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1. Elon Musk's No Good, Very Bad, Absolutely Disastrous Election Night

   Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:23:30 -0000

   Musk spent nearly $500 million to elect Republicans and watched them all lose—and get wiped out in Texas.

2. This Greek ship has collected enough waste from remote shorelines to fill 22 Olympic swimming pools

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:02:22 -0000

   The 20-member cleaning team has created the largest database on marine pollution in the Mediterranean. With the longest coastline of any country on …

3. New Map Shows Which States Face Heavy Snow Next Week

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 09:01:00 -0000

   The Climate Prediction Center’s latest hazards map flags heavy snow and high winds for mid-November, while the possibility of an unusually early polar vortex disruption clouds the outlook beyond it. Two West Coast states face a moderate risk of heavy snow from Friday, Nov. 13, through Sunday, Nov. …

4. Voters Just Changed the Trajectory of the Supreme Court

   Thu, 05 Nov 2026 11:01:00 -0000

   The blue wave didn’t just hand Democrats control of the House and Senate. They’ve won back favorable terrain on the future of the federal …

5. The Climate Trust’s McIntyre Ranch Project Becomes First Completed Issuance Under CAR’s Canada Grassland Protocol

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

   CARDSTON COUNTY, ALBERTA, Canada, November 6, 2026 /3BL/ - SCS Global Services Global Services, a leading third-party sustainability certification …

6. World First: Underwater Volcano Off US Coast Generates Net-Positive Electricity

   Thu, 05 Nov 2026 23:00:00 -0000

   An engineering team lowered a generator to the ocean floor and ran it using heat from an underwater volcano. They wanted to find out whether it could …

7. The Ozone Hole Is the Largest It's Been in a Decade

   Thu, 05 Nov 2026 17:05:21 -0000

   Scientists at NASA and NOAA found the hole to be nearly three times the size of the United States this year. The ozone hole has made its annual …

8. Climate change has stopped the next ice age

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 07:00:00 -0000

   Earth has had five major ice ages in its geographic history. In fact, we’re supposed to be in one right now. But global carbon emissions have stopped …

9. Ten years of the Paris Agreement: Has the world kept its climate promises?

   Thu, 05 Nov 2026 07:41:25 -0000

   Nearly 200 countries pledged to limit warming to 1.5C. We look at who has delivered and who has fallen short. Ten years ago, the Paris Agreement entered into force, binding nearly every country to a shared goal: to hold global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above …

10. COP31 host Türkiye is home to one of Europe's largest solar farms. Why can’t it kick coal?

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 06:02:50 -0000

    As Türkiye prepares to host the UN climate summit, one critic describes the country's climate targets and policies as “critically insufficient”. Row …

11. Adaptation isn't keeping up with global warming, UN warns

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 04:00:02 -0000

    With global warming set to exceed 1.5°C, adaptation finance falls far short of needs, implementation is constrained by institutional barriers, and …

12. King tides, rain are flooding South Florida. What are we doing about it?

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 10:11:00 -0000

    Historic, chart-topping king tides submerged South Florida last week, flooding more places deeper and longer than they’d ever seen before. This week, …

13. South Korea tests Arctic shipping route amid Russia-West row

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026 09:45:00 -0000

    For South Korean ships, navigating off the north coast of Russia dramatically reduces travel time to Europe, but the pro-Ukraine coalition might see …

14. Inflation is never coming down

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:03:47 -0000

    Last week, Donald Trump joked that $5,000 could at most buy you a hamburger and “maybe a small dessert” at Mar-a-Lago. “It’s not a good place if …

15. The polar vortex is about to go haywire

    Wed, 04 Nov 2026 16:59:44 -0000

    Something “unprecedented” is happening in the atmosphere: the Arctic polar vortex, a spinning mass of air high above the North Pole, is collapsing. …

16. Three-quarters of world's displaced people face severe climate risks, UN says

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026 23:34:08 -0000

    Nearly 90 million forcibly displaced people, or three-quarters of the global total, live in countries highly exposed to climate hazards, the UN Refugee Agency said on Friday, urging action ahead of the COP31 climate summit in Turkey. It said droughts, floods and extreme heat were making lasting …

17. America’s grid upgrade hinges on a 400-ton machine designed in the 1800s — and just one U.S. mill makes the special steel inside it

    Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:39:22 -0000

    Americans have a lot of plans for the country’s power grid. Some people want to expand renewable energy by building solar and wind farms. Others want …

18. JD Vance Is the Trump Administration’s Biggest Weasel

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026 01:49:57 -0000

    The vice president and 2028 hopeful is desperately trying to evade responsibility for the GOP’s bloodbath this week—by laying all the blame on his …

19. Europe's climate tax risks opening a new trade war with India at COP31

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 09:58:23 -0000

    The EU's diplomatic stance at COP31 summit is complicated by its own political retreat on climate policy and growing global opposition to its carbon …

20. Modi’s Clean Ganga Project Fails to Tame Toxic Pollution in Holy India River

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 05:00:18 -0000

    Bloomberg analyzed nearly 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) of the Ganges using satellite imagery spanning about a decade to 2026. Only about 10% shows …

21. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is changing the color of the ocean

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026 17:15:00 -0000

    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area in the Pacific Ocean where debris naturally accumulates, is full of tiny bits of plastic—so full, in fact, …

22. You Can’t Make America Healthy by Letting Polluters Off the Hook

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 11:00:04 -0000

    One might think, from President Donald Trump’s recent announcement of his administration’s plan to gut federal methane protections, that he was doing everyday Americans a huge favor. He claimed that this action was a win for consumers, but the real winners are polluters. They’ve been handed yet …

23. View from The Hill: an over-committed Albanese is scrambling to keep his eyes on the main game

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 06:21:40 -0000

    It’s just a tiny thing, but then, sometimes small things can carry bigger messages. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is delaying by a day his departure …

24. The Surreal Has Become Real in Texas

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    The Lone Star State is about to re-embark on a journey it hasn’t thought about for years: Democratic governance. The picture, so perfectly composed, …

25. Climate resources taken offline under Trump now back online

    Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:59:00 -0000

    Climate.us provides public access to climate data, tools, and analysis. Climate.gov, a federal website, used to provide a bridge between climate data …

26. Is next 'Beast from the East' about to hit Britain?

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 02:34:28 -0000

    The Polar Vortex is breaking down due to the earliest "sudden stratospheric warming" event on record, which could bring colder conditions to the UK …

27. The herring that fed medieval Europe never ran out, yet the fishery that caught them collapsed

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 07:34:00 -0000

    When a fishery dies, the obvious explanation is that people caught all the fish. For the fishery that was once Europe’s main source of salted herring, that isn’t what happened. The herring were still there when the catch collapsed in the late 1500s. A new study finds it took overfishing, a colder …

28. What If We Terraformed the Sahara Desert? (Redux)

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 10:26:56 -0000

    Imagine a dry desert with never ending sand-dunes, transforming into a lush, green tropical paraside, right in front of your eyes. This is what could happen if we terraformed the Sahara Desert.

29. A Super El Niño Is Here. What Does It Mean for Skiing?

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 10:00:32 -0000

    The climate event is predicted to alter snowfall patterns across the U.S. and Canada. Experts are starting to see how it might play out across ski country. Godzilla has arrived. A super El Niño is here. What sounds like the plot of a horror movie is actually a forecast for a climate event that is …

30. 2026 'most likely' to be second-hottest year on record says EU monitor

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 10:44:32 -0000

    With an exceptionally strong El Niño weather pattern turbocharges human-driven global warming, this year still has a '20% chance of tying or …