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1. I’d Seen It From The Ground, But Wait Until You See It From The Sky

   Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:11:49 -0000

   On a hot, sunny day in California, I crawled into the tiny cockpit of a small Cessna aircraft to fly around one of the state’s most active volcanoes, …

2. The world’s oceans are the hottest on record for June – and El Niño is set to turn up the heat even more

   Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:44:09 -0000

   The world’s oceans are the hottest on record for June, pushing past records set during the 2023–24 El Niño years. Right now, the average sea surface …

3. A Home Battery Revolution Is Reshaping the Power Grid

   Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0000

   Home and commercial solar arrays provide nearly a fifth of Australia’s electricity generation, with panels atop one in every three homes. To extend …

4. World’s oceans experience hottest June ever, scientists say more heat ahead

   Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:38:43 -0000

   European Union monitors say the first half of 2026 was ‘marked by sustained and exceptional ocean warmth’ and forecast more to come. The world’s oceans experienced their “warmest June ever observed” and could see further record-breaking highs in the months ahead as El Niño and climate change push …

5. What Every Collapsing Civilization Has in Common

   Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:18:40 -0000

   Below, Sarah Wilson shares five key insights from her new book, I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World. Sarah is a …

6. America’s housing was built for a world we no longer live in

   Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:59:10 -0000

   The United States is turning 250. Everything we want for the next 50 years starts with fixing housing. America’s housing supply was built for a world we no longer live in. But what will replace it? As the nation turns 250, that is one of the most important questions we face in the coming decades. …

7. 'This Is the PFAS Presidency': Trump EPA Approves Another Forever Chemical Pesticide | Common Dreams

   Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:56:36 -0000

   "The Trump administration's EPA is once again showing its disdain for Americans' health and the natural world." Environmental and public health …

8. 7 Buried Cities That Vanished Overnight – And What We’ve Learned from Them

   Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:00:00 -0000

   Some cities do not die slowly. They disappear in a single terrifying night – swallowed by ash, drowned in mud, or silenced by the sea. For centuries, …

9. Spain heat wave kills over 1,000 in second-hottest June ever

   Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:21:00 -0000

   At least 1,028 people died during Spain's recent heat wave as the country endured its hottest January-to-June period on record. Scientists said the …

10. Banks are financing the fossil fuel industry’s next growth strategy

    Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:30:00 -0000

    New research shows major lenders are accelerating their investment in Big Oil as the industry turns toward plastics, pesticides, and other …

11. Californians, pay attention: The Colorado River is drying up at its headwaters

    Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:30:00 -0000

    Your morning catch-up: The Colorado River is in big trouble, Lebron James is leaving the Lakers and more big stories The mighty Colorado River — that carved the Grand Canyon and was dammed by the epic Hoover Dam — is in big trouble. The long-overused river, a major water source for millions of people …

12. Why does 95 degrees feel even hotter? We explain the heat index

    Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:05:15 -0000

    The temperature reads 95 degrees. Your body says it's even worse. That difference is the heat index, or the "feels like" temperature. It accounts for what the air feels like once humidity is factored in. "The heat index is really a measure of the combination of the air temperature, plus the humidity, …

13. Trump administration seeks to stomp out all fires quickly, reviving policy that has been discredited

    Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:31:20 -0000

    The deaths of three U.S. government firefighters in a Colorado wildfire are casting a spotlight on the Trump administration’s creation of a new federal fire service and its revival of a previously discredited policy to stomp out all wildfires quickly. One of the killed firefighters worked for the …

14. The weed killer America can’t afford to lose

    Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:00:01 -0000

    A 7-2 Supreme Court decision protects Bayer from costly litigation over Roundup. Thank goodness. Zachary Karabell, an author and investor, writes “The Edgy Optimist” on Substack. His next book, “Fields of Invention: How We Made Corn and Corn Made Us,” will be published in 2027. Bayer and the ordinary …

15. As Satish Kumar Turns 90, His Radical Idealism Is More Important Than Ever

    Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:00:19 -0000

    In a quiet corner of coastal Cornwall far from Westminster, the brightest eyes the colour of polished conkers sparkle from a dark corner of a lovely …

