depths of the Gulf of Panama to the surface, playing an essential role in supporting marine life in the region. But this year, it never arrived.

  “It came as a surprise,” said Ralf Schiebel, a paleoceanographer at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry who studies the region. “We’ve never seen something like this before.”

• • Landslides After Heavy Rain in Northern India Kill 15,

  Several Still Missing
  
  
  

  Sept. 12, 2025 - Landslides and heavy rain in India's Himalayan state of Uttarakhand killed at least 15 people on Tuesday, with 16 missing, Indian media reported on Wednesday.

  Visuals showed muddy water gushing through the town of Sahastradhara in the district of Dehradun on Tuesday, leaving destroyed shops, roads and houses, as people cowered behind walls.

• • As Glaciers Retreat, New Worlds
  Are Being Created in Their Wake

  New Species Move in and Flourish, But Entire Ecosystems and an Alpine Culture Can Be Lost
  
  
  
  

  Sept. 12, 2025 -From the slopes behind the village of Ernen, it is possible to see the gouge where the Fiesch glacier once tumbled towards the valley in the Bernese Alps. The curved finger of ice, rumpled like tissue, cuts between high buttresses of granite and gneiss. Now it has melted out of sight.

  People here once feared the monstrous ice streams, describing them as devils, but now they dread their disappearance. Like other glaciers in the Alps and globally, the Fiesch is melting at ever-increasing rates. More than ice is lost when the giants disappear: cultures, societies and entire ecosystems are braided around the glaciers.

• • Trump Administration Ramps Up
  Campaign Against EU Climate Rules

  India's Next Oil and Gas Move
  
  {SEMAFOR}
  
  

  Sept. 12, 2025 -US Energy Secretary Chris Wright will warn European leaders in Brussels today that the EU’s climate regulations put the region’s energy security at risk and will get in the way of a recent commitment to buy $750 billion in energy products from across the Atlantic.

  “Europe’s embrace of a climate agenda and a march to net zero was wrong,” Wright told reporters, arguing that it constrained the bloc’s access to new energy sources just as it was rushing to stop oil and gas imports from Russia following the 2022 Ukraine invasion.

• • EU Countries Delay Deal On New Climate Goal

  EU Countries Have Shelved Plans to Approve a New Climate Change Target
  
  
  
  

  Sept. 12, 2025 - European Union countries have shelved plans to approve a new climate change target next week, after pushback from governments including France and Germany over plans to quickly land a deal, three EU diplomats told Reuters on Friday.

  Countries are discussing a legally-binding target to cut net EU greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2040, from 1990 levels - with a share of this covered by buying foreign carbon credits.

• • Is Polar Geoengineering a Dangerous Gamble?

  Scientists are Beginning to Take Clear Sides On Whether or Not to Use Human-Made Interventions to Preserve Polar Ice
  
  
  

  Sept. 11, 2025 -A “civil war” is brewing in polar science. As climate change rapidly melts Earth’s ice, sides are being drawn among scientists on whether—and how—science should intervene to save it.

  Those opposing sides on the use of geoengineering—human-made interventions to counteract global warming and its effects—at the poles are laid out in two opposing papers published this week in Frontiers in Science: One is a study in which more than 40 top glaciologists warn that geoengineering proposals to preserve glaciers and sea ice are infeasible and dangerous. The other is a responding commentary that argues that such polar geoengineering could effectively soften the blow of disastrous warming.

• • Climate ‘Ideology’ Hurts Prosperity?

  Top U.S. Officials Tell Europeans
  
  
  
  

  Sept. 10, 2025 - Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum defended the Trump administration’s pivot away from renewable energy in Italy on Wednesday, saying their plans to sharply expand U.S. fossil fuel exports were crucial to “peace and prosperity.”

  The secretaries are swinging through Europe this week on a mission to secure contracts to sell more American fossil fuels and lobby the European Union to loosen environmental regulations that they have said are too onerous.

• • Pakistan’s Floods Are a Climate Change Warning

  Pakistan, Is Among the Countries Most Vulnerable to Climate Change
  
  
  

  Sept. 11, 2025 - This summer, as Pakistan was still recovering from a devastating flood season in 2022, the floods came again, this time from all directions.

