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• • Marine Heatwaves Are Threatening Ghana’s Fisheries

  Rising Ocean Temperatures and Unprecedented Marine Heatwaves In the Gulf of Guinea Are Quietly Decimating Fish Stocks...
  
  {EARTH.ORG}

  June 8, 2026 -On a sunny April weekday at Jamestown Fishing Harbour in Ghana’s capital, Accra, fishermen work along the shore as the mercury hits 31C. Their chests glistening with sweat beneath low tarps that provide partial relief from the intense heat.

  The work of repairing nets feels every bit as strenuous as the early morning fishing expeditions at sea. This is a familiar heat for them – one that scorches the skin and frequently forces them to end their shifts earlier than planned.

• • Searching for Shade When It’s 125 Degrees

  Every Season Brings a New Struggle For People In Dadu District, Pakistan, an Area Prone to Sandstorms, Drought and Flooding.

  

  June 8, 2026 -Pakistan ranks among the countries most vulnerable to climate change, and few districts here have experienced as many climate extremes as Dadu.

  The temperature in the district, in southern Pakistan, reached 124.7 degrees Fahrenheit, or 51.5 Celsius, on May 28, the highest in the country this year.

• • Marine Heatwaves Are Threatening Ghana’s Fisheries

  Rising Ocean Temperatures and Unprecedented Marine Heatwaves in the Gulf of Guinea Are Quietly Decimating Fish Stock...
  
  {EARTH.ORG}

  June 8, 2026 -On a sunny April weekday at Jamestown Fishing Harbour in Ghana’s capital, Accra, fishermen work along the shore as the mercury hits 31C. Their chests glistening with sweat beneath low tarps that provide partial relief from the intense heat.

  The work of repairing nets feels every bit as strenuous as the early morning fishing expeditions at sea. This is a familiar heat for them – one that scorches the skin and frequently forces them to end their shifts earlier than planned.

• • As El Niño develops, This City is
  Seeing Beach Weather — During Winter

  There’s Potential For the Strongest El Niño On Record, According to Updated Model Forecasts

  

  June 8, 2026 -The months of May and June typically mark the onset of cooler temperatures and increasingly winter-like weather in Lima, Peru, a Southern Hemisphere city home to more than 10 million people.

  But things have been different this year.

  Instead of cooling off, it’s getting warmer. People have flocked to the beach amid summer-like 80-degree warmth — and waded into ocean waters that have recently risen almost 10 degrees Fahrenheit above average. In Paita, Peru, north of Lima, waters have risen a remarkable 14.2 degrees Fahrenheit above average.

• • Bonn Bulletin: Tackling Climate Crisis is “Hardest” Challenge Ever

  The June Climate Meetings Open With a Reminder to Delegates of the Tough But Ever-Clearer Imperative of Shifting Away From Fossil Fuels to Clean Energy
  
  {Climate Home News}

  June 8, 2026 -Kicking off proceedings at the mid-year climate talks in Bonn amid fraught global geopolitics, UN climate chief Simon Stiell told delegates that tackling the global climate crisis is "the hardest, but most important, thing humanity has ever tried to do together”.

  Perhaps hoping to forestall the usual diplomatic wrangling that routinely bogs down the talks, he warned governments that there is no time to "re-open past debates or renegotiate commitments already made”.

• • Denver Weather: Near Record Heat Saturday

  Denver Weather Today: Could We Break a Record?
  
  {FOX31}

  June 6, 2026 -The heat is on for Denver’s weather forecast. High temperatures will be about 10-15 degrees above average in Denver, with other areas in northeast Colorado coming close to hitting record highs.

  High temperatures Saturday afternoon will be well above average for this time of the year.

  Normally, we are at around 80 degrees for the first week of June, Saturday we will max out in the middle to lower 90s, challenging the record high temperature of 95 degrees set 8 years ago in 2026.

• • What to Expect From the Bonn Climate Talks

  Climate Home News Will Be On the Ground At the SB64 June Climate Meetings – Here’s What We’re Watching Out For
  
  {EARTH.ORG}

  June 4, 2026 -The annual June climate talks in Bonn are taking place this year against the backdrop of an oil and gas supply crisis tied to the Iran war and deadly heatwaves in Europe, India and the Middle East. Can they produce anything substantial to ease the squeeze on economies and communities around the world?

  Watchers of the negotiations say the UN climate process is under pressure to prove its worth at a time when climate action and clean energy offer an increasingly attractive alternative to the global economic and political instability brought by fossil fuel dependency.

• • The Last Stable Glaciers on Earth Are Starting to Collapse

  Climate Change Doesn't Really Care What You Think
  
  {ZME SCIENCE}

  June 4, 2026 -Even glaciers that once resisted climate change are now cracking. Across the Pamir and Tien Shan mountains, ice that held steady for decades is vanishing at unprecedented speed.

  New measurements from Kangxiwa Glacier in the eastern Pamir and regional studies across Central Asia reveal that 2025 brought record-breaking ice loss.

  In a single year, glaciers shed billions of tons of ice, driven by persistent heat, early melt seasons, and shrinking snowfall. The consequences ripple far beyond the mountains: these glaciers feed rivers that sustain millions of people downstream, providing water for drinking, farming, and hydropower. Scientists warn that the “last stable glaciers” are now part of the global pattern of ice decline, signaling an accelerated threat to regional water security and the communities that rely on it.

• • The Race to Breed a ‘Super Oyster’ as Climate
  Change Threatens a Centuries-Old Hong Kong Tradition

  Heat and Salt Threaten to End a Tradition Dating Back Hundreds of Years
  
  {EARTH.ORG}

  June 4, 2026 -Away from the skyscraper clusters of Hong Kong’s business districts sits the weathered northern fishing village of Lau Fau Shan (Floating Mountain).

  Chan Kwok Leung, known as “Brother Leung”, is a 58-year-old, sixth-generation oyster farmer. As a child he shucked oysters with his father during winters on the shore of Deep Bay where his village sits, on the eastern side of the Pearl River Estuary.

• • Academics Set Out Sweeping Vision For Planetary Survival

  An Equal and Habitable World is Possible’

  

  June 4, 2026 -Driving through part of Northumberland, you might look around at the tall Sitka spruce and imagine yourself in Canada’s evergreen forests, or perhaps, on a sunny day, in northern California. Instead, you areHumanity can raise living standards, reduce inequality and keep global heating within a 2C rise, according to a sweeping vision for planetary survival.

  The report by the World Inequality Lab (WIL) aims to be the most comprehensive attempt yet to navigate the polycrisis that is pushing the world toward climate breakdown, political extremism and ever greater economic and social tension.

• • High Heat Will Soon Affect 150 Million People

  See Where It Will Be Hottest

  

  June 4, 2026 -A relatively cool start to June is about to warm up as a bubble of locally record-breaking heat expands from New England to the Mid-Atlantic into the weekend. Some places near and south of D.C. can expect 90-degree temperatures for at least three straight days.

  That’s a sharp change from earlier in the week. On Monday — the first day of meteorological summer — it reached only 58 degrees in Boston and 71 degrees in New York.

• • Climate Change May Shift Hailstorms Towards Earth’s Poles

  Another New Study Led By Shiyi Zhang at Peking University Shows That Hail May Also Become More Damaging
  
  {THE CONVERSATION}

  June 3, 2026 -Everyone has a storm story – whether it’s that time you just escaped a downpour, or the hailstorm that wrote off your car. Even though hailstorms are relatively rare, they cause significant damages. Two new studies shed light on how hail might change as the world warms.

  In our study, published today in Nature Climate Change, we show that hail conditions may move towards the poles with global warming and shift a bit from summer to winter. This could lead to more hailstorms in places such as northern Europe, Canada, southeastern Australia and New Zealand’s South Island.

