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1. This El Niño Will Be Unlike Any in the Past Eight Decades

   Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:00:00 -0000

   Die-offs and floods have started already, a prelude to supercharged storms and droughts. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, along the equator, scientists have drawn a box. It’s a big box, two-thirds the size of China, yet hardly anyone lives inside it. This rectangular swath of open ocean is …

2. The Old Farmer’s Almanac winter forecast is out. Here’s what to know about the coming season

   Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:10:09 -0000

   This winter is looking mild for most of the U.S., according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac’s new winter forecast. Temperatures should be around average …

3. Democrats: Make Peace With Becoming a Little Radical

   Sun, 30 Aug 2026 04:00:00 -0000

   If the party wants to win elections and defeat Trumpism for good, they’ll all have to get out of their comfort zone. As I said a few weeks ago, I …

4. These men had a hellish escape from Nepal’s flooded hydro tunnels. They were the lucky ones

   Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:31:24 -0000

   As water, concrete and debris stormed through the darkness, almost sweeping him off his feet, Ram Chandra tightly gripped onto one of the rungs studded into the roof of the tunnel he was working in on the banks of Nepal’s Trishuli river. His quick reaction likely saved his life. He and the small …

5. 'Unbearable' heat in uncooled Alabama prisons | Alabama Reflector

   Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:01:23 -0000

   This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. …

6. The Earth is sizzling, but ‘climate hushing’ is hot right now among Democrats. ‘People are increasingly freaked out about other issues’

   Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:49:16 -0000

   Climate change has been the backdrop to Charles Hughes’ entire life, from kindergarten lessons about disappearing habitats to wildfire smoke …

7. Europe’s scorching summer has ‘charged’ the Mediterranean Sea. What weather will September bring?

   Sun, 30 Aug 2026 05:00:25 -0000

   Weather forecasters have warned that parts of Europe will be entering “flash-flood season” following a blistering summer. Europe’s blistering summer …

8. West Point’s only climate scientist fired after continuing to teach human causes of climate change

   Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:00:00 -0000

   Adam Kalkstein compared the administration’s order to trying to teach the law without mentioning the Constitution. This story was originally published …

9. Nepal-China flood disaster: What’s the latest toll, how many are missing?

   Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:24:46 -0000

   More than 3,000 people remain missing days after the devastating floods triggered a collapsed glacier near China-Nepal border. The death toll from devastating floods near the border between Nepal and China has risen to nearly 800, with thousands missing following Wednesday’s disaster. Rescue efforts …

10. Nepal's foreign minister calls for global climate change crackdown as flooding death toll rises

    Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:36:00 -0000

    Nepal's foreign minister Shisir Khanal blamed the catastrophic flooding that has killed at least 675 on rising temperatures and called for a global …

11. Mount Everest Base Camp Is Melting. Human Urine Is a Contributor.

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:02:08 -0000

    More than 6,000 liters are produced daily by thousands of climbers and guides, according to a study. Mount Everest, which straddles the border between Nepal and China, is in transition. Study after study shows that it’s melting. With record numbers of climbers hoping to summit its peak, the mountain …

12. Gray Whales Are Suffering Through a “Catastrophic Mortality Event” on the Pacific Coast

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:21:54 -0000

    Environmental groups plan to sue the Trump administration for failing to protect the ocean giants whose numbers have nearly halved in 10 years.

13. Unsettling question raised over Trump admin's role in devastating Nepal floods

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:57:19 -0000

    The devastating flash floods in Nepal this week that killed at least 670 people and left around 3,000 missing — including 90 Americans — might have …

14. India steps up monitoring after Nepal disaster – but what are ‘hanging glaciers’ and should we be worried?

    Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:47:36 -0000

    India has stepped up monitoring of its Himalayan glaciers in the days since a deadly flood struck neighbouring Nepal, as scientists warn that a …

15. Before and after satellite photos capture destruction left by flash flood in Nepal

    Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:58:57 -0000

    Nepal halted rescue work in the flood-hit Trishuli valley on Friday (August 28) after a lake formed by a landslide on the Nepal-China border began to …

16. When a mountain falls: How ice and rock triggered Nepal’s catastrophic flood – and why climate change is raising the risks

