1. 2025 on Track to Be
Second Warmest Year Ever

2. No Mention of Planet-Warming Fossil Fuels in COP30 Agreement

3. Global Plastic Treaty Negotiations End Without Deal Again

4. World’s Top Court Lays Out
Historic Protections For Climate

5. Scientists Confirm Largest Coral Bleaching Event on Record Affecting Nearly 84% of World’s Reefs

6. Climate Change ‘Supercharged’ Deadly Asian Storms That Killed More Than 1,800

7. Trump Signs Executive Orders to Blow to US Emissions Reduction Efforts

8. ‘Historic’ UN-Led High Seas Treaty to Take Effect in 2026

9. Green Sea Turtles No Longer Endangered Species in Major Conservation Win

10. Fossil Fuel Companies Intensified Hundreds of Heatwaves Worldwide This Century

June 16, 2026 -The first tropical disturbance of the Atlantic season will soon drench a stretch from eastern Texas to the Carolinas. Early Tuesday, flood watches covered areas from Texas to Mississippi, as severe thunderstorms rumbled near the Texas coast — close to the storm’s center near the southern part of the state.

Through Thursday, the disturbance has a 60 percent chance of becoming a short-lived tropical storm, according to the National Hurricane Center. Its chances of forming depend on how much time it spends over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday night and Wednesday.

June 16, 2026 -Australia's weather bureau warned on Tuesday that an El Nino weather pattern has formed in the tropical Pacific and could intensify in the second half of 2026 to become one of the strongest in seven decades.

Forecasters expect the stronger weather event to bring excessive rains to the Americas and hot, dry conditions in Asia where crop planting is already being disrupted, raising concerns about food supplies in the world's most populous region.

June 16, 2026 -In the five months after jet fuel started leaking from Joint Base Andrews into Piscataway Creek, no agency tested the water or sediment some 20 miles downstream, where the creek empties into the Potomac River and the shoreline community and anglers gather to fish and boat along the riverbank.

The leak was detected on Dec. 11 at Joint Base Andrews in Prince George’s County. Of an estimated 32,000 gallons that spilled into the headwaters of the creek, only 10,000 gallons were recovered, while the remaining 22,000 entered the environment. Environmental leaders and activists have criticized the base for waiting more than three months before notifying state regulators.