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1. World’s first enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months

   Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:35:55 -0000

   Geothermal company Fervo Energy announced Thursday morning that it had started selling electricity from its Cape Station power plant to the grid on September 30, one day ahead of schedule. With it, Fervo becomes the first enhanced geothermal company to reach a key commercial milestone. The power …

2. Scientists Once Calculated the Date of Doomsday—and It’s Next Month

   Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:25:36 -0000

   In 1960, the journal Science published an article in which scientists predicted doomsday would arrive on Friday, November 13, 2026. So should you be …

3. America Has Turned on Trump. But Has It Really Said No to Fascism?

   Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   Polling shows the president in free fall. Unfortunately, a number of his most reactionary policies still have disturbing levels of support. Recent …

4. What parents need to know about ‘Digger,’ ‘Unabomber’ and more

   Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0000

   Common Sense Media also reviews "Coven Academy" and "Verity." Digger (R) Age 15+ Tom Cruise shines in profane, profound climate change satire. Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s creative climate change satire has quite a few twists and turns. No spoilers here, but know that the Tom Cruise-starring film …

5. I treated heat stroke at the NYC Marathon. Marathons need to prepare for a climate-changed world

   Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:30:00 -0000

   Though I have treated thousands of patients since, Nov. 6, 2022 — the day of a record hot New York City Marathon — still weighs on me. Around the …

6. Alito’s Recusal From a Key Climate Case May Be Too Little, Too Late

   Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:49:42 -0000

   Justice Samuel Alito decided Monday to sit out one of the most consequential climate change cases to reach the Supreme Court, but legal experts …

7. Albanese leaves grim domestic scene as he flies to the blue Pacific

   Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:55:58 -0000

   Having a "Pre-COP" meeting in Fiji and Tuvalu is one of those initiatives that seemed a good idea at the time. No doubt it still has resonance as part …

8. Blue-State Governors Are Rolling Over for Trump’s FBI

   Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   We asked Democratic leaders what they’re doing to prevent the president’s Orwellian attacks on political speech. Their answers were not heartening. In …

9. A Vast Hole Almost The Size of Portugal Opened Up in Antarctica's Winter Sea Ice. Now We Know Why.

   Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:00:00 -0000

   Every winter, Antarctica roughly doubles in size as sea ice locks into place over the ocean. Typically, Breid Bay in East Antarctica is entirely …

10. Summer 2026 was hottest on record in Western Europe, yet still no political awakening

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:01:09 -0000

    According to the European Copernicus service, the average summer temperature reached 21.7°C, well above average, and river flows dropped to their …

11. The Godzilla El Niño Is a Rehearsal for the Rest of Our Lives

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:01 -0000

    The longer you have to prepare for a disaster, the likelier you are to walk away from it mostly intact. Tornadoes can spin up in minutes, barely giving you time to hustle to a cellar or bathtub. Hurricanes might give a few days’ notice, letting you at least get to higher ground. The Godzilla El Niño …

12. Scientists put tiny greenhouses over Antarctica’s only two flowering plants and left them there for 7 years. Here's why

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:30:00 -0000

    A warming climate is forcing Antarctica’s native plants to adapt. Not only have they risen to the challenge, they’ve adapted in two different ways, …

13. The Three Billionaires Trying to Buy Wisconsin’s Governor’s Race

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 11:45:00 -0000

    Over 90 percent of Republican Tom Tiffany’s campaign funds have come from just three donors. Republican Representative Tom Tiffany has raised more …

14. Trump Just Pledged to Let AI Companies Do Whatever They Want

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:02:03 -0000

    Trump and the tech CEOs have a lot in common—not least their sense of total impunity. Whatever beef Donald Trump had with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei …

15. Trump's 'brain totally fried' in bizarre rant about 'biggest ice cube in the world'

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:52:30 -0000

    President Donald Trump kicked off his tour of deep red states on Thursday by speaking to truckers in Texas. The president visited a manufacturing plant in Denton to discuss his trade and tariff agenda and the Trump administration's efforts to boost domestic production. The visit comes as Trump has …

16. This year’s El Niño looks a lot like 1997. What happened then?

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:47:38 -0000

    (NEXSTAR) – This year’s El Niño is shaping up to be the strongest in recorded history. That makes it tough to compare to prior years, but if we …

17. Back from the brink, Australia’s Bogong moths are again swarming the skies

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:12:20 -0000

    The great Bogong migration began to collapse in 2017 due to drought, pesticides and habitat destruction.

