For Climate-Vulnerable Countries, Debt Costs 25 Times More Than Climate ActionStudy
A new report finds climate-vulnerable nations spend 25 times more on debt repayment than on essential climate action and adaptation.
Also: CleanTechnica
Today · Saturday, September 19
- Burning forests, emptying rivers, €180bn in damage: Europe’s politicians face reckoning after ‘summer of truth’
- Bloomberg Green’s Pocket Guide to Climate Week NYC 2026
- Climate change may have contributed to a quarter of ER visits for heat-related illness from 2018-25, study findsStudy
- Panama Canal to cap ship transits due to El Nino drought
- ‘Post-Disaster Gentrification’ Proliferates in Florida Towns as Costs Soar Following Hurricanes
- Australia’s renewables transition is well under way – but meeting its 2030 target will be ‘extremely challenging’
- Sea surface temperature biases shift the North Pacific jet stream southward, study findsStudy
- Energy and climate deals of the week
- Mapped: America's next data centers — and the power they'll need
- Alarming Global Temperature Rise
- Climate at the Supreme Court: Suncor v. Boulder | (ACOEL) | American College of Environmental Lawyers
- What 1,000 Women Workers Can Teach Us About Surviving Extreme Heat
- The Watch: Drought-Flood Whiplash Intensifies As Climate Warms
- The Nepal floods question: When the Himalayas collapse, who gets warned?Also: Al Jazeera
- Uttarakhand Glaciers Melting Rapidly: Study Flags Threats Days After Nepal DisasterStudy
- LOW-CARBON ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION FUELS: Global Technical and Policy StatusStudy
- PE Firms’ Emissions Equal Fifth Largest NationStudy
- Global climate leaders to present 2m strong “make polluters pay” petitions to United Nations
- Renewables hit more than 80 pct of grid demand for first time – despite heavy throttling of wind and ...
Yesterday · Friday, September 18
- Global ocean breaks records with 100 days of heat as El Niño adds new threatStudy
- House Republicans push bill to protect fossil fuel industry from climate lawsuits
- August 2026: record temperature is the hottest month in the last 100,000 years together with July 2023StudyAlso: Indian PSU
- 54% of EU’s electricity came from renewables in Q2 2026 - News articles - EurostatStudy
- Trump's EPA unlawfully terminated $7 billion solar grant program, judge rules
- INEOS says EU's first full-scale carbon storage project to start operating
- Lake Powell Drops to Record-Low LevelsStudy
- Scientists Warn of Flood Risks to 8 Himalayan Countries after Nepal Disaster
- Major US offshore wind farm installs its last turbine
- Google tests out new financing model for big carbon removal deal
- Revolution Wind completes 65-turbine farm off New England coast
- Europe's earliest glacier loss day in years signals a reckoning for the AlpsStudyAlso: Columbia University
- U.S. District Court Strikes New York Climate Change Superfund ActAlso: The National Law Review
- Climate change increases 70% probability of heavy rains: floods in Nepal cause over 750 deathsAlso: itv.com
- Illinois EPA releases ‘Comprehensive Climate Action Plan’ to reach ‘net zero’ emissionsAlso: 1470 & 100.3 WMBD
- Climate Disclosure Update: California Issues Updated Regulations and Guidance for GHG Emissions ReportingStudy
- Google, NASA launch AI model to map methane emissions from space
- Public Utility Commission approves gas plants to power data centers
- Hushing and hedging: US companies retreat on climate
- Denmark inaugurates CO2 storage facility in North SeaAlso: daily-sun.com
- Why August 2026 Shattered Global Heat Records And What Comes NextAlso: ИФЗ РАН
- PacWave Opens—A Giant Leap for Marine Energy
- DERA LIVES! House votes to fund Diesel Emissions Reduction Act through 2029
- More than 171 million students had their schooling disrupted by climate hazards in 2025Study
- The wildfire danger we’re only just beginning to understand
- Torrential Rains and Heatwaves a Bad Omen? Earth's Atmospheric Water Vapor Hits Record High Last Month
- NEWSLETTER: Private jet boom raises climate concerns
- France's EDF plans 10 small nuclear plants in Europe by 2035
- Drone footage shows severe drought hitting river in Brazil – video
- Australia’s big polluters rely on carbon offsets for climate credibility. But the system looks like a house of cards | Adam Morton
- Genetically engineered crops increase climate resilience of US fieldsStudy
