Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Tag: climate change

Overshoot of Paris Agreement and the Looming Super El Niño Drive...

Speakers at the UN General Assembly's climate event pressed for faster action as the world overshoots the Paris Agreement's warming limit and a strong El Niño looms.

US heat deaths run five times higher than official counts, NPR...

The undercount traces back to how death certificates get written, researchers found, after NOAA confirmed 2026 brought the hottest summer on record.

What 1.5°C Overshoot Means for Small Islands

The world is now expected to breach the 1.5°C warming limit that small island states have spent years defending as a threshold for survival.

UNEP: World will Exceed 1.5º C., Bringing Catastrophes and Unknowable Risks

UNEP's own modeling now points to a peak above the treaty limit, not a gradual approach to it.

A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C...

It’s no longer possible to hold climate change to 1.5. But it’s not game over – it’s game on.

A Gnarly Situation: High-Elevation Discovery Raises New Questions About Which California...

Birds may have been burying Jeffrey pine seeds up high for thousands of years. But now that they’re sprouting, this new species of subalpine tree may change the playing field.

Why the Spokane wildfires became so catastrophic

Extreme fire conditions converged in suburban neighborhoods built into the forests, shrubland and grasslands and quickly spread.

California’s salmon fishery reopens after three-year shutdown, but the recovery is...

Federal managers cleared a limited, tightly controlled 2026 season and Washington sent $21.3 million in disaster aid, yet drought, hatchery dependence and a warming Pacific still threaten a fish central to coastal economies and tribal life.

5 lessons from 20 years of climate surveys: Political party matters,...

Those patterns may go against the partisan rhetoric of our times, but they reflect the reality that Americans do not sort neatly into simple camps on climate change.

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New study finds CT scans to account for 5 percent of cancer diagnoses

While some experts caution against CT scans, many believe the modeling used in this study left much uncertainty.
White cheddar cheese. File photo, not the recalled product. Photo: Jon Sullivan (public domain)

Raw milk cheese recalled after E. coli outbreak sickens 13 people in nine states

Eight people were hospitalized and three developed a serious kidney complication, and more than half of those sick are age 5 or younger, the CDC says.
The U.S. Capitol at night. Photo: Diliff (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

White House cancels $810 million in congressional spending days before fiscal year ends

Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, a Republican, called the pocket rescission unlawful, and the House is out of session until after the November election.
Razor wire at a prison. Photo: Tony Webster / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Tennessee lawmakers demand answers after report that private youth prisons hid abuse

One company runs all three of the state's highest-security youth prisons, and Tennessee plans to spend more than $400 million on additional facilities.

Mo. Senator Eric Schmitt’s asinine SHIELD Act would classify blowing whistles as ‘Obstruction of...

Meanwhile Schmitt ignores blatant obstruction by Bondi’s DOJ.