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  1. Solar generates more energy than coal in US for 1st time: Report

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:04:56 -0000

    Solar and storage provided 90% of all new power added in the U.S. The amount of solar power generated in the U.S. is continuing to grow despite …
  2. ‘This is not normal’: Trump leans on MAGA organizer to revive coal

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:18:24 -0000

    A man the Trump administration picked to be a key player at the fore of a U.S. coal renaissance is likely more familiar to QAnon circles than energy ones. TerraSpark’s project carries big promises. The proposed 1.6 gigawatt facility — touted by the Trump administration last week — would be the first …
  3. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Wants Us to Think He’s Building a God

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:58:34 -0000

    He acts like he has special knowledge about how best to regulate his company. But he’s a CEO like any CEO, and he wants what all CEOs want: to write …
  4. The “clean energy” mine that could put one of America’s most pristine wilderness areas at risk

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:15:00 -0000

    The climate transition needs more mining. But does it need this mine? There’s no such thing as a truly pristine landscape — humans have, over millennia, shaped every environment on Earth — but the Boundary Waters wilderness of northeastern Minnesota comes pretty darn close. Stretching across more …
  5. El Nino is here. It'll be big, bad and costly, scientists fear

    Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:04:01 -0000

    WASHINGTON (AP) — El Nino, Nature's chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean and is expected to grow to historic strength, …
  6. Trump is taking aim at forest and wildfire research just as the West is poised to burn

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:01:00 -0000

    SEATTLE — Few public universities get more federal research funding than the University of Washington. So, as President Trump has already canceled or suspended about a quarter of all funding for the National Science Foundation and National Institutes for Health, the atmosphere on this leafy Seattle …
  7. Climate Denier Lee Raymond Left the World Hotter Than He Found It

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:36:01 -0000

    Here’s how Lee Raymond’s hometown paper, the Houston Chronicle, remembered him Thursday morning. The Texas paper was more direct, and more accurate, …
  8. Trump Concedes a Battle in His War Against Wind Energy

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:54:59 -0000

    The administration filed to dismiss an appeal of a December ruling that overturned its wind permitting freeze. Trump’s Department of Justice is giving …
  9. Trump Just Gutted A Major Line of Oceanic Defense

    Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:45:21 -0000

    Just in time for hurricane season, the Trump administration is defunding its global ocean-monitoring system. Buxton, North Carolina IF YOU’VE WATCHED …
  10. Temperatures Soaring So High That Trump’s UFC Fighters May Just Collapse in the Heat

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:04:24 -0000

    "I don't like the idea of fighting outside at all." Donald Trump has gone all-in on a massive fight night to ring in the semiquincentennial of the …
  11. World’s first crewed solid-state flight electrifies aviation's future

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:33:00 -0000

    On June 5, test pilot Miguel Iturmendi lifted off from Zephyrhills Municipal Airport in Florida at the controls of the Helios Horizon – the first …
  12. A SpaceX Engineer Is Looking to the Ocean Floor to Power Our Future

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:48:42 -0000

    What if the answer to the world’s growing energy crisis had been hiding beneath the waves all along? One former rocket engineer believes it has, and …
  13. Super El Nino is coming our way. We are not ready for what’s in store

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:52:46 -0000

    There’s definitely something coming. We’re very confident about that, and it looks like it will be a big event.” Adam Scaife, head of long-range …
  14. It's Official: US Declares El Niño Has Arrived

    Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:25:47 -0000

    There's a good chance this El Niño could become one of the strongest on record. Now is the time to prepare. After months of anticipation, the National …
  15. A Strange 'Cold Blob' in The Atlantic Signals We're Almost at a Tipping Point

    Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:00:38 -0000

    There's a strange anomaly in the North Atlantic, just south of Greenland: A 'cold blob' of ocean and air that's cooling down while the rest of the …
  16. UK Power Prices Turn Negative as Renewables Set to Flood Grid

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:39:07 -0000

    UK power prices turned negative for the first time since late April as strong wind and solar generation are set to flood the grid. Power prices for …
  17. Gulf Stream shifted north during 12,900-year-old cold snap, first direct evidence shows

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:40:01 -0000

    During an abrupt global cold snap nearly 13,000 years ago, the Gulf Stream ocean current shifted farther north, temporarily disrupting eastern …
  18. Hungary’s third-largest lake is disappearing. Can experts save it before it’s too late?

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:00:42 -0000

    The dire situation has arisen from prolonged droughts, lack of rainfall and decades of water mismanagement. At Lake Velence, around 40 kilometres west …
  19. Tahoe’s famously clear water is getting cloudier each summer — and scientists aren’t sure why

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:17:25 -0000

    To the throngs of visitors who’ll flock to Lake Tahoe’s shores this summer, the famously crystalline waters may not appear as clear as they …
  20. San Diego’s big bet on salt water

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:45:00 -0000

    Drawing from the ocean will be essential to managing the West's water crisis. While cities across drought-stricken western states struggle to meet their water needs, San Diego has a surplus of the all-important resource. That’s largely thanks to the county’s investment in desalination, which other …
  21. El Niño has formed. Forecasters expect a global weather powerhouse.

    Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:01:40 -0000

    Forecasters say this could be one of the largest El Niño events on record amid unprecedented sea temperatures in a key region. Here's what that means for weather in the U.S. and around the globe. A long-anticipated and dramatic global climate shift has arrived, federal forecasters said June 11 as …
  22. How much heat does an AI data centre produce, and where are they located?

    Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:31:27 -0000

    Data centres don’t just use large amounts of water and electricity, they’re heating the environment too, study finds. Tech giants are racing to build the infrastructure that powers artificial intelligence. But a growing body of evidence suggests that AI hyperscalers – large-scale cloud service …
  23. Arizona faces 77% cut in Colorado River water amid stalled talks

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:39:26 -0000

    An ongoing deadlock between the seven states that rely on the Colorado River may have dire consequences for Arizona. A lack of agreement between the …
  24. World Cup players challenged by dangerously hot weather

    Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:20:45 -0000

    The World Cup kicked off on Thursday as South Africa squared off against Mexico, one of this year's host countries. Several American cities hosting …
  25. The Gulf Stream suddenly moved north during an ancient cold snap – and it’s a warning for our future

    Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:44:09 -0000

    Around 13,000 years ago, as the world was emerging from the grip of the last ice age, much of the North Atlantic region plunged back into …
  26. Feedback Loop Threatens to Undermine Solar Power As a Solution to Global Warming

    Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:00:51 -0000

    JAISALMER, Rajasthan — Millions of photovoltaic panels stretching toward the horizon in neat rows bake under the searing Indian sun. By noon, the …
  27. El Niño Armageddon Qiyamah Has Officially Begun – OpEd

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:04:12 -0000

    El Niño has officially begun, and it is forecast to intensify into a very strong or “Super” El Niño with major shifts in global weather patterns and …
  28. The Thomas Piketty doctrine is already here

    Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:01:41 -0000

    Academics need to get out a bit more. That, at least, is the impression one might form from the recently-released report of the Global Justice …
  29. 2026 World Cup: A climate disaster in the making

    Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:25:57 -0000

    In 2022, ahead of the Qatar World Cup, which he promoted as the first "carbon neutral" edition, the president FIFA, Gianni Infantino, appeared in a …
  30. People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Furious About the SpaceX IPO

    Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:30:00 -0000

    Elon Musk is set to make hundreds of billions even as communities in Mississippi and Tennessee are fighting to stop the gas turbines powering xAI's …