• • Investor Climate Group Closes Down,
  Blaming “Limits” of Shareholder Activism

  Canadian Campaign Group Investors for Paris Compliance Shut In May, Saying Efforts to Push Companies to Tackle Climate Change Have Become Less Effective
  
  {CLIMATE HOME NEWS}

  June 3, 2026 -In 2021, amidst a wave of corporate net-zero targets, a campaign group called Investors for Paris Compliance was set up in British Columbia, aiming to use investor pressure to hold Canadian companies to account on their climate promises.

  In the five years since, the group has notched up several wins: pressuring National Bank into providing $20 billion of finance to renewable energy, getting Royal Bank of Canada to improve its green finance labels and persuading 20-25% of investors to regularly back climate proposals at annual general meetings (AGMs) for shareholders.

• • Spain Records Highest Number of May Heat-Related Deaths

  Spain Recorded Its Highest Heat-Related Mortality For the Month of May Since Records Began In 2015

  

  June 3, 2026 - According to estimates by Spain's daily mortality monitoring system, May 2026 recorded? 101 deaths attributable to high temperatures, the highest figure for this month since the series began in 2015.

  The number is 3.6 times the average for May over the last decade, highlighting the significant health impact of extreme heat even before the start ?of northern hemisphere summer, the Health Ministry said.

  The monitoring system, or MoMo for short, estimates that 27,564 deaths were attributable to ?high temperatures in Spain between 2015 and 2025.

• • Deadly Heat is Coming. But Funding to Save Lives is Not

  Emergency Officials Are Searching For Loopholes to Save Lives As Trump Slashes Programs
  
  {E&ENEWS}

  June 2, 2026 -Urban officials had just begun grappling with the deadliest kind of weather — extreme heat — when President Donald Trump stopped them in their tracks by canceling a range of grants and adaptation programs last year as part of his broader attacks on climate policy.

  Now, as sweltering U.S. metropolises prepare for summer heat that historically kills more people than hurricanes, floods and wildfires, heat officials say they’re learning how to work within a system that rejects their agendas.

• • Democrats Pledge to Fight Trump’s Removal of Ocean Monitors

  The Trump Administration is Dismantling a $368 Million Deep-Ocean Observation System That Monitors Marine Ecosystems and the Effects of Climate Change

  

  June 2, 2026 -Democrats said Tuesday they intend to fight the Trump administration’s plan to eradicate a deep-ocean observation system critical to understanding climate change and marine ecosystems.

  The system cost $368 million when it was installed in 2016 but now officials want to shut it down, which they say would save $48 million in operating costs each year.

• • Climate Change Exposes Millions of Hajj Pilgrims
  to Deadly Heat For Increasingly Longer Parts of the Year

  Read All About It
  
  {World Weather Attribution}

  June 2, 2026 -The Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca is one of the five pillars of Islam and a lifelong dream for many Muslims. All Muslims who are physically and financially able are expected to make the pilgrimage at least once in their lives. This year, the Hajj falls in May, traditionally a safer and milder time of year than the scorching summer months of June to September, and 2 million people are expected to embark on the pilgrimage (Al Jazeera, 2026). The pilgrims often undertake walking long distances on a daily basis, making it much harder under extreme heat conditions.

  The timing of the Hajj is determined by the Islamic lunar calendar. Hajj takes place every year during the month of Dhu al-Hijjah, the twelfth and final month of the Islamic calendar, with the main rituals occurring between the 8th and 13th days of that month. Because the Islamic calendar is based on the moon, it is about 10–11 days shorter than the solar Gregorian calendar used in most of the world. As a result, the dates of Hajj shift earlier each year relative to the seasons. Over a cycle of roughly 33 years, Hajj moves through every season from the cooler winter months to the extreme heat of summer (Yezli et al., 2024).

• • WA Weather: Hottest Day of the Year,
  9 P.M. Sunset, Then Thunderstorms

  The Numbers Have Steadily Increased Day to Day

  

  June 2, 2026 -Don’t you just love that time in spring when you don’t know what to wear because the weather can go from sweaty to chilly and back again?

  Well, get your T-shirts, shorts, sweaters and pants on deck, because we’re starting out the week with the hottest day of the year so far and the first 9 p.m. sunset before transitioning into rain and the chance of a thunderstorm.

  “Really warm then cool and showery — kind of what we’ve been doing, it seems, the last couple of weeks,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Dana Felton. “We go up, we come down, we go up, we come down. Bit of a roller coaster.”

• • A Strong El Nino May Be Imminent
  Climate Change Will Worsen Its Effects

  This Plus Climate Change Could Make 2027 the Hottest Year On Record

  

  June 2, 2026 -- The El Nino weather pattern is forming, and is expected to cause extreme weather around the world this year, the WMO said on Tuesday. Scientists say climate change will make ?its impact especially severe.

  The World Meteorological Organization said there is an 80% chance that an El Nino event develops between June and August, and a 90% chance it will last until at least November. The statement is the clearest signal yet of the likelihood.

• • The UK Government Has Set a Target of
  an 87% Cut In Carbon Emissions By 2042

  Scientists Said That the Goal Puts the U.K. On Course to Meet Its 2050 Net Zero Target

  

  June 2, 2026 -The British government said Tuesday that it’s sticking to its net-zero goal, despite pressure on energy supplies from global conflicts, and will reduce the United Kingdom’s planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions by 87% of 1990 levels in the next decade and a half.

  The U.K. has a legally binding target, set in 2008, of achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050. By law, the government must legislate for emissions caps for future five-yearly budgets on a strict timetable.

• • As Climate Change Extends Europe’s Heat Season, Schools Bake

  Classrooms Can Be Particularly Vulnerable Amid Climate Change, as the Hottest Times of the Year Increasingly Overlap With the Academic Calendar

  

  May 30, 2026 -After enduring a weeklong heat wave with no air-conditioning and little ventilation, the principal said her elementary school had come to feel like a “pressure cooker.”

  The temperatures inside the 19th century school building in Paris rose above 86 degrees Fahrenheit, or 30 degrees Celsius. A sports day was canceled. Some staff reported headaches. Kids seemed irritable. In the second-grade class, two children fell asleep at their desks at 1:30 p.m.

• • Damaged, Deserted, Dilapidated
  What Comes Next For the Great Barrier Reef

  Island Resorts Lying In Ruins?

  

  May 29, 2026 -Kerry Outerbridge motored his powerboat through coral reef ringing the lush, tropical island and alighted upon white sand.

  Catamarans and jetskis lay strewn about the beach. Nothing but quiet emerged to greet him from the bungalows scattered among a grove of coconut trees. A plate of food sat on a kitchen table, mouldering.

  “It was as if everybody packed up and left overnight,” he says.

• • As Seas Rise, Louisiana Faces a Choice

  Plan for Movement or Let Crisis Decide

  

  May 30, 2026 -The shoreline of Louisiana has never been still or fixed, though recent generations have treated it as such.

  Since the last ice age roughly 20,000 years ago, around when people arrived in what is now the United States, sea levels have repeatedly reshaped aspects of the Gulf Coast. But today, human-caused warming is accelerating that ancient process, pushing Louisiana’s dynamic shoreline into conflict with cities, roads, ports and levees built to contain and stabilize nature.

• • The 2026 World Cup Will Feature a Villainous Player: Extreme Heat

  A Study Shows Nearly a Quarter of All Games Are Likely to Be Played In Dangerous Temperatures

  

  May 30, 2026 -Sávio Bortolini Pimentel just missed getting on the roster to represent his national team, Brazil, at the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States.

  At the time, he was a 20-year-old professional player with the Rio de Janeiro team Flamengo. He recalls other players telling him after the fact that the weather during some matches was just too hot. And the heat was “intense,” they said, during the final match at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, under a 32 degree Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit) sun, when Brazil prevailed over Italy.