  In the north, fast-melting glaciers filled lakes with water, which burst over dams and flattened homes. Monsoon rains swelled rivers that overran their banks in Punjab Province, prompting the worst floods in the last 40 years. The Punjab region, in the central-eastern part of the country, remained on flood alert this week. In the south, heavy rains also flooded parts of Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city and its economic hub.

• • Lingering Summer Heat

  The Key Facts
  
  {Climate Central}
  
  

  Sept. 10, 2025 -According to new Climate Central analysis, summer heat — and the risks it brings — is lasting longer and stretching into fall.

  Summer is lingering later in 227 (92%) of the 246 major U.S. cities analyzed.

  Across these 227 cities, summer temperatures now extend 10 days later into the fall, on average, than in the early 1970s.

  About one in every five cities now see summer temperatures extend at least two weeks later into the fall than during the early 1970s.

  Lingering summer heat can extend heat-related health risks and seasonal allergies, keep air conditioners running longer, lengthen mosquito seasons, and prolong wildfire seasons and smoke exposure. .

• • How a Group of Students in the Pacific
  Islands Reshaped Global Climate Law

  They Watched Climate Change Ravage Their Home Countries As Rich, Polluting Nations Did Nothing
  
  
  
  

  Sept. 10, 2025 - The group of students who logged in to Justin Rose’s class on international environmental law in February 2019 were spread out across thousands of miles of ocean. Many were based at the Port Vila campus on Éfaté, a small but mountainous island of vivid tropical green in the middle of Vanuatu’s archipelago of volcanoes, where the University of the South Pacific’s school of law is based. But U.S.P. also had campuses in Fiji, Samoa, Tuvalu, the Cook Islands, Kiribati and other island nations — places that were experiencing some of the most pronounced impacts of the planet’s fast-changing climate.

• • Brazil Invited the World to the Amazon

  It’s Become a Big Headache
  
  
  
  

  Sept. 10, 2025 - Brazil, self-described champion of developing nations, invited the world’s dignitaries into the Amazon rainforest to showcase solutions to the global crisis of climate change.

  Now, with just eight weeks before negotiations begin, Brazil faces a diplomatic migraine.

  History’s biggest polluter, the United States, is likely to be a no-show. The billions of dollars that poor countries need to cope with climate catastrophes have not materialized. Activists accuse Brazil of hypocrisy by authorizing more oil drilling.

• • Carbon Emissions From Oil Giants Directly
  Linked to Dozens of Deadly Heatwaves For First Time

  Study Shows How Individual Fossil Fuel Companies are Making Previously Impossible Heatwaves Happen and Could Have to Pay Compensation
  
  
  
  

  Sept. 10, 2025 -Carbon emissions from the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies have been directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for the first time, according to a new analysis. The research has been hailed as a “leap forward” in the legal battle to hold big oil accountable for the damages being caused by the climate crisis.

  The research found that the emissions from any one of the 14 biggest companies were by themselves enough to cause more than 50 heatwaves that would otherwise have been virtually impossible. The study shows, in effect, that those emissions caused the heatwaves.

• • At the Peak of Hurricane Season, the Atlantic Is Quiet

  Here’s the Reason Why
  
  {Scientific American]}
  
  

  Sept. 10, 2025 -In May, as Atlantic hurricane season loomed, meteorologists worried that above-average tropical activity, combined with cuts to the federal government’s weather agency, could result in disaster. But so far, the season’s effects have been mild. And although September 10 has historically marked the peak of Atlantic hurricane activity, the basin has gone nearly two weeks with nary a tropical storm in sight—and none expected during the coming week either.

  Still, experts caution that the current lull in tropical activity doesn’t mean that this year’s threat of hurricanes has passed or that forecasters’ predictions about this season were wrong. Here’s what you should know about hurricane activity right now and this year in general:

• • Scientists Finally Prove Dust Helps Clouds
  Freeze and It Could Change Climate Models

  New Analysis Links Desert Dust To Cloud Freezing, With Big Implications For Weather and Climate Models
  
  
  
  

  Sept. 9, 2025 -Dust plays a major role in the formation of ice in the atmosphere. A new analysis of satellite data, published in Science, shows that dust can cause a cloud’s water droplets to freeze at warmer temperatures than they otherwise would. The finding brings what researchers had observed in the laboratory to the scale of the atmosphere and may help climate scientists better model future climate changes.

