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Dealogic: 51 US tech IPOs raised $16.8B in 2025, driven by AI and crypto, above the past three-year average but far below 2021's 127 IPOs raising $74.4B (Valida Pau/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-crypto-companies-dominat…

AI and Crypto Companies Dominated IPO Winners in 2025
The drought in initial public offerings ended this year, led by big winners in AI and crypto, but gains were rare for companies outside those industries. Bankers expect those trends to hold in 2026. Booms in AI and crypto delivered two of the biggest winners of the year: data center developer ...

@… on a positive note: I decided to begin ending the drought ― <https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/115555235070842130>.

📉 Either too little or too much: Report finds world's water cycles are getting more erratic
#climate

Either too little or too much: Report finds world's water cycles are getting more erratic
The water cycle has become increasingly erratic and extreme, swinging between deluge and drought, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It highlights the cascading impacts of too much or too little water on economies and society.

Jets' playoff drought turns 15 amid QB turmoil https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47240963/jets-playoff-drought-reaches-15-years-amid-qb-turmoil

The U.S. Southwest's disappearing precipitation is also due to human-driven climate change, according to report https://phys.org/news/2025-12-southwest-precipitation-due-human-driven.html

The U.S. Southwest's disappearing precipitation is also due to human-driven climate change, according to report
The Colorado River Basin, like much of the southwestern U.S., is experiencing a drought so historic—it began in 1999—that it's been called a megadrought. In the basin, whose river provides water to seven states and Mexico, that drought is the product of warming temperatures and reduced precipitation, especially in the form of winter snow.

Der #Amazonas-Regenwald steht vor einem möglichen ökologischen #Kipppunkt.
Extreme #Dürren und steigende Temperaturen führen zu einer neuen

Im Amazonas-Regenwald entsteht neue Klimazone: Studie warnt vor "Hypertropen"
Studie warnt: Hot-Drought lässt Bäume im Amazonas-Regenwald sterben und bedroht den CO2-Speicher.

England is facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year.
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for the worst water shortage in decades.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20

Climate change isn't gender-neutral. The 2023/2024 El Niño drought in Southern Africa didn't just destroy crops—it fueled gender-based violence and put women environmental defenders at risk.
COP30's new Belém Gender Action Plan tackles this head-on with gender-responsive budgeting and support for climate action that protects women.

COP30’s Gender Action Plan Needed to Address Climate-Induced Violence - African Climate Wire
Talks underpinning COP30’s Gender Action Plan reveal the fragility of progress in recognising the systems of oppression that affect women, girls, and gender diverse people.

Archaeologists in Peru have found new evidence showing how the
oldest known civilization in the Americas adapted and survived a climate catastrophe without resorting to violence.
A team led by the renowned Peruvian archaeologist Ruth Shady, 78,
concluded that about 4,200 years ago, severe drought forced the population to leave the ancient city of Caral, and resettle nearby.
In the new settlements, they left intriguing friezes depicting victims of a famine with message…

A range-spanning resurrection study of scarlet monkeyflower populations finds relatively little adaptive response to a seven-year drought event, showing that evolutionary rescue is not as predictable as we might hope
https://doi.org/10.1086/738434

Turkey facing worst drought in over 50 years #Turkey

Turkey facing worst drought in over 50 years
Turkey is experiencing its worst drought in over half a century, with rainfall dropping by 27% compared to the last three decades and even more in some regions, according to data published this week.

Deep learning for flash drought forecasting and interpretation
Qian Zhao, Xuwei Tan, Xueru Zhang, Pierre Gentine, Yanlan Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02576 https://

Deep learning for flash drought forecasting and interpretation
Flash droughts are increasingly occurring worldwide due to climate change, causing widespread socioeconomic and agricultural losses. However, timely and accurate flash drought forecasting remains challenging for operational forecast systems due to uncertain representations of interactive hydroclimate processes. Here, we introduce the Interpretable Transformer for Drought (IT-Drought), a deep learning model based on publicly available hydroclimate data. IT-Drought skillfully forecasts soil moist…

From Stand Earth
Despite B.C.’s Peace River region facing an ongoing severe drought, last year oil and gas companies set a new record high for freshwater extraction with an alarming 50% increase over the previous year. If that doesn’t sit right with you, you’re not alone!
Last year B.C. oil and gas companies withdrew and polluted enough freshwater for more than 110,000 households – that’s equivalent to the entire population of Nanaimo.
read more at

NFL trade deadline: Jets have NFL's longest playoff drought, which just got longer but might be worth it

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-tra

When is the last time OSU football lost to Tulsa? Golden Hurricane ends 27-year drought https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/college/cowboys/2025/09/20/tulsa-football-ends-27-year-drought-against-ok…

AGL breaks wind energy drought with 15-year contract in South Australia, supporting decarbonisation efforts and job creation. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Australia’s wind energy drought set to be broken as AGL signs 15-year contract with South Australia project
Australia’s wind financing drought expected to be broken after the country’s biggest coal generator signs 15-year off take deal with new South Australia project.