- Remains of Tennessee woman found nearly two years after Helene’s floods
- COP31 Host Turkey Faces Own Policy Change to Meet Renewable Target
- Flood-damaged Nepal wants help from the global climate Loss and Damage Fund – but it’s waiting, along with 118 other countriesAlso: The New York Times $
- 'An unworldly experience.' Why scientists flew into firestorm clouds this wildfire seasonAlso: PBS
- US move to loosen restrictions on fishing could harm vital ecosystems, experts warn
- Exclusive: Inertia Announces a New Fusion MilestoneStudy
- Fossil fuel expansion threatens COP31 hosts’ credibility, experts warn
- DeSmog Wins Covering Climate Now Awards for Exposing Corporate Denial and Delay
- In hottest summer on record, 2 in 3 Americans say climate change is increasing heat-related illnessesStudy
- 144 Tesla Megapacks power Australia’s first 8-hour grid battery
- Scientists hope deeper-rooted soybeans can withstand climate extremes and store more carbon
- El Niño-driven Kelvin wave could raise Bay Area sea levels by up to 1 foot in October, scientists sayStudy
- Climate inflation is here
- Facing extreme heat in Europe: Reviewing summer 2026 - Preparing for summer 2027Study
- Study: Nepal flash flood influenced by a range of climatic and geological factorsStudyAlso: TheWire.in
- Data gaps ‘threaten’ global climate funding access
- ‘Just a big rock pile:’ St. Mary’s Glacier has melted
- Iconic St. Mary’s Glacier has disappeared for first time in over a century
- PAHO: Strengthening El Niño raises growing health risks across the AmericasStudy
- Fashion's Carbon Footprint Draws New Regulation in the United States and Europe
- Colorado approves new methane regulations for oil-and-gas producers
- Oracle Signs Over 1.7GW of Clean Energy Deals in Bid to Match Data Centers with 100% Carbon-Free EnergyAlso: ESG News
- Addressing renewable energy supply chain risks: Auction design and policy frameworksStudy
- MN8 Energy, Eos Energy Enterprises and Google Announce First-of-its-Kind Utility-Scale Solar + Storage Collaboration in West VirginiaAlso: ESS News, pv magazine USA
- Batteries Kicking Out Natural Gas
- Nano-scaffold breakthrough pushes perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells to 34% efficiency with record voltage of 2.014vStudy
- Jason Momoa raises alarm over coral reefs nearing extinction; scientists report world's most widespread b
- Indonesian Tycoon Close to Prabowo Creates Coal Mining Giant
- NLR Campus To Host US Department of Energy Geothermal Center of Excellence
- ReFuelEU’s First Year Shows the Mandate WorksStudy
- Scaling Adaptation Action Across Interconnected SystemsStudy
- How heat makes it harder for students to learn
- Wildfire smoke linked to greater health risks than other air pollution, studies findStudy
- The battle to save Torres Strait's teardrop island
- How Rs 64.8 lakh crore of India’s GDP is at risk due to Himalayas melting glaciers? What can happen by 2100?
- Beyond the headline targets: What China’s 15th Five-Year Plans mean for its green transitionStudy
- Google Backs Near-Zero Emissions Steel Plant
- Climate Pledge Firms Cut Operational Emissions 11%Study
- Wind and solar reach record share of Australia’s main grid, nearly half of it from rooftop PV
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Effects
- Climate change made deadly Nepal glacier and rock collapse more likely, according to analysisStudyAlso: Reuters, Reuters, Associated Press, Inside Climate News, The Guardian, CNN, CNN, BBC, PBS NewsHour, PBS NewsHour and 68 others
- River flows were among driest in decades in 2025, World Meteorological Organization saysStudy
- El Niño and global heating pushes water vapour in Earth’s atmosphere to record levels in AugustAlso: The Guardian
- The water cycle you learned about in school is off balance. The consequences affect everyone on EarthAlso: CNN, Greater Kashmir
- Speeding glaciers drive half a century of polar ice lossStudy
- Report on global water resources: Worldwide continents are drying upStudyAlso: Moneycontrol.com
- Global water report reveals drying rivers and erratic swings between too little and too muchStudy
- See how polar glaciers have lost trillions of tons of iceAlso: The Washington Post $
- Another Miserably Hot Summer Is Nearly Over. NOAA Says It’s the Worst on RecordStudy
- Summer Goes Out With a Heat DomeStudyAlso: Escondido Times-Advocate