  Players in the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup in June and July face an even greater risk of unsafe temperatures than they did in 1994, the last time the World Cup was held in the United States, according to estimates from researchers at Imperial College London. Human-induced climate change has made these conditions significantly more likely in the 16 host cities in the U.S., Mexico and Canada, according to the report.

• • Global Temperatures Likely to Breach Record
  Levels Over Next 5 Years, WMO Says

  The World Meteorological Organization says there is a 91% chance that global average temperatures will exceed 1.5C above the 1850-1900 average level
  
  {EARTH.ORG}

  May 29, 2026 -The Earth is on track to keep warming at or near record levels in the five years as chances of keeping global temperatures below the Paris Agreement 1.5C goal fade.

  The latest edition of an annual report on the state of the climate by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) predicts global yearly mean near-surface temperatures to be between 1.3C and 1.9C higher than the average for the 1850-1900 period, or pre-industrial period, between now and 2030. The global mean near-surface temperature refers to the combined average of air temperatures near the Earth’s surface and sea-surface temperatures.

• • S.E.C. Proposes to Kill Climate Change Disclosure Rule

  The Regulation Would Have Required All Publicly Traded Companies to Disclose Whether They Faced Significant Risks From Climate Change and Its Effects

  

  May 29, 2026 -The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday proposed to repeal a contentious rule that would have required thousands of companies to disclose the risks they face from a warming planet and how their operations contribute to climate change.

  The rule was already on hold pending litigation. In February, Mark Uyeda, then the acting chairman of the S.E.C., directed the agency to stop defending the regulation in court against lawsuits from business groups and Republican-led states.

• • Record-Breaking Heat and Dry Spring
  Leave Parts of England Without Water

  Experts and Officials Warn Climate Change Will Worsen Supply Issues

  

  May 29, 2026 - Thousands of households in southeast England were left without water or facing low pressure during a record-breaking heatwave this week,as high demand followed a dry spring to expose the failings in Britain's ageing infrastructure.

  The disruption affected over 20,000 people at its height, including around 8,000 left without supply in the coastal town of Whitstable, South East Water's incident manager Matthew Dean said, with people queuing to secure emergency water supplies on Friday.

• • ‘Gray and Drippy’ Weather in Seattle, But Hottest Day of 2026 is Ahead

  Conditions Should Be Slightly Cooler On Tuesday in Seattle, Where Temperatures Could Climb Into the low 80s Before They “Cool Right Back Down”

  

  May 29, 2026 -The “big show” is over after Thursday night’s severe thunderstorms brought lightning, hail and 70 mph wind gusts in Central and Eastern Washington, starting small fires and forcing concert attendees at the Gorge Amphitheatre to shelter in their cars.

  “There were just tons and tons of lightning strikes, gosh, for three or four hours,” National Weather Service meteorologist Dana Felton said Friday morning.

• • We Can Protect WA Forests From Wildfires

  And Preserve Snowpack, Too

  

  May 28, 2026 -Climate change is a dual threat to Washington’s expansive forests, delivering a combination of longer and hotter dry seasons with less snowy, warmer winters. Increasing temperatures elevate the risks of wildfire, threaten water supplies and create the potential to wreak havoc on coveted landscapes across the Pacific Northwest.

  A University of Washington study, released in March, suggests one potential forestry solution can successfully mitigate both extreme wildfire risk while also preserving snowpack. Land managers and policymakers from Washington, D.C., to Olympia should take note.

• • Europe’s Heat Wave Has the ‘Fingerprints of Climate Change All Over It’

  More On Europe’s Deadly Heat

  

  May 28, 2026 -It’s not yet summer, and Europe is already suffering from a deadly heat wave.

  Parts of France hit more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit this week, according to AccuWeather. London set a record for the month of May, reaching 95 degrees. Oxford, where records date back 211 years, notched the highest temperature ever registered this early in the year. Extreme heat was reported in more than half a dozen countries, from Portugal to Switzerland.

• • Blair’s Fossil Fuel Ideas ‘Bizarre’
  In Face of Energy and Climate Crises

  Energy specialists Say Abandoning Net Zero and Increasing Oil and Gas Drilling Would Cause More Instability For Britons

  

  May 28, 2026 -Abandoning net zero and drilling for more oil and gas in the North Sea would be a massive setback for the UK and would not help the economy, leading experts have said in response to claims by the former prime minister Tony Blair.

  “This is a bizarre intervention to make during the worst May heatwave on record and when the Iran crisis is providing yet more evidence of the enormous costs of oil and gas,” said Ed Matthew, the UK programme director at the E3G thinktank. “Clean energy is cheaper energy – it protects our bills from prices skyrocketing, its running costs are virtually zero, and it doesn’t cause climate change which threatens economic collapse ... The government should ignore Blair’s ideological nonsense and focus on what works.”

• • Global Temperatures to Reach Near-
  Record Highs In Next Five Years

  UN and UK Met Office Report Predicts Rising Global Temperatures Temperatures May Temporarily Exceed 1.5C By 2030

  

  May 28, 2026 -Average global temperatures are forecast to reach near-record levels in the next five years, with Arctic temperatures expected to warm faster than other regions, a report by the U.N. weather agency and the UK’s Met Office said on Thursday.

  The annual report, opens new tab which gives regional predictions for temperatures and rain predicts that annual global mean near-surface temperatures will range between 1.3°C and 1.9°C above ?the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period.

• • A Deadly Heat Wave Hits Europe, With
  Decades-Old Temperature Records Falling

  France Called Seven Deaths There Possibly Heat-Related, While the U.K. Issued a Water-Safety Warning After Nine Deaths There During High Temperatures

  

  May 27, 2026 -A deadly heat wave has gripped Western Europe in recent days, with temperatures spiking to 15 to 20 degrees above average and residents struggling to stay cool. At least seven people have died so far in France, in what officials are calling potentially heat-related deaths after parts of the region saw their hottest May day on record this week.

  A reading of 98.8 degrees Fahrenheit was recorded Monday in Hossegor, France, in the southwestern department of Landes. That’s the country’s hottest May temperature on record.

• • Temperatures Soar Across Europe as 'Heat Dome' Drives May Records

  Pushing Readings Well Above Seasonal Norms
  
  {FRANCE24}

  May 27, 2026 -Forecasters in Europe warned Tuesday of exceptional heat as record temperatures driven by a "heat dome" push temperatures well above seasonal norms across the continent.

  The surge follows a record-breaking Monday, with France logging its hottest day in the month of May on record, according to its weather agency, and the United Kingdom also posting unprecedented highs.

• • The Great Salt Lake is In Crisis

  This Year's Record Low Snowpack Has Revived Concerns About the Iconic Lake's Rapid Evaporation

  

  May 27, 2026 -Northern Utah’s Great Salt Lake—the largest saltwater lake in the western hemisphere—is rapidly disappearing and by some estimates may be totally gone within just a few years despite frantic efforts to save it.

  Since 1850, the lake has lost 73 percent of its water and 60 percent of its surface area, and as more people move to the region, the water that typically feeds the lake is increasingly being diverted for agricultural, municipal, and industrial needs. What’s more, over the past few decades, a series of challenges—including climate change and the worst megadrought in at least 1,200 years—has impacted the cyclical climatic conditions that have sustained the lake for millennia.

• • Dealing With the Heat In Five of Europe’s Capitals

  ‘It’s Getting Hotter and It’s Not Stopping’

  

  May 27, 2026 -In recent days across parts of Europe, temperatures have soared, heat records have been broken and spring has felt more like the height of summer. Météo France, the French national weather service, has attributed this to a “heat dome”, with warmth held in place by a high-pressure weather front that has produced temperatures more than 10C above what used to be usual for this time of year.

