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Study finds global warming did more than El Niño to turbocharge Hurricane Polo

Heavy rain floods Istanbul and shuts down parts of the city, killing 2

UK ships additional Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine for strikes on Russian sites

UK Sends Ukraine More Storm Shadow Missiles to Hit Russian Sites  Bloomberg.com

Why Easing Sanctions on Russian Diesel Is Unlikely to Lower Fuel Costs

President Trump’s deal with Russia will probably not lower diesel prices that have soared because of his war with Iran and Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries.

How One Global Climate Deal Worked ‘Perfectly’ as Others Faltered

In just a decade, the world has slashed super-polluting chemicals used in air-conditioners and fridges.

Satellites detect sharp fire and smoke surge across central and eastern Amazon since September 2026 as El Niño drought primes rainforest for long, severe fire season; heavy smoke blankets Manaus

During El Niño, a cascade of fires across the tropics begins in equatorial Asia and continues in the central and eastern Amazon.

Power shutoffs begin in an effort to prevent California wildfires | AP News

Great Britain's grid operator pays £47.9m in one day to switch off windfarms and fire up gas plants, near-record balancing costs passed on to household bills

Grid operator paying large sums to switch off windfarms in areas of excess electricity generation while turning on gas plants elsewhere The cost of balancing Great Britain’s power grid has soared to near-record highs of almost £50m a day after windfarms were turned off because of bottlenecks in tra…

Climate and Community Institute poll: 80% say extreme weather raised their cost of living, 55% want officials to tackle both through coordinated policies

As the US midterm elections approach, one word keeps coming up in campaign promises and headlines: “.” That working people in the United States are to afford basic necessities is a problem that many are willing to acknowledge, but there is agreement on what should be done to tackle a core driver of…

UN CBD report finds developed nations fall far short on nature finance ahead of COP17; biodiversity framework fund gets under $140M in two years, Cali Fund only $6,000 from companies

The amount of finance for nature delivered to date “falls far short” of what is needed to meet the UN’s… The post COP17: Developed countries ‘fall far short’ of UN targets for nature finance appeared first on Carbon Brief.

Article 6.4 Supervisory Body rejects cookstove exemption, requires projects to set aside credits insuring against forest loss to fire, drought or logging in first UN cookstove rulebooks

Despite lobbying for an exemption, the UN regulator has for the first time made cookstove projects cover the risk that the trees they save are later destroyed The post UN carbon market forces cookstove projects to protect against forest loss appeared first on Climate Home News.

US threatens to block arms for Ukraine over refinery attacks, FT reports

US threatens to block arms for Ukraine over refinery attacks, FT reports  Reuters

Resources minister faces calls to correct her claim all Beetaloo emissions will be offset

Madeleine King told press club emissions from NT fossil fuel basin ‘are accounted for and offset’ but research found 95% of emissions this decade would not have to be offset Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here The resources minister, Madeleine Kin…

Aramco Suffers ‘Extensive Damage’ in Houthi Missile Strike on HQ

Current conditions: Temperatures in Washington, D.C., are climbing up to the mid 80s Fahrenheit today before taking a double-digit plunge as cold air blows in this weekend • California’s biggest utility has warned of looming blackouts as the southern part of the state braces for a potential wildfir…

‘We have to live with it’: Indonesia’s worst fires in years wreak havoc

El Niño weather pattern has exacerbated seasonal blazes and toxic haze has spread across the region

Countries meet in Armenia at COP17 this month for first global review of progress toward UN's 2030 nature targets

Countries will meet in Armenia this month to carry out the first global review of progress towards meeting key nature… The post COP17: Tracking progress towards the UN’s 2030 nature targets appeared first on Carbon Brief.

Flood powerful enough to disrupt the dead sends caskets onto the river in American disaster

Covering a flood powerful enough to disrupt the dead.

Pecos River in New Mexico runs through Permian Basin oilfield as drought deepens; suspected produced water dumping seen near Black River confluence, toxic and potentially radioactive

As climate change dries the state, the Pecos faces a growing threat as it runs through the Permian Basin oilfield.

RMI report finds winter grid headroom could support heat pumps in 109 million U.S. homes, three-quarters of the total, and cut electric bills by over 20 percent in some states

Don't worry: There is there plenty of room on the grid for these electrical wonders — and they'll save ratepayers tons of cash.

Families on Allen's Calle Ciega 10 in Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale region report cancers, miscarriages and stillbirths since a well was drilled nearby 13 years ago

Families in Vaca Muerta, the centre of Patagonia’s shale operation, report cancers, miscarriages and pollution In Allen, a small town in Argentine Patagonia, many people living on the same street ended up falling ill.