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2 weeks ago
Environment

Scientists blame climate change for Britain's record-breaking summer

Climate change made the UK’s record-hot summer of 2025 roughly 70 times more likely, shifting such summers from once-in-340-years to about every five years.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago
Environment

UK experienced its hottest summer on record in 2025, Met Office says

The UK experienced its hottest meteorological summer on record: mean 16.1C, four heatwaves, widespread drought and climate-change-driven warming.
Agriculture
fromwww.theguardian.com
9 hours ago

UK overall inflation remains at 3.8% in August, but food price growth climbs for fifth month in a row - business live

Climate-change-driven extreme weather reduced UK harvests and pushed food price inflation higher, creating systemic risks beyond monetary policy control.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
11 hours ago

We've Lived through the Three Hottest Summers on Record

The Northern Hemisphere's summers of 2023, 2024 and 2025 were the three hottest on record, climate agencies in the European Union and the U.S. have announced. This record summer heat was driven primarily by human-caused climate change, which not only has been raising average global temperatures but also has been fueling more lethal heat waves. A new study released on Wednesday finds that climate change likely tripled the number of heat-related deaths in European cities this summer.
Environment
#heat-related-mortality
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago
Environment

Millions of Australians at risk from rising sea levels and heat deaths to soar, national climate risk assessment report warns

fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago
Environment

Millions of Australians at risk from rising sea levels and heat deaths to soar, national climate risk assessment report warns

fromwww.aljazeera.com
19 hours ago

What makes this year's UN General Assembly so significant?

The United Nations General Assembly meets amid Gaza genocide, Ukraine war and global volatility. The United Nations General Assembly is due to hold debates next week. Crises, including the Gaza genocide, Ukraine war and climate change, are placing the world body under severe scrutiny. It is also facing pressure from the administration of US President Donald Trump. What role can the gathering of world nations play?
World politics
Social justice
fromTruthout
1 day ago

As Prisons Deal With Heat Waves, Climate Crisis Makes Abolition Even More Urgent

Climate change is exacerbating hazardous prison conditions, turning deteriorating infrastructure and extreme weather into life-threatening risks for incarcerated people.
fromBoston.com
1 day ago

New England's shrimp industry is struggling, with fishermen catching few in 2025

Fishermen have been under a moratorium on catching shrimp for more than a decade because of low population levels that scientists have attributed to climate change and warming oceans. The harvesters were allowed to catch a small number of shrimp this past winter as part of an industry-funded sampling and data collection program. The fishermen didn't catch much though, and recent changes allow regulators to extend the moratorium for five years at a time instead of just one, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission officials said Monday.
Environment
Environment
fromMail Online
1 day ago

Hundreds of Glossy Ibis usually found in the Med spotted in the UK

Glossy Ibis are breeding and appearing in growing numbers across the UK and Ireland, with hundreds recorded and range shifts linked to climate change.
Science
fromNature
1 day ago

How did assaults on science become the norm - and what can we do?

Science and scientists face coordinated political attacks undermining research funding, agencies, public health, and climate evidence, requiring organized, determined resistance.
#extreme-weather
fromAxios
1 day ago

It's not just you: Summer is sticking around longer

Driving the news: Summer temperatures are lingering compared to 1970 in just over 90% of the 246 U.S. cities analyzed in a new report from Climate Central, a climate research group. Among cities with lingering heat, summer temperatures are lasting an extra 10 days on average. Zoom in: Summer temperatures are lasting for the most extra days in Wheeling, West Virginia (52 more days compared to 1970); Miami (46 more days) and San Angelo, Texas (31 more days).
Environment
Public health
fromThe New Yorker
2 days ago

Letters from Our Readers

Climate-driven river flooding and politicization of government agencies threaten public health, infrastructure, and public confidence in official data.
fromEarth911
2 days ago

Sustainability In Your Ear: SePRO's Mark Heilman On Phosphorus, Waterways, And Invasive Species

