Good to get this sorted out before it becomes a hobby horse of denial for interested parties.

"We generated a data set that comprised 746 release or non-release events at a fixed location near Casa Grande, Arizona, in 2025. This included measurements of 481 controlled releases with rates ranging from 10 to 1,200 kilograms of CH4 per hour, which is typical of real-world point sources such as landfills and oil and gas facilities, and 265 blank control events, in which no methane was released when the satellite passed over the site. The procedures for gas release and data reporting followed established protocols3.

Our team provided gas flow rates and a suite of meteorological measurements in a publicly accessible data set4. The satellite data were analysed independently by 15 teams from a broad global consortium of academic, government, non-profit and commercial organizations.

Satellites that were purpose-built for methane detection, such as Tanager-1 and GHGSat, performed best, with high true positive rates, largely unbiased quantification and few to no false positives for releases ranging from less than 100 to more than 1,000 kilograms of CH4 per hour (Fig. 1). Several teams that analysed multipurpose hyperspectral instruments, such as the German EnMAP and the Italian PRISMA satellites, also performed well.

Methane detection outcomes across satellites and analysis teams reveal that dedicated methane-monitoring instruments had the highest detection rates and that performance varied for multipurpose and global-scanning satellites.

Teams using AI-based methods reached detection accuracies of 0.620.77 (well above chance). However, most of the false positives came from commercial teams that applied AI methods to data from the European satellite Sentinel-2 and Landsat (a satellite run by the US Geological Survey and NASA), underscoring the need for continued development to improve reliability."

In countries with strong fortification traditions or mandates, plant-based alternatives can approach dairy on nutritional quality per calorie, while retaining a genuine climate advantage in most categories

Climate Change Is Increasing Simultaneous Exposure to Heat Waves and Wildfire Smoke

Heat and wildfire smoke are dangerous on their own. A new study says more people are facing both at once

The 2026 state of the climate report: challenges and opportunities

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Nearly three in four families who lost their homes to climate disasters and now live in the slums of Satkhira town are severely food insecure, according to a new study.

our long-term climate trajectory is incompatible with continued insurer profitability. In response, insurers intend to make as much money in the short-term as possible before they ultimately drop coverage for many of us, leaving people poorer and even more exposed and risking the next global financial crisis

Atlantic Ocean currents can recover from severe climate weakening, study finds

Disrupted current circulation could still destabilise global rainfall patterns and accelerate coastal sea-level rise

World Lost More Than 7 Million Hectares of Forest in 2025

Australia urgently needs a national bushfire database. Heres what it could look like

In the northern Appalachian Mountains, warmer weather is making alpine regions greener

"NIH banned-word list kills research over climate change, DEI, gender

The National Institutes of Health has implemented a list of 235 banned keywords used to reject grant funding for research, drawing science into a First Amendment case.

The ACLU, Center for Science in the Public Interest and Protect Democracy filed a class action lawsuit against the agency last month, alleging that it is censoring researchers and violating the Administrative Procedures Act.

The list flags grant applications that include any of its 235 keywords among five categories: climate change diversity, equity and inclusion gender misinformation and vaccine hesitancy. The most common category on the list is DEI, while the misinformation category contains only three terms: disinform, malinform, misinform.

Terms including 'diversity,' such as 'bolster diversity,' 'cohort diversity' and 'cultural diversity' are included 85 times.

In reference to race and ethnicity, keywords include
HBCU,' 'Hispanic serving,' 'historically Black' and 'ethnic segregation.' 'Racist,' 'racism' and 'racial discrimination' are also included under the DEI category."

Inside Big Beefs 90s Campaign to Rewrite Its Climate Story

record heat, storms, wind and cold will impact maryland this week
record heat, storms, wind and cold will impact maryland this week

The climate is warming up faster than we can respond. According to a newreport published Oct. 14 in the journal BioScience, Earths climate system is moving deeper into uncharted territory.
The State of the Climate, an annual report that tracks the Earths vital signs, monitors several climate related indicatorsranging from greenhouse gas concentrations and temperature changes to tree cover loss due to wildfire.

This is the climate and sociology e-book that I worked on, now on B&N:

Water is Love: Ripples of Regeneration
by Ripples of Regeneration

Water is Love follows a group of young people grappling with the climate crisis while we journey around the world to share inspiring stories of regenerative ecosystem design to create water retention in communities, villages, and regions.

