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

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

  

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

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

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

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

  

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

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

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

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

  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

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

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

• • The Future of Duxbury Reef

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

  

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

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

• • Heat Wave Blasting Europe is the Worst Ever Recorded

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

  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  False Promises
  
  {PROPUBLICA}

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

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

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

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

  

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

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

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

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

  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  Early Summer Heat Risks Damage to Crops

  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  Unhappy Trails To You
  
  {NHPR}

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

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

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

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

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

  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• • Extreme Heat is Melting National Records Across Europe

  With More Coming Thursday
  
  {CNN Weather}

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

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

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

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

  

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

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

• • Europe Created Heat-Wave Protections

  Now Comes the ‘Crash Test’

  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  Climate Change is Increasing Human-Snake Encounters

  

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

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

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

  This, Accoding to Climatologists
  
  {KUOW NPR}

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

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

• • How Climate Change Gets Under Your Skin

  Exploring the Ways Climate Change Affects Your Health

  

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

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

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

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

  

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

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

• • The Water Is Rising in Chesapeake Bay

  Can Tangier Island Be Saved?

  

  June 22, 2026 - Terry Parks stood in the rear of a boat passing the western shore of Tangier Island.

  A native of this Chesapeake Bay island, he pointed to an area of bulky rocks with withered and wispy green grasses under the sun. A blue water tower stood in the distance.

  “That’s grandma’s house,” Parks said, pointing to the gray peaked roofs of homes. “When I was a kid, about a hundred or so yards off the bank is where I used to play. Now there’s about five feet of water there.”

• • US Pushes World Bank Climate Target to the Brink

  The Bank’s Goal of Steering 45 Percent of Its Financing Toward Climate Projects is Being Attacked By the White House Before It Expires At the End of June
  
  {E&E NEWS}

  June 22, 2026 -The fate of a World Bank climate target is hanging in the balance as the Trump administration pressures the institution to jettison what it calls a “distortionary” and “nonsensical” policy.

  The bank pledged three years ago to devote 45 percent of its funding to climate-related projects by 2025. It exceeded that goal by directing $39.2 billion, or 48 percent of its financing last year, to projects with climate benefits.

• • France Sizzles In Punishing Heat That is Already Causing Deaths

  Europe is the World’s Fastest-Warming Continent, With Temperatures Increasing at Twice the Speed as the Global Average Since the 1980s
  
  {THE Durango HERALD}

  June 22, 2026 -France gritted its teeth Monday for a week of record-busting temperatures, sweltering in a heat wave with daytime highs above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) and sleep-robbing sweaty nights.

  The national weather service, Meteo France, said most of the country — the largest in the European Union — was entering conditions that likely won't ease before Friday.

  Meteo France called the heat wave exceptionally intense and similar to the August 2003 heat wave, "but with a still uncertain duration.” France introduced a heat watch warning system after that heat wave, when the highest temperatures in over half a century caused an estimated 15,000 deaths, many of older people in apartments and retirement homes without air conditioning.

• • Heat Advisory Ahead For Western WA

  This May Be the First Official Week of Summer, But Forecasters Don’t Expect Springtime Weather to Leave Western Washington Without A Fight

  

  June 22, 2026 -A three-day heat wave kicks off Monday morning, but that will be followed by three days of expected cool, wet weather starting Thursday, according to the National Weather Service in Seattle.

  “Tuesday, we’ll almost set a record high (temperature), then on Friday we’ll be be close to setting a record low high temperature for the day,” meteorologist Dana Felton said Monday morning. “I don’t think we’re going to get there, but we’re going to be close.”

• • Spain Swelters In First Official Heatwave of 2026

  Aemet, the State-Run Weather Forecaster, Said 13 of Spain's 17 Regions Are On Orange Alert For Heat On Sunday

  

  June 21, 2026 -Tourists and locals in Madrid struggled to cope with temperatures reaching up to 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) on Sunday as the first official heatwave of 2026 set in, and authorities warned of over-exposure to the sun and an increased risk of wildfires.

  Haily San Cesario, a 22-year-old engineer visiting Madrid's El Rastro flea ?market from Miami said: "I'm dressed all in white because it's so hot, and I'm carrying my little electric fan everywhere I go."

• • Scientists Discover Stunning Silver Lining Hidden in Thawing Permafrost

  You’ll Want to Hear This
  
  {HEALTHY HAPPY NEWS}

  June 21, 2026 -Thawing permafrost doesn’t just release carbon—it actually pulls greenhouse gases back out of the atmosphere too.

  Landmark research reveals nature’s built-in balancing act we never knew existed.

  This beautiful discovery offers genuine hope in our changing climate story.

  When scientists talk about thawing permafrost, it usually sounds like a one-way ticket to climate doom. But hold onto your hat—a groundbreaking new study just flipped that narrative on its head, and the findings are genuinely heartwarming.