Every summer, the same devastating story repeats across America: lakes that families have cherished for generations suddenly turn toxic green. Half a million people in Toledo lose their drinking water when Lake Erie blooms with poison algae. Or, Florida's red tide costs the state billions in lost tourism. But some of the most damaged bodies of water in America are getting a cleanup.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Rising Nato military spending to cause huge spike in emissions, report warns

Now a review of 11 recent academic studies by Scientists for Global Responsibility has found that each additional $100bn of military spending leads to an estimated 32m tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) being dumped into the atmosphere. The emissions come from direct sources such as fuel-guzzling combat planes, warships and armored vehicles, as well as indirect emissions from transporting equipment, complex global supply-chains, and the effects of war fighting itself.
World news
World news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 days ago

Free speech' row threatens to derail Starmer's talks with Trump on state visit

Donations fund independent journalists to report on reproductive rights, climate change, Big Tech, and geopolitical tensions while keeping reporting free and accessible to all.
fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

Measuring Eco-anxiety, or Not

As human activities alter local-to-global environments, people are reporting stress, distress, depression, anxiety, worry, psychological trauma, and other negative emotions. Phrases coined to describe these responses include solastalgia, eco-anxiety, climate change anxiety, climate fear, and ecological grief. Scientifically, all these ideas are in their infancy. To improve understanding and to really get to the basics of how human beings respond to different environmental changes, researchers are developing scales and indices, some of which are clinical and some of which are not.
Mental health
Environment
fromLos Angeles Times
3 days ago

The dwindling Colorado River can't wait for states to cut water use, experts say

The Colorado River's reservoirs are severely depleted and another dry year could push levels to dangerously low thresholds without major statewide water-use reductions.
Environment
fromFast Company
4 days ago

Trump administration moves to stop requiring polluters to report emissions

The EPA plans to end mandatory greenhouse gas reporting for over 8,000 industrial facilities, eliminating emissions tracking and reducing regulatory costs.
Environment
fromThe Mercury News
4 days ago

Opinion: Cal Fire's forest management undermining California's climate goals

Cal Fire manages 14 state forests totaling 85,000 acres while using flawed models that understate logging emissions and overestimate regrowth, risking increased carbon emissions.
#glacier-retreat
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
4 days ago

A Global Call to Action for Mutual Support for All

Organize local resilience networks providing mutual support to prevent and heal mental, psychosocial, and many physical health harms from the climate-ecosystem-biodiversity crisis.
Science
fromNature
6 days ago

Daily briefing: Heatwaves can be directly linked to emissions from specific companies

Emissions from individual energy companies directly contributed to about one-quarter of heatwaves (2000–2023), often increasing event likelihoods by thousands-fold.
Environment
fromwww.npr.org
5 days ago

Insect populations drop even without direct human interference, a new study finds

Flying insect density in a remote Colorado meadow declined by 6.6% annually, totaling a 72.4% loss over 20 years, likely driven by warming summers.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days 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
5 days 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
6 days 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 week 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
1 week 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
1 week ago
Environment

Bay Area Makers Process a Climate Catastrophe Through Art | KQED

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1 week ago
Environment

Bay Area Makers Process a Climate Catastrophe Through Art | KQED

fromKqed
1 week 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
1 week 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
1 week 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
1 week 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
1 week 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
1 week 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.
1 week 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
1 week 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
1 week ago

Met Office warns that drought could continue into winter

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Environment
Science
fromInsideHook
1 week 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
1 week 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
1 week 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
1 week 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
1 week 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
1 week 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
1 week 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
1 week 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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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.
fromwww.dw.com
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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
fromABC7 Los Angeles
2 weeks ago

New Orleans marks 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with memorials and brass band parade

Katrina, which was a Category 3 hurricane when it made landfall in southeast Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2005, remains the costliest U.S. storm on record, with damage estimated at upward of $200 billion when adjusted for inflation, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. About 1,400 people died in five states. The failure of the federal levee system inundated about 80% of the city in floodwaters that took weeks to drain.
US news
Travel
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks 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
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