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• • Europe’s Warming Waters Are
  Attracting Unwanted Marine Life

  From Torn Nets to Decimated Local Stocks, Species Drifting in on Warmer Waters Are Causing Headaches For European Fishermen

  

  Oct. 29, 2026 -Reeling rods, pulling pots and hauling nets this summer, fishermen from Greece to the U.K. discovered unexpected visitors popping their heads above the surface.

  In the Aegean, it was silver-cheeked toadfish—an invasive pufferfish with powerful, prominent teeth. In the English Channel, it was the unprecedented arrival of uncommon common octopuses. And in the Adriatic, it was the aggressive and aptly named blue crab.

• • The Climate Crisis Will Destroy Our
  Economies – We Learned This 20 Years Ago

  When Will We Act?

  

  Oct. 28, 2026 -Saving the only planet we have makes good economic sense. There is, after all, no money to be made on a dead Earth. There may be costs involved now, but they are worth paying to protect our children from certain destruction.

  These propositions seem self-evident now. But two decades ago, mainstream economists had very different ideas. They had proved that the climate crisis would be a mere economic blip, easily absorbed by growing economies and therefore not worth spending money on.

• • Record High Tides Bring Flooding
  and Glimpse of Sea-Level Rise to California

  Warm Ocean Temperatures Have Expanded the Water, Making the Tides Higher Than Ever in Some Places

  

  Oct. 28, 2026 -Low-lying areas of the California coast flooded for the second straight day Tuesday, as extreme high tides, compounded by warm ocean temperatures, broke historic records and offered a glimpse of what communities could expect with rising seas.

  The ocean has been relatively calm and the flooding has not caused widespread damage.

• • Slovenia Mourns Loss of Glacier On
  Its Highest Peak After Scorching Summer

  Extreme Heat Accelerated Disappearance of Triglav Glacier From Mountain Revered As a Symbol of Slovenian Identity

  

  Oct. 27, 2026 -The final ice patch has vanished from Slovenia’s Triglav glacier, the latest Alpine casualty of Europe’s scorching summer.

  The once mighty ice mass lost 93% of its surface area between 1983 and 2003, shrinking to The once mighty ice mass lost 93% of its surface area between 1983 and 2003, shrinking to cover less than a hectare of overheated rock, but went on to surprise researchers who feared its imminent demise, clinging on to the mountain for two more decades.

• • Climate Change Has Triggered 'Permafrost Landslides'
  With House-Size Blocks of Ice in Canada

  For the First Time, Researchers Have Identified a New Type of Landslide of Permafrost in Canada's Northwest Territories
  
  {LIVESCIENCE}

  Oct. 26, 2026 -There's a new type of landslide affecting northern latitudes, and it could affect more areas as the planet continues to warm.

  These landslides, called permafrost detachment slides, occur in areas with relatively thin permafrost and seem to be a long-term impact of wildfire in these environments, according to a paper published Sept. 23 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Such slides have not been observed in the region before and may be unprecedented over the past 10,000 years or more, said study leader Joseph Young, who completed the work as part of his doctoral degree at the University of Alberta.

• • India's Heat Disaster Move Sharpens Focus
  On the Climate Finance Shortfall

  Why the Heat Decision Matters Beyond India
  
  {ET Climate}

  Oct. 26, 2026 - India’s decision to classify heatwaves as natural disasters has done more than change a legal category. It has thrown fresh light on a larger climate dilemma: the countries facing the harshest impacts are still being asked to finance their own survival, even as global adaptation needs climb sharply.

  According to Deccan Chronicle, the timing of the move, coming just ahead of the UN climate conference COP31 in Turkiye, has sharpened debate over who pays for climate resilience and how quickly money can reach the places that need it most.

• • A Wild Winter is Brewing

  What Meteorologists Want You to Know

  

  Oct. 26, 2026 -As El Niño continues soaring to unrivaled heights, meteorologists are preparing for a winter in the United States that could be just as extraordinary — raising expectations for one of the stormiest seasons in history.

  But forecasters are preparing for different versions of busy, depending on their region.

• • Shiny Glass Skyscrapers Are a Hot Thing. Literally

  But Climate Change Makes Cooling Them Tricky and Costly

  

  Oct. 26, 2026 -One thousand feet above city traffic, from her new 74th-floor apartment, Anastasia Zeeman has the kind of enchanting views that only floor-to-ceiling glass can offer. She looks out on a skyline and horizon where storms and sunsets play out like big-screen movies.

  But Malaysia’s tropical sun sometimes delivers what Ms. Zeeman calls a “wall of heat” radiating from her windows.