  Yes, permafrost releases ancient carbon as it thaws. That part we knew. But here’s the uplifting twist: that same thawing process also triggers a natural absorption of emissions from the atmosphere.

• • Europe Swelters Under Heatwave, France Restricts Alcohol Consumption

  France Expects 39 to 41 Degrees Celsius On Sunday

  

  June 20, 2026 -A punishing heatwave sweeping across much of Europe prompted a partial alcohol ban in France, nationwide warnings in Germany and the closure of a soccer fan zone in Spain, as temperatures climbed towards record levels.

  France was expecting 35 of its 96 departments or regions to declare red heatwave alerts on Sunday with temperatures of 39 ?to 40 degrees Celsius (102-104 Fahrenheit) expected from the southwest through the Paris region into Burgundy, ?with some areas possibly reaching 41C.

• • What the ‘Warming Stripes’ Tell Us About Climate Change

  June 20 Marks the Ninth Annual Show Your Stripes Day – an Event Dedicated to Growing Global Awareness About Human-Caused Climate Change and Turning the Climate Conversation Into Action
  
  {EARTH.ORG}

  June 20, 2026 - Created by climate scientist Ed Hawkins, the “warming stripes” are visual representations of annual or monthly temperature anomalies for a specific location or region over the past 100+ years. The visualization uses a color scale to represent temperature deviations from a baseline average, typically spanning several decades.

  In the warming stripes visualization, each stripe or bar represents a single year or month, and the color of the stripe represents the temperature anomaly for that specific time period. Blue shades indicate cooler temperatures or negative anomalies, while red shades represent warmer temperatures or positive anomalies.

• • Seattle Forecast: More Dry, Summery Weather With Highs Near 90

  “We Could Easily Hit 90,” Said Maddie Kristell, a Meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Seattle

  

  June 19, 2026 -Visitors to Seattle can bask in the warm sun and clear skies once more as the FIFA Men’s World Cup carries on in the city this week.

  Hotter weather returns Sunday and ramps up Monday, with Seattle-Tacoma International Airport projected to reach 89 degrees by Tuesday. That’s shy of last week’s record-breaking high temperatures in the 90s ahead of the Belgium-Egypt match at Seattle Stadium, but still plenty hot by Seattle standards.

• • WA’s Snowpack Zapped As Drought Looms, Reservoirs Sink

  Minimal Snowpack is Seen in the Cascade Mountains, Looking Toward Mercer Island and Bellevue

  

  June 19, 2026 -The remnants of Tropical Storm Arthur will move across the Carolinas early Friday before pushing offshore into the Atlantic.

  It will conclude a violent week of weather across the South, marked by a 1-in-200-year rain event in Louisiana, nearly 500 storm reports and at least three deaths.

  Some threat still remains. More downpours are forecast through the weekend on already sodden grounds in some communities cleaning up from the damage, as moisture trailing behind the storm brings further rain.

• • Arthur’s Remnants Push Offshore After Leaving a Trail of Damage

  The Storm Brought a 1-in-200-Year Rainfall Event to a Community in Louisiana

  

  June 19, 2026 -The remnants of Tropical Storm Arthur will move across the Carolinas early Friday before pushing offshore into the Atlantic.

  It will conclude a violent week of weather across the South, marked by a 1-in-200-year rain event in Louisiana, nearly 500 storm reports and at least three deaths.

  Some threat still remains. More downpours are forecast through the weekend on already sodden grounds in some communities cleaning up from the damage, as moisture trailing behind the storm brings further rain.

• • The UN Climate Process Was Built For Negotiation

  Now It Must Support Implementation
  
  {CLIMATE HOME NEWS}

  June 18, 2026 - In the corridors of the World Conference Centre in Bonn, where the June Climate Meetings (SB64) will conclude on Thursday, the need for change is palpable.

  Delegates are grappling once again with overcrowded agendas, growing demands on limited negotiating time, external geopolitical pressures that reverberate internally to test the limits of a consensus-based process, and concerns over its future financial sustainability.

• • Bonn Climate Talks End In “Gridlock”
  On Adaptation and Emissions-Cutting

  Splits Between Developed and Developing Countries Over Finance and Science Held Back Progress On Key Areas of Climate Action...
  
  {CLIMATE HOME NEWS}

  June 18, 2026 -After two weeks of climate negotiations riven by arguments over finance and science, the UN climate chief expressed disappointment and denounced governments for “cherry-picking” commitments they have already made and waiting for others to move first.

  In their final hours on Thursday evening, the talks tried - and failed - to reach a deal that would have balanced developing countries’ demands for reassurance on finance to help them adapt to climate impacts with richer nations’ desire to move forward with work on speeding up emissions reductions in line with science.

