What we're watching: Weekly disaster update, August 24, 2026
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UK to warn citizens to stock up on food amid threat from climate crisis and hostile states
Government resilience campaign aims to ensure people can cope in a national disaster, in order to free resources for most vulnerableUK citizens will be told...
Galaxy Gallery: Galactic Gems Glisten in New Gallery From NASA's Chandra
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'Not any old vermin': rats numbers are on the rise thanks to global heating – and poison may not be the answer
Robert Corrigan has been dealing with the ‘smart’ rodents all his life – and believes there are better solutions to deal with the growing infestation...
A Manhattan-sized ice island just broke free from Greenland
A huge section of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier has snapped off, forming an ice island about the size of Manhattan. Satellites watched cracks spread rapidly before...
We asked our climate reporters to highlight one idea for positive change. We got a chronicle of global transformation
There are countless initiatives around the world that can inspire people and spur them into action. Amid the devastation of the climate crisis, our journalists...
Climate-saving wonder – or €240m vanity bauble that ages like milk? The rocks set to hit Rotterdam docks
MVRDV – the firm behind Marble Arch Mound – says Rotterdam ROCKS! will inspire visitors to live sustainably. But in an era when the greenest...
Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds
Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully runningThe carbon emissions from just two planned datacentres in England will...
Bomb Fishing Is Wreaking Havoc on Indonesia's Coral Reefs
Fishers operating off the coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia, are detonating more than 8,000 underwater explosives each year, researchers estimate. The practice is turning picturesque coral...
The Biggest Carbon Polluters Are to Blame for Half of U.S. Western Water Lost to Climate Change, 'Groundbreaking' Paper Says
Some of the most impactful changes have come in the stressed Colorado River basin.By Jake BolsterSome of the largest fossil fuel companies on Earth are...
Data Center Developers in Texas Plan Massive New Gas Power Projects
A handful of mega data center projects would emit over 100 million tons per year of greenhouse gases, an enormous amount roughly equal to the...
Pennsylvania Lags Far Behind on Solar. Here's How It Could Catch Up.
Pennsylvania’s legislature could do a lot more to speed up renewable-energy adoption, a new report says.By Jon HurdlePennsylvania was a pioneer on renewable energy before...
US companies are on the cusp of big climate solutions. Thank the government.
The United States has never been one of the most ambitious countries when it comes to tackling climate change, but it has long maintained a...
Normalized Regime Persistence: A Simple Metric to Diagnose Land Feedback States
Abstract Land feedbacks regulate energy flux partitioning and hydroclimatic extremes, yet their global characterization remains constrained by global‐scale robust flux estimates. Here, we introduce a...
Offshore wind power projects are flailing, just when the East Coast needs them most
With congested, aging power lines and a densely developed landscape, the East Coast has few options for building large-scale renewable power. Meanwhile, the region’s electricity...
Offshore wind power projects are flailing, just when the East Coast needs them most
With congested, aging power lines and a densely developed landscape, the East Coast has few options for building large-scale renewable power. Meanwhile, the region’s electricity...
Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields, analysis shows
Exclusive: Economic harm of CO2 pollution from Rosebank and Jackdaw forecast to far outweigh any boost to UKThe climate damage caused by developing the Rosebank...
Michigan's Les Cheneaux Islands
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At least 35,000 excess deaths recorded in Europe's back-to-back heatwaves
True figure likely to be much higher as it only covers about half of continent and does not include August totalsAt least 35,000 more people...
China abruptly delays mission to probe Moon's hidden water
Chang’e-7, which will investigate the origin of and abundance of lunar ice, set back until 2027
The price of paradise: how communities tolerate chronic coastal flooding in rural North Carolina
Sea-level rise (SLR) poses a growing threat to the livability of coastal communities, leading to many projections of out-migration in the coming decades. However, communities’...
Sensitivity to climate Delta selection in Pseudo-global warming simulations of mesoscale convective systems: case study of the august 2022 event in northern Japan
The pseudo-global warming (PGW) method is widely used to examine climate-change impacts on heavy rainfall. However, the thermodynamic variables selected as climate deltas in PGW...
Improved real-time prediction of zonally propagating extratropical intraseasonal oscillations in the upgraded IAP-CAS S2S system
Reliable subseasonal prediction of extratropical intraseasonal variability remains a major challenge, despite its importance for Eurasian high-impact weather. Here we evaluate real-time forecasts of three...
Fearing 'Catastrophic Impacts' From Water Cuts, Nevada Sues Feds Over Colorado River Plan
Nevada is the first state to sue over the Trump administration’s ten-year strategy for how to stabilize use of the Colorado River.By Steven RodasThree days...
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