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After the rule was proposed last year, it triggered roughly 220,000 public comments. About 99 percent were against the change, according to an analysis by The New York Times that used artificial intelligence.

Permits reviewed by Floodlight show that nine of them combined could emit more than 130 million tons of greenhouse gases every year. That’s equivalent to the annual emissions of 35 coal-fired power plants, according to an Environmental Protection Agency calculator.

Computer simulations are vital to the work scientists and insurers do. The resulting studies may also be used to hold companies and governments liable for damage caused by climate change.

An Inside Climate News series that showed the often-hidden environmental impacts of China’s trillion-dollar global development push is a finalist for the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism.

Composition diagram showing the evolution/cycles of various elements in Earth’s atmosphere. Original subscript: Schematic of chemical and transport processes related to atmospheric composition. These processes link the atmosphere with other components of the Earth system, including the oceans, land, and terrestrial and marine plants and animals.

The diagram shows the storage and exchange of nitrogen between the atmosphere and the biosphere, highlighting the role of bacteria. The atmosphere is about 78% nitrogen.

This figure is a simplified, schematic representation of the flows of energy between space, the atmosphere, and the Earth’s surface, and shows how these flows combine to trap heat near the surface and create the greenhouse effect. Energy exchanges are expressed in watts per square meter (W/m2).

This carbon cycle diagram shows the storage and annual exchange of carbon between the atmosphere, hydrosphere (oceans) and geosphere (land) in gigatons - or billions of tons - of Carbon (GtC). Burning fossil fuels by people adds about 5.5 GtC of carbon per year into the atmosphere.

The diagram shows the storage and exchange of water between the atmosphere, the geosphere (land) and the oceans. Transformations of water between ice, liquid and vapour are shown, as is the terminology for these transformations.

Only coverage so far I think.

Extreme weather is already fueling higher insurance premiums and grocery prices. A new study based on Santa Cruz, California suggests water rates are also at risk.

Hotter temperatures and harsher droughts could cause Indigenous societies to lose many of the species they have used for medicine, rituals and more, scientists found.

The $5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), which will transport crude from Uganda’s Albertine Graben to Tanzania’s Tanga port, is nearly completed, after years of delays and controversies surrounding the project. The development of EACOP is being led by French supermajor TotalEnergies along with the Chinese state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC).

For decades, investment models at the largest private equity funds relied on assumptions of relatively stable weather patterns. Now frequent extreme events are creating new threats for their portfolio companies.

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A new study suggests that deep-sea life reaps the benefits of icebergs’ castoffs — a rare silver lining as a warming planet destabilizes glacial ice.

Warming Twin Cities Marathons force date change

Dr. Krasting, a former researcher for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said that climate change and a two-year drought in New Jersey, which had left the soil unprepared to rapidly absorb rain, contributed to the intensity of the week’s weather.

This environmental advocacy puts Mr. Frist at odds with much of his own party and even his younger self. At his retirement from the Senate in 2007, the League of Conservation Voters gave Mr. Frist a lifetime rating of 7 percent for his legislative environmental record, which included voting for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. “Things like the Arctic, I definitely would not have voted that way today,” Mr. Frist said.

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In 2020 Australia’s biggest super fund dumped its Whitehaven shares. Fast forward to 2026 and it is now the coalminer’s single biggest investor

It’s a lot. The text of the report is very dense but there are some helpful charts.

Heatwaves have become more frequent, more intense and longer-lasting because of human-induced climate change. The world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.

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Climate change is “evolving faster than our adaptation and transformation of our houses and livelihoods, because they were not built for these temperatures,” said Éléonore Caroit, minister delegate for francophonie, international partnerships and French nationals abroad.

“What worries me is the increasing frequency and proximity of these episodes,” said Nédelec, from the broiler poultry sector. “In the last 10 years, there have been heatwaves, but we only had occasional excess mortality, never something this massive and widespread.” “What we’re experiencing now will be a normal summer in 2050, which spells disaster. We don’t know how to farm with an average temperature increase of 2.5°C; it has a profound effect on farmers’ morale,” observed Nicolas Fortin, national secretary of the farmers’ union Confédération Paysanne, who spoke of the risk of “climate burn-out.”

Quite the move when DC is in the middle of a heat wave with temperatures that would be virtually impossible without having burned so many fossil fuels

Scientists have said the conditions are the result of a climate that is “fundamentally different” from the time before fossil fuel use started rapidly warming the world.

The central government sees coal as an essential bridge to a clean-energy future. Some regions are motivated to extend its use as long as possible.

In a 1.4°C cooler climate, WBGTs as high as those forecast in early July 2026 would have been so extreme as to be virtually impossible.

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That the two hottest Junes have been the last two is not a coincidence or a statistical fluke. It simply reflects what is happening to the planet: it is overheating because of greenhouse gases emitted by humans, primarily from the use of fossil fuels (oil, gas and coal). Climate change has ushered Earth into an era of fleeting records and a stringing together of historic highs. For example, the last 11 years have been the warmest on average for the planet as a whole.

Temperatures on the ocean surface have hit a record high, raising fears of another burst of extreme heat this summer.

The data center boom shows that world-altering infrastructure can rapidly expand when the interests of state and capital are aligned.

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“*Remember when we used to be able to play football outside in the summer?*” people will say with nostalgia in the future.

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Executive directors including France and 18 other shareholding countries had signed a letter last October ‌endorsing the ⁠bank’s continued work on climate change, but the largest shareholder, the United States, declined to sign, along with executive directors representing Russia, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, while India and Japan abstained.

How science shows us how warming makes heat waves, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires more likely or more severe — and why this science is becoming a major public-policy battleground.

Stabilizing temperatures requires not just building a lot of renewables, but actually ending the use or fossil fuels. So the renewable build-out isn’t quite doing fast enough to do that displacement yet.

China’s new plan for building a new-type energy system during the 15th Five-Year Plan (FYP) period sends a signal about the continued expansion of clean energy, but the targets would have to be exceeded by a wide margin to keep China on track for its wider energy transition and climate pledges.

Coal-fired power generation seen rising by 1.5-2% this year

China’s annual emissions have risen by 8.8 billion metric tons since 2000, accounting for roughly 62% of the entire global increase.

Several countries across Europe have shattered temperature records as a deadly heat wave puts over 150 million people under extreme heat advisories. Germany, Hungary, Czechia, Poland and Denmark have all set records for their highest-ever recorded temperatures. French authorities report more than 1,000 excess deaths due to the heat, with the mortality rate expected to rise even further.

A federal appeals court has struck down the Trump administration’s rollback of Biden-era limits to soot pollution from coal-fired power plants. The EPA had sought to reverse a 2024 rule change limiting the amount of fine particulate matter from power plants, factories and vehicles.

As with any heat, climate change is also contributing to this event. Research nonprofit Climate Central shows that for the hardest-hit areas, warming is making this heat wave 4 to 5 times as likely as it would be if global temperatures were not rising.

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