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  1. Naked Trump statue goes on display in Strasbourg

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:18:08 -0000

    Titled "The Orange Plague," a gold-coated statue presents Donald Trump sitting on a smaller man's back. The Danish artist blamed Trump for getting in …
  2. A Dying Sea Can Create Its Own Extreme Climate, Scientists Discover

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:00:00 -0000

    Imagine following the retreating shoreline of the Dead Sea. As the water withdraws, ground once submerged comes into view. But beneath the remaining …
  3. Odds of a U.S. Gulf Coast hurricane landfall are rising

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:22:12 -0000

    A tropical depression organizing in the record-breaking warm waters of the western Gulf of Mexico is predicted to arrive as Hurricane Isaias on …
  4. Trump Is Pretending to Create Jobs in Key Midterm States

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Will voters in Iowa and Alaska fall for his fake steel mill and gas pipeline? The political ascent of Donald Trump has forced me to adjust upward my …
  5. Solar panels have (another) surprising side effect: Stopping dust storms in their tracks

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:00:21 -0000

    Solar farms in desert areas could reduce dust pollution in cities downwind, according to a new Chinese study. The findings reveal unexpected …
  6. Patagonia’s CEO is worried about political apathy—so the company offered 112,000 people $100 to help 3 friends plan to vote

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:26:27 -0000

    Patagonia has spent decades getting young people off their screens and into the outdoors, sporting the Fitz Roy mountain logo on their fleeces. Its …
  7. A Pacific 'Blob' is Pulsing Up the West Coast. Here's What's to Expect.

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:03:41 -0000

    Scientists say the Kelvin wave could be dangerous for people—and deadly for wildlife—as it travels up the California coast. Sea levels across the west coasts of the Americas are rising after a massive bulge of water, driven by wind changes and a warmer ocean, inched its way east along the equator …
  8. It looks like the Atlantic storm season may finally produce a hurricane

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:55:50 -0000

    To date, this Atlantic tropics year has been exceptionally quiet. A low-pressure system in the western Gulf of Mexico should soon become a tropical …
  9. What U.S. Supreme Court judges said at a hearing on climate damages from oil and gas

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:03:42 -0000

    The U.S. Supreme Court grappled Monday with whether local governments can sue oil and gas companies in state court to help cover costs associated …
  10. New Trump-era movie is mind-bending, pretentious and a total box office bomb

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:25:31 -0000

    In the age of President Donald Trump, a man who dismisses man-made climate change as "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world" and …
  11. Australia’s Energy Experiment Proved the Skeptics Wrong

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:00:04 -0000

    Just over 10 years ago, a wind storm sweeping through the state of South Australia appeared to deal a death blow for the energy transition. With tornado winds gusting to nearly 300 kilometers (186 miles) per hour, damage to two transmission lines cascaded into an emergency that shut down the state’s …
  12. How Alaska’s fish became a defining issue for the midterms

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:52:45 -0000

    In the battle for an Alaska Senate seat and the governor’s mansion, the oil-dependent state’s declining fisheries loom large, but no one wants to …
  13. The two-metre question that could wipe out a population

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:30:06 -0000

    IN BRIEF World leaders will spend a day on Tuvalu's main atoll as part of the pre-COP31 summit. • The summit has drawn criticism on several fronts, …
  14. Indonesia threatens prison time for unauthorized downloads of forest data

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 02:59:01 -0000

    Indonesia’s government is imposing new restrictions on access to geospatial data, raising concerns among researchers and activists that it will …
  15. As the planet warms, cities like Bangkok could be increasingly inundated by deadly floods

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:06:44 -0000

    In the humid tropics of Southeast Asia, afternoon thunderstorms roll through almost every day. Daytime heat causes towering, fluffy cumulonimbus …
  16. This city is on track to run out of water by 2030. For many residents, that day is already here

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:27:06 -0000

    Shazia knows what life will be like in a major city that’s run out of water because she’s already living that reality — and it’s unbearable. The …
  17. Future Hurricane Isaias could revive a name tied to a deadly tornado legacy

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:15:24 -0000

    The next named storm, future Hurricane Isaias, has a history of tropical tornadoes, as it produced 39 twisters back in 2020, the largest number of …
  18. Tom Cruise skewers the oil industry

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:02:41 -0000

    I went to see “Digger.” It was weird! The first note I jotted down while watching “Digger” on the big screen this weekend: “This is so over the top, …
  19. New US Supreme Court Cases Could Reshape American Life

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:30:36 -0000

    New US Supreme Court Cases Could Reshape American Life
  20. Pathetic Republicans “Trans”-ition to Their Vile Closing Argument

    Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A month out, the GOP is all in on playing the anti-trans card. Here’s how the Democrats need to answer it. Well, we’ve entered that time-honored phase …
  21. Super El Niño is here. What's so super about it?

    Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    Federal forecasters say this year the planet could see the strongest El Niño event on record. It's already being called "Super El Niño" and even "Godzilla El Niño." El Niño is a natural climate pattern that has far-reaching impacts across the planet, potentially affecting hundreds of millions of …
  22. How Dome Fire in Yosemite compares to others. And why some fires lately are more intense

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:16:01 -0000

    Wildfires aren’t an anomaly in Yosemite National Park. Data from the National Parks Service shows thousands of fires have burned in parts of Yosemite …
  23. It’s Time to Bring Back Congress’s Nerd Squad

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Congress once had an office for making sense of new technologies. It may be time to revive it in the age of AI. In the autumn of 2001, a new national …
  24. 'Halt the Out-of-Control Tech Oligarchs': Advocates Demand Data Center Moratorium in Washington State

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:20:45 -0000

    As the national backlash against hyperscale data centers and the artificial intelligence they power grows, hundreds of people turned out to 19 events …
  25. The comet has hit: Former party bigwig on the extinction of the old GOP

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:53:24 -0000

    End the hurting. If you live in America under President Donald Trump, and are not part of his political cult, the chances are that you can identify …
  26. Liberal justices look for 'escape hatch' as high-stakes climate case lands at Supreme Court, experts say

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:19:42 -0000

    Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor's repeated questions concerning whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to hear a high-profile climate case that could expose oil companies to lawsuits across the country steered conservative lawyers to believe that the liberal justices are …
  27. Scientists Just Found the Coldest Place on Earth to Ever Exist

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:03:26 -0000

    Read all the way to the end – we save the one detail most people never think about for last. The search for Earth’s ultimate deep freeze has moved …
  28. From desalination to irrigation: How countries are adapting to water scarcity

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:35:12 -0000

    From desalination in the UAE to modernising irrigation systems in Uzbekistan, countries facing water pressure are finding ways to secure supplies and …
  29. These Candidates Don’t Talk to Working People—They Are Working People

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:42:48 -0000

    Several actual union members are running for Congress as Democrats. Can they win? And just as important, can they make the party do more than pay lip …
  30. Amy Coney Barrett Raises ‘Quibble’ in Big Oil Supreme Court Case

    Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:09:15 -0000

    The Supreme Court's new term opened Monday with a potentially landmark case pitting states and local governments against some of the world’s largest …