Congress is about to pass the biggest disaster reform in years
There are a lot of ways for disaster victims to get help in the immediate aftermath of a flood or fire. The Federal Emergency Management...
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Interview: COP31 president says electrification is 'surest way to protect citizens'
Last month, COP31 president-designate Murat Kurum launched a target for 35% of the world’s final energy to come from electricity by 2035. In an interview...
DeBriefed 10 July 2026: Deadly Europe heat | EU electrification leak | COP31 president interview
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week ‘Catastrophic’ climate impacts RECORD HEAT: Western...
Study Reveals How Gas Bubbles Shaped Kīlauea's 2018 Lava Flow
New research shows that gas bubbles played a central role in controlling how fast and far the lava traveled, and that lava flow models need...
Will those responsible for global warming ever face the heat? | Fiona Katauskas
They’ve got a chance in hellSee more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading…
Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate
As successive heatwaves hit Europe, air-conditioning (AC) has emerged as a new front in the international ‘culture war’ over climate action. France, Germany and the...
Loss and damage fund delays first project approvals as needs dwarf resources
The board of the UN’s fledgling Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) has decided to consider its first package of projects for support...
Pacific gray whales facing 'catastrophic' die-off as climate crisis hits food supply
Trump administration urged to relist a species in ‘very, very serious trouble’ under Endangered Species ActClimate change is driving a gray whale ‘catastrophic mortality event’...
Ugandan Farmers Sue to Halt East Africa Pipeline Before It Goes Online
Four Ugandan farmers have launched a suit in the U.K. High Court against a controversial oil pipeline being built in East Africa. The suit is...
MPs call on UK government to host televised emergency briefing on climate emergency
As UK swelters in another heatwave, 50-minute Chris Packham film outlines threats to security, economy and healthMPs are calling on the UK government to host...
'He's forcing higher bills': Trump spends billions to kill clean energy and keep coal alive
Critics accuse president of ‘fattening the wallets of his cronies’ as working Americans face higher energy ratesThe Trump administration has directly spent $2.7bn of taxpayer...
We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief?
In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these ritualsI remember interviewing a North Atlantic...
BetaDescribe: Providing rich descriptions from protein sequences
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 27, July 2026. SignificanceDetermining protein function remains a major bottleneck in biology, particularly for proteins...
Arizona Regulators Are Raising Contaminant Limits for a Uranium Mine With an Arsenic Problem
Federal and state governments are helping Energy Fuels boost its processing of uranium and rare earth elements, but the company has a checkered past with...
A Chemical Plant Mishandled Hazardous Waste for Years, Then Quietly Shuttered
Questions remain about cleanup at the North Carolina site, which had been hailed as a solution for dealing with plastic waste.By Lauren Dalban, Lisa SorgZEBULON,...
Environmental Groups Challenge Trump Administration Order to Keep Florida Coal Plant Running
Advocacy groups said the order failed to establish an energy emergency. The Department of Energy partly attributed one to anticipated demand associated with data centers.By...
Workers are risking dangerous heat to keep the World Cup running
Extreme heat continues to be a major concern throughout this year’s World Cup, and organizers of the tournament have built hydration breaks into games designed...
The nation's biggest public utility just doubled down on coal, gas, and nuclear
For the past four years, Angie Mummaw has been told the gas-fired electrical plant the Tennessee Valley Authority is building a few miles from her...
Iran war fuel shocks threaten Africa's clean cooking push, IEA says
Disruptions to global fuel markets caused by the war in Iran have hit Africa’s efforts to expand clean cooking with gas, prompting the International Energy...
Observation-constrained sensitivities of Arctic methane emissions to warming
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 27, July 2026. SignificanceThe natural emissions of methane in pan-Arctic have increased in response to...
Constructing a lower-bound estimate of the global number of insect species on a hyperdiverse empirical foundation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 27, July 2026. SignificanceFor more than 40 y, entomologists have attempted to estimate the number...
Neural tissues and chondrostean traits in a Carboniferous actinopterygian
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 27, July 2026. SignificanceSoft-tissue preservation in fossils is rare and generally limited to robust tissues...
Evaluation of a proposed link between the SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site and mouse-adapted MERS-coronavirus MA30
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 27, July 2026. SignificanceThis study formally evaluates a hypothesis that has been advanced by some...
Thin air. Frozen temps. Toxic food. How these mice survive extreme elevations
Scientists crack the secrets of Andean leaf-eared mice living near the top of the world
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