  In 1804, French scientist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac ascended to about 23,000 feet (7,000 meters) in a hydrogen balloon from Paris, without supplemental oxygen, to collect air samples. He noted that clouds with more dust particles tended to have more frozen droplets.

• • Rising Temperatures Lead to A Spike in Sugar Consumption

  Warmer Temperatures Are Associated With Higher Consumption of Sugary Beverages and Frozen Treats, Raising Concerns About Long-Term Health Effects
  
  {Scientific American]}
  
  

  Sept. 8, 2025 -When the heat sets in, the siren song of the ice cream truck begins to drift through the air, and lemonade stands run by enterprising neighborhood children pop up along sidewalks. These sweet treats are often synonymous with summer, and a new study has found that sugar consumption in the U.S. rises noticeably as temperatures climb. The increase is particularly apparent among certain groups of people and raises concerns over the health implications as the climate continues to heat up.

  Much of the research on global warming and food to date has looked at how changes in the climate affect, for example, crop yields or the nutritional content of food or at how food production and consumption contribute to greenhouse gas emissions.

• • Climate Forward Event

  Uncover the Story of This Pivotal Moment. Live
  
  
  
  

  Sept. 8, 2025 -On September 24, 2025, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. E.D.T., Join Us For a Day of Journalism, Investigating What Comes Next for Our Rapidly Warming Planet.

  How will the Trump administration’s policies affect climate change? What happens to climate action now? Will the rest of the world keep moving forward? What are individuals and communities doing to help?

  Be there, as Times journalists dig for answers, interviewing world leaders, activists, innovators and scientists on the mainstage. Sit down with leaders responding to the crisis in new, creative ways at the Changemaker Lunch. Experience our latest reporting from the front lines of climate change. Firsthand.

• • Emissions are Sparking Increases in
  African Heat Waves in Unexpected Ways

  Declines in Cooling Sulfates Combined With Increases in Greenhouse Gas Concentrations have Increased the Intensity and Frequency of African Heat Waves
  
  
  
  

  Sept. 6, 2025 -When Southern Europe was hit by a catastrophic heat wave last month, it dominated global news cycles. Spain experienced its longest heat wave on record: lasting 16 days with temperatures reaching 109 degrees.

  By August 19, wildfires stoked by the heat had torched more than 40,000 acres in France. At the peak of the heat wave, 60 percent of Italian cities were placed under the highest alerts for deadly temperatures. The death toll from the heat in Europe is still being tallied, but includes a four-year-old boy who died of heat stroke in Italy.

• • With a Mayoral Election Coming Up,
  This Is Where NYC Stands on Climate Action

  Flood Protection, Building Decarbonization and Air Pollution Will Still Be Challenges For New York’s Next Mayor
  
  
  
  

  Sept. 5, 2025 -The city’s precarious position in the face of multiple climate change-related pressures, such as coastal or rainfall flooding and extreme heat, has not been a focus of this year’s mayoral race—but perhaps it should be.

  The health and expansion of green space and trees, the creation of protection against flooding and the reduction of air pollution in the city are all central to the well-being of New Yorkers, particularly those in often-overburdened low-income communities.

• • Climate Change Made Heat and Dryness that
  Fueled Iberian Wildfires 40 Times More Likely

  Without Climate Change, Similar Ten-Day Spells of Hot, Dry and Windy Conditions Would Be Rare
  
  {Associated Press}
  
  

  Sept. 4, 2025 -The extremely hot, dry and windy conditions, which fueled one of the IberianPeninsula’s most destructive wildfire seasons in recorded history, were 40 times more likely due to climate change, according to a study released Thursday.

  The analysis by World Weather Attribution, or WWA, said the weather conditions were about 30% more intense compared to the preindustrial era, when heavy reliance on fossil fuels began.

