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China’s national meteorological and health authorities have issued coordinated nationwide heat health alerts because of the unusually warm and humid summer which has resulted in extreme temperatures in the country with some parts expected to reach above 40°C in the coming days.

Quite insightful. If only more people would read this.

link to open access article https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady7139

In 2025, a powerful storm crashed down on Samuel de Champlain Provincial Park outside North Bay, Ont., dropping trees on tents, trailers and an environmental education centre.

The Trump admin is propping up the aging coal fleet despite the financial and environmental costs — and also making far-fetched plans to build new coal plants.

“I don’t think it’s an issue of firefighting capacity or investment,” Field said. “It’s fundamentally an issue of landscape management in the face of global warming.”

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It’s part of a growing pushback to the climate hushing phenomenon, spearheaded by longtime climate advocate Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, and a collection of experts studying political science and public opinion. “This is a sort of a sign of where the conversation has moved, in that you do have this really robust effort to attempt to highlight that climate change is something that Democrats should continue to be talking about in a big way,” said Tré Easton, vice president for public affairs at Searchlight Institute, a Democratic-aligned think tank.

Coal demand and prices in China have jumped in recent days as scorching heat waves across most of the country boost electricity demand.

Lake Brenets, a long, winding lake on the Swiss-French border, is all ‌but drained and has been unnavigable for more than a week amid a prolonged drought that has hit waterways across Europe.

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As Europe reels from extreme heatwaves, a German app is helping people stay cool by mapping shaded walking routes. The app uses sun and shadow data to guide commuters away from heat-exposed streets.

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The continent is experiencing some of its biggest fires and highest temperatures ever. Residents are fleeing, leaders are struggling to respond and “it will get worse,” one climate expert said.

A reminder: 2° isn’t the point where everyone dies. It’s point where we’re clearly inside a minefield of ecological and social consequences.

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Although he referred to multiple “Manuals,” the president’s Truth Social screed is really about a single manual: the Federal Judicial Center’s Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. The Reference Manual serves “as a go-to document judges can use when they deal with issues involving scientific testimony.” For the first time, the most recent version of the manual contains a climate science chapter. It describes the hard scientific evidence that fossil fuel burning is influencing extreme weather events. This science is anathema to the oil industry and to its conservative supporters, including the president, and they have responded by attacking the manual and its authors.

Research shows that once drivers try an EV, they stick with them. That’s why these incentives target those who’ve never owned one to maximize the bang for the buck.

Experts who helped Burnham draw up Manchester carbon neutral pledge say backtracking would send wrong message amid wildfires and heatwaves

Developing Asian nations, scarred by Middle East supply shocks, are working to scale back their reliance on imported fuels, including liquefied natural gas.

“One of the more interesting takeaways from this summer is that many of the reliability concerns and demand records have occurred during weather that has been notably warm, but generally not historically extreme,” said Bradley Harvey, lead forecaster at Vaisala Xweather.

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Needless to say, temperature stabilization requires leaving this coal in the ground.

Minns government promised no new coalmines but permits expanding existing sites, despite being behind on climate targets

scientists said broiling temperatures last month, which hit both Spain and France, were made likelier because of the burning of fossil fuels. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s pre-eminent climate science body, said in 2021 that “fire weather” would likely increase across the Mediterranean over the course of the century.

The coal mine would disturb more than 10,000 more acres, pollute the region for more than a century and force some residents of the Navajo Nation out of their homes.

https://www.dw.com/en/from-france-to-greece-wildfires-rage-across-europes-south/g-77852792

Experts say camels comfortably beat the heat up to around 40C by mainly allowing their body temperature to fluctuate by several degrees throughout the day to deal with outside temperature.