- Satellites show Earth lost more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland, Antarctica in 47 yearsStudyAlso: Reuters, Associated Press, PBS NewsHour, PBS NewsHour, PBS NewsHour, Eos, Phys.org, NBC News, mronline.org, open.kg and 45 others
- August was the joint warmest month ever recorded globally, with temperatures once again exceeding 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels | CopernicusStudy
- New labour and agricultural damages improve climate cost estimatesStudy
- Rapid Warming in the Himalaya Exacerbates Geohazard Cascades Beyond Adaptation LimitsStudy
- Climate at a Glance Global RankingsStudy
- Earth logged its hottest August on record, blowing past 1.5 C as El Nino piled onAlso: The Cool Down
- UN reports that the earth will “overshoot” the 1.5 degree warming limitStudyAlso: World Socialist Web Site
- Himalayas approaching tipping point, millions of livelihoods at stake - reportStudyAlso: BBC, BBC, The Daily Star, downtoearth.org.in, Onlinekhabar English, tovima.com, Business Standard, urbanacres.in, Outlook India, streamlinefeed.co.ke and 29 others
- Global Climate Risk Index 2026 [EN/AR/DE]Study
- Climate disasters disrupt education for 171m students worldwide in 2025Study
- Global warming is breaking a 400-year climate link between two oceansStudy
- Global ocean temperatures reached a record high for any June on recordStudy
- UNEP: World set to cross 1.5°C global warming, but can still limit, adapt to and return from higher temperaturesStudy
- Earth’s Vital SignsStudyAlso: NASA (.gov)
- Spain sea temperatures hit record highs in summer of 2026, port authority saysStudy
- Compound and heterogeneous relationships between climate extremes and global net migrationStudy
- 'There are no easy answers here': New study forecasts a dire dip in food production if key Atlantic currents collapseStudyAlso: Live Science
- Copernicus: August was the world’s joint hottest month on record, pushing global temperatures back above 1.5°C above pre-industrial levelsStudyAlso: Carbon Brief, Copernicus Climate Change Service, Associated Press, Reuters, NOAA, NPR, NPR, Yale Climate Connections, PBS NewsHour, BBC and 149 others
- Monitoring Global Temperature and Precipitation in August 2026Study
- The world’s biggest carbon sink may start emitting CO2 after net zero
- 8 in 10 U.S. Coastal Flood Days Are Due to Climate ChangeStudyAlso: WorldAtlas, WorldAtlas
- The US just had its hottest summer on record, beating the Dust Bowl eraStudyAlso: Yale Climate Connections, Axios, CBS News, The Commercial Appeal, The Inertia, The Inertia, space.com, Space, The Hill, KSDK and 2 others
- US records hottest summer in 132 yearsStudy
- Q&A: What can – and cannot – be said about global warming’s role in the 2026 Himalayan floodsStudy
- The trail of clues that suggest our planet might be heating faster than we realised
- Canada must prepare for a 5°C hotter future and act now to avoid worst impacts: new federal reportStudyAlso: The Weather Network
- Italy logs hottest summer for more than 75 years, institute saysStudyAlso: Anadolu Ajansı
- Extreme event attribution for heat-related mortality due to anthropogenic climate change across EuropeStudyAlso: Nature Climate Change $
- UN report: climate and clean air action could prevent 144 million deaths by 2050Study
- WMO bulletin shows air quality and climate interlinkagesStudy
- We’re In a New Age of of Climate DisastersAlso: Yahoo
- June 2026 broke heat records across Europe and oceans, EU climate data revealsStudyAlso: pv magazine Global
- Global average sea surface temperatures just hit a record 70F, and the timing has scientists worriedAlso: Space Daily
- Changes to Canada’s climate now ‘irreversible,’ federal report saysStudyAlso: Penticton Herald
- Climate Change Could Slash Global GDP 18% by 2100 as Economic Risks Spread Across BordersStudyAlso: theweeklyjournal.com
- Forecasters sound the alarm over a powerful El Nino climate patternStudy
- Global warming set to cross threshold sooner than expected, U.N. report findsStudy
- The World’s Oceans Just Hit Their Hottest Temperature Ever Recorded at a Time of Year When They Should Be Cooling
- Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says in report that maps path back below danger zoneStudyAlso: The Conversation, The Conversation, Phys.org, National Catholic Reporter, WHEC.com, Space, WHEC.com, The Weather Network, Manila Bulletin, Space and 19 others
- Satellite images show how penguins’ diets are changing in response to Antarctic climate changeStudy
