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Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 hour ago

It's a lot of fear': the rise of ecoanxiety on the frontline of climate breakdown

Frontline climate breakdown in Fiji has destroyed ecosystems, disrupted livelihoods and ancestral knowledge, causing layered ecoanxiety while youth movements foster resilience and hope.
#amoc
Environment
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
12 hours ago

Is Polar Geoengineering a Bold Fix or a Dangerous Gamble? Debate Rages among Scientists

Scientists are sharply divided over polar geoengineering, with some warning interventions are infeasible and dangerous while others argue they could mitigate catastrophic warming.
#floods
Environment
fromSFGATE
1 day ago

SF scientists fight climate doom with lab-grown coral breakthrough

A San Francisco lab is breeding baby corals to restore reefs threatened by rapid climate-driven bleaching, starvation, and projected 90–99% loss by 2050 if unaddressed.
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 day ago

Opinion | Changing Clouds May Tell Us Something About Climate Change

I love the way clouds billow above your head, drift lazily across blue skies and cast fleeting shadows on the ground below. These ever-shifting sculptures of vapor and light are among nature's least appreciated marvels. That's why 20 years ago, I started the Cloud Appreciation Society, to remind people to look up. Now climate science is catching up, revealing that clouds aren't just poetic; they're pivotal in helping to regulate Earth's temperature.
Science
#sugar-consumption
Environment
fromConde Nast Traveler
2 days ago

The 10 coldest countries in the world

Cold regions remain persistently frigid but are warming and losing seasonal reliability, disrupting ecosystems, infrastructure, and traditional livelihoods.
#wildfires
fromKqed
2 days ago
Environment

Bay Area Makers Process a Climate Catastrophe Through Art | KQED

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2 days ago
Environment

Bay Area Makers Process a Climate Catastrophe Through Art | KQED

fromKqed
2 days ago

A New Musical Revisits the Bay Area's Apocalyptic Orange Sky Day | KQED

"I don't think that we've actually fully recovered from that moment. I know I haven't," playwright Julius Ernesto Rea said. Rea said coming together in a physical space and going back in time gives the actors and the audience the opportunity to release some of their bottled-up emotions, especially those surrounding the changing climate. "A lot of the play is trying to figure out how we grieve the future that we thought we had, so that we can invite new visions of the future," Rea said.
Environment
fromIrish Independent
2 days ago

Storms in Ireland likely to be 'much more destructive' due to climate change, Met Eireann briefing says

The guidance - updated in March of this year - explained how 2024 was the hottest year on record globally and how Ireland's temperature has increased by nearly 1.1C since 1900. It said: "Climate change is adding fuel to storms due to warmer waters and more moisture in the atmosphere." The document added that sea level rise was expected to increase surges during periods of severe weather and increase the risk of coastal flooding.
Environment
#journalism-funding
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Top 10 most-sighted butterflies in 2025's Big Butterfly Count in pictures

Large whites were the most common butterflies spotted in the UK this year with a record number of sightings, more than doubling from last year's Big Butterfly Count. Recognisable by their creamy white wings with black L-shaped markings, they are also commonly referred to as cabbage butterflies or cabbage whites due to their staple diet. Their numbers are up 47% over the past 15 years Photograph: Keith Warmington/Butterfly Conservation
Environment
UK politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
3 days ago

Ed Miliband defied Starmer bid to strip him of energy secretary brief

Ed Miliband refused to leave his energy secretary role amid concerns his climate policies are boosting support for Nigel Farage's Reform UK.
fromTravel + Leisure
3 days ago

These 25 U.S. States Will Have a 'Spectacular' Fall Foliage Season, According to AccuWeather

There will be drastic differences in fall foliage across this country this year,
Travel
Environment
fromFortune
3 days ago

Climate change is making Americans crave soda to the tune of 100 million pounds of added sugar a year, new study finds

Rising U.S. temperatures increase sugary drink and frozen dessert consumption, adding over 100 million pounds of extra sugar annually, especially among poorer, less-educated people.
Environment
from24/7 Wall St.
3 days ago

