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  1. 'Her body temperature was 106': How heat is killing Americans in their homes

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    An NPR investigation finds that heat kills thousands of Americans every year. But official records radically undercount the toll. In this series, we are bringing you stories that reveal why this happens and what can be done. Heat kills thousands of people across the U.S. every year. But not everyone …

  2. This Labor Day: Darkness in Washington, but Sunshine Across America

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Countering the Trump administration’s hostility to labor has been a string of historic and sometimes surprising wins in blue cities, counties, and …

  3. They Wanted Me for My Blackness. Then the Calls Stopped.

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The year 2020 changed everything—or so we thought. For a little while there, I became very interesting. Not more accomplished, so far as I could tell, …

  4. EU to boost Greenland investment amid Trump annexation claims

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:27:21 -0000

    European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is expected to announce increased EU investment in Greenland on Monday, including in critical minerals, satellite communications and renewable energy. Her two-day visit signals support for Greenland and Denmark amid US President Donald Trump’s push …

  5. New NOAA Maps Show Where September Weather Is About to Change Across the US

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:07:00 -0000

    NOAA’s newest outlook maps point to a stubbornly warm September for a large part of the country, with the signal expanding as fall approaches. The …

  6. 60 People Predict The Biggest Problems Society Could Be Facing Ten Years From Now

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:01:03 -0000

    If you grew up in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, you likely had the same answers as children when someone asked you, “What do you think happens in ten years?” Responses usually revolved around flying cars, robot servants, and pretty much what they saw on The Jetsons. Those predictions were colorful, fun, …

  7. Carbon credit financing offers boost to clean cooking initiatives

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:18:50 -0000

    Carbon credit financing is making clean cooking affordable and accessible to households across Africa, boosting efforts to reduce pollution. Every …

  8. Art Garfunkel says Donald Trump and global warming are making him want to "leave" America

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 22:17:56 -0000

    Art Garfunkel has admitted that he is considering “leaving America” due to global warming and Donald Trump. Speaking in a new interview with The …

  9. More than 10 million dead trees are standing like tombstones along America’s Atlantic coast — scientists mapped vast “ghost forests” where seawater is creeping inland and turning living woodland into salt marsh

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 08:36:03 -0000

    Along stretches of the American east coast, whole stands of trees have gone the colour of old bone. Bare branches, no leaves, roots sitting in …

  10. Shipping companies are putting sails back on cargo ships

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:06:46 -0000

    One of the world's largest logistics companies plans to fit one of its ships with a strange type of sail, the latest in a small but growing number of cleaner sailing shipping vessels.

  11. What conservation rumors reveal about climate projects in the Congo Basin (commentary)

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:00:27 -0000

    In 2020, a strange rumor began circulating in villages around the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Tshopo province. A …

  12. Scientists make 'huge' $540 billion discovery at the bottom of a giant lake

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:35:59 -0000

    A 'white gold' mine containing $540 billion in treasures has been discovered at the bottom of a giant lake in Southern California. The Salton Sea, …

  13. Disaster In Nepal Gets Embroiled In Geopolitics - Analysis - Eurasia Review

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 01:45:04 -0000

    Key Takeaways: After the 26 August floods, Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal first framed UNGA messaging as “justice and compensation,” naming China, …

  14. Advancing Sustainable Fisheries and Resilient Aquatic Food Systems: Joint NGO Recommendation fo

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:20:43 -0000

    Posted on September, 03 2026 NGOs call for urgent action to rebuild fisheries, strengthen ocean governance and support coastal communities. Ahead of …

  15. Africa: Africa Gets Only 23% of the Climate Finance It Needs - and Pays Too Much for It

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:15:29 -0000

    [The Conversation Africa] African countries have committed themselves to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and protecting their people from the …

  16. Big oil’s $3,000-a-second game of chicken is already killing us

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:40:48 -0000

    In the last weeks of August, a valley in the Himalayas and a post-industrial city in the U.S. Midwest found tragic commonality. In Gary, Indiana, a …

  17. Farmers Are Going Broke Amid Rising Gas Prices, While the Ag Secretary Profits Off Them

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    A new report finds that Trump is making millions off of his oil and gas stocks. His administration officials likely are, too.As farmers grapple with …

  18. Fusion power inches closer as Tennessee issues nation’s first license for ‘stellarator’ machine

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:39:57 -0000

    A race toward a century-old dream of near-infinite energy from fusion is heating up across the U.S., and Tennessee just took one step forward. The …

  19. How climate change and food insecurity could fuel conflicts

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 07:47:53 -0000

    Climate change, conflict, and trade tensions are putting pressure on the global food system. New research suggests the biggest risk is not food …

  20. How big is Africa really? Why the UN voted to change the world map

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:49:50 -0000

    The UN has urged countries to adopt a map that makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection. The United Nations General Assembly has voted to back a resolution spearheaded by several African countries to adopt a map that shows the continent as …

  21. Supercharged El Niño heading for record strength; Canada’s winter may ‘take a holiday,’ climatologist says

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:10:05 -0000

    TORONTO — Some are calling it the Godzilla of El Ninos. David Phillips has heard the other names too. “Supercharged. Turbocharged. My gosh, it’s …

  22. 72 million tonnes of plastic waste will be polluted this year, research finds

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:27:37 -0000

    Plastic Overshoot Day, the point at which global plastic waste exceeds the world’s capacity to manage it properly, arrived on 6 September, which …

  23. Experts predict El Nino’s dramatic impact on UK weather this winter

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:39:38 -0000

    The risk of floods, drought and extreme heat is expected to intensify as forecasters warn it is almost certain that this year's El Nino will develop …

  24. Samuel Alito is complicit in climate disaster

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:00:56 -0000

    Thanks to his majority opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which destroyed the constitutional right to abortion in the U.S., or his weird flag-waving during the “Stop the Steal” movement, Samuel Alito is notorious. But the Supreme Court justice’s entanglements with the fossil …

  25. China is set to get solar-powered cars with new glass-based technology but there's some important caveats

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 02:16:00 -0000

    China is set to get solar-powered cars with new glass-based technology, but there’s a catch. Fuyao Glass, one of the world’s biggest automotive glass …

  26. Cathay Pacific, Google scale up AI tests to reduce aviation’s climate impact

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:45:25 -0000

    Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific and Google are expanding AI-powered flight trials designed to steer aircraft away from contrail-forming zones …

  27. Why some of France’s most famous cheeses are in peril

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:30:30 -0000

    Historic heat waves are putting French dairy cows that normally graze outdoors in summer under heat-related stress. Prolonged periods of drought are scorching French pastures, leeching them of their usual lush green vitality and leaving behind parched, lifeless yellow fields. And French farmers bound …

  28. Data center developers in Texas plan massive gas power plant projects

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    A handful of mega data center projects would emit over 100 million tons per year of greenhouse gases, an amount roughly equal to that of a midsize …

  29. Los Angeles coated its streets with a gray reflective layer to fight extreme heat, and the pavement itself really did run more than 10 degrees cooler, but the people walking on it felt hotter, because the heat hadn't gone anywhere — it was bouncing straight up into their bodies

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:58:33 -0000

    The logic seemed unimprovable. Black asphalt drinks the sun and radiates it back all evening, cooking cities from below; it’s a big reason a summer …

  30. A record El Niño brews in the Pacific. The world is feeling the first impacts

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:41:28 -0000

    Climate scientists have been closely monitoring what is happening off Australia's east coast over recent months and are increasingly concerned by …