Climate Watch: Record Ocean Heat Signals Growing Strain on Earth’s Climate System

Credit: Max | Unsplash   The world’s oceans have reached their highest average surface temperature in the modern observational record, providing another measure of how much heat has accumulated in Earth’s climate system — just as an unusually powerful El Niño intensifies across the Pacific. Earth’s oceans have set another climate record, with the daily […]

Climate Watch: Scientists Say Climate Extremes Are Outpacing Their Expectations

A growing number of climate researchers say recent heat records, ocean temperatures, and other environmental changes are occurring with a speed that has exceeded many expectations, raising new questions about how quickly the planet may continue to warm. The world’s leading climate scientists have spent decades warning that a warming planet would produce more frequent […]

Nearly Half of the EU’s Power was Generated from Renewable Sources Last Year

Renewable power generation overtook electricity generated by fossil fuels in the European Union in 2025, a “major tipping point,” according to a new report, with renewable energy providing nearly half of the EU’s energy. This shift in power generation is important not only in terms of curbing carbon emissions, but also provides geopolitical stability by […]

Iceland Declares Potential AMOC Collapse to be a National Security Threat

While world leaders convene in Brazil at COP30 to discuss the global climate crisis, Iceland has declared the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) to be an existential threat to the northern island nation’s national security. As one of the many island nations around the world that will be more immediately affected by climate […]