• • UN climate Chief Issues Rallying Cry On
  National Climate Plans As Deadline Looms

  Simon Stiell Calls For “Strong” Climate Targets to Be Submitted As Soon As Possible to Ensure Their Inclusion in a Critical UN Progress Report
  
  {CLIMATE HOME NEWS}
  
  

  Sept. 3, 2025 -Simon Stiell made his call in a letter sent to all countries on Wednesday, saying “strong” climate plans were “the best defence” against the global climate crisis.

  Countries need to submit their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) by the end of September so the UN climate change body can assess cumulative efforts to lower greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and 2035, and publish a report ahead of COP30 in November.

• • How Much We Can Cool the Planet
  By Burying Carbon Underground

  Carbon Storage is Becoming a More Mainstream Climate Solution, But...
  
  
  
  

  Sept. 3, 2025 -There’s a big question hanging over the global fight against climate change: Just how much carbon dioxide can humanity bury?

  To stave off the drought, famine, poverty and deadly disasters that come from overheating the planet, people need to stop putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. But at this point, we’ve already polluted the planet so much that — even in the best case — experts say we will shoot past safe temperatures and then have to slowly turn the planet’s thermostat back down by removing carbon dioxide from the air and storing it somewhere.

• • This Was the Hottest Summer On Record

  If it Happens Again Next Year, Britain’s Ecosystems Won’t Cope
  
  
  
  

  Sept. 3, 2025 -With the extreme heat projected in the coming decades, going outside in the summer will be harder: festivals and outdoor sports events will be too dangerous; opportunities for people to unwind and relax in nature may decrease.

  The impacts of climate change on the British summer will be unequal across class, race and socioeconomic lines. More deprived areas are less likely to have tree cover for shade. The homes of lower-income families, renters, those with children and ethnic minority households are more likely to overheat.

• • World’s Biggest Iceberg Breaks Up After 40 Years

  ‘Megaberg’ Known as A23a has Rapidly Disintegrated in Warmer Waters and Could Disappear Within Weeks
  
  
  
  

  Sept. 2, 2025 -Nearly 40 years after breaking off Antarctica, a colossal iceberg ranked among the oldest and largest ever recorded is finally crumbling apart in warmer waters, and could disappear within weeks.

  Earlier this year, the “megaberg” known as A23a weighed a little under a trillion tonnes and was more than twice the size of Greater London, a behemoth unrivalled at the time.

  The gigantic slab of frozen freshwater was so large it even briefly threatened penguin feeding grounds on a remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean, but ended up moving on.

• • Scientists May Have Identified a
  Culprit Behind Declining Amazon Rains

  Deforestation is Playing a Greater Role Than Researchers Expected
  
  
  
  

  Sept. 2, 2025 -For decades, the dry season in the Amazon rainforest has been getting drier. A new study, published on Tuesday, found that about 75 percent of the decrease in rainfall is directly linked to deforestation.

  The study, in Nature Communications, also found that tree loss was partly responsible for increased heat across the Amazon. Since 1985, the hottest days in the Amazon have warmed by about 2 degrees Celsius. About 16 percent of that increase, the researchers found, was because of deforestation.

• • Scientists Denounce Trump Administration’s Climate Report

  Scores of Researchers Reviewed the Energy Department’s Argument About Greenhouse Gases, Finding Serious Deficiencies
  
  
  
  

  Sept. 2, 2025 -More than 85 American and international scientists have condemned a Trump administration report that calls the threat of climate change overblown, saying the analysis is riddled with errors, misrepresentations and cherry-picked data to fit the president’s political agenda.

  The scientists submitted their critique as part of a public comment period on the report, which was to close Tuesday night.

• • Pakistan’s Punjab Province Battered By its Biggest Flood

  There 2 million People at Risk
  
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  August 31, 2025 - Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province is dealing with the biggest flood in its history, a senior official said Sunday, as water levels of rivers rise to all-time highs.

  Global warming has worsened monsoon rains this year in Pakistan, one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, according to a new study. Downpours and cloudbursts have triggered flash floods and landslides across the mountainous north and northwest in recent months.

  Residents in eastern Punjab have also experienced abnormal amounts of rain, as well as cross-border flooding after India released water from swollen rivers and its overflowing dams into Pakistan’s low-lying regions.

