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  1. UN warns El Nino could be ‘off the charts’, strongest in decades

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:49:13 -0000

    The World Meteorological Organization says forecasts show nearly 100 percent likelihood that El Nino will continue through February. El Nino is set to intensify to exceptional levels in the coming months and persist into early 2027, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has warned, raising the …

  2. The Legal Wreckage of the Supreme Court’s Ballroom Follies

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The high court’s recent decision on the illegal addition to the White House shines a light on just how willing it is to let Donald Trump break the …

  3. Inside the Longshot Experiment to Resurrect Elm Trees—With the Disease That Decimated Them

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    As many as 100 million elm trees died from Dutch elm disease in the span of 50 years. Now, decades of careful breeding may help them return. Walking through a field in rural Vermont last July, Gus Goodwin passes row after row of young elm trees. He points out trees that appear healthy, with green …

  4. Floods hit a historic Grand Canyon lodge. It’s the second park landmark affected by a natural disaster in the past year

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:29 -0000

    The Grand Canyon’s vast, mile-deep landscape may appear timeless, but two devastating disasters have recently struck the iconic natural wonder as the climate crisis intensifies extreme weather. Muddy brown floodwaters roared through Phantom Ranch on August 29, swamping the 1920s lodge that has …

  5. Cratering oil use in China shows the death spiral that could end oil

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:00:00 -0000

    Chinese oil use dropped drastically in Q2 of this year, leading to an overall drop in emissions for the country. That alone is a big deal – but the potential effects of the world’s second-largest oil consumer rapidly passing peak oil could have massive effects on the world’s oil markets. For the …

  6. MAHA’s Meat Obsession Exposes the Movement’s Delusions

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Robert F Kennedy Jr. and his acolytes say we should eat more meat, but that would only worsen the very problems Make America Healthy Again claims it …

  7. El Niño is surging. Months of extreme heat could follow

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 06:00:00 -0000

    Fuelled by exceptionally warm Pacific waters, the El Niño climate pattern is intensifying and has yet to peak. Forecasters are almost certain it will …

  8. What JD Vance’s Eruption of Rage Over Usha and El-Sayed Really Reveals

    Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Vance is posing as a chivalrous defender of his wife. What he’s hiding are the craven compromises he’s made with the racist and white nationalist …

  9. How much energy does agentic AI actually use? One scientist tracked every prompt he sent

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Tech companies say typical AI prompts use little energy. Zeke Hausfather’s experiment suggests AI agents are a different story. As a climate scientist, Zeke Hausfather uses artificial intelligence every day for research and data analysis. But he kept wondering how much energy all that AI use was …

  10. Huge chunks of N.J. could be underwater in coming years. Look up your address.

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:00:01 -0000

    As a kid growing up at the Jersey Shore, Brian Kempf always had his eye on the water line.“I would spend summers digging elaborate trenches and walls …

  11. El Niño Forecast Is ‘Off the Charts.’ What Could This Mean for Ski Season?

    Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:00:00 -0000

    Forecasters say prepare for a wet — but potentially warm — winter. With ski season right around the corner, all eyes are on this year’s “super” El …

  12. Rick Steves' Not-Perfectly-Accurate But Simple Little Trick To Help American Tourists Think In Celsius

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:45:00 -0000

    "What's 25 degrees Celsius in Fahrenheit? Is that warm, or should I bring a jacket?" If you've ever had to check the weather while traveling or living abroad — or even just taken your temperature during a fever — you'll have likely run into some numbers that require quick conversions. To much of …

  13. ‘If you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em’: Italy is turning its hated invasive crab into a multimillion-dollar business

    Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:20:11 -0000

    Italian fishermen for two years incinerated most of the invasive Atlantic blue crabs caught in the Po River Delta south of Venice. Few Italians had …

  14. He tried to eliminate FEMA. Now he says the Trump administration has changed course

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 05:00:00 -0000

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency is no longer in the Trump administration's crosshairs, according to its former leader. President Trump has …

  15. 'Remarkable': Military expert's detail about Hegseth's impact floors Kaitlan Collins

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 02:12:31 -0000

    A retired Air Force secretary's description of how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has impacted the military shocked Kaitlan Collins. During a …

  16. A 6,000-Word Warning From Bill Gates Exposes the Leadership Pattern That Keeps Crises Unsolved

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

    Forecasting disruption is not enough. Business leaders can move stalled groups forward by sharing costs, running a joint test, and naming a tie-breaker. Bill Gates just released a nearly 6,000-word essay about how unprepared the world is for artificial intelligence. His conclusion: no one is …

  17. Trump’s Vile Campaign to Link Trans People and Political Violence

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A bogus new HHS report argues that support for transgender rights pushes people toward political violence. It’s just the latest chilling installment …

  18. US Companies Are on the Cusp of Big Climate Solutions. Thank the Government.

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:47:03 -0000

    The United States has never been one of the most ambitious countries when it comes to tackling climate change, but it has long maintained a program …

  19. The Vatican is smaller than a single data center. Now it’s spending $117 million to go carbon-neutral

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:01:00 -0000

    Pope Francis spent much of his papacy pushing the Catholic Church to treat climate change as a moral issue in addition to a scientific. Now, the Holy …

  20. Good Riddance, Seth Moulton: You Got What You Deserved

    Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:13:27 -0000

    The congressman who got drubbed by Ed Markey on Tuesday tried to distance himself from the base. That just doesn’t work anymore. The biggest reason …

  21. Still standing: 8 astonishing holdouts after extreme weather disasters struck

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:41:10 -0000

    What survives a disaster can often be explained by engineering, biology, materials or chance. But for the people who return to what is left, simply …

  22. Texas A&M System considers removing courses on LGBTQ, ethnic studies and climate change from core offerings

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    More than 200 courses, including those on LGBTQ literature, cultural studies and climate change, could no longer count toward core degree …

  23. These Bay Area Residents Have Had Plug-In Solar for a Year. Here’s How It’s Going

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:00:00 -0000

    State legislators passed a bill to make plug-in solar simpler to install, and it’s on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. Here’s what Bay Area residents who …

  24. Iran Accuses U.S. Military of a War Crime

    Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:43:18 -0000

    Renewed fighting has taken a deadly turn after a month without major military action. Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at renewed …

  25. Trump takes aim at American science as China pulls ahead

    Wed, 02 Sep 2026 03:33:55 -0000

    For US President Donald Trump, science is plagued by 'woke ideology.' His administration announced that, starting in October, research projects …

  26. Scientists Just Made a Game-Changing Discovery: Diamonds Can Produce Electricity

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    Scientists long thought this pricey piece of carbon held no piezoelectric properties, but a new study says that isn’t the case. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Diamonds have never been considered piezoelectric, since producing electricity requires bending and contorting materials, …

  27. Climate change past the point of no return, UN says, as worst impacts are now unavoidable

    Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:58:30 -0000

    In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the …

  28. Rare train of cyclones fuelled by historic El Nino make their way across Pacific

    Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:57:10 -0000

    Several storms, including Hurricane Lowell and Hurricane Karina, moved through the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, fuelled by a historically strong El Nino that has already been linked to extreme weather around the globe and is expected to persist through to February. Two powerful hurricanes and a …

  29. Bear attacks in Colorado are climate attacks

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:30:15 -0000

    Last week, a black bear broke into a house in Estes Park and attacked a woman who is in her 80s, scratching her stomach and knocking her to the …

  30. How North Carolina wasted the chance to fix hog pollution

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:25:00 -0000

    Inside Climate NewsAugust 30, 2026Thousands of dead and bloated pigs floated down country roads, buoyed by floodwaters. Tens of millions of gallons …