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  1. It’s so hot in France that a wildfire created a never-before-seen lightning cloud that ignited even more fires

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:43:09 -0000

    PARIS (AP) — A wildfire in southwest France grew so powerful that its smoke column became a thunderstorm, generating lightning that struck the ground …

  2. Yangtze River experiences major recovery after 2021 fishing ban

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:54:11 -0000

    A fishing ban on China’s Yangtze River has led to a remarkable recovery of biomass in the waterway. The 6,300-kilometer (3,900-mile) river, Asia’s …

  3. The Concerning Data Center Side Effect That Might Affect Millions

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:25:00 -0000

    There are over 12,000 data centers across the globe today. As artificial intelligence (AI) demand intensifies, more data centers are projected to be …

  4. Roundup’s Surprising Connection to Industrial Meat

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    The one thing glyphosate has in common with the screwworm outbreak, deforestation, climate change and bird flu. For years, Bayer and the biotech giant …

  5. Inside the ‘America First’ makeover of a global hunger program

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:45:00 -0000

    In remaking USAID’s Feed the Future innovation labs, Trump is abandoning an agricultural research effort built to benefit the world. Bassirou Sani …

  6. 'No matter what you do, you can’t put it out': Spanish firefighters describe record blaze

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:33:22 -0000

    BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish firefighter Javier García has never faced anything like the record blaze raging near Madrid in his two decades protecting woodlands and rural communities. “This doesn’t have a precedent,” García told The Associated Press by phone before another long day ahead. The …

  7. Sargassum, the smelly nemesis of beach vacations, has become a self-sustaining disaster that will keep coming back

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:07:59 -0000

    You’ve been planning your dream beach vacation for months, only to arrive and find the shoreline covered in large piles of smelly, brown seaweed, …

  8. Trump’s Isolationism Is Losing the Great E.V. Race

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:00:00 -0000

    The United States risks becoming a theme park of internal combustion, as the rest of the world moves on. Australia plays a number of interesting roles in the world, and one of them is as part of what scientists call a “natural experiment,” in which significant forces can be observed at work outside …

  9. Photos Show the Destruction in France and Spain From Ferocious European Wildfires

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:16:45 -0000

    Firefighters in France and Spain are battling ferocious wildfires in an effort to control the blazes before the next heat wave arrives later this week. French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday described the "completely unprecedented" crisis as the "toughest since the Second World War." He urged …

  10. Is Your Sunshade Doing The Job?

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:00:02 -0000

    It seems self-evident that a sunshade inside a car's windshield would be pretty effective, for the same reason that blinds or curtains in your home prevent the interior from getting too hot. Even the ancients understood cooling. However, is it truly the right way to prevent the inside of your beloved ride from roasting?

  11. Woman Predicted 9/11 Twelve Years Before It Happened And That Is Not Even Her Most Unsettling Call

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:40:39 -0000

    Most people who claim to see the future are easy to dismiss. Vague enough to mean anything, specific enough to sound impressive after the fact, and …

  12. Devastating European wildfires in maps - and how they're being tackled

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:21:32 -0000

    Wildfires are tearing through France and Spain, forcing more than 300,000 people to evacuate their homes. France has seen its worst fires in two decades, while officials in the Spanish capital Madrid say they are the worst the region has ever experienced. It follows a sweltering summer of heatwaves …

  13. Unprecedented 'fire clouds' are fanning the flames in France | New Scientist

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:38:40 -0000

    A pyrocumulonimbus cloud, a looming thunderstorm generated by an intensely hot wildfire, has been observed with radar in France for the first time. …

  14. Supercontinents and Dinosaurs: How Pangaea Shaped Evolution

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:29:04 -0000

    The story of Earth’s ancient supercontinent, Pangaea, and the dinosaurs that roamed its vast, connected landmass is a fascinating chapter in our …

  15. Massive iceberg capsizes off the coast of Greenland

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:17:34 -0000

    A massive iceberg capsized off the coast of Ilulissat, Greenland, on July 25, flipping with force to reveal its jagged underside.