• • Scientists Discover Arctic Sea Ice Loss
  Could Be Far Worse Than Predicted

  Arctic Winter Sea Ice Could Disappear Much Faster Than Scientists Previously Expected
  
  {THE COLORADO SUN}

  Oct. 26, 2026 -The Arctic could lose roughly one million square kilometers more winter sea ice than scientists previously predicted, according to new research that draws on evidence from a warmer Arctic 6,000 years ago. By using ancient climate records to refine modern computer models, researchers have produced more reliable estimates of how much ice may disappear in the coming decades.

• • Financial Safety Nets and Smart Farming Are Key
  to Climate Resilience For Farmers In India’s Drylands

  Financial Inclusion, Crop Insurance, and Public Work Programs Are Bridging the Resilience Gap For Marginal Farmers In India’s Drylands
  
  {RESEARCH MATTERS}

  Oct. 24, 2026 -A new study reveals that some of India’s dryland farming communities are slowly building resilience against the mounting threats of climate change.

  This is driven largely by financial inclusion, public support programs, and targeted information access. Researchers from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, found that while generational subdivision is shrinking physical land sizes, households are adapting through livelihood diversification, institutional credit, and formal crop insurance. Rather than relying solely on land size, farmers with financial safety nets and modern knowledge networks are better positioned to predict, absorb, and recover from extreme weather events like droughts and unpredictable monsoons.

• • Europe's Heat Claims 50,000 Lives

  Climate Change Blamed For Two-Thirds of Deaths
  
  {npr}

  Oct. 23, 2026 -Blistering record heat in Europe this summer helped kill more than 50,000 people, with nearly two-thirds of that death toll blamed on human-caused climate change, a new study found.

  Researchers modeled heat-related deaths for different age groups in 854 European cities during repeated heat waves in June, July and August and found that 50,391 people died from warmer temperatures, and of those, 32,619 died because of the extra heat caused by the burning of coal, oil and gas, according to a study in an upcoming issue of Nature Health.

• • Nearly All of the World’s Shallow Coral
  Reefs Are Now Critically Endangered

  If Climate Change Continues Apace, 96 Percent of Shallow Coral Reef Ecosystems May Collapse Within 50 Years, Including in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

  

  Oct. 22, 2026 -Almost all of the world’s shallow-water coral reefs, famous for their riot of color and life, have now been classified as critically endangered by experts who assess ecosystem collapse.

  Heat stress because of climate change is the overwhelming reason for the finding, announced Thursday by the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Ecosystems.

• • U.S. Is an Outlier Among Rich Nations in Slowing Climate Progress

  U.N. Data Says

  

  Oct. 22, 2026 -The United States’ “abandonment” of a crucial climate pledge has increased the odds that the world will warm more than previously estimated, according to a United Nations scientific report released Wednesday.

  The U.N.’s annual Emissions Gap Report is considered a definitive assessment of global progress on climate change. It identified the United States as an outlier among the industrialized nations that are responsible for most planet-warming pollution.

• • UN Sets Steep Emission Cuts

  To Reverse 1.5C Overshoot By End of Century
  
  {CLIMATE HOME NEWS}

  Oct. 22, 2026 -The United Nations has said the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 6% per year to limit global warming enough to be able to return to the 1.5C goal by 2100, as decades of insufficient climate action have now made an overshoot inevitable.

  In a video message accompanying the 2026 Emissions Gap Report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the world could no longer avoid overshooting the 1.5C limit and that the consequences were already devastating. However, he said it was still possible to return average global temperatures to 1.5C above preindustrial times by the end of the century.

• • How Europe's Emptying Countryside
  is Fuelling a New Wildfire Crisis

  Europe is Emerging From One of Its Worst Wildfire Seasons On Record

  

  Oct. 22, 2026 -As climate change pushes temperatures to new peaks, the consequences of this landscape evolution are becoming clear: This summer, tinder-dry stretches of untended forest and shrubland served as the perfect fuel for Spain’s biggest wildfire in recent history.

  It began on July 22, when sparks from heavy machinery ignited a fire near Burgohondo, a mountain village about 90 km (56 miles) west of Madrid, in the central province of Avila, according to Spain’s Civil Guard police force. Propelled by strong winds, the fire spread fast and far, prompting the evacuation of more than 60,000 people.

• • EIB to Double Financing For Climate Adaptation to €30 billion

  Europe is Emerging From One of Its Worst Wildfire Seasons On Record

  

  Oct. 22, 2026 -The European Investment Bank< on Thursday said it planned to invest at least €30 billion ($33.6 billion) before the end of the decade on projects to help adapt to the impact of climate change.

  The ?new target, double the one in its previous five-year investment plan, comes ahead ?of the COP31 climate talks in Turkey, beginning on November 9.

• • Earth Is Getting Rounder—and You Can Guess Why

  New Research Finds That Melting Ice Caps Are Literally Reshaping the Planet
  
  {Gizmodo}

  Oct. 22, 2026 -Despite what photos suggest, Earth is not perfectly round. Our home planet is actually a lumpy “oblate spheroid” that bulges slightly at the equator and flattens at the poles, like a ball of clay smushed between your fingers. But as fossil fuel pollution alters Earth’s climate, it’s altering the planet’s shape as well.

