The Climate Recap

Japan urges 37 mil people to switch off lights | BBC News Historic day in China: The NE province of Hebei reached a temperature of 44.2ºC at Lingshou | Extreme Temperatures Around the World on Twitter Colorado River states need to drastically cut down their water usage ASAP, or the federal government will step in | Colorado Public Radio Oceans saved us, now we can return the favor | France24 G7 un...

New Zealand records largest ever bleaching of sea sponges | The Guardian Dire Italian drought worsening, breaking records, water authority says | Reuters Brutal heat bakes Southeast, with more record highs forecast Thursday | The Washington Post Real-time extreme weather attribution is here | Axios Lake Mead nears dead pool status as water levels hit another historic low | NBC News Alaska’s June w...

Nigeria’s homes are vanishing into the sea from climate change | Reuters Somalia: ‘The worst humanitarian crisis we’ve ever seen’ | The Guardian South China provinces raise alerts over historic flooding | Reuters Wildfire in southwest Turkey whipped up by wind and heat | Reuters In world’s first, Spain’s Seville to name and classify heatwaves | Reuters Cement carbon dioxide emissions quietly doubl...

Deadly South Asia floods leave families trapped without food and water | The Washington Post Monterrey suffers weeks-long water cutoff amid drought | AP News Texas power use breaks record again, more to come as heatwaves lingers | Reuters Conservationists in court bid to halt $16 bil Scarborough gas project, citing damaged to Barrier Reef | The Guardian Dutch Firm Building Floating City in Maldive...

‘Food miles’ have larger climate impact than thought, study suggests | Carbon Brief Food Companies Falling Short of Carbon-Cutting Goal, Study Finds | Bloomberg Kal Penn Bloomberg Series: Actor Will Host Climate Change Show | The Hollywood Reporter Redwood Materials and Toyota collaborate on electric vehicle battery collection | Redwood Materials Young people go to European court to stop treaty th...

Dengue fever cases rocket in Singapore. Experts blame climate change. | The Telegraph At least 59 dead and millions stranded as floods devastate India and Bangladesh | The Guardian Spain, Germany battle wildfires amid unusual heat wave | AP News Disabled people being ‘systematically ignored’ on climate crisis, says study | The Guardian China to ban new heavy industrial projects in key zones | Reut...

China hit by rare convergence of rainfall, heatwaves, tornado | Reuters 41 dead, millions stranded as floods hit Bangladesh, India | The Strait Times Spain, France to see historic June heatwave though weekend | The Washington Post Wildfires ravage woods in Spain’s Catalonia as heat-wave bites | Reuters US Sees a Wave of Heat-Related Warnings Ahead of Summer’s Start | The NYTimes Thousands of cattl...

Almost all of Portugal in severe drought after hot, dry May | AP News The Great Carbon Arbitrage | International Monetary Fund Climate change erased a fifth of exposed nations’ growth potential, report | Gulf News ‘Triple La Niña’: Australia may face another summer of flooding rains, US expert warns | The Guardian Australian state to invest $850 bil in power grid | Reuters New Zealand Tackles Clim...

Environment Agency sets out roadmap for more flood and climate-resilient nation | UK Government Canada launches greenhouse gas offset credits to help tackle emissions | Reuters Two big energy rollouts: charging and hydrogen | Axios California to Tackle Methane Leaks Amid Broad US Climate Push | Bloomberg Global reaction to energy crisis risks zero carbon transition | Climate Action Tracker UK Perm...

Flood alerts issued as more torrential rain forecast to hit China | The Guardian As the Great Salt Lake Dries UP, Utah Faces An ‘Environmental Nuclear Bomb’ | The NYTimes Wind farms raise incomes and house prices in rural US, study finds | Carbon Brief India Loosens Rules to Promote Switch to Clean Energy | Bloomberg Climate lawyers challenge EU support for gas pipelines | Climate Change News Germ...

Famine risk rises in Somalia as rain fails, food prices soar, UN says | Reuters Americans warned to stay indoors this weekend as intense heat wave approaches | The Independent Environmentalists join forces to fight ‘carbon bomb’ fossil fuel projects | The Guardian Initiative launched to rank corporate climate claims using carbon offsets | Reuters Tiwi Islanders challenge offshore drilling, saying...

Carbon Dioxide Levels Are Highest in Human History | The NYTimes Climate change is forcing schools to close early for ‘heat days’ | The Washington Post Macron, Bloomberg seek better monitoring of business climate action | Reuters Joe Biden Plans Executive Action to Provide Support for US-Made Solar Panels | Bloomberg Defense Production Act Title III Presidential Determination for Critical Material...