  Human-caused climate breakdown is supercharging extreme weather around the world, driving deadly extremes that can strike at abnormal times in unusual places and claim lives.

• • Climate Experts Alarmed By Deadly Spring Heatwaves Searing Europe

  Scientists Warn of ‘New Reality’ of Heat Extremes That Claim Three Times More Lives Than Car Crashes and 16 Times as Many as Murderers

  

  May 27, 2026 -Malcolm Mistry knew it was going to get “very warm, very quickly” on Monday morning but a slow start out of bed delayed his plans for an early game of cricket with his son. It was already 10am by the time the pair arrived at the sun-soaked nets of their local club in south-west London, and to the embarrassment of the 48-year-old scientist, who played cricket in his youth, his body was struggling after just half an hour of bowling.

  Had he continued for another hour, Mistry reckons he would have probably suffered from heatstroke. Had he and his son stayed until noon, they would have found themselves straining their bodies in direct sunlight while a nearby weather station logged the UK’s hottest May temperature since records began.

• • ‘Absolutely Astonishing’: Unusually Early,
  Deadly Heatwave Scorche Western Europe

  Heat is One of the Clearest Signs of the Climate Crisis, With Every Heatwave in the World Now Stronger and More Likely to Happen Because of Human-Caused Climate Change
  
  {EARTH.ORG}

  May 27, 2026 -Several western European countries are baking under record-breaking heat this week that is highly unusual this time of year.

  The heatwave is the result of a phenomenon known as a heat dome – where warm air from Northern Africa is trapped under a high-pressure system over Western Europe, lingering for days. It works like a lid on a pot, trapping hot air underneath.

  The UK set a new daily heat record for May on Monday and again on Tuesday, when temperatures reached 35.1C in London. Temperature records for the month were also broken in Wales, where the mercury hit 32.9C on Monday, and in County Clare in Ireland, which recorded a maximum temperature of 30C, the BBC reported. Three tenagers reportedly died in the UK in separate drowning incidents.

• • Record May Temperatures Had PJM
  Importing the Most Power In Over a Decade

  PJM and California Say They’re Summer-Ready—But Neither is Exactly Relaxing
  
  {energy central}

  May 26, 2026 -As the region faced unprecedented, summer-like heat (along with high load and outages), PJM brought in over 5.5 GW during May 19’s evening peak. That’s the most imports for that date since 2016. And if spring temp spikes continue? Grid operators may have to rethink current seasonal approaches.

  Looking ahead: As we reported earlier this month, PJM is feeling ready for summer—but shrinking margins means it will be harder for the RTO to send gigawatts to neighboring balancing authorities (and more importing might be in the cards).

• • It’s Still Spring in Europe, but the Heat Is Already Breaking Records

  Authorities in Britain and France Warned That “Unprecedented” Temperatures — at a Time When Few Expected Them — Could Persist

  

  May 26, 2026 -Lines of Londoners outside public pools and ponds. Water mists dousing tennis spectators at the French Open. Commuters packed in stifling public transportation.

  And summer hasn’t even started.

  Several countries in Western Europe baked under record-breaking heat this week, far earlier than normal, prompting governments to warn about health risks. Heat waves in Europe have become more frequent and more severe in recent years, and scientists have repeatedly attributed that to a rise in global temperatures, driven mainly by the burning of coal, oil and gas.

• • Why Scientists Retired the Dire Climate Scenario Used for Over a Decade

  While Global Warming is Still a Threat, the Decision to Back Away From a Worst-Case Outlook Raises Questions About Whether Some Risks Have Been Overstated

  

  May 26, 2026 -It’s rare for technical papers about climate modeling to kick off a heated public debate, or attract attention from the White House.

  But that’s what happened recently after an international team of researchers published a major revision of the emissions scenarios used to study global warming.

  When scientists try to model how hot Earth could get this century, they typically look at a range of possibilities for how much planet-warming pollution humans might pump into the atmosphere. These scenarios get updated every seven years or so.

• • There is Unequivocal Evidence That Earth
  is Warming At an Unprecedented Rate

  Human Activity Is The Principal Cause
  
  {NASA}

  May 26, 2026 - While Earth’s climate has changed throughout its history, the current warming is happening at a rate not seen in the past 10,000 years. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), "Since systematic scientific assessments began in the 1970s, the influence of human activity on the warming of the climate system has evolved from theory to established fact."

  Scientific information taken from natural sources (such as ice cores, rocks, and tree rings) and from modern equipment (like satellites and instruments) all show the signs of a changing climate.

  From global temperature rise to melting ice sheets, the evidence of a warming planet abounds.

• • Climate Crisis is Accelerating Antibiotic Resistance Across the World

  Experts Say Climate Change Linked to 10% Rise In Salmonella Antibiotic Resistance Genes Between 1940 and 2023

  

  May 26, 2026 -The climate crisis is accelerating a global increase in antibiotic resistance that poses a serious threat to human health, experts have said as figures show a rise in salmonella antibiotic resistant genes.

  Antibiotic resistance is one of the fastest-growing threats to global health. It can affect people of any age in any country and already kills more than 1 million people a year, according to estimates.

• • Climate Change Alarms Are Flashing

  Washington Isn’t Paying Attention
  
  {E&E NEWS}

  May 26, 2026 -The climate system’s warning signs are blaring, but hardly anyone in Washington has noticed.

  In recent months, scientists have revealed new ways climate change is affecting the planet: Higher temperatures threaten to worsen damage from a potentially historic El Niño; a record warm winter in the U.S. West pushed river levels near catastrophic levels; new data shows the planet heating up more quickly, shrinking Arctic ice cover to record lows; a critical ocean current that regulates weather is closer to collapse than previously thought.

  Those developments come as the Trump administration has shredded regulations to corral planet-heating gases, hamstrung climate science agencies and dismantled research institutions. Democrats, meanwhile, have shifted their messaging to energy affordability ahead of the midterm elections, and the environmental movement has gone to ground.

• • Exceptionally Early Heat Wave Shatters Records

  Bringing Deaths in Europe

  

  May 26, 2026 -The United Kingdom smashed a century-old temperature record for the second time in 24 hours on Tuesday as a spring heat wave scorches parts of Western Europe, triggering government warnings about risks to life. Several drownings were reported in Britain and France as people tried to cool down.

  A temperature of 35.1 degrees Celsius (95.2 degrees Fahrenheit) was recorded at London’s Kew Gardens, Britain’s Met Office weather service said, breaking the 34.8 C (94.6 F) record set a day earlier at Kew. The provisional readings smashed the long-standing record of 32.8 C (91.4 F) set in 1922 and matched in 1944.

• • Why a ‘Heat Dome’ Over Europe is
  Shattering Temperature Records Right Now

  Western Europe is Essentially Trapped in the Weather Equivalent of a Dutch Oven

  

  May 26, 2026 -Western Europe is sweltering under a record-breaking heat wave. This week, London set a new all-time high temperature record for May of around 95 degrees Fahrenheit (about 35 degrees Celsius), while parts of France hit about 99 degrees F (about 37 degrees C) and Spain saw temperatures surpass 100 degrees F (about 38 degrees C).

  The reason for the searing temperatures is a “heat dome” hanging over Western Europe—this is essentially a blob of high-pressure air that traps hot air like a Dutch oven. And climate change is helping to drive that hot air toward extremes.

• • Why Scientists Retired the Dire Climate Scenario Used for Over a Decade

  While Global Warming is Still a Threat, the Decision to Back Away From a Worst-Case Outlook Raises Questions About Whether Some Risks Have Been Overstated

  

  May 26, 2026 -It’s rare for technical papers about climate modeling to kick off a heated public debate, or attract attention from the White House.