• • Can Texas High School Football Handle the Heat?

  This year, Texas’ Governing Body For High School Sports Required Schools to Take a Range of Measures to Protect Student Athletes

  

  Oct. 22, 2026 -High school football is one of the United States’ most revered traditions.

  But it is under sharp pressure as the world suffers from intensifying heat waves, which Reuters recently revealed have morphed from intermittent events to globe-spanning phenomena we call “heat storms.”

  The consequences can be fatal. In the last decade, twelve high school football players have died from heat-related illness. The passion and the threat are particularly intense in Texas, where heat storms are transforming what football looks like.

• • Britain to Use Military Aircraft to Fight
  Climate Change-Fuelled Wildfires

  The Royal Air Force's Chinook Helicopters and A400M Transport Aircraft to Be Equipped With Wildfire Firefighting Capability

  

  Oct. 22, 2026 - Britain said on Thursday it would for the first time use military helicopters and aircraft to fight wildfires after its hottest summer on record, as the government steps up efforts to combat a threat it says ?is being fueled by climate change.

• • Nearly All of the World’s Shallow Coral
  Reefs Are Now Critically Endangered

  If Climate Change Continues Apace, 96 Percent of Shallow Coral Reef Ecosystems May Collapse Within 50 Years...

  

  Oct. 22, 2026 -Almost all of the world’s shallow-water coral reefs, famous for their riot of color and life, have now been classified as critically endangered by experts who assess ecosystem collapse.

  Heat stress because of climate change is the overwhelming reason for the finding, announced Thursday by the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Ecosystems.

• • ‘Behemoth’ El Niño Could Be ‘Off the Charts’

  You've Been Warned
  
  {THE HILL}

  Oct. 22, 2026 -Meteorologists are continuing to warn of the El Niño weather event expected to impact us throughout the winter, with a new climate outlook from the World Meteorological Organization suggesting it “could be unprecedented in strength.”

  In an update Wednesday, the WMO said this year’s El Niño weather pattern could be so strong, it could “literally [be] off the monitoring charts that we have used for the past four decades.”

• • U.S. Is an Outlier Among Rich Nations in Slowing Climate Progress

  The Report, Identifies the U.S. as an Outlier Among the Nations Responsible For the Vast Majority of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  

  Oct. 21, 2026 -The United States’ “abandonment” of a crucial climate pledge has increased the odds that the world will warm more than previously estimated, according to a United Nations scientific report released Wednesday.

  The U.N.’s annual Emissions Gap Report is considered a definitive assessment of global progress on climate change. It identified the United States as an outlier among the industrialized nations that are responsible for most planet-warming pollution.

• • The 1.5-Degree Target is Gone. Here's The New One

  The U.N. is Shifting Toward a Higher Temperature Goal — and a Risky Bet On Bringing Warming Back Down Later
  
  {POLITICOPRO}

  Oct. 21, 2026 -The world’s most urgent climate goal “has been lost,” the United Nations said Wednesday in a technical analysis that says countries will fail to meet the pollution target they agreed to 11 years ago.

  The finding thrusts governments into a new and uncertain phase of environmental action, knowing that the Earth’s temperature will surpass a near-mythical number by rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to almost 200 years ago.

• • This Norwegian Village is One of the
  Fastest-Warming Places On Earth

  How Can Its People Save It?

  

  Oct. 21, 2026 -On a rugged mountain plateau of snow-dusted rocks, in the remote archipelago of Svalbard, a glaciologist, Andy Hodson, points out the “ears” of ice, white against the rock, that gave Foxfonna glacier its name, after the arctic fox.

  The small glacier, on a mountain 8 miles (15km) outside the Norwegian village of Longyearbyen, is a popular summer hike for tourists who come here seeking the Arctic experience.

• • UN Sees Higher Global Warming

  Even In Best-Case Scenario

  

  Oct. 21, 2026 -Global warming is now projected to exceed previous estimates, with even the most optimistic scenario seeing average temperatures rise to 1.7-1.8 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by mid-century, a UN report showed on Wednesday.

  Despite a rapid expansion of renewable energy and climate policies that are reducing emissions in many countries, the report said "urgent and stringent" cuts were still needed to achieve that best-case outcome

• • Giant ‘Heat Storms’ Are Scorching the Earth

  This is the Story of the Biggest One On Record

  

  Oct. 20, 2026 - Supersized heat waves used to be rare. No longer. A Reuters data-driven examination of global temperatures reveals the emergence of what we call ‘heat storms.’ They now swarm the planet, upending life around the world from Texas to Ivory Coast to Poland.