  16. Major news outlets and Democrats are pretending weather isn’t affected by climate

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Along with ongoing coverage of the latest bombings and missile and drone attacks in Iran and the oil-rich Gulf states, extreme weather events are also providing lead segments on evening news programs this summer. What you don’t see in much of the TV coverage, at least not since the beginning of …

  17. The Ecosystems Woven Into Our Clothes

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:00:48 -0000

    High in the Andes mountains, a puma looks down upon the Patagonia plateau, eyeing a large herd of woolly sheep moving in lockstep. The threat of …

  18. Why is Germany building roads for yesterday's climate?

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:34:46 -0000

    As heat waves buckle its Autobahn, Germany is still paving roads for a past climate. Engineers know how to fix it — so what's the holdup? Multi-day …

  19. The Earth is on Fire

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:38:25 -0000

    Wildfires are advancing on cities, emptying towns and sending smoke across borders, as parts of Europe and North America face another summer of …

  20. Scorching US Heat Wave To Hit 70M With Third ‘Heat Dome’ in Month

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:30:43 -0000

    Scorching US Heat Wave To Hit 70M With Third ‘Heat Dome’ in Month (Maria)The author writes, “About 70 million people in the U.S. are expected to face …

  21. Scientists warn 'greatest risk to civilisation' coming sooner than thought

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:00:00 -0000

    Scientists have issued a stark warning about when humanity could begin to see the collapse of civilization - and the clock is ticking faster than we think. Previously, Elon Musk claimed that declining birth rates pose the "greatest risk to the future of civilisation." Currently, the fertility rate …

  22. Macron Holds Crisis Meeting As Massive Wildfires Force Mass Evacuations.

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:18:31 -0000

    French President Emmanuel Macron has convened a crisis meeting as massive wildfires forced more than 250,000 people to evacuate across France.

  23. Here’s how you can manage heatwave anxiety

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:28:53 -0000

    Britain is once again under a swathe of amber and yellow heat-health alerts from the UK Health Security Agency, as the nation enters its fourth …

  24. Inside The Lab Growing Mutant Bacteria To Terraform Earth | NOEMA

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:35:29 -0000

    Increasing desertification now means large parts of Earth are becoming inhospitable. Can gene-edited bacteria save our planet from drying …

  25. The Cooling Revolution That Could Save a Warming World

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:53:14 -0000

    Cooling has quietly become the most critical public infrastructure of the 21st century. By 2050, global cooling capacity nearly triples. Left …

  26. Scientists Found a Genius Way to Remove 'Forever Chemicals' From Soil

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:24:39 -0000

    Nutrient-rich 'sludge' has been marketed to farmers as a natural alternative to petrochemical fertilizers. But it's making a really, really big mess, because much of that sludge is contaminated with PFAS. Luckily, scientists are working on it. Read on to see how this cleanup method works – and follow ScienceAlert for evidence-backed stories on pollution, health, and the environment.

  27. A ban on chainsaws in wilderness is performative, not practical

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:00:00 -0000

    As we sawed through yet another fire-scarred fir that had fallen across a backcountry trail, my trail crew and I would sometimes hear a hiker, pause …

  28. Trump administration targeted California and other blue states for clean energy cuts

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The fate of hundreds of clean energy projects hangs in the balance after court documents revealed that the Trump administration targeted California and other blue states solely for political reasons when it slashed funding for the initiatives last year. Large companies, startups, utilities, …

  29. A Forgotten Wave of Extinction May Have Erased Thousands of Human Languages

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:00:00 -0000

    Around 7,500 spoken and signed languages are used worldwide today. Yet this extraordinary diversity may represent only a fraction of the linguistic …

  30. The seven plants that need extra water in a drought – and those that need less to survive

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:31:38 -0000

    With hosepipe bans in force across several English regions and more restrictions likely to follow, gardeners face some tough choices. When every drop …