• • Finance Row Threatens to Scupper Work On Adaptation Goal

  As the Bonn Talks Came to a Close, Many Countries Expressed Disappointment About a Lack of Progress on Work to Advance Adaptation to Climate Impacts
  
  {CLIMATE HOME NEWS}

  June 18, 2026 -One of the key tasks for this year’s Bonn talks is to agree on how to put into practice the indicators for the Global Goal on Adaptation, which were hurriedly redrafted by governments at the end of COP30 after years of painstaking work by experts.

  Making them usable involves drawing up contextual information (metadata) and methodologies for the indicators. They include metrics such as the number of people per 100,000 who are covered by early warning systems or the proportion of the population vulnerable to climate change that have access to mental health and psychosocial support.

• • Arizona Reservoir Nearly Vanishes After
  Snowpack Collapse Triggers Massive Fish Kill

  A Historic Lack of Snow in the Gila River Watershed Has Left Arizona’s San Carlos Reservoir Less Than 1% Full...
  
  {ScienceDaily}

  June 18, 2026 -One of the Southwest’s most important rivers is facing a dramatic crisis after an exceptionally dry winter left its mountain snowpack nearly nonexistent. Credit: Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.

  The Gila River is one of the Southwest's most vital waterways, supplying water to communities, farms, and wildlife while connecting the snow-covered mountains of southwestern New Mexico with the desert landscapes of southwestern Arizona.

• • UN Food Agencies Seek $202 Million to
  Shield 8.8 Million People From El Niño

  The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Programme Appeal

  

  June 18, 2026 -Strong El Niño conditions in the second half of 2026 are predicted to increase the likelihood of drought, floods and storms across parts of Africa, Asia, the Pacific, ?and Latin America and the Caribbean, FAO and WFP said.

  The 22 countries most at risk are Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe in Africa; Afghanistan, Pakistan, Philippines and East Timor in Asia-Pacific; Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras and Venezuela in Latin America and the Caribbean.

• • Oceans in Asia Smash Heat Records

  What It Means For Extreme Weather
  
  {nature}

  June 17, 2026 -The amount of heat stored in oceans in Asia reached the highest level on record last year, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Ocean heat has risen sharply in the region since the 1990s, destabilizing ocean currents and marine life and driving up sea levels.

  The annual State of the Climate in Asia report, released on 17 June, found that in 2025, ocean heat content — the amount of heat stored down to a depth of 700 metres — was around 700 million joules per square metre higher than the 1991–2020 average.

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

  Human Activity is the Principal Cause
  
  {NASA}

  June 17, 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.

• • As Arthur Comes Ashore, Season’s First Tropical
  Storm May Bring Worsening Rain

  The Storm May Bring Another 5 to 10 Inches to the Southeast, Up to 20 Inches In Some Spots

  

  June 17, 2026 -A wide swath of the Southeast braced for dangerous floods as the first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season came ashore south of Houston on Wednesday afternoon, raising risks of worsening rains from Texas to the Florida Panhandle.

  Tropical Storm Arthur moved inland near Matagorda County, Texas, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm features sustained winds of 45 mph and is expected to bring two to four feet of storm surge to coastal communities.

• • US Public Still Favours Action On Climate
  Change Despite Trump’s Fossil Fuel Drive

  Two-Thirds of Americans Say They Are Worried About Climate But Level of Media Coverage Does Not Reflect This

  

  June 17, 2026 -US political and media discourse has drifted away from the climate crisis amid a frontal assault by Donald Trump upon policies to limit global heating and the president’s pugnacious demands to “drill, baby, drill” for more oil and gas.

  Yet while elite attention on climate has waned, even among some previously vocal Democrats who have wound back on criticism of the fossil fuels that are overheating our planet, the American public remains concerned about the climate crisis and continues to favour action to deal with it, according to experts and polling.

• • Season’s First Tropical Storm Could Dump
  More Than a Foot of Rain On the South

  Arthur’s Worst Impacts May Come From the Extreme Moisture It is Poised to Drop Across the Region

  

  June 17, 2026 -A wide swath of the Southeast braced for dangerous floods as the first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season bore down on the Gulf Coast on Wednesday, raising risks of heavy rains from Texas to the Florida Panhandle.

  Tropical Storm Arthur is currently moving along the Texas coast and is expected to make landfall Wednesday evening near the Texas-Louisiana border, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm features sustained winds of 45 mph and moisture levels that could set local records.

• • Australia Declares El Nino Set to Be Strongest In Decades

  Scientists Have Said Climate Change Will Supercharge the Effects ?of This Year's El Nino.

  

  June 16, 2026 - Australia's weather bureau warned on Tuesday that an El Nino weather pattern ?has formed in the tropical Pacific and could intensify in the second half of 2026 to become one of the strongest in seven decades.

  Forecasters expect the stronger weather event to bring excessive rains to the Americas and ?hot, dry conditions in Asia where crop planting is already ?being disrupted, raising concerns about food supplies in the world's ?most populous region.