• • EU Unveils a New Arctic Push

  As Global Warming and Security Threats Reshape the Region

  

  Oct. 20, 2026 -The European Union laid out a plan on Tuesday to increase its footprint in the Arctic as global warming, conflict and competition for energy resources and critical minerals pose fresh challenges.

  The EU move comes after threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to take control of Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark, and after he left Iceland uneasy by posting a map with the colors of the American flag over both islands.

• • Extreme Weather Could Threaten Half
  of U.S. Drinking Water Systems

  Flooding, Wildfires, Extreme Heat, and Rising Seas Can Damage Water Infrastructure and Disrupt Treatment and Supply

  

  Oct. 20, 2026 -In the U.S., most people take for granted that when they turn on the tap, clean drinking water will come out.

  But climate change poses threats to municipal drinking water systems.

  Lyle: “This isn’t just a problem in the West with drought. It’s a problem across the country, and every location and utility needs to understand how their specific hazards are changing.”

• • 5 Things the EU Wants to Change
  About Its Arctic Policy

  As Melting Ice Opens New Routes and Access to Resources in the North, the EU Wants Piece of the Cake
  
  {POLITICO}

  Oct. 20, 2026 -The European Union is beefing up its presence in the Arctic to catch up with neighboring powers carving new trade lanes and drilling for resources under the melting ice.

  On Tuesday, the EU unveiled a new plan called Northern Neighborhood. It's meant to prepare for rising military and commercial activity in the north driven by climate change, and calls for new transport, research and security infrastructure in the region.

• • A Kelvin Wave Raised Sea Levels On the West Coast

  More Are Coming
  
  {npr}

  Oct. 19, 2026 -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 video explanations receiving thousands of views across TikTok and X..

• • Latest Climate Report Warns of Major
  Upheaval to California Way of Life

  The Dire Projections Come From the State’s Climate Change Assessment...

  

  Oct. 19, 2026 -In just a few decades, summers in California will not only be much hotter, but will also stretch for months longer. Floods will become more widespread and extreme. Exposure to wildfire smoke will kill thousands more people every year.

  Those are the dire projections of California’s Fifth Climate Change Assessment, a report produced by California every few years that analyzes the impacts of changing weather patterns on the nation’s most-populous state.

• • How the Climate Crisis Fueled
  the Youth Protests Roiling France

  Lack of Adaptation to a Hotter World is Part of the Story

  

  Oct. 17, 2026 -By the time Cléo made it to Greek class, she had gone completely pale. It was a Wednesday in June during France’s second consecutive heat wave this year, and the 16-year-old was struggling to cope with the rising temperatures.

  She pushed through, thinking she was just tired. But the following day at her sweltering high school on the eastern edge of Paris, nausea and a desperate thirst gripped her. The school nurse, recognizing the signs of heat exhaustion, told her to go home.

• • Senegal-Sized Antarctic Glacier
  Melting Faster Than Thought:

  Thwaites Glacier Has Been Losing Ice For Decades. Now There Are Concerns of Rapidly Accelerating Loss
  
  {ALJAZEERA}

  Oct. 17, 2026 -The world’s largest glacier is melting much faster and could add twice as much to global sea levels as previously expected over the next century.

  New research published this week by a team of glaciologists has found that the Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica is losing mass rapidly because warm seawater is pushing underneath it and melting its core. This could add 1.2 inches (30mm) to water levels even if global warming does not accelerate as predicted.

• • Can We Bury Enough Wood to Slow Climate Change?

  Wood Vaulting, a Simple, Low-Tech Approach to Storing Carbon, Has the Potential to Remove 12 Billion Tons of CO2 From the Atmosphere Every Year...

  

  Oct. 16, 2026 -Humanity has only so much time to limit global warming and minimize the severity of future climate disasters. And with mostly tepid attempts to slash greenhouse gas emissions, researchers are scrambling for realistic ways to pull carbon out of the atmosphere. Flashy, high-tech proposals that promise to vacuum pollutants out of the sky, or to scrub them from smokestacks before they hit the atmosphere, have attracted attention and investment—but are falling far short of expectations.

  Now a growing number of scientists and entrepreneurs are trying a vastly simpler approach: collecting truckloads of logs, branches, wood chips and sawdust—and burying them.

• • A Global Sugar Crisis

  Made and Felt in India?

  

  Oct. 15, 2026 -Conflict. Climate change. A withering El Niño. All are conspiring to spoil the world’s sweet tooth.

  Global sugar prices have soared, as a hot, dry summer scorched much of the sugar-producing parts of the world, nudging overall food prices upward.

• • Six Things You Need to Know About El Niño

  Every El Niño is Different
  
  {CNN Climate}

  Oct. 14, 2026 -As the near-certainty of a record-breaking super El Niño has become clear, the scientists who predict and study it have been inundated by inquiries from the press and public. While there seems to be widespread recognition of what the term “El Niño” means, many people are confused about how El Niño may affect them and its ties to extreme weather events, among other things.