18. Women shoulder the burden of expanding wildfires in rural India

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:40:01 -0000

    In the Indian Western Himalayas, women are the primary first responders to escalating forest fires. They risk their physical safety to protect homes …

19. 'A powerful buffer': How solar saved the EU €37.4 billion since the war on Iran began

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:02:37 -0000

    Europe's solar boom is cushioning households from the crippling costs of gas, as the war on Iran continues to highlight the dangers of fossil fuel …

20. Everyone Hates Private Equity. Trump Is Bailing It Out.

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The industry has become the midterms’ most indelible political symbol for Wall Street’s reckless greed. President Donald Trump picked an odd political …

21. How the Supreme Court Caused a Botched Execution in Tennessee

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    There is a straight line between the high court’s grisly machinations and the horrors that befell Christa Pike in the execution chamber. For the first …

22. Why diesel prices are an economic time bomb

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:00:00 -0000

    Diesel costs more. Soon, so will everything else. Everyone knows how much gasoline prices matter. The recent spike in gas prices triggered by the war with Iran has fueled deep pessimism about the economy and weighed heavily on President Donald Trump’s approval ratings. But diesel fuel — the lifeblood …

23. Fifty Billion Seedlings: Can Ethiopia Replant Its Ravaged Forests?

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:41:11 -0000

    A legacy of deforestation has left Ethiopia struggling with more intense flooding and drought. The country is trying to restore its native forests …

24. Rising seas could cost Australia economic losses of $855 billion, study finds

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:45:07 -0000

    Rising sea levels due to climate change could damage hundreds of thousands of properties and millions of hectares of land along Australia’s coastline …

25. Studying this super El Niño could save lives. NOAA is scaling back research

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    The powerful El Niño climate pattern brewing in the Pacific Ocean is already influencing extreme weather around the planet. Federal forecasters say it could become the biggest yet, far outpacing any in recorded history and ultimately impacting millions of people. With that intensity also comes …

26. In an Exciting but ‘Brutal’ Find, a 5,000-Year-Old Arrow Emerges From Norway’s Rapidly Melting Mountain Ice

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:39:13 -0000

    Archaeologists have recovered 48 prehistoric arrows from melting ice in Norway, including one that’s estimated to be 5,000 to 6,000 years …

27. The true cost of Trump's fuel economy rollbacks

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

    Weakened US fuel-efficiency rules and promises of cheaper cars could yet see drivers pay higher running costs while increasing planet-heating …

28. Tropical Pacific moisture drenches central US as another Pacific hurricane forms

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:21:01 -0000

    Tropical weather that surged onshore from the Pacific soaked more of the U.S. on Wednesday while forecasters announced yet another hurricane off the coast of Mexico. The new hurricane, Rachel, is expected to develop rapidly and could become a major one with sustained winds topping 111 mph (178 kph). …

29. Households will pay more for energy because of Trump's policy changes, think tank says

    Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:01:13 -0000

    Households in the contiguous United States will pay thousands of dollars more for energy through 2040 because of federal policy changes since President Donald Trump returned to office, according to modeling released Friday by a nonpartisan think tank. The Energy Innovation analysis found that …

30. One of the world’s rarest pears only grows in a small Italian town

    Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:02:00 -0000

    And we only learned about them 25 years ago. In Italy, even the most unassuming hole in the wall is likely to serve up the most amazing of meals. But when my family and I recently re-affirmed this enduring cliché after pulling off the highway looking for lunch, we accidentally also stumbled into the …