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NASA Aqua MODIS satellite image of phytoplankton bloom off Mid-Atlantic coast Delaware New Jersey Maryland Virginia May 3 2026

The US Is Pulling Up a $386 Million Climate Ocean Sensor Network. The Blind Spot Arrives as a Very Strong El Niño Forms.

The National Science Foundation will dismantle nearly all in-water infrastructure of the Ocean Observatories Initiative — a $386 million, 900-sensor program designed to operate for thirty years and ten years into its

June 13, 2026

by Dilnaz Shaikh

NASA Suomi NPP VIIRS satellite image of South Asia at night showing lights of India Pakistan Bangladesh Sri Lanka

China’s Belt and Road Has Built 130 Million Tonnes of Carbon Into 105 Countries. Two New Studies Put the Bill on Steel.

Two peer-reviewed studies published Monday — one in Environmental Science & Technology, one in PNAS — pin 706 Belt and Road construction projects across 105 countries with more than 130 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent emissions between 2008 and 2024.

June 13, 2026

by Dilnaz Shaikh

Bathymetric map of Mariana Trench produced by University of New Hampshire and NOAA showing deep western Pacific seafloor with Challenger Deep

Trump Just Opened the Pacific’s Marine Monuments to Industrial Fishing. Half a Million Square Miles Are No Longer Off-Limits.

An executive order signed Thursday strips commercial-fishing protections from the Mariana Trench, Papahānaumokuākea and Rose Atoll

NASA Earth Observatory sea surface height anomaly map of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean during El Nino formation June 2023

NOAA Just Made El Niño Official. There Is a 63 Percent Chance It Becomes ‘Very Strong’ — and 2027 the Hottest Year on Record.

NOAA's National Weather Service declared El Niño formation on June 11, 2026, with a 63 percent

Astronaut photograph from the ISS of Hurricane Milton Category 4 over the Gulf of Mexico October 8 2024

The Science That Pins Hurricanes on Fossil Fuels Is Under Coordinated Assault. The Scientists Are Organising a Defence.

An E&E News report finds the fossil fuel industry, the Trump administration, congressional Republicans and Republican attorneys general are running a multi-front, decade-long campaign against climate-attribution science — the field that ties

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA Terra MODIS satellite image of dense smog over the North China Plain February 2011

China Built More Coal Capacity in 2025 Than in Any Year of the Last Decade. Energy Security Was the Argument.

A Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air and Global Energy Monitor report finds China commissioned 78 gigawatts of new coal-fired power in 2025 — the largest annual addition in a

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA Landsat 8 satellite image of Bhadla Solar Park in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan India

Solar Just Overtook Gas Power in Asia. The 16 Terawatt-Hour Gap Is China’s.

A Carbon Brief analysis of Ember data finds Asia generated 1,727 terawatt-hours from solar in the year to April 2026, narrowly above the 1,711 it pulled from gas — the first time

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA TEMPO satellite image showing high morning nitrogen dioxide and reduced afternoon levels along the New York-Washington corridor on May 18, 2026

Climate Treaties Don’t List These Pollutants. A New Science Paper Says They Cause 15% of Global Warming.

An Ilissa Ocko–led paper in Science finds carbon monoxide, non-methane volatile organic compounds and black carbon are responsible for roughly 15 percent of human-driven global warming, yet none of them appear on

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA satellite view of smoke from Canadian wildfires drifting south into the United States

Wildfires Have Erased Four Years of America’s Clean-Air Progress, and the Trend Is Still Climbing

A University of Iowa study in Science finds wildfire smoke has reversed about four years of US ozone-pollution gains, with surface smog rising 4 percent since 2015 after an 11 percent decline

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

A wildfire burns through forest in New Mexico, the kind of dry, beetle-stressed landscape that increasingly turns into catastrophic fire

New Mexico’s Trees Are Dying Three Times Faster, and the Beetles Are Doing the Work the Climate Started

A new state and federal survey of 14 million acres of New Mexico forest found tree mortality tripled in 2025, with beetle-killed conifers up 211 percent. The pinon-juniper system that defines the

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

A water aqueduct under drought conditions, illustrating the kind of supply stress now reaching the East Coast as Virginia, North Carolina and Connecticut tighten restrictions

The East Coast Drought That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen Here Triggers Mandatory Cuts in Three States

Virginia hit 38 percent extreme drought this week, Durham is enforcing mandatory cuts from Monday, and Connecticut's governor has declared a Stage 2 advisory for three counties. The Mid-Atlantic is starting to

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

SpaceX Nasdaq IPO opening bell ceremony on June 12, 2026 — Gwynne Shotwell rings the bell at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City

SpaceX Goes Public at $1.77 Trillion, Catapulting Elon Musk Into History as the World’s First Trillionaire

NEW YORK – On a Friday morning in June, at the Nasdaq MarketSite in the heart of Times Square, Gwynne Shotwell rang the opening bell to a crowd of audible cheers. A

June 12, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·Business·Economy·Science·Technology

Tourists use umbrellas to shield themselves from intense sun outside Istanbul's Hagia Sophia during a summer 2025 heatwave

Human-Caused Warming Hit 1.37C in 2025, and the 1.5C Budget Now Runs Out Around 2030

Seventy scientists put human-caused warming at 1.37C last year and the carbon budget for 1.5C at about three years of emissions. The Paris ceiling the world promised to defend is now projected

June 12, 2026

Climate·News·Science

People wade through a recreational vehicle park flooded by a king tide near Corte Madera in Marin County, California

Once-Rare Coastal Floods Are Now 12 Times More Likely, Twin Studies Find

Floods that coastal planning treats as one-in-a-century events are now about 12 times more likely, two new studies find, with human-driven sea level rise behind most extreme water days. The math underneath

June 12, 2026

Climate·News·Science

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The US Is Pulling Up a $386 Million Climate Ocean Sensor Network. The Blind Spot Arrives as a Very Strong El Niño Forms.

China’s Belt and Road Has Built 130 Million Tonnes of Carbon Into 105 Countries. Two New Studies Put the Bill on Steel.

Trump Just Opened the Pacific’s Marine Monuments to Industrial Fishing. Half a Million Square Miles Are No Longer Off-Limits.

NOAA Just Made El Niño Official. There Is a 63 Percent Chance It Becomes ‘Very Strong’ — and 2027 the Hottest Year on Record.

The Science That Pins Hurricanes on Fossil Fuels Is Under Coordinated Assault. The Scientists Are Organising a Defence.

China Built More Coal Capacity in 2025 Than in Any Year of the Last Decade. Energy Security Was the Argument.

Solar Just Overtook Gas Power in Asia. The 16 Terawatt-Hour Gap Is China’s.

Climate Treaties Don’t List These Pollutants. A New Science Paper Says They Cause 15% of Global Warming.

Wildfires Have Erased Four Years of America’s Clean-Air Progress, and the Trend Is Still Climbing

New Mexico’s Trees Are Dying Three Times Faster, and the Beetles Are Doing the Work the Climate Started

The East Coast Drought That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen Here Triggers Mandatory Cuts in Three States

SpaceX Goes Public at $1.77 Trillion, Catapulting Elon Musk Into History as the World’s First Trillionaire

Human-Caused Warming Hit 1.37C in 2025, and the 1.5C Budget Now Runs Out Around 2030

Once-Rare Coastal Floods Are Now 12 Times More Likely, Twin Studies Find

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