  Here are the top 6 confusing things about El Niño, as relayed to CNN via meteorologists and climate scientists.

• • Rewilding Could Help Atoll Islands Keep Pace With Rising Seas

  Healthy Ecosystems May Give Some of the World’s Most Vulnerable Islands a Better Shot At Survival

  

  Oct. 14, 2026 -Coral-fringed tropical atolls are among the landforms most threatened by global warming, but many have a potential superpower: Healthy ecosystems may help them keep pace with rising seas.

  Atoll islands with native vegetation and thriving seabird populations are “naturally active systems that can change and adapt to their environmental conditions if they are allowed to do so,” said Nick Graham, a marine ecologist at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, who led an international team of scientists that studied island resilience across 28 atoll islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans.

• • Climate Change Is Increasing Simultaneous
  Exposure to Heat Waves and Wildfire Smoke

  A New Study Says More People Are Facing Both At Once

  

  Oct. 14, 2026 -More than 1 billion people per year were exposed to heat waves and fire pollution at the same time from 2010-2019, a sharp jump from the decade before it, according to a new study that highlights the growing public health crisis caused by global warming.

  The research, published in Science Advances on Wednesday, is the largest global assessment to date of how many people have been exposed to heat waves and fires—particularly wildfires—at the same time.

• • The Earth’s Vital Signs Are Concerning

  Still, the Study’s Authors Say There's Hope For Solutions Despite Record-Setting Heat and Historic Storms

  

  Oct. 14, 2026 -Every week this summer and so far this fall has brought reports of record-setting heat or historic storms: This July was the hottest month ever for the contiguous United States. In California alone, the last four days were over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, the longest such streak on record; and driven by an unprecedented El Niño, the last five Pacific hurricanes have set new highs for their power and permanence.

  Now, a seventh annual “state of the climate” report, published Wednesday in BioScience, underlines with data what 2026 has felt like: A dangerous and unpredictable climate is here. The study assessed the latest available numbers for 16 major indicators of climate change, such as atmospheric carbon levels, ocean temperature change and amount of land burned in fires.

• • Cereals, Vegetables and Fruits Have Lost Up to
  Half of Their Essential Nutrients in the Last 60 Years

  Modern Farming Is Partly to Blame and Climate Change Will Make It Worse
  
  {ZME SCIENCE}

  Oct. 13, 2026 -A loaf of bread today may look much like one baked 60 years ago. But the modern wheat can contain substantially less iron, zinc and magnesium than the crops our grandparents grew. In some cases, we can even talk about a 50% reduction in certain minerals per the same pound of produce compared to decades ago.

  And wheat isn’t alone. Researchers have found declining concentrations of essential minerals in fruits and vegetables. It seems like we’re producing more food than ever, but we get less nutrition from each bite.

• • Mainland US Has More Than 1300 Glaciers, But...

  New Research Maps Which States Are Melting Faster
  
  {WLWT5}

  Oct. 12, 2026 -New research has found that about a quarter of glaciers in the United States, excluding those in Alaska, have disappeared since the mid-twentieth century.

  The Lower 48 is home to 1,331 glaciers, according to the latest surveys from 2015.

  Warming air temperatures have caused those glaciers to lose 33% of their volume, compared with previous studies from the 1950s to 1980s.

• • Coffee Is Now Growing in Sicily
  After a Century of Failed Attempts

  Scientists Say Climate Change Is Making It All Possible
  
  {ZME SCIENCE}

  Oct. 12, 2026 -On the outskirts of Palermo, Sicily, the Morettino family is growing Arabica coffee outdoors, harvesting about 100 kilograms of coffee cherries annually that produce just over 15 kilograms of roasted beans.

  It is a tiny harvest by global standards, but it carries a much bigger message. As the Mediterranean warms, crops once confined to tropical regions are beginning to find a foothold farther north.

• • China’s Power Grid Has a Dirty Secret
  That’s 24,300 Times Worse Than CO2

  And Is Cooking the Planet
  
  {ZME SCIENCE}

  Oct. 12, 2026 -China’s electric grid has a dirty secret: Despite leading the world in renewable energy expansion, it is also the largest emitter of the planet’s most potent greenhouse gas.

  Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is a synthetic chemical that plays a critical role as an electrical insulator in high-voltage equipment. The gas is odorless, invisible, non-toxic and non-flammable. But it is also a climate killer, 24,300 times more effective at warming the planet than carbon dioxide on a pound-for-pound basis. Once released, sulfur hexafluoride remains in the atmosphere for 1,000 years.

• • Hungary Uses Water From Fish Farming
  to Revive Drought-Hit Land

  The government announced a new strategy ?in August which prioritised "natural water retention methods"...

