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1. Billions of sea stars have died. A Northwest tribe is trying to save the species

   Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0000

   On a spring morning so blustery that the National Weather Service issued a small craft advisory, a Samish Indian Nation research boat, called the Chinook (Yómech), set out from Anacortes, Washington, just east of the San Juan Islands. A team of divers crammed into the cabin as the small craft …

2. The Republicans Are Going to Kill People—but Not Until After They Vote

   Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   In the Big Beautiful Bill, the GOP put off Medicaid cuts until after midterms. America is about to find out why. One of Ronald Reagan’s most famous …

3. Are mosquitoes, ticks and fleas turning California into a disease hotspot?

   Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   Some days it feels like we’re losing a battle against mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, flies and worms. Just this month, tularemia, also known as rabbit fever and caused by a bacterium in ticks and deer flies, was detected in people living on Long Island. A park in Marin County was shut down in July after …

4. Earth's Chemistry Wobbled During Its 5 Biggest Mass Extinctions

   Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:30:01 -0000

   Life on Earth, beginning with simple microorganisms that evolved and diversified into the incredible breadth of species living today, has always been turbulent. But it's not just disasters like supervolcanoes and asteroid impacts that cause mass extinction. Read on below – and follow ScienceAlert for news that sparks your curiosity.

5. So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year

   Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:09:57 -0000

   Utility-scale solar leads by a mile, followed by batteries. Fossil fuels, not so much. It’s been a wild first half of the year in the US power sector, …

6. New satellite images show Europe’s disappearing rivers due to drought

   Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:46:22 -0000

   Half of Europe’s land is experiencing drought, impacting river levels across the continent. Drought conditions have worsened across Central and Western Europe since the start of the summer with southern England, northern Italy and parts of Central Europe among the hardest-hit areas, according to the …

7. ‘Excellent profit’: Meet the Bavarian hop farmer securing his harvest and income with solar 'hats'

   Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:02:14 -0000

   No rain, no hops – no hops, no beer. Climate change, heat and dry farmland are hitting Bavaria’s key crop. Could solar panels save it? A wave of farm …

8. A summer of extremes: Weathering a hotter world

   Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:19:15 -0000

   July was the hottest month ever in the Lower 48 States, breaking a record last set during the Dust Bowl – just another step in the escalation of our …

9. Solar Farms Are Having An Unexpected Effect On The Environment

   Sun, 16 Aug 2026 02:17:00 -0000

   Farms are closing at alarming rates. In 2025, the number of farms in the United States shrank by 15,000, and total farmland fell by 2.51 million …

10. Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:00:59 -0000

    Regulations reduced prenatal exposure to harmful emissions, but wildfire smoke is erasing gains. In 1965, a presidential advisory panel issued a …

11. How a herd of Old Irish goats is helping to reduce the risk of wildfire in Dublin’s uplands

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 04:30:00 -0000

    Wildfires are becoming a frightening “new normal” across a tinder-dry Irish landscape, but herds of a rare goat species are proving their worth in …

12. Trump administration pulls support for annual Arctic environmental report

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:00:00 -0000

    The move by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is the latest government rollback of climate science activity. This story was …

13. US Climate catastrophe And Europe Collapse

    Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:56:00 -0000

    US GDP has been damaged by climate change. Because Europe is not prepared, the problem is worse there. More from ClimateCrisis 247 200,000 Cattle On A …

14. Heat Deaths in a ‘Cold’ Country Are a Warning to the Rest of Europe

    Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:03:26 -0000

    A June heat wave in Belgium and neighboring countries exposed a lethal lack of readiness. That’s a risk as another wave hits Europe. Seniors died in stifling apartments. Emergency calls were left on hold. Doctors treated an onslaught of people sick from heat, sometimes in wards without …

15. Third Way Doesn’t Care About the Democratic Party

    Sat, 15 Aug 2026 04:00:00 -0000

    The centrist organization is spending millions of dollars of corporate money on a campaign to manufacture right-wing talking points to flood the …