• • Tropical Storm Watch Issued For Parts of Gulf Coast

  Tropical Storm Watch In Effect For What Could Be Hurricane Season's First Named Storm
  
  {abc NEWS}

  June 16, 2026 -Gulf Coast states already dealing with massive floods are bracing for even more extreme weather as the first tropical storm of the season could form as early as Tuesday night.

  The National Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm watch on Tuesday for the Gulf Coast from southeast Texas -- including the cities of Brazosport, Galveston and Port Arthur -- to parts of southwestern Louisiana.

• • Seattle’s Extremely Low Tides Unveil a World of Sea Life

  The Pros and Cons of Low Tide

  

  June 16, 2026 -As raucous spectators gathered at Seattle Stadium and around screens on Monday to watch the city’s first ever FIFA World Cup match, others gathered on Puget Sound’s beaches to take in a much quieter scene, lively in its own right.

  Low tide in Seattle dipped below 4 feet on Monday morning — a low not previously seen by the city’s shores in four years — unveiling a world that’s normally underwater. For visitors and locals alike, the week offers a chance to get up close and personal with clambering crabs, dazzling sea stars and dawdling moon snails.

• • There’s a Bit of Good News for Coral Reefs

  New Research Has Identified Areas Around the World Where Cooler Currents and Other Favorable Conditions Are Helping to Protect Coral From the Worst Effects of Global Warming

  

  June 16, 2026 -As spiking ocean temperatures are devastating reefs around the world, a handful of scientists have found a reason for cautious optimism. They’ve used artificial intelligence to detect sheltered pockets where cool currents, reduced exposure to sunlight and locations outside cyclone paths mean corals are more likely to survive.

  The study, led by the Wildlife Conservation Society and presented on Tuesday at the Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa, Kenya, is currently undergoing peer review for publication in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

• • Meet the Scientists Trying to Refreeze the Arctic

  At First, the Idea Does Sound Crazy’

  

  June 16, 2026 -This would have been a wild dream a year ago,” says Andrea Ceccolini, standing on Arctic sea ice just a 4-mile snowmobile ride from the Inuit town of Cambridge Bay, northern Canada. To his left are sky blue ponds of meltwater created in the last few days by a sun that no longer sets in the high north summer. To his right, the sea ice is still a brilliant white, the light dusting of snow on top continuing to sparkle.

  “It’s incredibly different, the boundary – I mean, you can point to it,” he says. The difference is the result of a bold geoengineering experiment being conducted by Ceccolini’s company, Real Ice, funded by the UK government.

• • Australia Declares El Nino Set to Be Strongest In Decades

  Scientists Have Said Climate Change Will Supercharge the Effects of This Year's El Nino

  

  June 16, 2026 -Australia's weather bureau warned on Tuesday that an El Nino weather pattern has formed in the tropical Pacific and could intensify in the second half of 2026 to become one of the strongest in seven decades.

  Forecasters expect the stronger weather event to bring excessive rains to the Americas and hot, dry conditions in Asia where crop planting is already being disrupted, raising concerns about food supplies in the world's most populous region.

• • Waterlogged Tropical Disturbance Could Soon Flood Parts of the South

  The System Has a 60 Percent Chance of Becoming a Tropical Storm, With Significant Impacts Possible Across the Deep South

  

  June 16, 2026 -The first tropical disturbance of the Atlantic season will soon drench a stretch from eastern Texas to the Carolinas. Early Tuesday, flood watches covered areas from Texas to Mississippi, as severe thunderstorms rumbled near the Texas coast — close to the storm’s center near the southern part of the state.

  Through Thursday, the disturbance has a 60 percent chance of becoming a short-lived tropical storm, according to the National Hurricane Center. Its chances of forming depend on how much time it spends over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday night and Wednesday.

• • Tensions Are Rising Between States That Rely on the Colorado River

  A Prolonged Drought Means the Nation’s Largest Reservoirs Are Dwindling...

  

  June 15, 2026 -Water in the Colorado River is dwindling to levels that haven’t been seen in decades, and the seven states whose residents and farmers depend on the river can’t agree on a fair way to divide up what’s left.

  Negotiations are going nowhere despite more than six months of ongoing talks, plus cajoling by the Trump administration, which twice gathered governors in hopes of a breakthrough that never came. States are already sniping at aspects of a water-use plan the federal Bureau of Reclamation is set to unveil this summer and impose later this year, and they’re threatening to sue each other over water deliveries, raising the prospects of prolonged legal battles just as Western states face demands to sharply reduce water use.

• • Why the Media Keep Quoting the Same Climate Scientist

  Daniel Swain Has a Knack For Breaking Down the Complexities of Climate and Weather Into Precise But Accessible Ideas
  
  {The Atlantic}

  June 14, 2026 -The success of the climatologist Daniel Swain rests on a simple foundation: His specialty has long been how global climate change messes with local weather. Many climatologists focus on subjects that seem arcane: mean global temperatures registered in Celsius, radiative forcing, the reflectivity of clouds.

