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"Q&A: How will the World Bank’s abandoned finance goal affect climate action?"
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Q&A: How will the World Bank’s abandoned finance goal affect climate action? - Carbon Brief
The World Bank has abandoned a target for 45% of the funding it gives developing countries to be “climate finance”.

How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse? https://phys.org/news/2026-07-scientists-climate-extreme-storm-wildfire.html

How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse?
When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused climate change influence this event, if at all?

This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly,
Sadiq Khan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/08/burning-summer-climate-denial-green-policies-sadiq-khan…

This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly
Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

Humanity has less than a five year window to take decisive action on climate change, the UK’s former chief scientist told the opening session of the National Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne.
“We have to move rapidly,” said Professor Sir David King, founder and chair of the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge University...
Reader, that was five years ago. We've done nothing.
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Forget 2050, experts say it's 2030 or bust for net zero emissions
Former UK chief scientist Sir David King pulled no punches beaming into Melbourne's National Climate Emergency summit, arguing for a fast track to zero emissions and urgent deployment of carbon draw-down technologies. Benjamin Silvester reports.

Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant for an off-grid TX AI data center, potentially the largest single US emissions source, at odds with its 2040 net-zero goal (Hiroko Tabuchi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/climate…

New Amazon Data Center Stokes Worry It Would Be the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.

"GB News co-owner ‘cashing in on climate chaos’ after leap in fossil fuel investments, critics say"
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GB News co-owner ‘cashing in on climate chaos’ after leap in fossil fuel investments, critics say
Exclusive: Campaigners argue the news channel’s attacks on climate action ‘work in financial interests’ of Sir Paul Marshall

"How Climate Education in Madagascar is Connecting Classrooms to Local Environmental Crisis"
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How Climate Education in Madagascar is Connecting Classrooms to Local Environmental Crisis | Happy Eco News
Climate education in Madagascar offers a replicable model for countries seeking to align national education goals with urgent local environmental and development challenges.

Europe climate report signals rising extremes #Europe

Europe climate report signals rising extremes
Europe endured a historic heatwave across Nordic countries, shrinking glaciers and record sea temperatures in 2025 as the fast-warming continent faces more frequent climate extremes, a new report showed Wednesday.

"Climate-based tool predicts coral bleaching months in advance, offering critical lead time for reef protection"
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Climate-based tool predicts coral bleaching months in advance, offering critical lead time for reef protection
Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have developed a new method to predict coral bleaching five to six months before it occurs, giving reef managers valuable time to protect vulnerable ecosystems. In the new study, "Climate modes can be leveraged to forecast coral bleaching months in advance," published in Communications Earth & Environment, researchers demonstrate that coral bleaching on the Caribbean island of Curaçao occurs when three major climate patterns in the…

"The world’s oceans are the hottest on record for June – and El Niño is set to turn up the heat even more"
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The world’s oceans are the hottest on record for June – and El Niño is set to turn up the heat even more
More than 90% of the heat trapped by greenhouses goes into the ocean. But what happens in the oceans doesn’t stay there.