The Most Expensive Billion-Dollar Natural Disasters in US History

Rising population, costlier infrastructure, and global warming are increasing the frequency, severity, and economic cost of natural disasters.
fromFlowingData
3 days ago

Music tempo to sonify rising temperatures

NPR enlisted the band Bettis And 3rd Degree to sonify rising temperatures in New Orleans. As the temperature rises from 1980 to present, listen as the music tempo speeds up. Between 1980 and 2000, the average annual temperature in New Orleans goes up by more than a quarter of a degree, and it may not seem like much if you're just looking at the data in a spreadsheet, but it is significant.
Environment
#pacific-islands-forum
fromwww.independent.co.uk
4 days ago

Met Office warns that drought could continue into winter

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.
Environment
Science
fromInsideHook
5 days ago

Climate Scientists Aren't Happy With Joe Rogan

Joe Rogan cited a 485-million-year temperature reconstruction to claim recent cooling; researchers say the record spans geological timescales and current human-caused warming is rapid.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
4 days ago

Iraq's rivers are drying: A nation faces water collapse

Farmers and experts warn Iraq's historic rivers are vanishing, threatening survival, identity and stability. Iraq, once known as Mesopotamia, the Land of the Two Rivers, is facing its worst water crisis in living memory. The Tigris and Euphrates lifelines of agriculture and civilisation for millennia are running dry. Climate change, upstream dams and decades of mismanagement have turned fertile land into dust, forcing families from their homes and threatening national stability.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Rightwing preppers should be the biggest boosters of this climate solution

As I write these words, the No 1 trending story on the Guardian is titled: The history and future of societal collapse. It is an account of a study by a Cambridge expert who works at something ominously called the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk; he concludes that we can't put a date on Doomsday, but by looking at the 5,000 years of [civilisation], we can understand the trajectories we face today and self-termination is most likely.
US politics
Wine
fromenglish.elpais.com
5 days ago

The perfect storm in a glass: The threats darkening Spanish wine's horizon

Global wine consumption is declining amid rising costs, tariffs, geopolitical instability, changing demographics, and climate-driven earlier harvests, forcing historic wine regions to adapt.
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Climate crisis will increase frequency of lightning-sparked wildfires, study finds

The climate crisis will continue making lightning-sparked wildfires more frequent for decades to come, which could produce cascading effects and worsen public safety and public health, experts and new research suggest. Lightning-caused fires tend to burn in more remote areas and therefore usually grow into larger fires than human-caused fires. That means a trend toward more lightning-caused fires is also probably making wildfires more deadly by producing more wildfire smoke and helping to drive a surge in air quality issues from coast to coast,
Environment
US politics
fromwww.mercurynews.com
6 days ago

Letters: Was op-ed's intent to dissuade voters on Prop. 50?

Criticism centers on potentially discouraging redistricting messaging, opposition to fast-tracking oil drilling and industry bailouts, and concern over declining presidential decorum.
Design
fromCurbed
6 days ago

When Architects Love Robots Too Much

Venice Biennale's Arsenale features tech-heavy, CES-like installations that emphasize performative robotics and 3-D renderings, often feeling nostalgic, superficial, and lacking radical architectural critique.
#extreme-heat
Environment
fromKqed
6 days ago

At Burning Man, the Weather Can Feel Biblical. Will Climate Change Make It Even Worse? | KQED

Increasing extreme and variable weather at Burning Man, including rain, mud, heat, and dust storms, threatens attendee experience and raises concerns about future viability.
Environment
fromNature
1 week ago

Different flames

A student empathizes with climate-change victims while classmates mock Earth's past, revealing generational disconnect between orbital residents and Earth's suffering.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago

Has India weaponised water' to deliberately flood Pakistan?

