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A storm may be brewing in the Gulf

And in the Pacific, Super Typhoon Choi-Wan is the planet's eighth Category 5 as another potential powerhouse, Koguma, begins organizing.

Brief yaleclimateconnections.org · 4h ago · 1 min
British government ‘complacent about food as a national security matter’

Experts say country does not have plan to feed people in a crisis and is unprepared for future shortagesBritain does not have a plan for how to feed people in a crisis and is unprepared for potential future food shortages, according to a warning from more than 150 experts deliver

Brief theguardian.com · 20h ago · 2 min
California to Vote on Landmark Tribal Petitions for Coastal Protections

Drive the Pacific Coast Highway, spearfish alongside Great White sharks, surf in Santa Cruz, dive for lobster, cast a line or set a crab pot: California is defined by its 840-mile coastline. Managing the miles of beach, reef and cliffsides that define the state is a complicated a

Brief insideclimatenews.org · 4d ago · 1 min
The Colorado River is shrinking. What happens next?

Lake Mead is at its lowest level since it was filled nearly 90 years ago, Lake Powell also at a historic lowIt was 42C (108F) degrees as we motored across Nevada’s Lake Mead in our rented pontoon boat. Colby Pellegrino with the Southern Nevada Water Authority wanted to show us so

Brief theguardian.com · 4d ago · 1 min
Texas Electric Utility Only Considered Gas to Power $10 Billion Meta Data Center

EL PASO—While Texas officials have hit pause on data center permitting, one project is still moving ahead: Meta’s $10 billion, 1-gigawatt data center in northeast El Paso. Meta had already signed tax abatement agreements with El Paso, jumped through regulatory hoops and started c

Brief insideclimatenews.org · 11d ago · 1 min
A bumper year for bugs: as the world warms up, insects are moving northwards

Britain has seen an explosion of migrating insects – in some cases from as far as northern Africa It was a stifling evening in July and Matt Phelps was out for a stroll, when a piercing, whirring noise stopped him in his tracks. As an ecologist, Phelps knows his fauna – and he co

Brief theguardian.com · 12d ago · 1 min
Chemicals Linked to Breast Cancer Are ‘Ubiquitous,’ Study Shows

The more scientists look for chemicals that can increase breast cancer risk, the more they find. Hundreds of potential breast carcinogens lurk in consumer goods, food, drinking water, pesticides, drugs and building materials, scientists reported in a peer-reviewed study published

Brief insideclimatenews.org · 12d ago · 1 min

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Final ‘Grandmother’ Cottonwood Toppled, Protesters Arrested in Arizona

Armed Border Patrol agents raided a protest camp in Lochiel, in southeast Arizona, making way for contractors to cut down the last standing cottonwood tree Monday morning for a double border wall, after protesters protected it for more than 70 days.  Activists in Lochiel said at

insideclimatenews.org · 3h ago
Supreme Court Weighs Landmark Climate Deception Case Against Oil Companies

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments from oil companies on Monday that could help decide the fate of more than two dozen lawsuits accusing the industry of deceiving the public about climate change. The claims seek potentially billions of dollars in damages to help pay the costs

insideclimatenews.org · 3h ago
US supreme court hears big oil’s bid to block climate damage lawsuits

How court will lean is unclear amid Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil’s attempt to stop lawsuits at state levelThe US supreme court began its new nine-month term hearing arguments on Monday in a major case in which big oil companies attempted to strike a fatal blow against lawsuits th

theguardian.com · 4h ago
A storm may be brewing in the Gulf

And in the Pacific, Super Typhoon Choi-wan is the planet's eighth Category 5 as another potential powerhouse, Koguma, begins organizing.

yaleclimateconnections.org · 4h ago
Virginia’s new energy plan: Make the AI boom work for — not against — us

For well over a year, the twin problems of rising utility bills and soaring electric demand spurred by the AI boom have consumed the energy policy debate in Virginia, the data center capital of the world. Clean energy foes — mostly Republicans — say the state’s landmark zero-car

canarymedia.com · 6h ago
New York Is Running Out of Room for Its Trash

New York City is running out of places to dump its trash. In the latest draft of the city’s once-a-decade solid waste management plan, the sanitation department warns that the landfills receiving much of the city’s garbage are filling up fast.  More than two-thirds of the city’s

insideclimatenews.org · 15h ago

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