16. ‘We are screwed’: People near data centers dread heat wave pollution

    Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:37:34 -0000

    Extreme temperatures threaten to strain the grid as data centers are increasing energy demand. What could go wrong? Data Center Alley is facing a climate test. Searing temperatures this week could push energy demand to record levels on the mid-Atlantic’s electric grid, which fuels the country’s data …

17. Record-high ocean heat could fuel sea level rise and extreme weather on land

    Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:01:55 -0000

    New Copernicus data reveals that daily global sea surface temperatures have broken records for the time of year. Global sea surface temperatures have …

18. He’s Powered His Entire Home for 8 Years Using 650 Scrapped Laptop Batteries—No Failures, No Fire, Just Pure Ingenuity

    Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:00:00 -0000

    Imagine running your entire house for nearly a decade using only solar power and hundreds of salvaged laptop batteries—without a single fire hazard …

19. Fourth of July heat wave is just another climate change hoax | Opinion

    Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:09:02 -0000

    Mother Nature is a radical leftist personification, possibly stemming from some meteorological wing of antifa, and now she’s threatening to ruin America’s 250th anniversary. The brutal heat wave searing much of the United States on this Fourth of July week is further proof Mother Nature is hell-bent …

20. It snowed in Yellowstone this week

    Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:36:15 -0000

    The higher the elevation, the cooler the temperature. A massive heat dome blanketing more than half of the United States is subjecting millions of people to some of the hottest summer temperatures in over a decade. Thick humidity is making matters even worse, with “feels like” conditions in many …

21. Stabbing pain sent her to the doctor. The underlying cause is getting more common everywhere.

    Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:54:57 -0000

    Medical researchers have documented similar problems among outdoor workers in North Carolina, Guatemala, India, and elsewhere. Sharp abdominal pain …

22. Space Lasers Show How Venezuela’s Earthquakes Reshaped the Earth’s Crust

    Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:30:00 -0000

    New satellite imagery reveals how much terrain has shifted in the wake of the twin quakes. The European Space Agency released a satellite image that …

23. We Need to Retrofit the Planet. The Heat Wave Proves It.

    Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:03:35 -0000

    In Europe the next heat dome is already building. Another wave of hundred-degree days will soon sweep across Britain and the mainland as 200 million Americans mark the United States’ birthday by sweltering under our own extreme temperatures. And the one last week? There are three big things to know, …

24. After Trump axed federal employees running climate site, thousands crowdfund its comeback

    Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:58:42 -0000

    Federal employees who were axed during waves of cuts by the Trump administration have fought back against the dismantling of a key climate science website, Climate.gov, and put up a new site, Climate.us, that can now do everything the original did. The site, with millions of users each year, was …

25. Spain records second-hottest June on record with nearly 900 heat-related deaths

    Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:40:23 -0000

    Spain's meteorological agency Aemet has branded June "extremely hot", the second-warmest since 1961. The heat is estimated to have caused about 900 …

26. Exclusive: Count Climate Spending As Part Of Defence Budget, Say Greens

    Thu, 02 Jul 2026 05:00:18 -0000

    The government must "broaden its lens on defence spending and be more realistic about the threats facing us", a source said. Spending on climate …

27. Analysis-Net-zero champion Europe snared by climate change on its doorstep

    Thu, 02 Jul 2026 05:26:13 -0000

    BERLIN/BRUSSELS - The June heatwave that broke a series of temperature records in Europe has focused minds on the urgency of adapting to global …

28. Polis defends data centers as Colorado juggles energy demands

    Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:00:05 -0000

    ASPEN, Colo. — Colorado's Democratic governor, Jared Polis, defended data centers, touted oil and gas rules and bemoaned climate change in a recent …

29. Namadgi National Park shows signs of climate change as rangers intervene

    Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:26:44 -0000

    When rain falls on the ACT's high country, each drop enters a rich and biodiverse ecosystem, with the water stored, filtered and carried by streams …

30. Predators always need prey — and now the psychopaths in charge have turned on Americans

    Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:18:15 -0000

    Hundreds of people died last week across Europe from the heat; they’re a symptom of a larger problem that governments around the world have failed to …