  

  Oct. 12, 2026 -Fish farms in Hungary are teaming up with the national water authority to ?use the water left in the huge pools when the fish are harvested to help irrigate drought-hit agricultural land and parks.

  A drought this summer during heatwave conditions across much of the continent brought river levels to record lows, disrupting everything from cargo barges to the country's Paks nuclear plant.

• • 12 Trillion Tons of Polar Ice Are Already
  Gone and What’s Left Is Melting Fast

  But the Biggest Culprit Isn’t Surface Melting
  
  {ZME SCIENCE}

  Oct. 12, 2026 -The world’s great ice sheets are losing trillions of tons of ice, but much of it isn’t disappearing the way you might imagine. Rather than simply melting under a warmer sun, enormous glaciers are picking up speed, carrying vast quantities of ice from Greenland and Antarctica into the ocean.

  A sweeping new analysis of five decades of satellite observations suggests that this slow-motion exodus is responsible for more than four-fifths of the ice lost from Earth’s two great ice sheets. And as the planet warms, the consequences are already reaching coastlines thousands of miles away.

• • Australia's Climate Change Officials
  Face Drastic Cuts and AI Efficiencies

  Review Recommends Department Cuts Budget and Pools Money For Urgent Priorities
  
  {POLITICO}

  Oct. 12, 2026 -Australia’s climate change bureaucrats were urged to cut up to 30% of their internal budgets, and hit AI-driven efficiencies of up to 3% a year, to preserve the department’s ability to deliver its highest priorities.

  In a May 2026 review of priorities, the government’s internal consulting unit called for climate change executives to impose a levy of between 5% and 30% to “policy group budgets” as a matter of “immediate fiscal imperative.”

• • Loss of St. Mary’s Glacier Will Bring ‘Urgency’
  to Issue of a Global Warming and Disappearing Snowfields

  When A Glacier is Not a Glacier
  
  {SUMMIT DAILY}

  Oct. 10, 2026 -For a century, the snowfield known as St. MarGLACIERy’s Glacier has been a popular Colorado destination that captured the hearts and imaginations of thousands of visitors. Only an hour or so from Denver, the snowfield had, until this year, always been known to last year-round, bringing sightseers as well as skiers and snowboarders seeking summer turns.

  Though it is called a glacier, scientists say St. Mary’s hasn’t been a true glacier — which is defined by ice so dense that it moves under the weight of Earth’s gravity — anytime in recent history. After the ice melted completely for the first time in recorded history this September, St. Mary’s isn’t even a perennial snowfield.

• • Inside the Deadlock At the World's Top Climate Science Body

  Dispute is Sowing Discord In Body Intended to Help Governments Bridge Divides

  

  Oct. 9, 2026 -The decision was expected to take minutes. But after nearly three years of debate, members of the world’s leading authority on climate change still can’t agree on a timeline to publish its next review of the latest science on the warming planet.

  Such assessments from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have informed every major United Nations climate agreement for three decades. But the impasse over publication dates could leave countries to decide the next phase of action without consensus on critical issues – including the extent to which some global warming might be reversible –according to interviews with more than a dozen current and former IPCC scientists, government negotiators and meeting observers.

• • Cop31 Host Urges Wealthy Countries to
  Spend ‘Much More’ On Climate Than Defense

  ‘The Climate Issue is the Security Issue,’ Says Turkish Minister At Pacific Pre-Cop Summit In Fiji

  

  Oct. 9, 2026 -Wealthy countries should spend far more on dealing with the climate crisis than the 5% of GDP promised by Nato members for defence because “the climate issue is the security issue”, the host of the next UN summit has said.

  But, in comments that are likely to prove contentious, the Cop31 president-designate, Murat Kurum, hedged on whether countries should try to repeat a previous agreement to “transition away from fossil fuels” – the primary cause of the climate crisis – when they meet in Turkey next month.

• • Britons Kept In Dark About Scale of Climate Crisis,
  Say Viewers of ‘First-of-Its-Kind’ Emergency Briefing

  ‘The Climate Issue is the Security Issue,’ Says Turkish Minister At Pacific Pre-Cop Summit In Fiji

  

  Oct. 8, 2026 -The British government must be honest about the scale of the threat posed by climate and nature breakdown, researchers have said, after nine out of 10 people surveyed after watching a briefing on the issue felt more motivated to act.

  Last November, in the “first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing”, nine experts gave stark assessments in Central Hall in Westminster of the scale of the changes needed in the UK to adapt to the rapidly changing climate and ecological landscape.