  Swain, in contrast, talks in plain English—constantly, really, in interviews with CBS, NBC, the Weather Channel, and The Washington Post, as well as on his own blog and YouTube channel, Weather West—about the wind and the rain and the temperature outside, and how they are influenced by the larger forces of the atmosphere.

• • Seattle Weather: Record Heat Arrives For City’s First World Cup Match

  Guy Said the Dry, Warm Air Mass That has Lingered Over Western Washington, Resulting In the Extreme Heat, Will Begin to Dissipate Tuesday

  

  June 14, 2026 -The National Weather Service is warning of extreme temperatures for Monday’s first FIFA World Cup game in Seattle, between Belgium and Egypt. Drink plenty of water, and bring your hats and spray bottles, forecasters say.

  NWS forecaster Dustin Guy said Monday will be much like Sunday, with potentially record-breaking high temperatures in the 90s. He said a new daily record was set Sunday at SeaTac, where the high was recorded at 88 degrees. The previous record was 86.

• • As Global Warming Threatens Corals Worldwide,
  Woods Hole Scientists Search for ‘Super Reefs’

  If Protected, Researchers Say These Coral Strongholds May Help Repopulate More Degraded Reefs Across the Central Pacific

  

  June 14, 2026 -Perched on the bow of an aluminum landing craft, Anne Cohen gazed a few yards ahead of the vessel toward a yellow robot gliding across the emerald Majuro lagoon.

  The unmanned surface vehicle, called Yellowfin, was quickly becoming one of the coral researcher’s most dependable guides in these Central Pacific waters.

  “She’s the best dive buddy,” said Cohen, a tenured scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod. Programmed to navigate to a precise set of coordinates, the robot cut through small swells like a tiny sailboat without a mast, directing Cohen toward a destination she had traveled thousands of miles to revisit.

• • Antarctica’s West Coast Missing an Area o fSea Ice the
  Size of France as Temperatures Peak 20C Above Average

  A Vast Area of the Bellingshausen Sea Should Be Covered By Sea Ice By Now, With One Expert Calling the Loss of Ice ‘Depressing’

  

  June 12, 2026 -Antarctica’s west coast is missing an area of winter sea ice the size of France, sparking concerns for threatened penguins other marine life and global sea levels.

  One expert said the loss of ice in the Bellingshausen Sea was “depressing” and the failure of ice to form could have intensified a heatwave over the continent’s peninsula last week that saw daytime temperatures peak at 15.4C which is more than 20C above average.

• • Human Activities Pushed Global Warming to 1.37C in 2025

  At the Current Rate, Global Warming is Projected to Surpass 1.5C In About Four Years’ Time
  
  {EARTH.ORG}

  June 12, 2026 -Human activities pushed global warming to 1.37C in 2025 as the entire climate system is continuing to heat at an accelerating rate, a new study has found.

  The study, published Thursday, tracked 12 key sets of indicators of the state of the climate system. Among them was the presence of greenhouse gases, the leading cause of climate change, in the atmosphere. Greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from the burning of fossil fuels, are currently at an all-time high, the study found. However, there is evidence to suggest that emission growth of carbon dioxide, the most prevalent greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, is slowing.

• • A Mysterious ‘Cold Blob’ In the Ocean Has Puzzled Scientists

  A New Study Says It’s an Ominous Sign
  
  {CNN Climate}

  June 12, 2026 -In the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Greenland and Iceland, a large patch of water is doing something very strange. While the rest of the ocean heats up, it’s been getting colder. A new study says it has the answer to this mystery — and it’s an ominous sign the world is hurtling toward one of the most alarming climate tipping points.

  The swath of ocean — dubbed the “cold blob” or “warming hole” — has cooled by nearly 1 degree Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) since 1900.

• • Why the Heat Index Matters More Than Just the Temperature

  Here’s What to Know About Heat Index—And Why Some Scientists Are Rethinking How It's Calculated

  

  June 12, 2026 -The intense heat of summer is more than an inconvenient seasonal phenomenon—it’s deadly. Heat is the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the United States, and as global temperatures continue to rise, the threat extreme heat poses isn’t going away. But the number on the thermometer only tells half of the story. The heat index—or “feels like” temperature—combines the air’s temperature and humidity to measure how hot it actually feels to your body.

  It’s important to pay attention to the heat index, says Janessa Webb, WCCB Charlotte chief meteorologist. “It will feel different as you step outside, and if you are not prepared, it can really sneak up on you and catch you off guard.”

• • What’s Driving Up Your Expenses?

  Many Americans Say Climate Change

  

  June 12, 2026 -For decades, American politicians have been slow to take on climate change and curb carbon dioxide emissions, under the assumption that doing so might pass along costs to their voters. Ironically, their failure to rein in fossil fuel emissions has yielded the same result: Expenses for everyday Americans have soared as a result of more extreme flooding, fires, and heat.

