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45 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 14, 2026.
The rule had required coal plants and new gas plants to cut 90% of their CO2 by 2032. The EPA's own prior analysis credited it with preventing 30,000 deaths a year. Power-sector emissions rose 4.1% in 2025, the first increase in two decades.
A powerful El Niño has driven wind shear over the main development region about 45 mph beyond what a storm can survive, leaving Atlantic activity at 7% of normal even as the world's oceans set heat records for 100 straight days. The Pacific, meanwhile, is 'a party out there.'
NOAA says the Lower 48 averaged 74.4 degrees from June through August, topping the 1936 and 2021 marks, while August alone set records for both average temperature and daytime highs. Drought now covers 59% of the country.
Jan Mayen has been seismically active for as long as anyone has watched it. Forty years of satellite images show nothing like the debris field the March 2025 quake produced.
Health Minister Stephanie Rist gave the figure Friday, covering the period through late July. The 2003 summer that shocked France had 22 heatwave days.
Tropical Pacific waters are running 1.5 to 2.6 degrees Celsius above normal. Antonio Guterres says the event is being 'supersized before our eyes.'
UNEP's first report on exceeding the Paris target says the world is at 1.4C now and will cross the line within a few years. Even the optimistic path peaks near 1.8C.
NOAA's number beats July 1936 and July 2012 by a tenth or two of a degree. The nighttime record was not close: America's warmest month ever also refused to cool off after dark.
More than 180,000 accounts across San Juan and six neighboring municipalities entered rationing Friday after Puerto Rico's driest July in more than 120 years.
Twenty-five cities were already at the health ministry's maximum warning level this week, with Messina and Reggio Calabria projected to join by Thursday. Nights that never drop below 25°C are what makes this wave dangerous.
An evenly divided 10-judge D.C. Circuit panel restored an April 2025 injunction against Administrator Lee Zeldin's termination of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund awards. Six judges said canceling them 'based solely on a policy disagreement' likely broke the law.
In densely populated coastal areas the water is gaining on the land at 6 millimeters a year — nearly double the rate driven by climate alone. In Jakarta, parts of the city are sinking 42 millimeters a year.
WatchA Greek coordinator and a Danish pilot were killed when two Bell helicopters struck each other above the Psatha fire west of Athens. Two other crew members were pulled out alive.
Three fires burning around Washington's second-largest city have scorched more than eight square miles with zero containment, and forecasters warn the coming days could bring extreme fire behavior.
A University of Michigan tool called Skelevision scanned 15,000 museum specimens and located a spike in body-shape change 35 million years ago, as the planet plunged into cooling.
Two were trapped driving between fire fronts on Crete; a third died in the Peloponnese. EU fire weather is running 43% more severe than the late-July average of the past two decades.
Nearly 900 villages are submerged and about 300,000 people have crowded into government relief camps after days of monsoon rain pushed one of Asia's largest rivers over its banks.
A fast-moving blaze near Bordeaux emptied one of France's most fashionable summer retreats, with hundreds of vacationers ferried to safety by boat as Europe bakes in another heat wave.
A blaze in southwestern France claimed two firefighters’ lives while a fire in Spain’s Guadalajara province burned uncontrolled for a sixth day, forcing more than 1,200 people from their homes as extreme heat gripped the continent.
Sediment cores from Australia's K'gari reveal that some of its deepest freshwater lakes dried out about 7,500 years ago during a wetter-than-today era, a warning that even iconic waters aren't safe.
Some 252 million years ago, roughly 96% of marine species vanished. A new study pinpoints which animals' metabolisms could not survive warmer, oxygen-starved seas.
Oaks continue absorbing carbon dioxide for months after their wood stops adding rings — a finding that could reshape how climate models treat forests.
Days of heavy rain triggered flooding and landslides in Accra and Abidjan, submerging homes and roads and forcing the rescue of hundreds of stranded residents.
A Science Advances study found up to a third of an oak's yearly carbon capture happens after its wood is done growing, decoupling two processes scientists long assumed moved together.
The Aspen Acres Fire has forced 11,000 people from their homes and destroyed 180 structures, while a punishing heat dome that spawned deadly storms has stretched extreme-weather advisories from Alaska to the East Coast.
Atlantic City hit 106 degrees over the July Fourth weekend — the hottest stretch in more than a decade — with tens of millions still under heat alerts.
An extreme heat dome pushed heat-index readings toward 115 degrees from the Midwest to the East Coast, forcing cities to cancel parades and Amtrak to scrap trains as the nation marked its Semiquincentennial.
More than half the country is trapped under dangerous heat through the holiday weekend, with sweltering nights leaving little relief and forecasters warning of record-breaking temperatures.
Paris hit 40.9°C and the U.K. logged its hottest June day on record near 38°C as a Saharan heat dome pushed Spain and Portugal toward 44°C.
For the first time in tournament history, players pause midway through each half to drink water — a heat-safety measure now blamed for sapping momentum and inviting commercial breaks.
First global maps reveal hidden mycorrhizal infrastructure that moves 4 billion tons of carbon annually and supports most plant life on Earth.
A new study finds that gut bacteria team up with marine fish to manufacture carbon-trapping minerals, revealing a hidden partnership that could reshape how scientists understand the ocean's carbon cycle.
University of Birmingham researchers say their perovskite catalyst, built from cheap and non-toxic metals, could make hydrogen for less than today's 'green' and 'blue' methods by harnessing heat factories already throw away.
Accelerating sea-ice loss flipped the Arctic from a system limited by light to one starved of nitrate, choking the nutrient supply that underpins the entire polar food web.
Sediment cores from 83-million-year-old deposits in China show precession-driven cycles drove abrupt wet-dry swings even in an ice-free greenhouse world — a cautionary analogue for our warming future.
Temperatures hit 32.3C at Kew Gardens on Sunday — the warmest U.K. May reading since 1947 — with the Met Office warning Monday could break the all-time May record of 32.8C and trigger amber heat-health alerts across nine English regions.
A new Nature Geoscience paper combines 22 years of TIMED and SABER satellite data with refined radiative-transfer models to show how the upper atmosphere has shrunk visibly as carbon dioxide climbs.
Two papers published this spring project a 51% slowdown by 2100 and the first multi-latitude observational confirmation that the Atlantic conveyor is closer to a tipping point.
Decades of subsidies and import restrictions have positioned China to control wind turbines like it does solar panels, transforming global energy markets.
Disaster declarations that unlock federal money are taking longer than in the past, with Democratic-controlled states experiencing the longest waits and highest rejection rates.
From blocking Alaska's Pebble Mine to forcing Rio Tinto to clean up a decades-old mining disaster in Papua New Guinea, the six recipients of the 'Green Nobel' represent a new generation of frontline environmental activism.
The Energy Information Administration says American developers are on pace to shatter every previous annual record for new electricity generation, driven by solar projects approved in 2023-24 that are now completing construction across Texas and the Sun Belt.
The World Meteorological Organization's annual State of the Global Climate report found 2025 averaged 1.44°C above pre-industrial levels — and that ocean heat content, sea level rise, and ice loss all hit new records for the fourth consecutive year.
WatchBack-to-back Kona Low storms dropped up to 46 inches of rain in five days on Maui, forced 236 rescues on Oahu, and set a Honolulu single-day rainfall record that stood since 1951.
The Interior Department agreed to compensate French energy giant TotalEnergies for abandoning two East Coast offshore wind leases, setting a precedent that could expose the government to billions more in similar claims.