• • How a Rock Band Bassist Is Remixing Climate Activism

  Adam Met of the Indie-Rock Band AJR Thinks Fan-Building Strategies Can Amplify the Climate Movement’s Reach and Impact
  
  
  
  

  Sept. 1, 2025 -Imagine if every climate policy rollback was met with the same unshakable loyalty Swifties show when Taylor drops a breakup song. What if climate action had the same unstoppable energy as Beyoncé’s BeyHive, marching full speed ahead toward a green economy?

  According to Adam Met, the climate movement could learn a thing or two from fan-building tactics deployed by today’s pop stars. After all, he is one.

  Met, 35, is the bassist of the multi-platinum indie-rock band AJR, which he started with his two brothers in 2005. Thirteen years later, after the band began selling out stadiums and amphitheaters, Met founded a climate focused nonprofit organization called Planet Reimagined—a climate research, advocacy and storytelling hub—with his colleague Mila Rosenthal.

• • In Far Northeastern Maine, a Native
  Community Fights to Adapt to Climate Change

  Sea Level Rise, Dwindling Fisheries and Trump Budget Cuts Make the Passamaquoddy Tribe’s Resiliency Quest a Test of Smart Planning and Stubborn Will
  
  
  
  

  August 30, 2025 -On the Sipayik peninsula in Maine, Passamaquoddy tribe members are surrounded on three sides by water, and on all sides by reminders of their vulnerability to a changing climate.

  They see it in a rising sea level that erodes beaches and drowns marshes.

  They see it in their wastewater facility, which is at risk of a tidal flooding disaster.

  They see it in the homes that can’t keep the weather out and residents who can’t afford their power bills.

• • 20 Years after Katrina, Major Hurricane
  Forecasting Advances Could Erode

  Hurricane Forecasts have Made Huge Leaps Since Katrina Hit, But That Progress is Threatened By Trump's Cuts to Research
  
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  Aug. 29, 2025 -Like many other meteorologists around the U.S. Gulf Coast on the morning of August 26, 2005, Alan Gerard was monitoring the latest computer model forecasts for Hurricane Katrina—which had just emerged over the Gulf of Mexico after striking South Florida as a Category 1 storm. Gerard, then meteorologist in charge at the National Weather Service’s (NWS’s) office in Jackson, Miss., saw that the newest projections indicated that Katrina would track farther south than previous model runs had predicted.

  “It was a big change,” he says—and a concerning one because it meant that the storm would have more time over warm water to strengthen and that Katrina’s path had shifted westward, toward Mississippi.

• • How Can England Possibly Be Running Out of Water?

  Climate Crisis, Population Growth and Profligacy Mean the Once Unthinkable Could Be Possible
  
  
  
  

  August 29, 2025 -During the drought of 2022, London came perilously close to running out of water. Water companies and the government prayed desperately for rain as reservoirs ran low and the groundwater was slowly drained off.

  Contingency plans were drafted to ban businesses from using water; hotel swimming pools would have been drained, ponds allowed to dry up, offices to go uncleaned. If the lack of rainfall had continued for another year, it was possible that taps could have run dry.

• • Bangladesh Heatwaves Hit Health Hard

  As Climate Change Worsens Heat Stress In Bangladesh, Families are Seeing Their Medical, Energy and Transport Bills Rise
  
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  August 29, 2025 -Heatstroke, a potentially fatal condition where body temperature rises above 104°F (40C), is also becoming more common. And the heat has intensified the spread of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease that thrives in warm, humid conditions.

  Dr. Touhid Uddin Ahmed, former chief scientific officer of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, explained that intermittent rainfall combined with persistent muggy heat creates ideal breeding conditions for the Aedes mosquito which carries dengue.

• • Planting Vines and Other Ways Hot Cities Create Cool Spaces

  Canopies And A 3,000-Year-Old Persian Technique are Among Methods Being Used to Cope as Temperatures Soar
  
  
  
  

  Aug. 28, 2025 -As Spain takes a breath after yet another brutal summer heatwave, with temperatures above 40C in many parts of the country, the residents of the sherry-making town of Jerez de la Frontera have come up with a novel way to keep the streets cool.

