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  1. Scorching US Heat Wave To Hit 70M With Third ‘Heat Dome’ in Month

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:30:43 -0000

    Scorching US Heat Wave To Hit 70M With Third ‘Heat Dome’ in Month (Maria)The author writes, “About 70 million people in the U.S. are expected to face …

  2. Scientists Found a Genius Way to Remove 'Forever Chemicals' From Soil

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:24:39 -0000

    Nutrient-rich 'sludge' has been marketed to farmers as a natural alternative to petrochemical fertilizers. But it's making a really, really big mess, because much of that sludge is contaminated with PFAS. Luckily, scientists are working on it. Read on to see how this cleanup method works – and follow ScienceAlert for evidence-backed stories on pollution, health, and the environment.

  3. Extreme heat affecting more than 120 million Americans

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:25:56 -0000

    More than 120 million Americans are under alerts for dangerous heat, with temperatures soaring above 100 degrees in the much of the US.

  4. France continues to fight devastating wildfires, while progress is made in Spain

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 06:50:09 -0000

    SEVILLE, Spain — French President Emmanuel Macron called a crisis meeting Monday to coordinate efforts to fight the wildfires in southern France that …

  5. Hurricane Genevieve Spaghetti Models as Storm Strengthens to Category 5

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:15:36 -0000

    Hurricane Genevieve has strengthened into a powerful major hurricane in the eastern Pacific, reaching Category 5 status as it churns far offshore …

  6. The One Beetle Responsible for Millions of Trees Dying Across 38 States

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:09:04 -0000

    It looks harmless enough. Smaller than a penny, with a shimmering metallic-green shell that catches the light, the emerald ash borer seems more like …

  7. American Nero: Why Trump is trying to burn down the National Academy of Sciences

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:00:38 -0000

    Published July 26, 2026 In a post on Truth Social earlier this month, Trump claimed that the National Academy of Sciences published “fraudulent, …

  8. Europe races to tame wildfires across the continent

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:28:26 -0000

    A wildfire around Madrid remained “active and uncontrolled” and France faced a race against time to tame blazes near Bordeaux, with temperatures …

  9. Massive iceberg capsizes off the coast of Greenland

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:17:34 -0000

    A massive iceberg capsized off the coast of Ilulissat, Greenland, on July 25, flipping with force to reveal its jagged underside.

  10. Macron Holds Crisis Meeting As Massive Wildfires Force Mass Evacuations.

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:18:31 -0000

    French President Emmanuel Macron has convened a crisis meeting as massive wildfires forced more than 250,000 people to evacuate across France.

  11. ‘Remember that?’ Trump again asks Americans to recall something that never happened

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:26:37 -0000

    President Donald Trump asked Americans on Thursday if they remembered a massive television outage two years ago. That outage didn’t happen. As he has before, the president who is fond of telling imaginary tales was explicitly asking people to recall something he had made up. This time, Trump’s …

  12. "Black Mirror-Esque": New BBC Climate Thriller ‘The Rapture’ Takes Aim at Social Media Spiritualism

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:23:00 -0000

    The unsettling series is airing at a bleakly relevant moment in time for the world Back in 2009, when the climate crisis was still being blithely referred to as “climate change”, author Liz Jensen published a novel, The Rapture. It told the story of a near future in which the world was ravaged by …

  13. Ed Miliband to take seat on board of World Bank – with overseas aid and climate ‘central to UK’

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:41:54 -0000

    Ed Miliband is taking up the UK's seat on the board of the World Bank – saying that international development and the climate crisis are "central" to …

  14. 'Climate hushing' has swept the Democratic Party. New polling suggests it's a mistake.

