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1. 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 …

2. 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 …

3. Scientists discover the North Atlantic ocean is getting even saltier for one terrifying reason

   Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:16:54 -0000

   Scientists have discovered the North Atlantic ocean has been getting saltier over the last 50 years. The Atlantic ocean is saltier than the world’s …

4. What different world maps get right - and what they get wrong

   Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:46:02 -0000

   The UN has just called for the predominant world map to be replaced with one that more accurately reflects the true size of continents such as Africa. The "Correct the Map" resolution adopted by the General Assembly aims to fix the discrepancy on the Mercator map, in which the African continent is …

5. Global warming is ruining their way of life. These Colorado ranchers demand accountability

   Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   In the Rocky Mountains, years of extreme heat and drought have baked the landscape, drying up streams that feed the Colorado River and desiccating pastures where cattle graze. The unrelenting dryness has brought hardship upon cattle ranchers, who say their livelihoods increasingly are under …

6. MAGA Dimwit James Comer Blurts Out Bombshell: Trump Badly Screwing GOP

   Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

   The president has MAGA supporters giving lots of money to his super PAC—and not to GOP candidates. Meanwhile, new polling by Democrats shows he’s …

7. The charts that show the havoc El Nino is set to wreak across the world

   Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:01:37 -0000

   This year’s rapidly intensifying, climate change-fuelled “super” El Niño is on course to be the strongest on record – and potentially the most …

8. Ex-Air Force Secretary Reveals ‘Very Tough’ Reality Inside Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon

   Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:33:25 -0000

   Frank Kendall III summed up Pete Hegseth’s department with one damning word. Biden-era Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall III on Wednesday offered a bleak assessment of the Defense Department under Secretary Pete Hegseth. “In a word, it’s dysfunctional,” Kendall, who wrote an opinion piece for The New …

9. Used coffee grounds were charred at 350 degrees Celsius until they became a charcoal-like biochar. That material replaced 15 percent of the sand by volume in a concrete mix, and the resulting concrete had 29.3 percent greater compressive strength than the control mix.

   Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:00:39 -0000

   Coffee waste made concrete stronger. Not weaker, not merely good enough as a filler, but measurably stronger. That is the finding from a team at RMIT …

10. UN approves new map showing Africa’s true size

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:13:25 -0000

    The UN General Assembly has backed a resolution to change to maps that more accurately show the true size of Africa. The UN General Assembly has backed a resolution to change to maps that more accurately show the true size of Africa. Supporters of the resolution say the widely used, and …

11. A record-shattering El Niño is almost here. Here’s what that means for the world’s weather

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:21:45 -0000

    The world is bracing for the strongest El Niño in history. The United Nations has made the grim prediction that our planet now sits in the “danger …

12. Nepal demands greater climate justice amid staggering flood costs

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:04:35 -0000

    The tsunami of mud, debris and ice that devastated the country on August 26 has hit several pillars of its growth, including tourism and hydropower. …

13. Earth Will Become One Big Supercontinent Again—And It Will Probably Kill Us, Scientists Say

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

    In 200 million years, there will be no borders–and possibly no humans. Geoscientists say Earth will be home to one massive supercontinent about 200 million years from now; there are four prominent versions of this mega-continent. • The climate might be surprisingly balmy in one of the most popular …

14. Nepal bet nearly everything on hydropower - the floods show why that's a problem

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:02:52 -0000

    Almost 100% of Nepal's electricity comes from hydropower, and it produces so much it earns nearly $200m (£147m) each year exporting hydroelectricity to India and Bangladesh. But the very glaciers and mountains giving Nepal this massive natural advantage are succumbing to global warming - and last …

15. Trump administration stalled a survey of PFAS in wastewater, former EPA officials say

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:45:31 -0000

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has stalled a study that would help regulators understand which industries dump harmful forever chemicals …

16. Trump’s War on Mail-In Ballots Could Hurt This Overlooked Voting Bloc

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:22:00 -0000

    This is what Republican voter disenfranchisement looks like. You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the …

17. Homeowner Says Her Neighbors Destroyed Fifteen Years of Her Tropical Garden, Then Became Terrified When She Hung Ten Tiny Figures Along the Fence

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:37:47 -0000

    For seventeen years, a 60-year-old woman lived in a tiny tourist and fishing village surrounded by tropical jungle in South America. While the village had its share of friendly people, a small group of neighbors had never accepted her decision to live alone and often treated her as though she were …

18. As family farms decline and the climate heats up, farmers weigh what to do with their land

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:30:00 -0000

    In Michigan and around the country, farmers are facing decisions about how to best keep land in production as values rise, climate change threatens …

19. Farmers turn to perennial grains as one solution to extreme weather

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:01:57 -0000

    BELOIT, Kan. (AP) — Bryce Black kneels in a wheat field battered by intense drought. He holds two strands, remarking on how small the seed head is compared with what’s normal. After a late October rain last year, the fourth-generation farmer was optimistic about his 1,800 acres (728 hectares) of …

20. 3 hurricanes in the Pacific show the power of El Niño

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:14:20 -0000

    The intense storm activity is what climate scientists expect for El Niño, especially because this year’s event is likely to become the strongest on record. Three hurricanes — Karina, Lowell and Marie — are churning in the Pacific Ocean, a high level of activity that climate scientists say is on …

21. 10 Places in the U.S. That Are Basically Hurricane Magnets - weather-fox.com

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:06:53 -0000

    Living in paradise comes with a price tag that's written in wind and water. While hurricanes are natural phenomena that can strike anywhere along the …

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

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:00:00 -0000

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

23. Texas May Have A Way To Help Roads Last Longer, Especially In Extreme Heat

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:45:00 -0000

    Texas is known for having sky-high overpasses that can be challenging to navigate for both residents and visitors alike. But the Lone Star state is …

24. Climbers are melting Everest’s glacier with their urine, study warns

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:30:00 -0000

    Heat from fuel burned at the Everest Base Camp and urine discharged directly on to the glacier was enough to melt 2,500 tonnes of ice and snow every …

25. How to Answer Yet Another Dumb Question About Hasan Piker

    Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:00:00 -0000

    The media’s fixation on this twitch streamer few voters have heard of should not be that difficult an obstacle to overcome. I confess that the vast …

26. Stock up on food to prepare for extreme El Niño weather, minister says

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:40:23 -0000

    Households should stock up on food to prepare for extreme weather as the strongest El Niño event in a generation develops over the Pacific Ocean, a government minister has said. Environment Secretary Dame Angela Eagle told the Guardian the powerful natural climate phenomenon will lead to "more extreme …

27. A new California law will ban watering decorative grass, even in non-drought years, starting Jan. 1

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:22:35 -0000

    It’s been more than three years since California was in a drought. Reservoirs are above average levels. A strong El Niño is brewing in the Pacific …

28. Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says in report that maps path back below danger zone

    Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:05:21 -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 …

29. This 'Super' El Niño Has Whipped Up a Never-Before-Seen Cyclone Trio in the Pacific

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:45:51 -0000

    In another freaky El Niño milestone, a NASA satellite hovering nearly one million miles above Earth just captured rare proof of category 4 and 5 …

30. US Republicans Announce Probe Into Environment Groups

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:44:00 -0000

    Republicans in Congress on Friday announced they were investigating nonprofit environmental groups over what they called their "radical lawfare …