For the second time in three years, catastrophic monsoon floods have carved a path of destruction across Pakistan's north and central regions, particularly in its Punjab province, submerging villages, drowning farmland, displacing millions and killing hundreds. This year, India Pakistan's archrival and a nuclear-armed neighbour is also reeling. Its northern states, including Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Indian Punjab, have seen widespread flooding as heavy monsoon rains swell rivers on both sides of the border.
World news
Environment
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 week ago

Climate change made heat and dryness that fueled Iberian wildfires 40 times more likely, study finds

Climate change made the Iberian Peninsula's extreme hot, dry and windy conditions far more likely and more intense, fueling one of its destructive wildfire seasons.
Science
fromThe Walrus
1 week ago

In Defence of Wasps | The Walrus

Heat-loving wasps, including yellowjackets and hornets, are thriving and expanding across Europe and North America while many other insect species decline.
#department-of-energy
fromLos Angeles Times
1 week ago

Humanity is rapidly depleting water and much of the world is getting drier

Scientists are seeing "mega-drying" regions that are immense and expanding - one stretching from the western United States through Mexico to Central America, and another from Morocco to France, across the entire Middle East to northern China. There are two primary causes of the desiccation: rising temperatures unleashed by using oil and gas, and widespread overpumping of water that took millennia to accumulate underground.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

This was the hottest summer on record. If it happens again next year, Britain's ecosystems won't cope | Lucy Jones

My home is in the south of England, near beautiful woodlands. Since moving there in 2016, the number of ticks my family has picked up in the woods has increased each year, but this summer has been astonishing. For a few weeks, our four-year-old came home from nursery with a tick almost every day. I've had many: some tiny nymphal ones that could be easily missed.
Environment
Environment
fromEarth911
1 week ago

Sustainability In Your Ear Classic: U.K. Environmental Leader Tony Juniper on Rainforest Awareness & Restoration

Rainforests are vital to Earth's climate, biodiversity, and human survival; urgent, collective action from governments, businesses, NGOs, and individuals is necessary to protect them.
Environment
fromIrish Independent
1 week ago

Met Eireann declares 'unexceptional' summer Ireland's warmest on record

Second consecutive season recorded historically high temperatures driven by climate change, elevated sea-surface temperatures, persistent cloud cover, and unusually warm nights.
Environment
fromIrish Independent
1 week ago

Met Eireann declares summer Ireland's warmest on record

Consecutive seasons produced record-high temperatures driven by background climate warming, with night-time heat, warm seas, and regional heat domes amplifying averages.
#heatwaves
fromInsideHook
2 weeks ago
Environment

Does Hotter Weather Make Us Age Faster?

Long-term exposure to heatwaves accelerates biological aging, especially among manual workers, rural residents, and communities with fewer air conditioners.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago
Public health

Heatwaves are making people age faster, study suggests

Repeated heatwave exposure accelerates biological ageing and increases population-level health risks comparable to smoking or poor lifestyle factors.
fromwww.dw.com
1 week ago

Landslides and mudslides: Why they happen DW 09/02/2025

Landslides are the most common geological event. That's a fact. They affect millions of people and cause many thousands of deaths. They often occur in countries with poor or inadequate infrastructure such as in Sudan's Marra Mountains region in late August 2025. Just the year before, in 2024, there were two major landslides in the same region. In Papua New Guinea, a reported 2,000 people were buried alive following a landslide in May 2024.
Environment
Arts
fromJuxtapoz
1 week ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Eidolons: Madeleine Bialke @ Newchild Gallery, Antwerp

Monumental Sequoias are depicted as enduring yet fragile eidolons, embodying deep time, climate scars, and human impact amid burned peripheries.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Cosmic' bioluminescent algae lights up Melbourne's St Kilda beach

Bioluminescent noctiluca scintillans produced bright blue-pink displays off St Kilda, attracting crowds while indicating ecological stress linked to rising ocean temperatures.
UK news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 week ago

Met Office confirms summer 2025 was UK's hottest on record

The UK recorded its hottest summer on record in 2025 with a mean temperature of 16.10C, driven by back-to-back heatwaves that caused droughts and wildfires.
Environment
fromMail Online
1 week ago

