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05/26/2026

NOAA has issued its latest forecast: 82% chance El Niño emerges between May and June this year. 96% chance it continues through this coming winter.

Read more at https://climatechangeresources.org/learn-more/science/extreme-weather/heat/el-nino/

Scientists are warning this one could be a "super" El Niño — with Pacific Ocean temperatures potentially reaching 3 degrees Celsius above average. That is the level associated with the most disruptive climate events in modern history.

What does that mean in practice? Simultaneously: severe drought in some regions, catastrophic flooding in others, stronger hurricanes, crop failures, and the scrambling of weather patterns that billions of people have built their lives around.

And here is the part that should concern everyone: climate change has already pushed global temperatures to dangerous highs. Scientists warn that a super El Niño layered on top of that warming could produce "worst-case scenarios that are off the charts" — exceeding anything in recorded history.

The time to understand this is now, not when it arrives.

Read more on our El Niño page at climatechangeresources.org

https://climatechangeresources.org/learn-more/science/extreme-weather/heat/el-nino/

05/21/2026

NOAA has issued its latest forecast: 82% chance El Niño emerges between May and June this year. 96% chance it continues through this coming winter.

Scientists are warning this one could be a "super" El Niño — with Pacific Ocean temperatures potentially reaching 3 degrees Celsius above average. That is the level associated with the most disruptive climate events in modern history.

What does that mean in practice? Simultaneously: severe drought in some regions, catastrophic flooding in others, stronger hurricanes, crop failures, and the scrambling of weather patterns that billions of people have built their lives around.

And here is the part that should concern everyone: climate change has already pushed global temperatures to dangerous highs. Scientists warn that a super El Niño layered on top of that warming could produce "worst-case scenarios that are off the charts" — exceeding anything in recorded history.

The time to understand this is now, not when it arrives.

What does El Niño typically mean for your region? Tell us in the comments.

05/20/2026

The Trump administration is spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to keep aging coal plants open.
Not because those plants are needed. Utilities were already closing them — because they cost more to run than clean alternatives. But the administration issued an emergency order to prevent the closures. Three states and nine nonprofit groups have now filed a lawsuit to stop it.
At the same time: 250+ onshore wind projects have been stalled by a Defense Department review that used to take a few days and is now stretching on indefinitely. The administration tried to cancel offshore wind farms — courts keep blocking it. Solar and wind tax credits are being deliberately obstructed.
Meanwhile, Interior Secretary Burgum personally delivered new drilling permits in Wyoming to an oil and gas company run by his political ally — despite a court injunction.
This is not an energy policy. It is a transfer of wealth from American taxpayers to a dying industry — at the expense of cheaper, cleaner power that Americans overwhelmingly support.
Does this make you angry? Good.
Visit www.climatechangeresources.org — actions you can take right now.

05/20/2026

The Trump administration is spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to keep aging coal plants open.

Not because those plants are needed. Utilities were already closing them — because they cost more to run than clean alternatives. But the administration issued an emergency order to prevent the closures. Three states and nine nonprofit groups have now filed a lawsuit to stop it.

At the same time: 250+ onshore wind projects have been stalled by a Defense Department review that used to take a few days and is now stretching on indefinitely. The administration tried to cancel offshore wind farms — courts keep blocking it. Solar and wind tax credits are being deliberately obstructed.

Meanwhile, Interior Secretary Burgum personally delivered new drilling permits in Wyoming to an oil and gas company run by his political ally — despite a court injunction.

This is not an energy policy. It is a transfer of wealth from American taxpayers to a dying industry — at the expense of cheaper, cleaner power that Americans overwhelmingly support.

Does this make you angry? Good.

Visit www.climatechangeresources.org — actions you can take right now.

05/15/2026

Last week, scientists published what may be the most important climate finding of the year — possibly the decade.

The AMOC — the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the vast ocean conveyor belt that regulates climate across the entire Northern Hemisphere — is now considered more likely than not to collapse as global temperatures rise.

Most people never heard about it. Partly because most major media is owned by the same billionaire class with the most to lose from climate action — and the least interest in existential risks they can't profit from.

But the science is published. It is peer-reviewed. It is in Science Advances and Geophysical Research Letters. And it demands a response proportional to what it describes.

This is not a reason to despair. It is a reason to act — urgently, collectively, and without waiting for permission from people who benefit from your inaction.

The ocean is still here. Its currents are still moving. We still have time to change the outcome.

What would you do differently if this was front-page news everywhere? Tell us below.

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05/13/2026

Sir David Attenborough turned 100 years old this week.

For over seven decades he has shown us this planet in its full, breathtaking glory — and spent the last years of his career warning us, with increasing urgency, what we are throwing away.

"In my lifetime, I have witnessed a terrible decline. In yours, you could — and should — witness a wonderful recovery."

Few people on Earth have paid closer attention to the natural world, or felt its loss more deeply. And yet he kept going. He kept showing up. He kept making the case.

He raised an army of millions of people who care. That's us. We can't let him down.

What does his work mean to you? Tell us in the comments.

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05/06/2026

05/06/2026

US solar generation jumped 28% in a single year.

Let that land for a second.

One month of solar power in July 2025 equalled an entire year's worth of solar just a decade ago. Wind power now supplies over 10% of the US grid. And for the very first time, renewables generated more than a quarter of all US electricity in 2025.

This is not a future projection. This already happened.

The energy transition isn't waiting for politicians to catch up. It's moving — fast, quietly, and at scale.

What surprises you most about these numbers? Drop it below.

Full story + weekly climate news: link in bio.

04/29/2026

Nuclear is having a major moment -

The Department of Energy’s Defense Production Act Consortium unveiled a new initiative to grow the nation’s nuclear fuel cycle.

The first commercial nuclear-power projects in a decade are now under construction.

The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly also announced a partnership with the state of Indiana to bring nuclear power to the state.

04/29/2026

The American Lung Association’s 2026 State of the Air report is alarming: 44% of Americans (82% in California) breathe dangerously polluted air. 46% of children live in failing areas, and people of color are more than twice as likely to face the worst pollution. How does this motivate you?