  “What’s striking is that already, households are bearing serious costs,” said Kimberly Clausing, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She co-authored a paper from earlier this year finding that families were paying between $400 and $900 more each year because of the effects of climate change, with the costs above $1,300 in the 10 percent hardest-hit counties, many of them found in Florida, Louisiana, Nebraska, Colorado, and California.

• • European, Island States Seek Clear Future
  For Global Roadmap to Cut Fossil Fuels

  Some European, Small Island and Other Nations Argue the Forthcoming Roadmap Should Be Part of UN Climate Talks
  
  {CLIMATE HOME NEWS}

  June 12, 2026 -The global roadmap on transitioning away from fossil fuels now being developed should be a “continuing conversation” which is part of UN climate talks, not just a one-off report, several governments told the Brazilian COP30 Presidency on Friday in Bonn.

  During a 90-minute exchange of views at the annual mid-year climate talks in Germany, several European governments and the Marshall Islands said the roadmap that Brazil is due to finish by November should be incorporated into the official negotiations.

• • Why a Notably Warm Start to
  the Year Foreshadows What’s Ahead

  See the Odds For Global Temperature Records This Year and Next

  

  June 12, 2026 -It’s been a particularly toasty start to the year on planet Earth — and it may be a sign of the kind of temperature extremes coming in the year ahead.

  So far this year, over 70 percent of the globe has experienced well above average temperatures. Of that area, 8 percent has seen record-breaking warmth, including parts of the western United States, Asia and the Arctic. Meanwhile, just about 1 percent of the planet has experienced well below average temperatures.

• • Biscayne Bay Is Slowly Becoming the Ocean

  A 20-Year Record Reveals an Estuary Tipping Toward a Saltier, More Acidic State

  

  June 11, 2026 -In the shadow of Miami’s skyline, in water churned daily by boats and jet skis, juvenile great hammerhead sharks—a critically endangered species—spend the first two years of their lives. A few miles from downtown, researchers recently pulled a 12-foot critically endangered sawfish from the same shallows. The species has been dying off in alarming numbers across South Florida’s waters since 2024, in an event scientists suspect was set in motion by record ocean heat.

  The bay teems with life most of the city never registers: more than 30 endangered or imperiled species and over 100 that matter to commercial and recreational fishing. Yet when researchers surveyed more than 1,000 Miami-Dade residents, most rated the bay as “moderately healthy,” even as its water quality had measurably declined and a government assessment warned the estuary had reached “a tipping point.”

• • How Should Democrats Talk About Climate Change?

  A Big New Milestone For Solar Power, a Shift In Democratic Messaging and More Climate News

  

  June 11, 2026 -Before we explain a big shift in Democratic messaging on climate, and a big milestone for solar power, let’s get caught up:

  NOAA declares that El Niño is here and flashing danger signs: Meteorologists said Thursday that an El Niño has formed in the tropical Pacific and will likely intensify in the coming months, setting off more extreme weather and higher temperatures around the world.

• • Tornadoes Are Reported as Storms Sweep the Midwest

  Chicago Was In the Bull’s-Eye of Severe Weather for the Second Day In a Row

  

  June 11, 2026 -Tornadoes were reported in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin and there was some damage from strong winds in the Chicago metro area on Thursday as intense storms swept across the Midwest.

  The National Weather Service briefly declared a tornado emergency near Peoria, Ill., shortly after 5 p.m. local time, an extraordinarily rare type of alert it uses when a large, potentially destructive tornado is on the ground.

• • Democrats Once Vowed to Stop Oil
  and Gas. Now They’re Not So Sure

  As the Midterm Elections Approach, Many Leading Democrats Are Rethinking Their Approach to Climate Change

  

  June 11, 2026 -Democrats and environmentalists are shifting their approach to climate change, as the economic fallout from war in the Middle East has reshuffled the politics of energy.

  With voters worried about spiking gas prices and inflation, some of the party’s leaders argue that they should stop trying to throttle oil and gas, which heat the planet when burned. It’s a rejection of the approach taken during the Biden administration, which treated climate change as an existential threat and tried to stop new drilling and pipelines.

• • Can El Niño Turn Colorado's Dry Pattern Around?

  Here's What Forecasters Expect
  
  {CBS NEWS}

  June 11, 2026 -According to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor, roughly 95% of Colorado is experiencing some level of drought, with about one-third of the state classified in Extreme or Exceptional Drought -- the two most severe categories.

  "Right now most of Colorado is experiencing some amount of drought conditions," said Allie Mazurek, engagement climatologist with the Colorado Climate Center at Colorado State University.

