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1. Trump’s New Bank Is His Most Naked Scandal Yet

   Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   The media should not be covering Trump’s new crypto bank as if it were a legitimate business story. If you want to open any kind of national bank in …

2. Trump’s Micromanaging Warship Design Will Set the Navy Back by Decades

   Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:50:01 -0000

   These nonsensical steam catapults are just one of several instances of Trump trying to pretend he knows anything about ship design, and they’re …

3. The cognitive bias behind bad climate math

   Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:00:35 -0000

   Before people can reduce their carbon footprint, they need to know what actions will most help them do so. Research has shown that this domain of …

4. Data center gas plants to boost U.S. power emissions by 20%

   Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:25:53 -0000

   Data center developers are turning to bespoke natural-gas power plants, a development that promises to dramatically increase carbon emissions and …

5. Nation’s Largest Reservoirs Are Drying Up, Threatening Life in the Southwest

   Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:59:39 -0000

   Levels in Lakes Mead and Powell have not been so low since 1957, underscoring a water crisis that plagues seven states that rely on the Colorado River. Lakes Powell and Mead, the nation’s largest reservoirs, are drying up, sending a Colorado River system that provides water and electricity for …

6. Lula calls oil near the Amazon River a passport to Brazil's future after Petrobras strikes new find

   Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:20:55 -0000

   SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Monday that oil drilling in northern and northeastern coastal regions could be “a passport to the country’s future” after visiting a Petrobras offshore drilling vessel following a find announced last week near the mouth of the …

7. People over 60 face heat exposure danger at lower temperatures, study suggests

   Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:42:14 -0000

   As Australians prepare to swelter through a hot El Niño summer, the risk of heat stress also rises. When we age, our bodies are no longer able to cope …

8. Extreme Heat May Be Even More Dangerous to Older Adults Than We Thought

   Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:45:59 -0000

   New research found adults aged 60 and over will bear the brunt of public health risks driven by climate change. The dangers of extreme heat have been …

9. Europe’s seas reach record heat as climate change threatens marine life

   Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:34:08 -0000

   Human-caused climate change was the main driver of record-breaking sea temperatures around Europe this summer, scientists said on Wednesday, warning of severe risks to marine ecosystems and coastal communities. The Mediterranean averaged a record 27 degrees Celsius in July, while waters near …

10. South Africa’s top court blocked Shell’s Wild Coast oil search: why it matters for climate justice

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:44:14 -0000

    South Africa’s Constitutional Court – the country’s highest court – handed down a landmark judgment for climate change and environmental justice in …

11. The UK and Google are testing changes to flight paths to tackle aviation's climate impact

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:21:25 -0000

    Hundreds of commercial flights will be told to change their paths over the northeastern Atlantic Ocean during the next two winters to show how minor altitude adjustments can reduce aviation’s climate impact. The British government is backing the landmark airspace-scale trial, launched Tuesday, to …

12. At Long Last, Americans Are Starting to See the Truth About the GOP

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A businessman can set this country right. Republicans are better for the economy. Republicans love the military. Lie, lie, and lie. It was heartening …

13. Why climate scientists are struggling to explain Europe’s extreme summer

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:34:35 -0000

    Europe’s relentless summer heat has raised fresh questions about what is driving repeated extremes across the continent and whether exceptional summers could become the norm. A succession of heatwaves, record-breaking temperatures and unusually warm nights has swept Europe during the summer of 2026, …

14. Capitalism is killing summer

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:58:00 -0000

    It’s a “Hot Socialist Summer,” proclaims the New York City Democratic Socialists of America Instagram. Indeed, it has been a summer of socialist …

15. MAGA Christianity and the Return of Religious Coercion

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:08:55 -0000

    The right is increasingly embracing an anti-social version of the Christian faith that favors restrictive control with none of the underlying moral …

16. California’s new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:19:53 -0000

    The nation’s first tire efficiency standards target an overlooked drag on fuel economy that can cost drivers more at the pump. California just became …

17. Midwest is overwhelmed by rainfall caused by rising temps (which will only get worse)

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:01:38 -0000

    Severe storms in the Midwest have cause widespread flooding. Climate experts say extreme rainfall has already gotten worse in the region and will keep intensifying. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: In the Midwest, nearly a week of severe storms has caused heavy flooding, particularly in Indiana and Ohio. Roads …

18. How China Found Its Most Potent Weapon

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:00:00 -0000

    The real history of Beijing’s rare-earth dominance.

19. Far from home, Hong Kong’s wild cockatoos could save their species from extinction

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:05:00 -0000

    Cockatoos are instinctively destructive. Stand under a tree in which one is perched and you will soon be dodging branches as the bird, mostly for its own amusement, starts ripping up the canopy and dropping it to the floor. The natural habitat of the yellow-crested cockatoo is the jungles of central …

20. Scientists explore new ways to target mosquitoes as warming climate expands threat

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:25:36 -0000

    It doesn't have sharp teeth or claws, but the mosquito kills more people than any other animal on earth. As the climate warms, mosquito season is …

21. The soil’s early warning system: microbes can predict desertification before plants start to die

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:05:21 -0000

    Microbial ecology (the study of how tiny microbes interact with each other and their environment) underpins the health of every ecosystem on Earth. …

22. AI to help planes avoid climate-warming contrails above North Atlantic

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:26:41 -0000

    We've all looked up and seen the white lines trailing behind aircraft in the sky. Known as contrails, these icy clouds contribute to climate change, and scientists have been trying to work out how to stop them. Now, a £5m UK trial will test whether AI can help, by predicting where warming contrails …

23. How this Georgia factory is surviving America's solar policy whiplash

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:30:00 -0000

    Biden’s incentives gave Qcells a leg up. Now Trump’s tariffs may help it thrive. This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist …

24. The Amazon's Trees May Be Reaching a Dangerous Tipping Point

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Over the past 40 years, the same Amazon trees growing in Peru have started growing thinner, flimsier leaves. Scientists worry they’re being pushed to the brink. The forest in Peru’s Tambopata Nature Reserve was hot and noisy—filled with the buzz of cicadas and the raspy barks of white-throated …

25. America’s Rural Lands Are Burning

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:22:16 -0000

    This summer has been a terrible fire season in the U.S.—just not in the most populated places. The summer of 2026 has been one of extraordinary fires. In Europe, they have burned hundreds of thousands of acres in France and Spain and destroyed homes across England; they killed 13 people in Spain …

26. Planes flying over the Atlantic will be re-routed to avoid contrails

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    Planes flying across the North Atlantic Ocean later this year will be re-routed to avoid causing condensation trails, in a first-of-a-kind trial to …

27. Climate doom may discourage climate action, but there’s a way to counter it

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:53:33 -0000

    Every summer is getting hotter. Wildfires are blazing, and the worst is yet to come. There’s nothing to be done – we’re doomed! Sound familiar? This …

28. Atomic Wildfires Are Russia’s Looming Compound Disaster

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:28:49 -0000

    It was a cold day in September 1957 when farmers in the Ural Mountains east of Yekaterinburg, in central Russia, noticed the sky had changed. …

29. A storm is coming for Labour

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:03:58 -0000

    While some Scottish nationalists are eager to remind everyone else it has been raining in the Highlands, these past months have been unprecedented …

30. The critical tech staying safe by going underground

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:25:21 -0000

    A wall of white granite towered above a small team of engineers gathered in a California quarry. The ancient, ultra-hard material before them was, to most things, completely impermeable. Then the rock-melting tunnel-boring machine (TBR) roared to life. "It's kind of like igniting a rocket," says Troy …