  But that’s what happened recently after an international team of researchers published a major revision of the emissions scenarios used to study global warming.

• • El Niño to Spur Above-Average Hurricane
  Season in Eastern and Central Pacific, NOAA Says

  Meanwhile, the US Agency Forecast a Below-Average Season in the Atlantic Basin as El Niño Typically Suppresses Hurricane Development There
  
  {EARTH.ORG}

  May 26, 2026 -The central and eastern Pacific is likely to see above-average hurricane activity this year owing to the development of El Niño conditions, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said last week.

  In March, weather forecasters, including NOAA, predicted a high chance of an El Niño event developing later this year. The global climatic phenomenon, which occurs every two to seven years on average, is associated with the warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. When this happens, the east-to-west trade winds die, keeping warmer than the normal air in the eastern and central parts of the tropical Pacific.

• • Witnessing the Disappearance of Indonesia’s ‘Eternity Glaciers

  ‘Planetary Destruction On Fast-Forward’

  

  May 25, 2026 -An expedition to document the end days of the last tropical glaciers in Oceania has revealed sombre footage of “planetary destruction on fast-forward”.

  The once-mighty ice sheets on Puncak Jaya, a mountain surrounded by dense rainforests in West Papua, Indonesia, have survived beyond projections they would disappear by 2026 but have shrunk to a fraction of their original size.

• • High Temperatures In the May 2026 Westernc European
  Heatwave Exacerbated By Human-Driven Climate Change

  Meteorological Conditions Similar to Those Causing the May 2026 Western European Heatwave Are Up to 2.5?°C Warmer Than They Were In the Past
  
  {ClimaMeter}

  May 25, 2026 -The most extreme heat conditions intensified by climate change have exposed about 124 million people and 5885 billion USD of economic activity.

  This event was associated with rare meteorological conditions that, in the past, occurred mainly in autumn but are now also emerging in spring. In late spring, however, they can favor the development of a heat dome, amplifying already hot conditions.

  We ascribe the high temperatures causing the May 2026 Western European Heatwave to human-driven climate change, while natural climate variability likely played a minor role.

• • India’s Gig Workers Battle Exhaustion Amid Soaring Temperatures

  Cities Across South and South-East Asia Are Becoming Places Where Informal Workers Can No Longer Recover From the Heat

  

  May 25, 2026 -By the time Jalaj Jha begins getting ready for work each morning, he already feels drained. Awakening in a cramped room in Delhi, with no ventilation except a rattling fan pushing hot air around, the 24-year-old gig worker has ahead of him a 12-hour shift delivering groceries.

  “I barely sleep three or four hours in this heat,” Jha said, wiping dust off his motorbike, which he uses for deliveries. “I wake up exhausted. It feels like my body is pulling me down.”

• • First Heat Wave of the Year Hits Parts of Britain

  Forecasters Warned That Temperatures Could Climb to the Highest Level Ever Recorded in the Month of May

  

  May 25, 2026 -Large parts of Britain were officially in their first heat wave of the year on Monday, with forecasters warning that temperatures could climb to the highest level ever recorded in the month of May.

  Temperatures were expected to surge far above seasonal averages, with highs reaching 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) in some areas of England. If reached, that would shatter Britain’s May temperature record of 32.8 degrees Celsius (91 degrees Fahrenheit), which was set in 1944, according to the Met Office, the country’s official weather service.

• • Can Concrete Molds Revive Coral Reefs
  Ruined by Bombs and Climate Change?

  In a Devastated Section of the Coral Triangle in the Pacific Ocean, a Conservation Group is Trying to Build an Artificial Reef

  

  May 24, 2026 -The small boat set off from a tiny island in the Western Pacific Ocean, its destination only a few hundred feet away. Its cargo was dozens of chunks of concrete that each weighed 60 pounds, had a textured surface and evoked a white lotus leaf.

  One by one, the crew tossed the pieces overboard. Then three divers descended 20 feet to the seabed with nuts, bolts and steel rods. As they began fastening the concrete pieces on top of each other, hundreds of curious damsel fish gathered around them and three green turtles circled nearby.

• • Climate Change Threatens Global Plant Species as Habitats Shrink

  Study Looked At More Than 67,000 Vascular Plant Species

  

  May 23, 2026 -Some of the plants that make familiar landscapes recognizable may not survive by century's end as climate change becomes an increasingly important driver of species loss, according to scientists, reshaping and often shrinking suitable ?habitats that the plants need to survive.

  Researchers modelled future ranges for numerous species of vascular plants, a category that accounts for almost all the world's plants - those with water- and nutrient-carrying tissues. They looked at more than 67,000 species, meaning about 18% of the world's known vascular plants.

• • India Records Over 300 Suspected Heatstroke
  Cases as Summer Temperatures Spike

  Here Are Some Details:

  

  May 22, 2026 -More than 300 suspected cases of heat-related illnesses have been reported in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh from ?the start of March to mid-May, the state's health department said.

  Andhra Pradesh reported 325 suspected heatstroke cases between March 1 and May 19 – with roughly a third of them reported since the start of May.

  Heatstroke, a medical emergency caused by the body overheating, can trigger confusion, dizziness, nausea, seizures, loss of consciousness and organ failure if ?not treated promptly.

  State authorities advised people to avoid going outdoors between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. as "heatwaves and extreme temperatures are at their peak".

• • Rice Has Fed Civilizations for 9,000 Years, But...

  Climate Change Is Pushing It Toward Its Heat Limit
  
  {ZME SCIENCE}

  May 21, 2026 -Rice has always been a heat-loving plant, at home in the warm, wet landscapes of Asia. It spread with the first farmers, fed early civilisations, and became one of humanity’s most important staple crops.

  But even rice has its limits.

  A new study suggests that global warming is pushing major rice-growing regions toward temperatures beyond anything the crop has endured in its 9,000-year history of cultivation. According to the findings, the planet is warming 5,000 times faster than the crop can adapt naturally.

• • A Powerful El Niño Is Forming

  If History Is a Guide,
  It Could Hit Hard

  

  May 21, 2026 -Well before it was understood, the El Niño phenomenon was leaving its marks on humanity.

  El Niño is the name given to powerful shifts in Pacific Ocean winds and water temperatures that can drastically transform global weather patterns. Over the centuries these natural patterns have sparked epic droughts and heat waves, and have intensified epidemics.

• • As Seas Rise, Where Will Louisiana’s Fishers Go?

  A New Paper Says New Orleans Must Relocate Inland. But....

  

  May 21, 2026 -A new paper generated a fair amount of consternation and eye-rolling when the authors claimed that New Orleans, the largest city in Louisiana, is at risk of being surrounded by open water by the end of the century.

  As human-caused global warming continues to drive sea level rise, coastal Louisiana, the paper states, has likely “already crossed the point of no return.” Under the current warming trajectory, the projected loss of the remaining coastal wetlands in southern Louisiana puts over 1 million residents “in harm’s way,” according to the authors. Though that may sound shocking, it wasn’t the controversial part of the paper, which was published in Nature Sustainability this month — at least not to some outspoken critics.

• • See How This 9,000-Mile Freight Train of
  Warm Water May Fuel a Super El Niño

  The Key to Just How Intense an El Niño May Become This Year Lies Hundreds of Feet Down in the Pacific Ocean

  

  May 20, 2026 -The key to the intensity of a coming El Niño lies hundreds of feet down in the Pacific Ocean.

  That’s where a freight train of record-warm water is chugging along. This train, called a Kelvin wave, is carrying ocean waters that have reached 7.5 degrees Celsius (13.5 degrees Fahrenheit) above average in parts of the deep ocean — a huge amount of warming for the ocean, which warms and cools much slower than land.