Summer 2025 was the hottest on RECORD in the UK, Met Office confirms

Summer 2025 was the warmest UK summer on record with a mean temperature of 16.10°C, surpassing the 2018 record.
Wine
fromMail Online
1 week ago

Wine grapes can be grown in North Wales thanks to climate change

Warming temperatures have enabled a boom in Welsh vineyards, rising from six registered producers in 2009 to 59 by July, permitting quality Pinot Noir cultivation.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago

Two million impacted as Pakistan's Punjab faces worst floods in its history

Residents in eastern Punjab have also experienced abnormal amounts of rain, as well as cross-border flooding after India released water from swollen rivers and its overflowing dams into Pakistan's low-lying regions. This is the biggest flood in the history of the Punjab. The flood has affected two million people. It's the first time that the three rivers Sutlej, Chenab, and Ravi have carried such high levels of water, the senior minister for the province, Marriyum Aurangzeb, told a press conference on Sunday.
World news
Environment
fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

He knew Greenland's melting ice better than anyone. Then he disappeared into it.

Konrad 'Koni' Steffen disappeared from the Greenland ice sheet on August 8, 2020, after retrieving climate data; his presumed death remains mourned and unexplained.
fromFuturism
1 week ago

As Ocean Water Gets Worse, Sharks' Teeth Start to Dissolve

"Shark teeth, despite being composed of highly mineralized phosphates, are still vulnerable to corrosion under future ocean acidification scenarios,"
Science
fromConde Nast Traveler
1 week ago

Haider Ackermann Was Immediately Seduced by the Silence of the Arctic Landscape

I was immediately seduced by the silence and the immense landscape. There's something beautiful about it: You feel like a very small person, you're made vulnerable, and you realize you don't mean that much in the world. It was the start of winter and the temperature was 20 degrees below zero, but I couldn't really feel the cold because I was so excited to be part of this journey that I forgot about everything else.
Environment
fromThe Mercury News
1 week ago

Elias: California must do better to make Big Oil pay for climate change

At issue was whether oil companies could be held liable for damage from future wildfires caused at least in part by climate change. The state Senate Judiciary Committee vote on the measure came just two days after a Louisiana jury held oil giant Chevron liable by for $744.6 million to restore damage to Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The case was the first of many pending against oil companies that have supposedly lied about whether their policies
California
#hurricane-katrina
Travel
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Heatwaves, wildfires and the hot summers that could change how we holiday

Climate-driven heat, fires, floods and high travel emissions are making popular holidays unsafe, uncomfortable, and morally fraught for many travellers.
fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

The Future of Floods Is Getting Murkier

On July 8, New Mexico's Rio Ruidoso unbound from its banks for the second year in a row and swelled to 20 times its typical knee-high depth. The cascade of water roared like a train, Kathy Papasan, a longtime resident on the river's edge, told me, and dark waves battered her porch. She and her husband had to flee uphill to a neighbor's house.
Environment
#clean-energy
fromThe Nation
2 weeks ago
Environment

"It's a Warning, Set to a Dance Beat": Jon Batiste on His New Song 20 Years After Katrina

fromThe Nation
2 weeks ago
Environment

"It's a Warning, Set to a Dance Beat": Jon Batiste on His New Song 20 Years After Katrina

Environment
fromMail Online
2 weeks ago

Bad news for nervous fliers! Severe turbulence set to get even worse

Climate-driven jet stream disturbances will increase severe air turbulence, raising passenger injury risk and forcing airlines to adopt new safety and detection measures.
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 weeks ago

RNLI lifeboat crew rescue pet rottweiler stranded on rocks in Cornwall

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
US politics
#haboobs
Environment
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 weeks ago

Mediterranean wildfires are no accident

Mediterranean wildfires in 2025 burned over one million hectares in the EU, driven by climate change, land neglect, and extractive disaster capitalism.
Environment
fromTheregister
2 weeks ago

