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Donate to Empower Ugandan Families with Green Youth Movement, organized by Jesse Davis

CBO registration number: 875BY306 Imagine a family in central Uganda … Jesse Davis needs your support for Empower Ugandan Families with Green Youth Movement

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Act now against El Niño or costs will double, UNDP warns

Acting now to counter the devastating effects of the El Niño phenomenon will cost half as much as waiting, the head of the U.N. Development Programme told AFP Friday.

yaleclimateconnections.org

The suburbs are getting a makeover. That’s a climate win. » Yale Climate Connections

Across the U.S., communities are transforming aging malls, golf courses, and parking lots into walkable neighborhoods that reduce car dependency and help residents adapt to extreme weather.

earth.com

Ammonia pollution from farms reaches beyond the air we breathe

A new review examines ammonia pollution, its health risks, and the potential for bacteria to help remove excess ammonia.

sciencedaily.com

Global fossil fuel emissions set to fall in 2026, but total CO2 keeps rising

Global fossil fuel emissions are projected to fall in 2026 as renewable energy and electric vehicles gain ground, but rising emissions from deforestation threaten to push total CO2 emissions to a new record. Scientists warn that the world's remaining carbon budget for limiting warming to 1.5°C could be exhausted in less than four years, even as a lasting decline in emissions appears increasingly within reach.

yaleclimateconnections.org

Hope Village provides climate-resilient housing to vulnerable residents » Yale Climate Connections

The village was built using an affordable, modular system called LifeArk.

theguardian.com

Why are Britain's streets still so polluted? Because the car industry dinosaurs do what they like, and politicians let them | George Monbiot

The transition to electric vehicles should be moving apace, but it is not. And why? Incompetence, expedience and cowardice, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Some regions may already be living in a 1.5°C warmer world

Regions worldwide may have already experienced around 90%–94% of the warming expected when the global average reaches 1.5°C above preindustrial levels, and 65%–76% of that expected at 2°C of warming. The findings, published in Nature Climate Change, suggest that regional warming in 2025 was statistically indistinguishable from the levels expected in a 1.5°C warmer world, underlining the immediate need for adaptation across all regions.

earth.com

Even remote wildlife can’t escape microplastics in their blood

Scientists found microplastics in the blood of wild tapirs and giant anteaters in Brazil, including animals living far from human development.

theguardian.com

Cop31 as it happened: ‘Everything and everyone we love is at stake,’ Greta Thunberg warns

Host Turkey celebrates new oilfields as UN climate summit prepares to host world leaders from more than 90 countries

phys.org

2026 set to be one of the 4 hottest years on record

The year 2026 continues the protracted streak of exceptional global temperatures, melting ice and rising sea levels, with a very strong El Niño event set to unleash even more heat and extreme weather well into 2027, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It highlights the knock-on risks to the environment, economy and everyday life.

mymodernmet.com

Japanese Artist’s Thought-Provoking Kaiju Paintings Explore Human Overconsumption [Interview]

“I am interested in how this less tangible form of accumulation might also be understood as a contemporary form of waste, and how kaiju could embody the things we produce, consume, and eventually forget in our increasingly digital lives.”

e360.yale.edu

As War Roils Energy Markets, China Sees Its Emissions Drop

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Ozone Hole Reaches Its 2026 Maximum - NASA Science

The ozone hole ranked seventh largest by area in 48 years of monitoring, but it was not as deep as other large holes on record.

theguardian.com

High fossil fuel prices spread inflation ‘like a cancer’, UN climate chief tells Cop31

Simon Stiell makes opening address at summit in Turkey, where talks are under way about speeding up shift to electrification

yaleclimateconnections.org

The Standing Rock protests launched one man’s renewable energy transformation » Yale Climate Connections

Ten years after the protest, Cody Two Bears reflects on how it led him to create energy alternatives for tribal communities.

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DRC residents sue Chinese mining company over alleged pollution in Kolwezi

Twenty-seven residents of Kolwezi, a major copper and cobalt mining hub in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, have taken Chinese-controlled mining company COMMUS to court, accusing it of polluting their water, air and soil and putting their health and livelihoods at risk. The lawsuit against Compagnie Minière de Musonoie Global (COMMUS), controlled by Chinese mining […]

phys.org

Less rain, more intense storms: Climate change strengthens extreme urban floods

A new study reveals a troubling consequence of climate change: Even as rainfall decreases, cities could face increasingly severe flooding. The study was led by Ph.D. student Raz Nussbaum and co-authored by Dr. Moshe Armon and supervised by professor Efrat Morin from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

bbc.co.uk

How climate change worsens heatwaves, droughts, fires and floods

Rising global temperatures mean extreme weather events are becoming more common and more intense.

earth.com

Researchers warn that warmer weather is helping mosquitoes spread dangerous diseases like malaria and dengue

A century of data shows bed nets, drugs and growing cities explain much of why malaria and dengue went separate ways as the planet warmed.