• • UK ‘Built For Climate That No Longer Exists’
  and Needs Urgent Changes to Survive Global Heating

  Landmark Report Calls For Widespread Air Conditioning and Says UK Temperatures Forecast to Exceed 40C By 2050

  

  May 19, 2026 -British homes will need air conditioning to survive predicted levels of global heating, the government’s climate advisers have warned in a report, as measures such as drawing curtains, opening windows and growing trees for shade are not likely to be enough.

  Air conditioning should be installed in all care homes and hospitals within the next 10 years, and in all schools within 25 years, according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC), which published a major report on adapting to the impacts of global heating on Wednesday.

• • Weather Alert For Massachusetts: Heat advisory
  Tuesday and Wednesday, Then Strong Thunderstorms

  A Heat Advisory Remains In Effect With Feels-Like Temperatures Climbing Close to 96 Degrees, As Temperatures In the 90s on Tuesday and Again On Wednesday
  
  {WCVB5}

  May 19, 2026 -Boston beat the old record high of 90 degrees for Tuesday just before noon. The high in the city is expected to reach 94 degrees.

  The record high in Boston for Wednesday is 91 degrees, which was set in 1996. In Worcester, the record of 91 degrees was set in 1903.

  Isolated afternoon and evening thunderstorms may develop during the hottest part of the day on Wednesday. Some storms could bring strong wind gusts and frequent lightning to parts of the Boston area and southern New England.

• • Scientists Now Say This Worst-Case Climate Scenario is ‘Implausible.’

  Here’s What It Means

  

  May 19, 2026 -For more than a decade, as scientists tried to evaluate just how much the planet might warm by the end of the century, the most extreme scenario they considered in models was one in which humanity doubled down on burning of fossil fuels, took no action to limit emissions and suffered profound consequences as the world grew hotter.

  Now, as time has passed and the world has changed, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change seems poised to retire its most extreme future emissions scenario, commonly known as RCP 8.5, after scientists found that those projections “have become implausible.”

• • High Humidity and Record Heat Will Make It Feel Like July in the East

  Maps Show How Hot and Humid It’s Expected to Get

  

  May 18, 2026 -The season’s first widespread surge of humid air is spreading from the Midwest to the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, along with record heat.

  Around 110 million people — including many easterners — can expect high temperatures in the 90s and increasingly muggy conditions through Wednesday, making it feel more like July than May.

• • Extreme Heat is Breaking Records in the East

  Here's the Reason Why

  

  May 19, 2026 -For those in the eastern half of the country, mid-May is feeling a lot more like midsummer, with an early heat wave bringing record-breaking temperatures.

  Boston hit 96 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday, breaking the date’s previous record of 90 degrees F, which was set back in 1949. Washington Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C., hit 94 degrees F, surpassing the previous record for May 19 of 92 degrees F. The city reached 97 degrees F, surpassing the previous record by one degree F. And Philadelphia reached 98 degrees F on Tuesday, besting the previous record of 96 degrees F, which was set in 1962.

• • A Green Mineral Could Help Oceans Absorb Carbon

  And Its First Beach Test Looks Promising
  
  {ZME SCIENCE}

  May 19, 2026 -In 2022, researchers added crushed green olivine to a beach in Southampton, New York, to test whether the mineral could help the ocean absorb more carbon dioxide. Then they let the waves carry it offshore—and watched what happened to the animals living in the sand.

  The results mark the first field evidence for a climate change mitigation idea that, until now, had mostly lived in lab tanks and computer models. Over a year of monitoring, the seafloor community rebounded within months, while nickel, chromium, and other metals linked to olivine did not build up in the animals researchers sampled.

• • How a ‘Model’ for Climate Migration Became a Cautionary Tale

  The Residents of Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana Found Safety After Moving to Higher Ground. But...

  

  May 19, 2026 -May 18, 2026 -The community known as the New Isle looks a lot like how things used to be on Isle de Jean Charles, an hour’s drive south through the eroding Louisiana bayou: Families from the same native tribe living along a single lane, surrounded by glistening waters full of fish.

  The New Isle’s artificial waterways, though, don’t contain the species Amy Handon loved to eat on the island where she lived before the federal government paid to move her. There are fewer bugs, mercifully, far from the marshes slowly drowning into the Gulf of Mexico. But there is also traffic speeding past, and a homeowner’s association that ordered Ms. Handon and her relatives to stop parking their cars on the grass.

• • Scientists Tweaked the Global Warming Outlook. So Trump Weighed In.

  Renewable Energy has Helped Make the Worst-Case Scenario a Bit Less Bad. Trump Said, Falsely, It Shows That Climate Scientists Were Wrong All Along

  

  May 18, 2026 -Scientists are dialing back their worst-case scenario for how hot the world might get from climate change. That’s a small bit of good news. But over the weekend, President Trump falsely claimed it was evidence that scientists had been wrong.

  Here’s a look at what’s changing, what it means and what the president said.

• • April Temperatures Hit Joint Third-Highest on Record Globally

  The Chance of Very Strong El Niño Grows
  
  {EARTH.ORG}

  May 18, 2026 -May 18, 2026 -Last month was the joint third-warmest April on record, with temperatures 1.43C above pre-industrial levels, the European Union’s Earth Observation program Copernicus has confirmed.

  The month continued the streak of extreme global warmth seen in recent months, with December, January, and February each ranking as the fifth-warmest for their respective months, and March as the fourth-warmest March globally. Amid this sustained global heat, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said it is “virtually certain” that 2026 will rank among the 10 warmest years ever recorded, with the year also on pace to finish among the top five warmest on record.

• • Wildlife Officials Warn of More Bear Sightings
  as Drought Pushes Animals Into Colorado Communities

  Colorado Parks and Wildlife Said it Has Already Received 98 Bear Reports Across 22 Counties as of Late April
  
  {DENVER7}

  May 17, 2026 -Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) is warning about a potential increase in human-bear conflicts as the prolonged dry weather this winter is pushing hungry black bears into neighborhoods.

  CPW said it has already received 98 reports of bear activity in 22 counties as of late April, compared to 127 reports in the same counties for all of last year. The wildlife agency said drought can lead to less natural food for bears, forcing them to look for food associated with humans.

• • China Sends Rescue Workers to Guangxi Flood Site

  At Least One Person Was Found Dead While Nine Passengers Remain Missing

  

  May 17, 2026 -China sent emergency rescue workers to the rural Guangxi region in the southwest on Sunday after a pickup truck carrying 15 passengers fell into a flooded river the previous evening, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

  At least one person was found dead while nine passengers remain missing, CCTV reported earlier on Sunday.

  Heavy rains over the weekend in southern China heightened the risk of flooding, the ministry of emergency management said in meetings with provincial authorities on Sunday.

• • Wild Blueberry Farms Across Maine Suffer as
  Climate Change Upends Growing Seasons

  Heat and Drought Have Set the Plants Back to a Point Where Many Small Farmers Are Struggling Against Reduced Yields and Increased Costs For Mulch and Irrigation

  

  May 16, 2026 -Last summer, the wild blueberry fields at Crystal Spring Farm turned red too soon.

  Severe drought had gripped most of the state of Maine. At his farm near the town of Brunswick, Seth Kroeck knew the leaves were changing color prematurely because the blueberry plants were stressed. Berries shriveled before they could ripen.

  The farm’s 2025 harvest was almost a total loss.

• • Declare Climate Crisis a Global Public
  Health Emergency, Experts Tell WHO

  Commission Says Alert Would Trigger Coordinated International Response That Could Help Avoid Millions Dying

  

  May 16, 2026 -The climate crisis should be declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization, or millions more people will die unnecessarily, leading international experts have said.