• • Australia Says Cop31 Co-Presidency
  Will Work On a Cover Decision

  Chris Bowen Said the Text Could Acknowledge the Inevitable Overshoot of 1.5C, While Questions Remain Over the Inclusion of the Electrification Goal
  
  {CLIMATE HOME NEWS}

  Oct. 8, 2026 -Australia and Türkiye have agreed to take forward a “presidency-led decision for COP31” after consulting with different countries and groups, Australia’s climate change and energy minister said on Wednesday at the pre-COP meeting in Fiji.

  The announcement that November’s climate conference will produce what is known among negotiators as a “cover decision” lays to rest the annual speculation over how the main outcomes of the UN climate conference will be presented this year.

• • Tracking This Season’s Historic El Niño

  This Season Has Already Become a Super El Niño, and Current Trends Indicate It Will Likely Become the Strongest in Recorded History
  
  {CNN Weather}

  Oct. 8, 2026 -A potentially record-shattering El Niño is underway, and we’re already seeing its effects. From wildfires in Indonesia to an unusually active tropical cyclone season in the Pacific, the phenomenon has a cascading effect on global weather patterns that will peak during the upcoming winter.

  On Thursday morning, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration boosted the odds that this El Niño will exceed the intensity of all others since at least 1950 to 83%, up from an already high 75% chance last month.

• • The American Livestock Industry’s Main Lobbying
  Group Treated Climate Change as a PR Problem

  New Research Reveales More Examples of the National Cattlemen’s Association’s Efforts to Downplay and Deny the Industry’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  

  Oct. 7, 2026 -In 1991, Random House published a picture book called “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: ABC’s for a Better Planet,” in which the masked cartoon turtles trade in their signature nunchucks for signs bearing environmental slogans.

  For “A,” the turtles explain the sources of acid rain. Under “B,” the concept of biodegradability.

• • Compounding Climate Impacts Drive Tropical Forest Decline

  Extreme Heat, Drought and Ozone From Fire Emissions Are Devastating the Amazon and Other Rainforests

  

  Oct. 7, 2026 -Ozone pollution from fires, along with extreme heat and drought, is further weakening the Amazon rainforest’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide, new research shows.

  The Amazon and other forests absorb more than a quarter of human-caused CO2 emissions each year, more than 11 billion metric tons. But in recent decades, increasingly larger areas of forests have begun releasing more CO2 than they absorb, especially during droughts and heat waves.

• • Rainmakers: Hurricane Rachel Leaves Forecasters
  Stunned As It Gains Strength Toward Pacific Coast

  What It Means For California
  
  {NEW YORK POST}

  Oct. 7, 2026 -Southern California is about to go from record-breaking heat to tropical storm misery, with the remnants of Hurricane Rachel barreling toward the region this weekend — bringing heavy rain, thunderstorms, coastal flooding and potentially 15-foot waves.

  After baking in triple-digit temperatures for days, SoCal could get its first taste of the rainy season Sunday as Rachel gets ripped apart by a powerful low-pressure system off the California coast and sends a slug of tropical moisture north.

• • How a Record-Breaking El Niño Could
  Supercharge California’s Winter Storms

  The Abnormally Strong Event May Boost Extreme Weather, Flooding and Erosion of the Coasts

  

  Oct. 6, 2026 -Few states are more sensitive to what’s happening in the Pacific Ocean than California — and what’s happening in the Pacific this year has no modern precedent.

  Because of that, California is expected to face a much higher risk than normal for powerful, moisture-laden storms late this fall and winter, especially from December onward, driven in part by a record-breaking El Niño that resulted in a statewide emergency declaration last month.

• • Downtown LA Hits Record 102
  Degrees As Heat Wave Arrives in SoCal

  A Prolonged and Potentially Dangerous Heat Wave Took Hold Across Southern California On Friday, Sending Temperatures Into Triple Digits In Parts of L.A. County
  
  {abc7 EYE WITNESS NEWS}

  Oct. 3, 2026 -A prolonged and potentially dangerous heat wave took hold across Southern California on Friday, sending temperatures into triple digits in parts of Los Angeles County.

  The heat arrived in L.A. County Friday and actually exceeded expectations in and around the Downtown area where highs reached 102 as of 12:50 p.m., which not only matched the expected forecast for Saturday, but also broke the daily record, according to the National Weather Service. Forecasters said the temperature could climb even higher in downtown Los Angeles Friday afternoon.

• • Underwater Umbrellas Could Protect Coral Reefs From Heat Damage

  Underwater Umbrellas Could Protect Coral Reefs From Heat—and Even Partly Reverse the Bleaching...
  
  {GOOD NEWS NETWORK}

  Oct. 3, 2026 -Temporary shades placed over particularly vulnerable Caribbean corals can mitigate damage from high sea temperatures driven by global warming, which turns them ghostly white—and eventually kills them.

  Restoring dead reefs is possible, but the process is difficult and expensive, and still leaves them vulnerable to future heatwaves. Now, scientists believe they’ve found a new way to protect them—at least, on a small scale.