• • WHO Issues New Guidance On Heat-
  Health Action Plans, as El Niño Sets In

  Amid Warnings of “Unprecedented” Weather Extremes This Year, The World Health Organization Urges Governments to Strengthen Protections For Vulnerable Groups
  
  {CLIMATE HOME NEWS}

  June 11, 2026 -The World Health Organization (WHO) has unveiled new guidance for governments seeking to protect people from extreme heat, a growing priority as climate change pushes temperatures higher worldwide and intensifies heatwaves and related health risks.

  The launch came as the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday that El Niño has developed in the tropical Pacific. The climate phenomenon – which occurs naturally every few years - is predicted to intensify to a moderate or strong level this autumn, the service said.

• • Fewer Journalists Register For Bonn Talks,
  as Cuts to Climate Reporting Bite

  UN Data Shows a Smaller Number Have Signed Up to Cover The Mid-Year Climate Negotiations In Germany Than In Any Year Since the COVID-19 Pandemic
  
  {CLIMATE HOME NEWS}

  June 11, 2026 -When the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its advisory opinion on climate change last year, it marked a turning point not just for the Pacific, but for international climate law.

  The court was unambiguous: states have legal obligations to protect the environment from greenhouse gas emissions, and they face accountability when they fail. For those of us who carried this campaign from a classroom in Vanuatu to Europe and New York, it was a moment of profound validation.

• • El Niño is Officially Here, Bringing
  Domino Weather Effects Across the Planet

  The Warm Eastern Pacific Will Induce a Chain Reaction In the Atmosphere

  

  June 11, 2026 -El Niño is here, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The agency issued an El Niño Advisory on Thursday morning, signifying that Earth has crossed a key threshold into El Niño territory. A chain-reaction process in the atmosphere is underway and will influence global weather patterns in the months ahead.

  While El Niño begins as a warming of water temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific, there are domino effects globally. And this installment of El Niño looks to be particularly intense and could develop into a highly anticipated super El Niño.

• • Recent Landslides in Indonesia Devastated Rare Orangutans

  More Than 5 Percent of the Species is Estimated to Have Been Lost When a Climate-Fueled Storm Unleashed Torrents of Water, Mud and Debris

  

  June 10, 2026 -The critically endangered Tapanuli orangutans found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra are a step closer to extinction, scientists found, after landslides last year that were fueled by climate change.

  More than 50 of the rare animals were estimated to have died in the landslides, out of a population of around 800.

• • Mangroves Are Making a Comeback

  It’s a Rare Climate Success Story

  

  June 10, 2026 -There’s some good news growing along the coasts of countries around the world.

  Mangrove forests, the imperiled ecosystems championed for their ability to store carbon and protect land from storm-driven flooding, are bouncing back.

  These woodlands that thrive at the soggy boundary between land and sea suffered alarming declines through much of the 20th century, chopped down chiefly to make way for fish ponds, rice paddies and other kinds of agriculture. But in the last decade, mangroves have been gaining ground, erasing nearly all of the losses since 1980, according to research recently published in Science.

• • Oceans Are Warming, But Scientists Are Concerned About This Cold Blob

  If the Blob Persists For Years, It Could Eventually Cool the Climate Around Greenland, Iceland and Northern Europe

  

  June 10, 2026 As the planet warms, it’s becoming increasingly rare to see cooler than average conditions across vast stretches of the ocean, particularly as an expected super El Niño scorches parts of the Pacific.

  But right now, an expansive area of well below-average ocean temperatures exists in the North Atlantic, to the east of Newfoundland. There, unusually cool waters have lingered for the last year.

• • Global Atmosphere and Ocean Temperatures
  Hovered Near Record Levels in May

  May Continued the Streak of Extreme Global Warmth Seen In Recent Months
  
  {EARTH.ORG}

  June 10, 2026 -Last month was the joint second-warmest May on record, with temperatures 1.42C above pre-industrial levels, the European Union’s Earth Observation program Copernicus has said.

  An exceptionally strong heatwave scorched much of Western Europe in the second half of May after cooler-than-average conditions affected the continent in the middle of the month. It was “one of the most intense heatwaves ever observed this early in the year” in the region, the forecaster said in its monthly bulletin.

  A ClimaMeter study attributed the unusual heat baking Western Europe to human-driven climate change. Researchers described the meteorological conditions behind the heatwave as a “rare” occurrence once mainly associated with autumn months but now also occurring in late spring.

• • World’s Largest Banks Pledged $906bn to Fossil
  Fuel Companies In ‘Unfathomable’ Increase In 2025

  JPMorgan Chase Leads 65 Banks Making Decisions Incompatible With Restraining Rising Temperatures

  

  June 9, 2026 -The world’s largest banks committed $906bn in financing to the fossil fuel industry last year, an “unfathomable” increase in investment locking in years more of coal, oil and gas production as the world continues to overheat, a new report has found.