  The independent pan-European commission on climate and health, which was convened by the WHO, concluded the climate crisis was such a worldwide threat to health that the WHO should declare it “a public health emergency of international concern” (Pheic).

• • The Emerging Weather Threat Facing the South

  And Why the Risk Remains a Big Problem in the Region

  

  May 15, 2026 -Thomas Barrett has already seen more wildfires across Georgia this spring than he cares to recall.

  Two massive blazes in the southern part of the state were finally under control several weeks after they began, but not until they had devoured more than 50,000 acres and destroyed more than 100 homes. Then there were the thousands of other conflagrations the state’s firefighters have had to confront this season — 4,813 as of Thursday, not that Barrett was counting.

• • El Nino to Fuel Pacific Hurricane Season,
  Increase Risks for California, Hawaii, Mexico

  The Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Starts On May 15, and AccuWeather Hurricane Experts Are Warning That El Niño Could Promote a Surge in Activity in 2026
  
  {Acu Weather}

  May 15, 2026 -Exceptionally warm waters and a developing El Niño will boost tropical activity during the 2026 Eastern and Central Pacific hurricane season, raising the risk of direct impacts in Hawaii, Southern California and parts of Mexico.

  The Eastern and Central Pacific basins are expected to produce above the historical average number of named storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes in 2026.

  The Eastern Pacific hurricane season started on May 15, while the Central Pacific hurricane season begins on June 1.

• • Lessons of a Landslide Detective

  Across Our Warming World, the Ground is Growing Less Stable

  

  May 15, 2026 -From atop a narrow ledge some 2,000 feet high, the tiny white speck of a 144-passenger tour boat stands out against the jade surface of Alaska’s Portage Lake as it putters up to the face of a steep glacier that towers over the shoreline. On the far end of the lake, just out of view, is the visitor center, a 1980s brutalist mass of glass and concrete hanging out over the water. Below this ledge is a slow-moving landslide.

  It’s not a landslide as you might picture one—a rapid flow of dirt and debris rushing downhill after heavy rain. Instead, it’s a mass of bedrock moving around six feet per year, which could accelerate to a sudden collapse. If that happens, a resulting tsunami in the water below could capsize the tour boat, wipe out the visitor center with a wave several hundred feet high, flood the valley, and maybe spill over Portage Pass, a narrow gap between the Chugach and Kenai Mountains, inundating an airstrip and a cruise ship terminal four miles beyond us.

• • Extreme Heat Now a ‘Regular Reality’ in India, Pakistan

  Heat On the Scale of a Recent Heatwave in South Asia is Now Likely to Occur Once Every Five Years Owing to Human-Induced Warming
  
  {EARTH.ORG}

  May 15, 2026 -Baking hot temperatures are becoming the norm in many South Asian nations, according to a new study.

  A group of researchers with World Weather Attribution analyzed historic observational data and used climate model simulations to quantify the effect of human-caused warming on a heatwave that swept across India and Pakistan in late April and early May. The event brought temperatures exceeding 46C to several cities, killing at least 37 people in India and 10 in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city.

  Such extreme heat, researchers say, is three times as likely to occur on a warming planet compared to pre-industrial climate – now expected once every five years. This makes it no longer an extreme event, but rather a “regular reality,” said Mariam Zachariah, Research Associate in Extreme Weather and Climate Change at Imperial College London and one of the researchers involved in the study.

• • A Closely Guarded Plan to Cool Earth is Revealed

  A Geoengineering Company Would Use Tiny Specks of Silica to Block Sun Rays — and Make Billions of Dollars
  
  {Politico}

  May 15, 2026 - Wednesday night, the City of Victor said portions of the water system have been experiencing “higher than normal” water pressure as a result of the main water line repair.

  It hinges on aerosol particles that are 125 times smaller than the tiniest grain of sand.

  City officials said they are aware of the problem and are making adjustments in the system to stabilize the pressure.

  During this time, residents are asked to monitor plumbing systems and appliances, specifically water heaters, boilers, pressure regulators and any other water-connected equipment, for signs of leaks

• • Winter-Like Weather Returns to Colorado Monday

  The Barometer Will Begin Dipping Late Sunday and into Monday as Widespread Rain and Mountain Snow Move Into the Area
  
  {Denver7}

  May 14, 2026 - Get ready for temperatures to take a nose dive, Denver. A much colder, wetter system will be arriving late Sunday into Monday, bringing widespread rain, mountain snow, and a sharp temperature drop.

  The National Weather Service said a few flakes might even fall along the I-25 corridor Monday afternoon, but accumulation is unlikely.

• • Can Some Very Tiny Particles Cool the Planet?

  One Tech Company Says Yes

  

  May 14, 2026 -A company at the forefront of solar geoengineering — the notion that blocking radiation from the sun could cool a warming planet — has disclosed details of the materials it wants to sprinkle in the atmosphere.

  Stardust Solutions, led by former members of Israel’s nuclear energy program, is publishing research on Thursday that reveals the chemical properties of its particles, how they would affect the atmosphere and how high-flying aircraft would disperse the material.

• • Chance of a ‘Super’ El Niño Grows

  And It’s Just Around the Corner
  
  {THE HILL}

  May 14, 2026 -El Niño is waiting in the wings. An updated forecast released by the National Weather Service on Thursday gave the climate phenomenon an 82% chance of taking over at some point between May and July.

  As the year goes on, the odds of an El Niño grow even higher. National forecasters say there’s a 96% chance of El Niño lasting through the winter, the season when it typically reaches peak strength.

• • They’ve Got a Plan to Combat Global Warming (and Also Russian Tanks)

  Lithuanian Officials Hope Restored Peat Bogs Can Reinforce the Border in Addition to Locking Away Planet-Warming Carbon

  

  May 13, 2026 -In a scrubby forest an hour outside the Lithuanian capital on a recent day this spring, excavators were digging ditches and tree harvesters were whirring in an effort to restore a waterlogged, mosquito-infested ecosystem that was drained in the Soviet era.

  The reason is twofold: to help the climate and to defend the country from invasion.

• • Water Costs Are Rising Faster Than
  Inflation — and Sending Bills Soaring

  The Cost of Water and Related Services is Rising Twice as Fast as Inflation While Utilities Scramble to Cope With Escalating Droughts and More Intense Storms

  

  May 13, 2026 -When the reservoirs that provide water to Corpus Christi, Texas, dropped to just a tenth of their full capacity, officials knew they needed to take drastic action. Forecasts projected the city, which had entered its fourth year of drought, could run out of water in a matter of months.

  So the city council approved nearly half a billion dollars to seek out new water sources, including paying a contractor almost 40 percent more to speed up construction of a nearly $500 million groundwater project for which it didn’t yet have the necessary permits.

• • Where Extreme Heat Could Threaten the World Cup

  Endangering Players and Fans

  

  May 14, 2026 -The upcoming FIFA World Cup is expected to be the most-watched sporting event in history, with more than 5 million people slated to attend an expanded competition hosted across the United States, Canada and Mexico.

  But with 104 matches scheduled for the height of North American summer, scientists warn the tournament could also be one of history’s hottest.groundwater project for which it didn’t yet have the necessary permits.

• • India’s Heat Plans Are Growing, But the Real Test Lies Beyond Policy

  Although More Than 130 Indian Cities Now Have HAPs, Many Remain “Largely Guiding Documents On Paper”
  
  {DOWN TO EARTH}

  May 14, 2026 -India entered yet another summer marked by record-breaking temperatures with states already recording heat wave conditions. However, even as state governments announce increasingly ambitious interventions, experts have told Down To Earth that the gap between policy and implementation remains the country’s biggest climate governance challenge.

  This is especially concerning as India remains among the countries most vulnerable to heat stress. Heat exposure has led to the loss of 247 billion potential labour hours in 2024, marking a record high and a 124 per cent increase compared to 1990-1999 levels, according to the 2025 edition of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change.