• • Investigating the Interplay of Polar Sea
  Ice and Global Climate Dynamics.

  Maria Holland: Climate Scientist 2026
  
  {MacArthur Foundation}

  Oct. 3, 2026 -Marika Holland is a climate scientist investigating how polar sea ice is affected by and in turn impacts global climate dynamics. Holland primarily uses climate models that simulate Earth’s past and future climate system to unravel the physical processes underlying sea ice response to warming conditions. She then integrates her findings into climate models, thereby improving the models’ ability to predict changes in ice cover, global climate, and associated coastal and maritime ecosystems.

  Sea ice has a high surface albedo: it reflects most solar radiation back into space. Because of this reflectivity, it acts as a barrier between the ocean and the atmosphere, and its presence or absence dramatically changes how these Earth systems interact in polar regions.

• • Swiss Glaciers Vanished by Nearly a Fifth in Recent Years

  A Warning Sign” That Countries Need to Tackle Human-Driven Climate Change

  

  Oct. 1, 2026 -Glaciers in Switzerland have lost almost a fifth of their volume over the last five years, Swiss researchers said on Thursday, a stark reminder that Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent.

  More than 5 percent of Switzerland’s ice has disappeared in 2026 alone, the researchers said, as a winter with little snow was followed by a summer of broiling heat waves. Many small glaciers have fully disappeared already, they said.

• • Greece's Vanishing Lake Exposes Rapid Impact of Climate Change

  Scientists Cite Hotter Climate, Overuse of Irrigation Water

  

  Oct. 1, 2026 -Before drought took hold, Koroneia Lake in northern Greece was a protected wetland, a refuge for thousands of migratory and water birds including flamingos, and a magnet for tourists as well as local fishermen and farmers.

  Today, after a decade of low rainfall and over-irrigation, Koroneia, once the fifth largest lake in Greece, has shrunk to less than a tenth of its original size, according to data from the National Observatory of Athens. The water that remains is collected in a series of murky ponds and the exposed lake bed is a ?vast mud plain cracked and bleached by years of baking sun.

• • Australia and Pacific Leaders Meet to Sharpen Climate Goals

  In a Year of Record-Breaking Heat
  
  {THE CONVERSATION}

  Oct. 1, 2026 -Heatwaves in the United Kingdom, vast forest fires in Canada and flash flooding in Nepal – the evidence of climate change is everywhere. And no region faces a more existential threat than the Pacific, where residents of low-lying nations are witnessing the seas creep higher.

  On Monday, leaders and delegates from countries including Australia, Germany, Mexico and Thailand will meet in the Pacific nations of Fiji and Tuvalu. Their discussions aim to highlight the climate threats faced by small island nations and the need to rein in carbon emissions.

• • Heat-Trapping Gas Once Frozen in Arctic Ground
  is Slowly Leaking and Warming the Planet

  As Ted Schuur Stepped Along the Edges of Smith Lake, a Bubble Surfaced From the Muck Underfoot...

  

  Oct. 1, 2026 -They’re bubbles of methane, a potent heat-trapping gas made from decomposing plants and animals that had once been stuck in Alaska’s frigid permafrost. But that frozen ground is thawing because the Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the globe. For thousands of years that frozen ground stored dead plants and animals, but the accelerating thaw is allowing them to decay into methane and carbon dioxide.

• • May Heatwaves, Deaths, Ruined Harvests:
  Study of Europe’s Summer Paints Grim Picture For the Future

  EU Copernicus Report Shows Surface Air Temperatures From June to August Were 2.5C Above Decadal Average

  

  Oct. 1, 2026 -The scorching heat that persistently baked western Europe this summer was the worst on record, a report has found, with more than half the continent seared by “very strong” heat stress that felt hotter than 38C.

  Surface air temperatures in western Europe from June to August were 2.5C above the recent decadal average, according to an update from the EU’s Copernicus climate monitoring service on Friday, while milder but still deadly heat across the rest of the continent made the summer Europe’s third hottest on record.

• • How Climate Change is Altering Petrichor,
  the Glorious Smell After It Rains

  As the Planet Changes, So Will This Nostalgia-Triggering Scent

  

  Oct. 1, 2026 -The distinct, earthy smell that fills the air after rain following a long dry spell can trigger some serious nostalgia. This scent, petrichor, goes right to our brain’s memory and emotional centers for reasons that may be to do with our very evolution. But as climate change alters Earth’s weather and environment, petrichor is going to transform, too.

  First, it helps to know why petrichor even happens. During dry periods, soil-dwelling bacteria produce a compound called geosmin that deters insects such as fruit flies. The chemical signals to the flies that the plant material the bacteria grow on isn’t appetizing and that it might be toxic. Geosmin also attracts spore-spreading animals, such as springtails, which help disperse the compound even more widely.

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