- He died of 'natural causes.' But his mother says she knows what killed him: heat
- How a super El Niño is fueling extreme weather patterns
- The UK just had its hottest summer ever
- NPR spent 2 years tracking deaths from heat. We found a staggering hidden toll
- When a mountain falls: How ice and rock triggered Nepal’s catastrophic flood – and why climate change is raising the risksStudyAlso: University of Dayton
- Galápagos corals show El Niño events are more extreme now than in past 1,000 years – here’s how my team made the discoveryStudy
- Copernicus: Daily global sea surface temperature breaks 2024 recordStudy
Solutions
- Von der Leyen unveils European Heatwave Plan in key speechAlso: streamlinefeed.co.ke
- Google agrees biggest carbon-removal deal yet, aims to scale new modelAlso: AzerNews, bnamericas.com, AzerNews, Carbon Herald, BusinessGreen, Barlaman Today, ESG Today, The Straits Times, qz.com, ESG Today and 8 others
- Analysis: India’s power-sector emissions flat for two years due to clean-energy surgeStudyAlso: economictimes.com
- Analysis: Global fossil-fuel emissions set to fall in 2026 amid Hormuz crisisStudyAlso: The Energy Mix, BusinessGreen
- Court Rules Against Trump Order to Keep Costly Michigan Coal Plant RunningAlso: Associated Press, Reuters, Grist, Mongabay, Canary Media, CleanTechnica, Electrek, CleanTechnica, WPLN News, CleanTechnica and 4 others
- China Energy Transition Review 2026StudyAlso: Ember
- Europe's largest carbon capture facility opens in Netherlands
- BlackRock Says Chronic Climate Risks Not Priced In by MarketsStudyAlso: Bloomberg $
- World Can Still Avoid 1.5°C Breach, UN Environment Report SaysStudy
- U.N. Says World Will Miss Its 1.5-Degree Climate TargetStudy
- The World Will Overshoot 1.5°C and Must Now Remove Carbon, United Nations SaysStudy
- Can we really reverse global warming after overshooting 1.5°C?
- China now has more solar than coal to fuel its electric car boom
- Fervo and Google sign world’s largest deal for next-gen geothermal power
Causes
- Environment, health groups sue over Trump move to wipe out climate rules for power plantsAlso: The Hill
- FAA waives emissions rules to let Boeing sell 35 additional 777F freightersAlso: The Mighty 790 KFGO
- Exxon raises 2050 global emissions forecast, sees slower coal decline
- Trump Doubles Down on Climate Denial With Plan to Repeal Power Plant RulesAlso: Inside Climate News, Associated Press, Reuters, Associated Press, Reuters, Grist, The Guardian, NPR, Grist, Canary Media and 152 others
- In Florida, textbook publishers are minimizing or removing climate change coverage
- Trump EPA rolls back power-plant climate rules—and moves to block future carbon limits
- Donald Trump to scrap Joe Biden-era climate protections on power plant pollutionAlso: Financial Times $
- EU truckmakers seek 3-year delay to 2030 CO2 targetsAlso: Yahoo Finance UK
- EPA to loosen methane rules, boosting pollution from oil and gas wellsAlso: ProPublica, Oil City News, Sierra Sun Times, Hart Energy, Hart Energy, Bloomberg $, Bloomberg $, Bloomberg $
- US pressure on development banks to scrap climate finance goals
- The Trump Administration Wants to Fast-Track Arctic DrillingAlso: EnergyNow.com
- Factcheck: Reform UK’s 45 false or misleading claims about climate and energyStudy
- Canada is now more than 20 years behind reaching its 2030 emissions targetStudy
- Permafrost and wetlands may add more warming than climate models expectStudy
- EPA rescinds landmark 2009 'endangerment finding' on greenhouse gases' harmful effect on climate
- Global coal demand forecast to rise by 1.2% in 2026 to a record 8.94 billion tonnes due to Middle East conflict, IEA saysStudy
- Demand – Coal Mid-Year Update 2026 – AnalysisStudy
- Trump emergency order casts uncertainty over grid battery growth
- Federal court halts $75B New York ‘Climate Superfund’ lawAlso: The Riverdale Press, ИФЗ РАН, ИФЗ РАН, ИФЗ РАН, Liskow & Lewis, APLC, The Riverdale Press, The Riverdale Press, ИФЗ РАН, Liskow & Lewis, APLC, herald-dispatch.com and 3 others
- Trump administration wants to revise the latest National Climate Assessment — three years after publicationAlso: Los Angeles Times $
- Earth’s Energy out of BalanceStudyAlso: NASA
- Appropriations Cuts All Funding For Renewable Energy Research
- Trump’s $4B in offshore wind buyouts spur legal blowback from states
- Trump’s DOE keeps forcing coal plants to stay open. Here’s the latest.