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:57:04 -0000

    The catastrophic flood that killed hundreds of people in Nepal on Aug. 26, 2026, and left many more missing likely began with falling ice and rock …

17. Canada poaches dozens of top US researchers for its universities

    Fri, 28 Aug 2026 23:47:38 -0000

    Canada is hiring dozens of researchers from US universities, including top research institutions such as Harvard, as its relationship with its neighbour continues to sour. More than three-quarters of the 64 professors who are moving to Canada from around the world will come from the US. They will …

18. Lush City: Plants are blooming from every crack and crevice in NYC this summer

    Sun, 30 Aug 2026 14:00:53 -0000

    It’s hard to miss how green New York City is these days. Weeds are creeping through seemingly every crack in the pavement. Entire bushes are sprouting …

19. 'One Big Military Theft': Trump Announces Deal for US Control of Venezuelan Oil Fields

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:32:35 -0000

    President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social on Friday that his government had "secured majority US control" of Venezuelan oil reserves …

20. El Niño puts Earth in 'uncharted territory.' Here's what could happen

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:29:46 -0000

    Experts face a big problem with no clear answer: What will a historically strong El Niño look like stacked on top of Earth's unprecedented warming? When meteorologists put together seasonal outlooks such as a winter forecast, they often look to the weather of the past, but scientists say history …

21. Nepal warns of possible fresh flooding as communities grapple with devastation

    Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:52:41 -0000

    DHADING, Nepal — Authorities in Nepal warned of possible fresh flooding on Sunday and urged residents in flood-affected districts to remain on high alert after water levels rose in the Bhotekoshi River. Flood warning notices were sent to people's phones early Sunday as rescue crews worked to clear a …

22. Europe’s summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:55:47 -0000

    Small boats stand idle on cracked ground in a shriveled side channel of the Danube River in northern Serbia, where the water has receded into a …

23. When The Mountains Collapse: Lessons From Nepal For A Changing South Asia - OpEd - Eurasia Review

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:43:55 -0000

    Key Takeaways: Early-warning systems must detect hazards upstream. Downstream communities may have only 5–30 minutes to respond to sudden ice-rock …

24. Frightening discovery suggests we'll soon need to completely redraw our map of Earth

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:17:19 -0000

    Fancy living in the Sahara desert? Or how about the polar ice cap? Such a drastic shift in living conditions may not sound too appealing, but with the …

25. Water pumped up from Michigan gas wells as deep as 556 metres carried between 4,200 and 6,800 fungal cells in every millilitre, and separately filtered samples of the same water yielded 205 pure cultures resolving to 67 groups, 13 of them below the common threshold used to match a fungus to a named species

    Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:00:00 -0000

    A millilitre of water pumped off a gas wellhead in Antrim County, Michigan, holds between 4,200 and 6,800 fungal cells. That count, reported in The …

26. New Hampshire’s Senate Race Leans Dem, but the State Is—Well, You Know

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Democrats think the New Hampshire Senate contest is in the bag. But the Granite State has surprised us before. Of all the American political …

27. Colorado River plan to cut water amid drought brings uncertainty for cities and farmers

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:39:17 -0000

    PHOENIX (AP) — On the outskirts of Phoenix, a small town with a huge reliance on the Colorado River has capped growth, revived old wells and struck …

28. Water cuts are coming for Arizona. Is your salad on the chopping block?

    Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:30:00 -0000

    The Colorado River fills America’s salad bowl. It’s a vital source of water to Yuma County, Arizona, which grows 90% of the leafy greens the country consumes in the winter — but it’s nearing a crisis point. With the river’s water levels at record lows, Arizona is poised to take the biggest cuts: …

29. In the Age of Global Warming, Some Fear ‘the Entire Himalayas Are Melting’

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:04:15 -0000

    A glacier unleashed a deadly flood earlier this week. For local trekking guides and climbers, the mountains were already changing. On Wednesday morning, part of a glacier and the mountainside beneath it collapsed on the north side of Langtang Lirung, a 23,734-foot peak near Nepal’s border with …

30. Why Nepal's rare, deadly flood struck without warning

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:59:18 -0000

    Thousands of people are missing and hundreds are dead after a flash flood in Nepal that struck with little warning earlier this week. Why it matters: …