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This chilly patch of ocean is likely a result of a vital ocean current system’s instability

A national heatwave plan has been activated to help people stay cool during the Netherlands’ increasingly hot summers Households in Amsterdam are being urged to hang their curtains outside their windows as health experts recommend simple hacks to moderate the heatwave rolling across the Netherlands, where homes were built for old-fashioned damp and coldish northern European weather. In a viral so…

Forced to stay home or switch jobs, working mothers are bearing the brunt of the climate crisis as classes go online for weeks or months at a time Outside, the temperature has passed 41C (105.8F). Inside Sakshi Katyal’s city apartment, the air conditioner is blasting but it does little to relieve the stress of balancing housework and helping her five-year-old log in on a laptop to online classes.…

Town of Eureka evacuated due to risk from Iron fire as officials forecast more hot weather in week ahead Extreme heat and dry, windy conditions are fueling multiple wildfires across the US west, including a massive blaze in Utah that forced the evacuation of a small town, with hot weather in the forecast raising the risk of more blazes in the week ahead. The Iron fire in Utah’s Juab county was fi…

France, like much of the rest of Europe, is in the grips of a severe heat wave as summer begins this week, leading to canceled trains, concerts and sports events.

Americans are far more likely to engage on climate change when they believe governments can deliver meaningful results.

A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, June 14, 2026 thru Sat, June 20, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (8 articles) What's driving up your expenses? Many Americans say climate change Most Democrats and moderate Republicans agree that global warming is increasing the cost of livi…

Sports and nationwide music festival affected, with temperatures for some expected to reach 42C from Monday Authorities in France have placed more than a third of the country under a red heat alert, cancelled some outdoor sports events and restricted alcohol consumption at the nationwide Fête de la Musique event amid a brutal heatwave forecast to push temperatures above 40C. Level 1 or 2 heat ale…

UN’s Word Food Programme and agriculture agency issue joint appeal for funds to avert global hunger crisis before it happens Adugna Woyessa was a little boy the first time drought tore his country apart. As harvests failed in rain-starved regions of Ethiopia in the early 1970s, and his school turned a classroom into a grain store for farmers to send aid, he had no idea that scientists were beginn…

Health alerts are in place as very high humidity adds to danger of heat stress for the most vulnerable The Met Office has expanded its extreme heat warning for the UK, predicting record-breaking highs of 38C (100.4F) this week. The Met Office forecasts that extremely high temperatures could last from Monday until Thursday, leading to health concerns for elderly and vulnerable people. The forecast…

The health of the Amazon rainforest is key to the global climate, but many dangers threaten to make it unrecognizable in the future.

Temperatures could top 111F on Monday and Tuesday, after several recent deaths in park raise concerns over heat Extreme heat is set to hit lower parts of the Grand Canyon from Monday, the US National Weather Service (NWS) warned, with temperatures projected to exceed 100F (37.7C). An alert published on Saturday will be in effect from 10am local time on Monday through 7pm on Tuesday. Continue read…

June 20 is " Climate Stripes Day " across the world and the creator Ed Hawkins of this iconic graphic recently talked with Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick and Iain Strachan on their "Totally Cooked" podcast about them. From the video's description: In this episode of Totally Cooked: The Climate & Weather Podcast, hosts Iain Strachan and Professor Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick sit down with one of the world…

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Published online: 20 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41612-026-01463-z Facets of the tropical high-cloud feedback in a global storm-resolving model

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Published online: 20 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41612-026-01458-w Attributing surface climate impacts to decadal variability of the Northern Hemisphere stratospheric polar vortex

Scientific Reports, Published online: 20 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-58112-x Development of a PCA-based climatic similarity index to enhance weather file selection criteria for climate-based daylight modelling simulations in tropical climates

Apart from effort to electrify, there were geopolitical tensions around climate science and the 1.5C goal Electrifying the world – with electric vehicles , electric heating and cooling, and modernised heavy industry – could be the next biggest step towards phasing out fossil fuels, replacing the 80% of global energy that still comes from hydrocarbons. As using electrical energy is much more effic…

Three excellent cli-fi novels envision a plausible future where sea level rise and climate change-intensified hurricanes cause massive economic disruption in the U.S.

Nature Communications, Published online: 20 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-74093-x This study presents a tropical temperature record across the last deglaciation using stalagmites from central-eastern South America. Tropical temperature broadly tracks atmospheric CO₂ and ocean circulation.