  The surge in new fossil fuel lending, up $64bn or nearly 8% on 2024, shows that the world’s largest 65 banks are making decisions incompatible with international agreements to restrain rising global temperatures, according to the coalition of environmental groups behind the new analysis.

• • COP31 Leaders Unveil Global Targets

  Spotlight On Electrification
  
  {CLIMATE HOME NEWS}

  June 9, 2026 -The two countries set to lead this year’s COP31 have unveiled three headline goals for November’s UN climate summit - on electrification, waste and buildings - following six months of consultations with governments.

  At mid-year climate talks in Bonn, Turkish COP31 President-Designate Murat Kurum and the talks’ chief negotiator, Australia’s Chris Bowen, billed the targets as a blueprint for climate action, with electrification emerging as the top priority.

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

  Expected Extreme Weather Combined With High Fuel and Fertilizer Prices Triggered By the war Could Cause Severe Food Shortages Around the World This Year

  

  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

• • Wild Rice Faces Numerous Threats—and Has Determined Protectors

  Groups Work to Identify, Save and Reseed Areas to Help the Culturally Significant Resource Thrive As Climate Change Portends More Strains

  

  June 8, 2026 -Bazile Minogiizhigaabo Panek, a member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, was 7 years old when he attended his first rice harvest in northern Wisconsin. He and his sister rode in a canoe while his mom pushed the boat with a pole through the plants growing out of the shallow water. Together, they tapped the plants with sticks. Rice seeds rained into the canoe; others fell into the water.

  Indigenous peoples have harvested wild rice, or manoomin, in the upper Midwest for millennia. They care for the plant, which they consider a relative and critical to their cultural identity. They watch it grow through the summer and spread its seeds as they reap them.

• • Rising Sea Levels Threaten Kiribati’s World Cup Dream

  The Pacific Islands Hoping to Enter World Cup Qualifying Before Ocean Level Increase Wipes Them From the Map

  

  June 8, 2026 -“This is not just about football, it’s about building something from scratch,” Eriati Reebo, the Kiribati football president, explains. “A legacy, a story, that the world will always remember.”

  Kiribati, a group of Pacific islands south of Hawaii with 138,000 inhabitants, is seeking entry into World Cup qualifying for the 2030 tournament. Becoming a recognised international football team would help to bring attention to the only nation on earth that sits within all four hemispheres, and one that is rapidly disappearing from the map. It could be the first, but certainly not the last, country to be engulfed by sea water, leaving it uninhabitable. And before that happens, it wants to professionalise the football setup and become a full member of the Oceania Football Confederation. This would both create a route to competing with bigger nations and help to keep the Kiribati spirit alive.

• • ‘Severe’ Stress On Oceans As Rate of Sea
  Level Rise Doubles In 10 Years, UN Warns

  Global Effort Needed to Limit Effects of Pollution, Industrial Fishing and Climate Crisis, World Ocean Assessment Says

  

  June 8, 2026 -The world’s oceans are under “severe and accelerating” pressure from human activities, with the rate of sea-level rise double that of a decade ago, according to a damning assessment from the United Nations.

  The “intensifying” stressors, which include pollution and large-scale industrial fishing, are cumulative, said the report, resulting in widespread biodiversity loss and putting ocean systems under “severe strain”.

• • 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”.

• • Laboring Under Delhi’s Harsh Heat,
  Workers Must Choose Health or Wages

  Severe Heat Waves Have Been Hitting India Since April, Forcing Many of the Country’s Essential Workers to Make Tough Decisions

  

  June 6, 2026 -Sunil Rastogi, an auto-rickshaw driver in New Delhi, normally works 12-hour days to make ends meet and save for the heart surgery he needs. But in summer, as temperatures climb above 100 degrees, he faces a dilemma.

  Should he work fewer hours, bringing home less for his family and delaying his surgery, or press ahead and risk worsening his fragile health?

• • Heat, Not Disease, Caused Deaths of 8 Lion Cubs In Gir Forest

  17 Lions Showing Signs of Illness Quarantined and Treated; 12 Released Into the Wild and Five Will Follow Soon
  
  {THE HINDU}

  June 6, 2026 -The deaths of eight Asiatic lion cubs in Gujarat’s Gir forest were caused by heat-related stress and weakened immunity rather than any infectious disease outbreak, State Forest Minister Arjun Modhwadia said on Saturday (June 6, 2026).

  The clarification comes days after forest authorities launched an intensive monitoring and disease-control exercise following suspicions that the cubs may have succumbed to Babesia, a tick-borne parasitic infection known to affect wild animals.

• • 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
  
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  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.

• • Academics Set Out Sweeping Vision For Planetary Survival

  Global Report Provides an Alternative to Climate Breakdown, Political Extremism and Economic Tensions

  

  June 4, 2026 -Humanity 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.

• • 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
  
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  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.

• • 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
  
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  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
  
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  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
  
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  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
  
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  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.

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