• • Water Costs Are Rising Faster Than
  Inflation — and Sending Bills Soaring

  The Cost of Water and Related Services is Rising Twice as Fast as Inflation While Utilities Scramble to Cope With Escalating Droughts and The cost of water and related services is rising twice as fast as inflation while utilities scramble to cope with escalating droughts and more intense storms.rms.

  

  May 13, 2026 -When the reservoirs that provide water to Corpus Christi, Texas, dropped to just a tenth of their full capacity, officials knew they needed to take drastic action. Forecasts projected the city, which had entered its fourth year of drought, could run out of water in a matter of months.

  So the city council approved nearly half a billion dollars to seek out new water sources, including paying a contractor almost 40 percent more to speed up construction of a nearly $500 million groundwater project for which it didn’t yet have the necessary permits.

• • Much of the American West Could See Worse
  Than Usual Wildfire Risk This Summer

  The National Interagency Fire Center Predicts Elevated Wildfire Potential Across Much of the West and Many Southeast States Through August
  
  {ZME SCIENCE}

  May 13, 2026 -A warm, dry spring has set the stage for above-average significant wildland fire risk across much of the southern and western United States this summer, and no part of the United States will have below-average fire potential through the end of August.

  These predictions are part of a 4-month outlook produced monthly by the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), a group of wildland fire experts from eight federal agencies that coordinates wildland fire resources across the country.

• • A Super El Niño Wiped Out Millions of People
  in 1877. Are We Better Prepared Now?

  The Climatic Phenomenon is Expected to Return This Year, But a Lot Has Changed Since What Might Have Been the Worst Environmental Disaster in Human History

  

  May 12, 2026 As chances rise for one of the strongest El Niño events on record later this year, the potential for dangerous conditions has prompted comparisons to 1877, when such an event drove catastrophe around the globe.

  El Niño is a warming of ocean waters in the east-central tropical Pacific that develops every few years. This year, ocean temperatures there could surge 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) above average and break records.

• • How Climate Change Could Help Hantavirus Find More Hosts

  Experts Say Extreme Weather is Boosts the Odds That the Pathogens Carried By Rodents Will Spill Over Into Human Populations

  

  May 12, 2026 -The cruise ship departed Ushuaia, Argentina, in April with plans to ferry 147 passengers and crew members to some of the most remote places on earth, including Antarctica. But the ship, named the MV Hondius, had its voyage cut short by a rare virus that has killed three and infected several others.

  Hantaviruses are an ancient family of rodent-borne pathogens that likely caused disease in humans long before they first appeared in medical records in the 1950s. The viruses infect people via rodent waste — often through the inhalation of dust containing trace amounts of the excreta. Andes hantavirus, the strain that gripped the MV Hondius on its polar cruise, is one of a few hantaviruses known to cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare but often deadly illness.

• • River ‘Piracy’ is Draining One of China’s Biggest Waterways

  For the Last 1.7 Million Years, China’s Yangtze River has Been Stealing Water From the Yellow River

  

  May 12, 2026 -One of China’s two major rivers is “pirating” water from the other, according to new research. Over the past 1.7 million years, the Yangtze River has been stealing water from the Yellow River, and the theft could worsen dangerously low water levels in the latter.

  The Yangtze and Yellow Rivers are among the longest in the world. They stretch thousands of miles across China and supply hundreds of millions of people with water. And now, researchers estimate, the Yellow River has lost some five billion square meters of water to the Yangtze every year on average over the long term. The findings, which were published last week in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, add critical insight to China’s plans to combat water shortages caused by climate change and human overuse of the Yellow River. In other words, to reshape a river, you need to understand the ancient forces that are already acting on it.

• • Wildfires Strike Florida, Georgia and America’s ‘Wood Basket’

  Large Fires, Fueled By a Record Breaking Drought, Have Been Destroying Homes and Timber Plantations In Southeastern States

  

  May 12, 2026 -Florida and Georgia are seeing an unusually severe and early start to a wildfire season that is shaping up to be one of the worst in decades.

  The fires are driven by a widespread drought gripping the Southeast. Virtually all of Georgia and 94 percent of Florida is in a state of drought ranked by the U.S. Drought Monitor as “severe” or worse.

• • Oregon Prepares for a Challenging Summer
  of Water Shortages and High Fire Risk

  After a Warm Winter That Brought More Rain Than Snow, the State’s Snowpack Was the Lowest It Has Ever Been

  

  May 12, 2026 -This time of year, Don Gabbard, a fire chief in eastern Oregon, wants to look up at the Strawberry Mountains and see a blanket of snow.

  That snow can help delay the start of the region’s wildfire season. Fire crews count on winter weather to moisten the landscape, decreasing the chances that a random lightning storm or forgotten campfire will set off a large, expensive and potentially deadly fire during the drier months of summer.

• • The Hole in the Ice at the End of the Earth

  Ten people. Eight Weeks. Three Thousand Feet to Pierce a Fast-Melting Antarctic Glacier

  

  May 11, 2026 -The glacier’s rippling mass sprawled from the hills and volcanoes of the Antarctic interior out into the Southern Ocean, covering an area the size of Britain. Won Sang Lee stood on its ice, his tall frame wrapped in a red polar suit, and watched his team at work. Nine scientists, engineers and guides, some of whom had been planning this mission with him for more than half a decade. Now, they were at its final stage: drilling through the melting glacier to reach the vast ocean cavity beneath it.

  They were tired, hungry. They kept themselves going with tea, crackers and protein bars. They’d crossed the world’s wildest ocean, flown in helicopters over the wasteland of the glacier’s wounded ice, then toiled for days through lashing winds, all for a shot, a single shot, at piercing the ice at the bottom of the Earth. Periodically, they heard booms as the glacier shifted and crevassed under their feet.

• • Trump Administration to Scrap Rule That Elevated Land Conservation

  The Biden-Era Measure Was Intended to Protect Millions of Acres From Industrial Development and the Effects of Climate Change

  

  May 11, 2026 -The Trump administration on Monday said it would repeal a Biden-era rule that allowed public lands to be leased for conservation purposes, abandoning an effort to protect millions of acres from both industrial development and the effects of climate change.

  The rule, issued by the Bureau of Land Management, had prioritized the use of federal lands for conservation, recreation and renewable energy development. Since returning to office, though, President Trump has championed their use for oil and gas drilling, coal mining, logging and livestock grazing.

• • Why the Colorado River is Once Again Facing a Water Crisis

  A Stopgap Proposal From Arizona, California and Nevada is Unlikely to Break the Stalemate in Negotiations Over the Future of the River

  

  May 10, 2026 -The situation on the Colorado River has rarely been more dire than in this moment. The snowpacks that feed the river are the smallest on record. The reservoirs that hold the majority of its water are nearing historic lows.

  Neither a stopgap proposal aimed at stabilizing the nation’s largest reservoir, nor a late-season snowstorm are sufficient to avert a looming water crisis, experts say. But with Western states at an impasse in negotiations over the river’s future, recent short-term wins may at least temporarily hold off cuts to people’s water supply in the lower part of the basin.

• • Where Summerlike, Record-Breaking Heat Will Hit the U.S. This Week

  Temperatures Are Forecast to Top 90 Degrees For 50 Million People and 100 Degrees for 11 Million More

  

  May 10, 2026 -Record heat is expected to sizzle across 22 states this week — with the most intense conditions expected across the Intermountain West, Plains and South. Temperatures are forecast to top 90 degrees for about 50 million people and 100 degrees for 11 million more.

  The heat blast comes as about 60 percent of the United States grapples with drought, particularly in areas where some of the hottest conditions are expected this week.

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