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A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, September 20, 2026 thru Sat, September 26, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Policy and Politics (8 items) Interview with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse: ''Call Out the Corruption Pro
Open access notables The Increasing Incidence of Boreal and Western U.S. Forest Wildfires and Its Causes: An Overview , Wallace et al., Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society This overview of the voluminous wildfire literature addresses the following questions: “How seriously is the current spate of wildfires
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A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, September 13, 2026 thru Sat, September 19, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (8 articles) A Super El Niño Is Building. Florida`s Most Vulnerable Homes Aren`t Ready.
Open access notables Projected amplification of global warming by warming-induced greenhouse gas emissions , Abernethy et al., Environmental Research Letters Warming-induced emissions (WIE) of greenhouse gases from natural sources are a large amplifying feedback that most climate models do not yet represent. This absen
This is a re-post from World Weather Attribution A catastrophic rock-ice avalanche that transitioned into a debris flood in the Himalayas along the Nepal–China border on 26 August 2026 has caused widespread destruction across Nepal and neighbouring regions. In Nepal, at the time of writing (14 September 2026) the disas
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Karin Kirk It’s been a rough summer for outdoor sports. July was the hottest month ever recorded in the contiguous U.S., and wildfire smoke has repeatedly reached unhealthy levels across large areas of the country. Soccer players competing in the World Cup had to grapp
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink On the morning of August 26th, part of a glacier cliff on the north face of Langtang Lirung (a ~7,200 meter peak 60 km north of Kathmandu) collapsed. The falling mass of ice and rock released energy equivalent to a magnitude 5.2 earthquake according to the USGS , and set off a d
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Sanket Jain Extreme heat and widespread drought related to climate change have been in the headlines this summer everywhere from Europe to the Colorado River Basin to Puerto Rico and Bangladesh . But drought is only the beginning of the problem for drinking water. Scie
This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Josh Gabbatiss, Daisy Dunne, Molly Lempriere, Dr Simon Evans Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, has emerged as a major force in UK politics in recent years – pushing anti-net-zero policies, alongside vehement opposition to immigration. The hard-right populist party is currently mired
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, September 6, 2026 thru Sat, September 12, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (10 articles) Satellite images of penguin droppings reveal impact of antarctic warming P
Open access notables Early warning signals for tipping points in complex climate systems , LIU et al., Advances in Climate Change Research The growing risk of climate tipping events underscores the urgent need for reliable early warning signals (EWS). Here we synthesize recent advances in EWS research for climate syste
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