Tropical storm warnings hoisted for Florida | Axios Why mental health is a priority for action on climate change | World Health Organization EPA, Reversing Trump, Will Restore States’ Power to Block Pipelines | The NYTimes Another oil company backs out of leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge | Anchorage Daily News A Decade of Successes Against Fossil Fuel Export Projects in Cascadia...

California is rationing water amid its worst drought | CBS News Deutsche Bank subsidiary CEO resigns after greenwashing raid | Euronews This Slack channel helps you quit your job to work on climate change. Now he’s helping others do the same thing. | Fast Company Buick's electric move and EV price competition | Axios Here’s how the government wants to disaster-proof your home | AP News 2022 E...

Finland sets world’s most ambitious climate target in law | Climate Change News Germany: Deutsche Bank raided in ‘greenwashing’ probe | DW US says it will cut costs for clean energy projects on public lands | Reuters Vice President Harris Announces Action Plan on Global Water Security and Highlights the Administration’s Work to Build Drought Resilience | The White House How the Ford F-150 Can Be a...

Zero-Emission Vehicles Progress Dashboard | BloombergNEF China Set to Double Last Year’s Record Solar Panel Installations | Bloomberg India aims to cut power from at least 81 coal-fired utilities over 4 years | Reuters Australia election: PM Anthoney Albanese secures majority government | BBC News Dozens of schemes receive grants of up to £100,000 to boost investment in nature | The Independent Ti...

Death toll in Brazilian floods rise to 57, thousands displaces | Reuters Hurricane Agatha Makes Landfall | The Weather Channel Israeli study: Climate change already causing storm levels only expected in 2080 | Times of Israel Group of Seven pledges to phase out coal plants by 2035 | The Washington Post G7 push Japan to speed up clean energy transition at home and abroad | Climate Change News ‘Time...

South Africa needs $250 bil over three decades for clean energy transition, report | Reuters Supreme Court allows Biden climate regulations | The Washington Post US proposes offshore wind sale off California coast | Reuters Colorado judge nixes drilling plan | Grist Bureau Of Land Management Employees Unionize in Wake of Trump-Era Upheaval | HuffPost Grains vs Biodiversity: Germany’s new, greener...

‘It seems this heat will take our lives’: Pakistan city fearful after hitting 51C | The Guardian Pakistan’s mango production to fall by 50% due to heatwaves, water shortages | Reuters Major New Zealand salmon producer shuts farms as warming waters cause mass die-offs | The Guardian Egypt says climate finance must be top of agenda at COP27 talks | The Guardian Vietnam company to invest $840 mil in...

Thawing Permafrost in Sweden Releases Less Methane Than Feared, Study Finds | Yale E360 The Field Report: Food Companies Are Not Counting All of Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Civil Eats NOAA predicts as many as 6 major Atlantic hurricanes in 2022 | Axios Do not work for ‘climate wreckers’, UN head tells graduates | The Guardian Global carbon pricing schemes raised $84 bil in 2021, World Bank sa...

People in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest again reel from floods | AP News More than 150,000 still without power, some schools closed after Ontario storm leaves ‘severe’ damage | CBC News Deadly Indian heatwaves made 30 times more likely by climate crisis | The Guardian The Wetlands Are Drowning | WIRED UN body makes ‘breakthrough’ on carbon price proposal for shipping | Climate Change News Egypt promi...

Hundreds evacuated amid renewed flooding in South Africa’s coastal province | Reuters Historic May heat shatters records in Southern and Central Europe | The Washington Post Germany tornadoes: At least 43 people injured | NPR US heatwave brings historically high temperatures to dozens of states | The Guardian Extreme fire threats prompt US suspension of planned burns | AP News The turning point |...

Cant’s Sleep? Blame the Climate Crisis | SciShow Climate change is harming a vital tool for combatting it | Axios Biden forest plan stirs dispute over what counts as “old” | AP News Extreme heat linked to rise in US death rates, study | The Hill Why China is set to significantly overachieve its 2030 climate goals | Carbon Brief Help to buy EVs in ‘landmark’ New Zealand net-zero climate plan | The...

World’s oceans at most acidic level in 26,000 years, climate report warns | Reuters Bad news for the 2022 hurricane season: The Loop Current, a fueler of monster storms, is looking a lot like it did in 2005, the year of Katrina | The Conversation Biden warns of ‘another tough hurricane season’ this year | AP News Four countries pledge tenfold rise in EU offshore wind power capacity | Reuters Nethe...

India heatwave: Delhi records highest-ever temperature at 49ºC | The Daily Telegraph French towns seat in record May heat | Phys Andalucía prepares for “earliest heat wave” since records began in Spain | Sur in English WMO State of Global Climate report 2021 is released 18 May | World Meteorological Organization Climate change swells odds of record India, Pakistan heatwaves | BBC News Climate Chan...