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:30:00 -0000

    Climate change might not be a top priority for voters, but keeping quiet about it might backfire. A hush has fallen over the Democratic Party — a …

  15. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp isn’t done with EVs

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:18:02 -0000

    The term-limited Republican has embraced artificial intelligence data centers, but he said electric vehicles continue to be a major priority for his last six months in office. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is not giving up his goal of making his state a major player in the electric vehicle space, even as …

  16. Spain and France wildfires force more than 300,000 to flee as Macron calls crisis meeting

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:20:09 -0000

    Wildfires are ravaging southern France and spreading into Spain, forcing more than 300,000 people to flee ahead of further expected heatwaves during …

  17. Psychology Says the Reason Some People Cannot Live Far From the Ocean Is Not Preference or Habit – It Is a Neurological Pull Toward a Sensory Environment the Brain Evolved to Register as Home and Has Never Stopped Looking For

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:00:00 -0000

    You probably know at least one person who becomes restless the farther they get from the coast. Maybe that person is you. No matter how nice the …

  18. High proportion of Canadian wildfire smoke originates below ground, scientists report

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    As a brown pall of smoke from Ontario forest fires descended on the northeastern United States earlier this month, President Donald Trump seized the opportunity to blame Canada for mismanaging its forests. He also threatened to impose new tariffs because of it. A new study that unpacks where …

  19. The Type of Orbital Data Centers That Billionaires Want to Launch Into Space Would Wreak Ecological Catastrophe, Scientists Warn

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:06:06 -0000

    "The operation of more than a million data center satellites threatens potentially catastrophic forms and quantities of atmospheric pollution, …

  20. Activists ‘throwing everything' they can against abortion turn to wastewater data

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:41:12 -0000

    Anti-abortion activists are hoping to get the attention of an administration that has embraced theories shunned by mainstream science about Tylenol, peptides and vaccines. Anti-abortion activists are launching the next phase of their years-long effort to use environmental protection laws to cut off …

  21. Why scientists are turning sharks into weather spies | Shark Week

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:23:35 -0000

    Discovery Channel's Shark Week kicked off July 26 with a smorgasbord of shows highlighting the prehistoric fish's predatory prowess. But scientists …

  22. California earthquake expert gives staggering cost estimate for Big One: $1 trillion

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:00:30 -0000

    When the next Big One hits the southern San Andreas Fault, the fallout could have a staggering price tag — as much as a trillion dollars, according …

  23. Trump Blames Canada For Smoke From A Climate America Created

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:50:39 -0000

    Donald Trump says Canada is poisoning American cities with wildfire smoke. He has told Prime Minister Mark Carney to get the fires under control, …

  24. What are pyrocumulonimbus clouds, and how are they intensifying France's wildfires?

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:31:36 -0000

    Words by Jamel Smith, Producer France and Spain have been battling unprecedented wildfires over the past week, forcing about 325,000 people to …

  25. How 'fire-generated thunderstorms' make wildfires more deadly

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:04:53 -0000

    Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from Bordeaux's surrounding region of Gironde, as France continues to fight against wildfires being stoked by an unprecedented "pyrocumulonimbus" or fire clouds. Scientists sometimes describe these clouds as a fire-generated thunderstorm because the …

  26. Firefighters in France Encounter a ‘Fire Cloud’

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:26:23 -0000

    A pyrocumulonimbus — a thundercloud created by intense heat — is a phenomenon that can spark new blazes and is “unprecedented in France,” officials said. Nearly a week into devastating wildfires in France, officials said that firefighters had encountered a phenomenon that many of them had not seen …

  27. Colorado River reservoirs hit record lows as Trump administration threatens major cuts

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:33:00 -0000

    A deepening water crisis in the Western United States has reached an impasse as disagreement among affected states is grinding progress to a halt, …

  28. A metal roof can outlast solar panels and dodge one of rooftop solar's most missed costs

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:32:00 -0000

    Installing solar panels on a standing-seam metal roof could be one of the smartest long-term home energy moves homeowners overlook.That is because …

  29. “A Stake Through the Heart of the Endangered Species Act”

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    In a country riven by political discord, there is one piece of legislation that almost everyone, regardless of party affiliation, seems to agree on. …

  30. A 747 Was Used To Fight Wildfires

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:49:00 -0000

    For almost two decades, a 747 was used to drop fire retardant and water on wildfires. The huge jet could carry more of these than any other plane. It …