  Green canopies of grapevines festoon the town, reducing street-level temperatures by as much as 8C. “We’re planting vines in the old city because we hope that in two or three years we’ll be able to brag that this has put an end to stifling temperatures,” said Jesús Rodríguez, president of Los Emparrados, a group of residents who aim to beautify and green the city’s streets.

• • Collapse of Critical Atlantic Current
  is No Longer Low-Likelihood

  ‘Shocking’ Discovery Shows Rapid Cuts In Carbon Emissions Are Needed To Avoid Catastrophic Fallout
  
  
  
  

  Aug. 28, 2025 -The collapse of a critical Atlantic current can no longer be considered a low-likelihood event, a study has concluded, making deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions even more urgent to avoid the catastrophic impact.

  The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) is a major part of the global climate system. It brings sun-warmed tropical water to Europe and the Arctic, where it cools and sinks to form a deep return current. The Amoc was already known to be at its weakest in 1,600 years as a result of the climate crisis.

• • A Controversial Fishing Method May
  Dredge Up a Climate Time Bomb

  Bottom Trawling is a Fishing Practice that is Notoriously Destructive to Seafloor Ecosystems. And...
  
  {Scientific American}
  
  

  Aug. 28, 2025 -A heavy metal net is dragged across the seafloor at breakneck speed, churning up dark clouds of sediment and swallowing everything in its path. A blue-spotted stingray tries to flee, flailing its winglike pectoral fins as the trawl closes in from behind, but its efforts are in vain. This unprecedented footage—a scene in David Attenborough’s latest documentary Ocean—is the first time bottom trawling has been captured in high definition, exposing a practice rarely seen by the public.

  Bottom trawling is a highly controversial fishing method, but it provides a quarter of the world’s seafood. It involves a vessel pulling a weighted net and other heavy gear, blindly and fast, along vast stretches of seabed—often in pursuit of only one or two commercially valuable species. It traps huge numbers of other organisms and bulldozes over fragile habitats, destroying centuries-old coral, scallop gardens and seagrass beds.

• • Heatwaves Are Melting Students'
  Ability to Learn These Subjects

  An Analysis Of Over 12,000 U.S. Districts Found That Long-Term Exposure to High Temperatures During the Day Specifically Reduced Students' Mathematics Scores By 11%.
  
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  August 29, 2025 -A massive report studying nearly 14.5 million students in 61 countries found that long-term heat exposure is interfering with students' abilities to learn —and prolonged heat streaks are only getting worse.

  Why it matters: Increasingly high temperatures are worsening disparate educational outcomes, with the potential for long-term impacts on graduation rates and cognitive ability to grow as the globe continues to warm.

• • Estonia Considers Restoring Ailing Bogs

  Peatlands Can Help Stop Both Russian Tanks and Climate Change
  
  
  
  

  Aug. 28, 2025 -Estonia is exploring whether reviving depleted peatlands can help protect the Baltic nation against a Russian attack while also locking away planet-warming pollution, the country's climate ministry told POLITICO.

  Tallinn is the third EU government to launch ministerial talks on the idea of defensive bog restoration along NATO's eastern flank, joining Finland and Poland, after scientists pointed out that peatlands can serve as highly effective traps for both enemy tanks and carbon dioxide.

• • Climate Change Is Transforming Summer in Europe

  A Season Of Record Wildfires and a Wave of Extreme Heat Forcers Europe to Confront Difficult Questions About How to Adapt
  
  
  
  

  Aug. 28, 2025 -This summer, record wildfires have raged across Europe, burning more than a million hectares of land and forcing people to evacuate their homes. A five-day stretch of extreme heat killed hundreds of people. Spain baked through its most intense heat wave on record, and the United Kingdom is all but certain to have seen its hottest summer ever.

  In Europe, which has warmed about twice as fast as the global average, climate change has begun to force difficult questions about the economic and cultural costs of adapting to a dangerously warming planet.

• • Shark Teeth Are Supposed to be Nearly Indestructible But...