Datacenters face rising thirst as Europe dries up

Water scarcity is becoming a major operational risk for European datacenters as climate-driven heatwaves increase cooling demand and strain freshwater supplies.
fromWIRED
2 weeks ago

Read This Before Buying a Window Air Conditioner

As is the case for many people, my home cannot be retrofitted with central air. My 100-plus-year-old Brooklyn apartment, which features prominently in my seven years of air quality reporting for WIRED, relies on window air conditioning units to keep cool on our warming planet. While there is the obvious paradox that air conditioners are players in climate change, AC units are evolving with more environmentally safe refrigerants, eco modes, smart apps, modern design, and energy-efficient consumption.
Gadgets
History
fromMedievalists.net
2 weeks ago

Medieval Buildings Revealed by Summer Drought in England - Medievalists.net

Unusually dry spring weather and climate change are revealing parchmarks that expose buried medieval building outlines across England.
fromNature
2 weeks ago

Scientific meetings debate the effect of climate change on future food production

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Science
Wine
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

A vintage year? British growers harvest their grapes early after a dry, hot summer

UK vineyards expect an early, high-quality harvest as warmer, sunnier conditions increase grape ripeness, flavours, and overall production compared with last year.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 weeks ago

Death toll from Typhoon Kajiki rises in Vietnam

Typhoon Kajiki killed three people in Vietnam, causing widespread flooding, power outages, evacuations and infrastructure damage across multiple provinces.
Agriculture
fromFortune
2 weeks ago

'Like the corn's never getting a break. It's just hot all the time': How America's farmers conquered climate change for a 'monster' harvest

Climate-driven hotter nights, droughts, and erratic rains increasingly disrupt corn pollination, making yields more uncertain and raising farmer anxiety during critical growing periods.
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

Producing perfect corn is becoming trickier for farmers, thanks to climate change

"It's almost kind of depressing to go out there and look at it and say, 'oh yep, it does look bad,'" he said.
Agriculture
Environment
fromwww.dw.com
2 weeks ago

Global water crisis could cost trillions DW 08/25/2025

Only about 0.5% of Earth's water is usable freshwater, and climate-driven demand, heat, and drought are increasing water stress, undermining food security, economies, and livelihoods.
Environment
fromConde Nast Traveler
2 weeks ago

In Brazil's Pantanal Wetlands, Jaguars, Cowboys, and a Changing Landscape Coexist

Ecotourism that prioritizes local livelihoods and jaguar conservation can protect the Pantanal's ecosystem threatened by hunting, ranching and climate change.
Science
fromwww.npr.org
3 weeks ago

Hurricane science has come far since Katrina. That progress is now at risk

Federal investment in hurricane forecasting research like HFIP produced major forecast improvements, saving billions; funding cuts jeopardize continued progress.
Agriculture
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

We cannot do it the way our fathers did': farmers across Europe struggle to adapt to the climate crisis

Mediterranean wine producers must adapt to climate-driven extremes with irrigation, resilient grape varieties, higher land, and will pass rising costs to consumers.
Black Lives Matter
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 weeks ago

Spain's August heatwave was most intense on record', weather agency says

Spain experienced its most intense recorded heatwave in August, reflecting a trend toward more frequent, more extreme summers driven by climate change.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Heatwave that fuelled deadly wildfires was Spain's most intense on record'

Spain experienced a 16-day August heatwave that was the most intense on record, with average temperatures 4.6C above previous similar events.
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 weeks ago

If you thought Toronto had a hot summer this year, just wait 25 years, climatologist says | CBC News

It's almost like a dress rehearsal, a preview, a glimpse of what summers are going to be like in 2050,
Canada news
Environment
fromIndependent
2 weeks ago

Joanna Donnelly: I'd say full steam ahead to anything that gets us out of our cars for good

A renewed rail network can address housing shortages and lower emissions by enabling sustainable commuting and reducing dependence on car and air travel.
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