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  1. The Trump Scandal That Everyone Overlooked

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:07:27 -0000

    As corruption tops voters’ concerns, Democrats and the press are ignoring Trump’s deal with the oil industry. With the U.S. midterm elections less …

  2. A Kelvin wave raised sea levels on the West Coast. More are coming

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    One of the first major signs of this year's "Super El Niño" has reached the U.S. It's called a Kelvin wave – a deep ocean wave that's currently raising sea levels along the West Coast. Scientists have long known about Kelvin waves, but this year, the phenomena grabbed the public's attention with …

  3. Ilhan Omar Is the Right Kind of American. Trump Is the Wrong Kind.

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The president’s crusade against the Minnesota congresswoman, and Somali Americans in general, is certainly racist. And it’s arguably more than …

  4. The massive $1 billion Trump corruption scandal hiding in plain sight

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:27:45 -0000

    President Donald Trump’s reported $1 billion pitch to oil executives is a massive corruption that has been overlooked, according to a new analysis …

  5. The Maya collapse was blamed on drought. The full story is more complicated.

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    Researchers are still puzzling through what happened to the ancient Maya civilization, which mysteriously dwindled. New answers have parallels in the present. MEXICO CITY — The answer, it appeared, was drought. That was the theory, proposed by scientists three decades ago, to explain why the Maya …

  6. Europe’s Credibility Gap

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0000

    Ngaire Woods, Dean of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, Class Mertens, also at Oxford, have written a piece arguing that Europe, despite its …

  7. What Earth's sixth mass extinction event means for humans

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:48:00 -0000

    Human activity is driving plants and animals to extinction at an unprecedented rate. As countries meet in Armenia to discuss ways to reverse nature …

  8. Meet the researchers leaving the US because of Trump's funding cuts and politicization of science

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:04:36 -0000

    NEW YORK (AP) — Halley Froehlich was sure she’d spend her scientific career in the United States. Her family has been in America since the 1700s. But over the past two years, delayed federal grants and fears about the future motivated her to pack her life into boxes. She moved to Finland with her …

  9. A Guide to Trump’s Body Parts

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    His brain is of greatest concern, but not the only potential trouble spot. The forthcoming midterm elections are a referendum on President Donald …

  10. Hyperscaler emissions expected to jump 60 percent in 2026

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Company footprints can be forecast as soon as financial data is available, says the economist behind the approach. The emissions of five of the …

  11. The world is crumbling in 'The History of Concrete'

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:45:00 -0000

    John Wilson's movie reveals the poetry in one of the world's most common materials — and an environmental catastrophe hiding in plain sight. It’s the …

  12. BBC visits wildfire front in haze-choked Indonesia

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 07:27:19 -0000

    The BBC is in central Kalimantan, where a toxic haze fuelled by wildfires is choking millions of residents. BBC visits Indonesia's wildfire ground blanketed by toxic haze The BBC is in central Kalimantan, where a toxic haze fuelled by wildfires is choking millions of residents.

  13. Super Typhoon Champi intensifies to a Cat 5 after battering Guam

    Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:59:20 -0000

    As Champi buzzsaws its way across the Western Pacific this week, the U.S. coast from North Carolina to New Jersey is bracing for several days of high …

  14. Congressional Candidates With the Strongest Environmental Records

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:41:29 -0000

    With the midterm election less than three weeks away, we set out to identify which candidates are the strongest supporters of federal efforts to …

  15. What if AI sets us free?

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:12:28 -0000

    What can destroy us can also save us. Here’s how I think we can stay in charge of the choice. Casey Harrell is a climate activist. For years, ALS had …

  16. Researchers put bleached corals and healthy corals together for 5 days – and were astounded at what they saw

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:56:31 -0000

    As global water temperatures continue to increase, many scientists are concerned about the potential impact on corals, which can bleach and die when …

  17. El Niño Could Leave the East Coast Facing Bigger Threat Than Hurricanes

    Sat, 17 Oct 2026 23:29:16 -0000

    As a new nor'easter takes shape in the Atlantic, meteorologists are warning that the widespread impacts associated with such coastal storms could …

  18. NZ’s climate in ‘uncharted territory’, with more extreme weather events ahead

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 01:24:57 -0000

    Much is being made of a record-strength El Niño event that could well spell a drier, windier summer for the north and east of New Zealand. But, as a …

  19. Thousands of Handwritten Records Recovered From Archives Reveal The True Scale of Warming in The Congo

    Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:00:00 -0000

    For wealthy and politically stable nations, the task of maintaining and digitizing climate records is a high-tech enterprise. But this has not been …

  20. El Niño is dramatically increasing sea levels – how bad could it get?

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Floods, droughts, famine – the record-smashing El Niño that is growing ever stronger is already starting to have massive impacts in many regions …

  21. World faces nature reality check at UN biodiversity conference

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:08:47 -0000

    World leaders, diplomats and nature experts gather in Armenia this week to assess lagging efforts to halt biodiversity loss, with countries off track on most global targets and divisions over funding still unresolved. The 17th UN “Conference of the Parties,” dubbed COP17, is the first major review …

  22. New US$78 million initiative to restore land, improve livelihoods across Great Green Wall countries

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 07:47:09 -0000

    A new US$78 million programme aims to restore 270,000 hectares of degraded land and improve the livelihoods of five million people across nine …

  23. Latest Climate Report Warns of Major Upheaval to California Way of Life

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:08:14 -0000

    The dire projections come from the state’s Climate Change Assessment, which analyzes the impacts of changing weather patterns on the nation’s most-populous state. In just a few decades, summers in California will not only be much hotter, but will also stretch for months longer. Floods will become …

  24. The Plan to Dim the Sun Could Actually Work—and That May Be the Most Dangerous Part of All

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:30:00 -0000

    Experts simulated a rush to deploy solar geoengineering against global warming. The science was the least of their problems. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: To counteract the warming effects of climate change, solar radiation modification (SRM)—once seen as a strategy of last …

  25. You Know That Terrifying Global Warning Threshold They’ve Been Worried About for a Decade? Climate Change Is Speeding Up So Much That Now We’re Due to Cross It In Just Over a Year

    Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:48:00 -0000

    It's "nearly a decade earlier than previous estimates." In December 2015, 195 countries at the UN Climate Change Conference signed the Paris …

  26. Watch: Seawall Collapses at Iconic SoCal Hotel Amid Massive Surf

    Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:48:20 -0000

    A viral clip shows the Surf & Sand’s oceanfront seawall giving way as Super El Niño surge and a Kelvin wave push powerful October surf into Laguna’s …

  27. We’re supporting nature restoration through sustainable farming in Brazil.

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    Today, through the Symbiosis Coalition, we’re announcing a long-term agreement with Working Trees to remove 270,000 tons of carbon dioxide through …

  28. This Brilliant Cartoonist Nails Life’s Ironies: Here Are 29 Of Her Latest Comics

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:13:06 -0000

    Couple discusses climate change AI and plague on couch in cartoon about life’s i Couple discusses climate change AI and plague on couch in cartoon …

  29. Funding uncertainty threatens Tasmania’s gains against kelp-grazing sea urchins

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:00:06 -0000

    For nearly a decade, divers off Tasmania’s east coast have been getting a boost from the government to harvest the invasive sea urchins killing off …

  30. Rain gardens and trees are helping Pittsburgh reduce flooding

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:59:00 -0000

    ‘Green’ infrastructure can help control stormwater and prevent polluted wastewater from overflowing into rivers and streams. Pittsburgh is one of many …