  Climate Change is Starting to Corrode Them
  
  
  
  

  Aug. 27, 2025 -Sharks have long been known for their razor-sharp teeth, weapons that make them some of the ocean’s most effective hunters. But new research suggests that these powerful tools may not be as invincible as once thought. German scientists have found that ocean acidification — the gradual drop in ocean pH caused by human-generated carbon dioxide — can weaken shark teeth, making them more prone to damage.

  The study, published in ?Frontiers in Marine Science, examined the effects of simulated acidified seawater on teeth collected from blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus). Researchers showed that even though shark teeth are highly mineralized and built to cut through flesh, they are still vulnerable to the corrosive effects of more acidic oceans.

• • On the Front Lines of Climate Change,
  Firefighters Are Getting Very Sick

  Across the Country, Unmasked Wildfire Fighters Are Falling Ill and Dying
  
  
  
  

  Aug. 26, 2025 -As wildfire season starts earlier in California and climate change is leading to more extreme fires, tens of thousands of firefighters across the country are heading into weekslong shifts to battle the blazes. In many cases, they are breathing toxic smoke and ash for days on end.

  As investigative reporter Hannah Dreier reported last week, unmasked firefighters in the United States are developing serious illnesses at young ages and dying of cancers that typically afflict much older people.

• • EU’s Record Wildfire Emissions High-
  light Threat to Forest Carbon Sinks

  As Carbon Emissions From Forest Fires Spike In Europe, Experts Warn That Wildfires Pose a Growing Risk to National Efforts to Meet Climate Goals
  
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  August 26, 2025 -Climate-heating emissions from wildfires in the European Union have surged to record levels this year as flames have engulfed over 1 million hectares of land – equal to 13 times the size of New York City – since January.

  Blazes sweeping through the continent – with major hotspots in Spain and Portugal – have so far released 38.37 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into the atmosphere, more than the annual CO2 emissions of Sweden, according to data from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS).

• • The Backlash Paradox of Radical Climate Protests

  Extreme Actions Turn People Off The Activists Behind Them—But May Leave the Broader Climate Movement Stronger Than Before
  
  
  
  

  August 26, 2025 -Groups that carry out extreme climate protests risk creating antipathy to themselves, but may increase concern about climate change more broadly, according to a new study. The findings add an empirical angle to the debate over disruptive tactics such as climate activists gluing themselves to property, throwing soup on paintings, or blocking bridges and roads that have emerged in recent years.

  “We uncovered what we call the ‘climate activist’s dilemma,’” says study team member Jarren Nylund, a graduate student in social and environmental psychology at the University of Queensland in Australia.

• • The Future of Extreme Weather is Already Here

  And It’s Not What You Think
  
  
  
  

  August 26, 2025 -When we think of extreme weather, certain events like tornadoes, hurricanes, and wildfires often come to mind.

  But in terms of risks to power grid reliability, the future of extreme weather is already here — yet it doesn’t fit the conventional pattern. In fact, to the casual observer, this new class of extreme weather might appear downright mundane.

  This new class of weather extremes stresses the power grid by increasing demand at the same time that it reduces generation from renewables. Think hot but cloudy hours, cold mornings without much wind, or afternoon heat that lingers through twilight. The individual weather components don’t even need to be extreme themselves in order to create dangerous combinations that can bring the grid to the very brink — or bey

• • Farmers Across Europe Struggle to Adapt to the Climate Crisis

  As Wildfires Rage in Southern Europe and Crop Losses Only Set To Increase in the Coming Years, Producers Get Creative to Beat The Heat
  
  
  
  

  Aug. 25, 2025 -“I’m not ready to change jobs,” says Stellios Boutaris, a wine producer with vineyards in Naoussa and Amyndeon in northern Greece, as well as on the island of Santorini. But, he adds, “we cannot do it the way our fathers did.”

  Boutaris is determined to keep producing in the region and keep the family business going but says “the curve is not looking good” as the climate crisis puts pressure on producers across the Mediterranean.

• • Heatwaves are Making People Age Faster

  Exposure to High Temperatures Could Result in Long-Lasting Damage to Health of Billions of People
  
  
  
  

  Aug. 25, 2025 -Repeated exposure to heatwaves is accelerating ageing in people, according to a study. The impact is broadly comparable with the damage smoking, alcohol use, poor diet or limited exercise can have on health, the researchers said.