16. TalkTV Presenter Found Guilty of Assaulting Climate Protester

    Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:00:43 -0000

    André Walker slammed his fist and swore when he heard the guilty verdict. Rightwing news presenter André Walker has been found guilty of assault after …

17. The right is wrong about climate change | Mihail Evans | The Critic Magazine

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 01:00:09 -0000

    I am old enough to remember Auberon Waugh in the late 1980s pooh-poohing doom-mongers — among the most prominent of whom at the time was Mrs Thatcher …

18. The Country The Headlines Never Fully Explain - OpEd - Eurasia Review

    Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:13:48 -0000

    Key Takeaways On its 79th Independence Day, Pakistan is portrayed as a state that has repeatedly endured overlapping security, economic, displacement …

19. Solar-powered community gardens offer lifeline in drought-hit Zimbabwe

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:53:38 -0000

    Mutare, Zimbabwe – At a shared garden in eastern Zimbabwe, solar-powered pumps are helping farmers grow crops year round, even when drought dries out other fields. After sunrise over Chitiyo village in eastern Zimbabwe, Berita Numbi is already in her usual spot. She is watering vegetables grown in …

20. South Africa is overlooking solar technology that can keep generating electricity after sunset

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 06:17:57 -0000

    South Africa’s coal-fired power stations are retiring. The country must replace a huge amount of electricity over the next two decades. Currently, …

21. Europe’s Great Rivers Are Dying. The Continent Is In for a Shock.

    Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:00:13 -0000

    All across Europe, shipwrecks and skeletons are rising from the deep. Near Prahovo, Serbia, Nazi ships scuttled in 1944 now lie broken-backed on sandbanks. In Croatia, a 1930s cargo ship protruded from the water. On the newly exposed riverbed of the Danube in Bulgaria, what local experts say is most …

22. How $600B of Biden’s clean energy funding escaped Trump’s cuts

    Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:02:01 -0000

    A POLITICO analysis finds that while the administration wiped out hundreds of billions in clean-energy tax breaks, spending has been harder to unwind. President Donald Trump has spent more than 18 months demolishing Joe Biden’s expansive green agenda. Yet pieces of the former president’s would-be …

23. Droughts And Floods Attract Little Media Attention - Eurasia Review

    Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:51:57 -0000

    Key Takeaways Cross-border media coverage of natural disasters is driven mainly by three factors: dramatic visual imagery (e.g., earthquakes, fires, …

24. Dead trees and vanishing birds: How extreme heat will change the British landscape

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:09:45 -0000

    Nature experts have painted a stark picture of the UK’s future landscape as heatwaves and droughts will dominate summers in years to come. A string of …

25. How to climate-proof your garden: The plant swaps I'll be making for next summer

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:30:00 -0000

    The summer weather has been unprecedented, and gardeners everywhere are disheartened by the state of their yards as they look out onto wilting leaves …

26. California tackles multiple wildfires as firefighter workforce faces strain

    Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:40:48 -0000

    The federal wildland firefighting workforce, faced with low pay and cost of living issues, copes with Trump-era cuts. Firefighters in the western United States and Canada are working to contain multiple wildfires, including one that erupted along California’s rugged Big Sur coastline. The state’s …

27. China’s green revolution and what it means for the world

    Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:00:00 -0000

    China has been the world’s biggest polluter since 2006, but in recent years, it has emerged as a clean energy superpower. Huge swathes of China – …

28. Hundreds flee as Belgium battles wildfire at German border

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 02:49:30 -0000

    A rapidly spreading wildfire has scorched about 2,700 hectares in the High Fens nature reserve near Belgium's border with Germany. The German town of …

29. They can start out as underwater volcanoes, take up to 30 million years to form – and are home to about 1 million people

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:05:11 -0000

    From volcanic peaks to coral rings, atolls are among the strangest and most fragile landforms on Earth. What is an atoll? An atoll is a ring-shaped …

30. Cash Cow

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:45:00 -0000

    Welcome to Inside Climate, a podcast from the staff of Inside Climate News. In this episode, co-host Jake Bolster sits down with reporters Georgina …