Hot off the academic press, here's the -formal- debunking of a recent US DOE report crammed with misinformation about human effects on Earth's climate, deceptive work authored by a group of seasoned, well-known climate misinformers performing in a quasi-official capacity.

The reply to the original misleading July 2025 report may seem slow in coming but the episode illustrates a fundamental challenge. Climate misinformers have a menu of ready-to-serve climate mythology on tap and ready for quick deployment, while formal and reliably honest reply requires more effort and especially time. Peer-review is critical (in all senses) but quite slow.

Risk Factors and Failure Statistics of Lithium Ion BESS

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A recent doubling of global warming rate signals a 1.5 C breach by 2028 - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Nice interview with growers in Hawkes Bay NZ, about what they're doing to prepare for the El Nio summer...

Orchard story is first, winery article starts at 10 minutes

The director, Alejandro G. Irritu, has hidden a quiet, thoughtful movie about our collective failure to act on climate change inside the husk of a earsplitting, empty one. As a result, Digger may be the best climate crisis movie ever made, cleverly disguised as the worst. (Jayson Green)

A record-breaking El Nio is still developing likely bringing a cold winter to the UK

Waarom de aarde sneller opwarmt nu de lucht schoner wordt: Escalatie van klimaatextremen

Wat we steeds meer zien is dat er veranderingen in gang gezet zijn die we niet meer kunnen terugdraaien. Denk aan het smelten van gletsjers en de stijging van de zeespiegel

De gletsjers zijn dunner dan ooit gemeten en Groenland heeft nooit zo weinig ijs gehad.

CLIMATE CHANGE is now moving faster than we can respond. Seven of Earths 16 planetary vital signs are at record extremes, and warming has jumped from about 0.05C per decade to roughly 0.36C. In May, CO2 passed 428 ppm, generally higher than at any time in the last 2 million years. The scientists behind the report put it bluntly: this is no longer a warning for the future, its a diagnosis of the present.

There is no geomagnetic storm. The Sun is quiet. Yet Earth is being bombarded with high levels of radiation.

large stretch of southern california under red flag warning as santa ana winds bring elevated fire risk
large stretch of southern california under red flag warning as santa ana winds bring elevated fire risk

Terrestrial Weather

An exceptionally intense area of low pressure is causing very stormy weather between Scotland and Iceland. As the low moves rapidly north-east, cold air will be pulled from the north which will bring back more seasonally "normal" temperatures, ending the record-breaking high temperatures of the last six months across Europe.

New weather model may finally offer a reliable six-week forecast

"England suffers worst harvest on record after extreme summer weather"

Et nous allons bientt avoir la preuve que c'est "tout a pour a" pffftt !

Dominion-Next Era merger plan may slow Virginia clean energy transition

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Study Confirms Forestry and Biodiversity Are Complementary Goals

Forests are under growing pressure to meet society's needs while coping with increasingly frequent and severe climate change impacts.
Resilient forest ecosystems are therefore critical to sustaining the many benefits that forests provide. Biodiversity makes forests more resilient, helping them withstand and recover from disturbances such as droughts, storms, pests, and wildfires.
To secure a stable wood provision, it will be crucial for the forest-based sector to prioritise embedding biodiversity and climate resilience as core components of sustainable forest management.

NEW: Officials in New Mexico and El Paso, Texas, spent millions of dollars drafting separate plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Neither plan took into account how the construction of three new data centers could upend climate goals in both places.

was the flavour-of-the-month for that have never really been serious about fighting as much as they were serious about letting continue to burn stuff and getting tax dollars into those deep Big Business pockets.

Smart water management is key to industrial resilience.

Today at , our colleague Katrien Van Hooydonk highlights how reliable data, AI and real-time monitoring can support climate adaptation and smarter water management.

Earths Condition Is Serious and Getting Worse as Climate Change Intensifies

GYMs land fundraiser has gone 20 days without receiving support. Yet, land is vital to our mission: training young people, establishing a large tree nursery, and growing food for vulnerable families in Byerima. We cannot do this alone. Please help us secure the land and turn this vision into lasting change. Every contribution matters!

This year in Ypres

12.8C. This has been the warmest year ending 14th October on record. It was 1.9C warmer than average.

Average: 10.9C Trend: +0.44 0.05 C/decade

In a recent report the World Wildlife Fund found a 73% decline in the size of wildlife populations over 53 years, but green turtles are bucking that trend thanks to egg relocation, marine protection and trade bans.