  Extreme temperatures are increasingly common owing to the climate crisis, potentially causing widespread and long-lasting damage to the health of billions, the scientists warned.

• • Heatwaves Don’t Just kill People

  They Also Make Us Older
  
  
  
  

  August 25, 2025 -Over the past decade, heatwaves have rewritten the record books with deadly consequences. In 2021, the Pacific Northwest, a region famed for its cool, damp climate, endured a “heat dome” that pushed temperatures above 49 °C (121 °F) in Canada, killing hundreds in just a few days. In 2022, India and Pakistan sweltered through weeks of extreme heat that scorched crops and endangered hundreds of millions of people. And this year, southern Europe’s heatwave sent temperatures soaring past 45 °C in several countries, overwhelming hospitals and prompting widespread warnings from health agencies.

  Each of these events would be a rare occurrence in previous times. But with climate change, they become more likely and more intense. Heatwaves come and go, but they also leave lasting scars on communities and economies alike. This new study shows the damage may be even deeper than we thought.

• • The Seattle Heat Wave:

  How Hot and For How Long?
  
  
  
  

  August 24, 2025 -Buckle up, Seattle. We’re in for another scorcher as the extreme heat warning enters its third day.

  Sunday will see a high of 90 at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the Seattle branch of the National Weather Service predicts. The record high for Aug. 24 is 88 degrees, set in 1982.

  The extreme heat warning began on Friday after a high-pressure system moved into the region, and is in effect through 5 p.m. Tuesday.

• • Climate Change Worsens Half-Century of
  Drinking Water Problems for Maine Native Reservation

  The Trump Administration has Clawed Back Grant Funds for Water Testing and Filtration
  
  
  
  

  Aug. 31, 2025 -The smell of saltwater is one of Brian Altvater’s favorite parts of living in Sipayik. Wherever you go on the tiny Maine peninsula, home to the Passamaquoddy Pleasant Point Reservation, you can see—and smell—Passamaquoddy and Cobscook bays.

  But when Altvater, 69, goes home and turns on his faucet, the water doesn’t smell salty; it smells foul.

  Altvater is a pipe carrier, a spiritual leader who conducts sweat lodges, naming ceremonies for infants and sacred fire ceremonies when elders die. He also, like the 600 other Passamaquoddy people who live in Sipayik, hasn’t trusted his home’s tap water for more than 50 years.

• • See How Much Longer Summer is in Your Town

  Summer Heat Isn’t Just For the Summer Anymore
  
  
  
  

  August 18, 2025 -In recent decades, sweat-inducing temperatures have been arriving earlier and ending later in the year. An analysis of U.S. weather data shared with The Washington Post shows which places are experiencing notably longer summer seasons than they were three decades ago. Temperatures are spiking to levels typically seen in June earlier than expected and lingering longer at the end of the season.

  The analysis, conducted by climatologist Brian Brettschneider, examined the hottest 90 days of the year from 1965 to 1994 and compared their frequency over 1995 to 2024. He found that the temperatures that used to kick off the hottest three months of the year are expanding beyond the calendar definition of summer.

• • Protecting Workers From Rising Heat Stress

  As Temperatures Rise, the UN’s Health and Weather Agencies Release Guidelines
  
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  August 21, 2025 -UN agencies have urged employers, trade unions, local authorities and health experts to team up on creating tailored plans to protect workers from heat stress, as a warming world exposes them to more extreme temperatures, risking death and chronic health impacts.

  In a report released on Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said climate change is increasing the temperature of workplaces – especially outdoors – and creating conditions that threaten workers’ health and national economies.

• • Trump’s Cuts May Spell the End For
  America’s Only Antarctic Research Ship

  The Decommissioning Would Leave the U.S. With No Icebreaker to Study the Southern Seas and Cede Scientific Leadership to Rival Countries
  
  
  
  

  August 22, 2025 -When it comes to the future of the world’s coasts, few places on Earth matter more than the ice-choked, storm-tossed Bellingshausen Sea.

  There, the warm ocean currents whirling around Antarctica first wash up onto the continental shelf and bathe the vast ice sheet, making the region the tip of the spear for the melting processes that are raising sea levels globally.

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