Scaling up AI requires staggering amounts of power and water
— especially when considering that many areas are already dealing with strained grids or drought conditions.
Even when optimized, a single hyperscale facility can draw as muchpower as a mid-sized city
and millions of gallons of water annually.
Professor Romany Webb, deputy director of Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, explained the challenge:
"Data centers are incred…

New map and research expose disturbing side effects of AI industry boom: 'There are going to be challenges'
As part of the latest wave of Big Tech's spending on AI, Google announced a $9 billion investment to build a new data center campus in Virginia.

View from the north end of Dryden Lake with the kind of perfectly clear we had so much of in the drought this summer
#photo #photography #dryden

From earlier this year - well worth a read. From @… and Sue Branford.
A tale of two cities: What drove 2024’s Valencia and Porto Alegre floods? https://

A tale of two cities: What drove 2024’s Valencia and Porto Alegre floods?
Neither Porto Alegre, Brazil, nor Valencia, Spain, are in the news this week. But they have been before, and almost certainly will be again, as bouts of extreme drought, followed by deluge, become more frequent and fierce. The media cameras are gone from 2024’s inundations, but in Valencia 100,000 wrecked cars remain to be disposed […]

Panthers steady in bid to end playoff drought https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47287261/panthers-not-overreacting-shot-first-playoffs-17

Global Drought Escalation Since 2014: Multivariate Insights for Ecosystem Resilience and Water Security
Qianqian Han, Yijian Zeng, Bob Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20195 https:…

Global Drought Escalation Since 2014: Multivariate Insights for Ecosystem Resilience and Water Security
How is climate change altering the global patterns, frequency, and intensity of drought? To investigate this, we analyzed global drought events from 2000-2020 using a composite of hydrological indices (Σ(ET-P), SSMI, and GRACE-DSI). Our results reveal that near-normal to severe droughts became increasingly widespread after 2014. Unexpectedly, extreme, 100-year return period droughts occurred not only in semi-arid zones but also in high latitude and typically wet regions. The frequency of these…

Attributing excess conflict risk in Syria to anthropogenic climate change
Solomon Hsiang, Marshall Burke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02650 https://arxiv.org…

Attributing excess conflict risk in Syria to anthropogenic climate change
Some analyses suggest that drought in Syria during 2007-10 may have contributed to the 2011 onset of its civil war and that anthropogenic climate change had a detectable impact on the severity of that drought. Yet these qualitative statements alone do not allow us to estimate {how much} anthropogenic climate change amplified the risk of civil war in Syria. Climate policy is increasingly relying on global-scale cost-benefit analyses to inform major decisions, and any excess conflict risk imposed…

"Turkey facing worst drought in over 50 years"
#Turkey #Drought #Climate #ClimateChange

Turkey facing worst drought in over 50 years
Turkey is experiencing its worst drought in over half a century, with rainfall dropping by 27% compared to the last three decades and even more in some regions, according to data published this week.

"Severe drought across Western and Midwestern Canada has wiped out pasturelands, leaving ranchers unable to maintain their herds."
severe drought. weird. I'm
sure that's fine. let's build another global warming pipeline so Premier Smith doesn't threaten to leave Canada.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #abpoli #bcpoli #climatechange #endfossilfuels
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/canadian-butchers-feeling-pressure-as-beef-prices-stay-high-amid-historically-low-cattle-herds/

Chocolate getting pricey. And if you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit don't buy club.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86737yg3jlo
Severe drought conditions affecting chocolate, and still some people don't think climate change matters.

Penguin and Club bars can no longer be described as chocolate
The rising cost of cocoa has led to the manufacturers changing their recipe.

🫧 Peatlands' 'huge reservoir' of carbon at risk of release, researchers warn
#peat…

Peatlands' 'huge reservoir' of carbon at risk of release, researchers warn
Peatlands make up just 3% of Earth's land surface but store more than 30% of the world's soil carbon, preserving organic matter and sequestering its carbon for tens of thousands of years. A new study sounds the alarm that an extreme drought event could quadruple peatland carbon loss in a warming climate.

Cowboys look to break streak even longer than Super Bowl drought in Week 8 vs Broncos https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/22/cowboys-broncos-denver-losing-streak-1992/86836247007/…

Netskope priced its IPO at $19 per share, at the top of its targeted range, valuing the company at $7.3B, and raised $908.2M in the offering (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/netskope-seeks-7point3-billion-valuation-…

Netskope prices IPO at $19, valuing company at $7.3 billion
The IPO market is experiencing a revival after a yearslong drought, with notable debuts from CoreWeave, Circle and Figma.

From Bill McKibben
Unimaginable thirst in Tehran--but some relief in New York?
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/tale-of-two-cities

Tale of Two Cities
Unimaginable thirst in Tehran--but some relief in New York?

Der #Ganges trocknet laut einer neuen Studie so stark aus wie seit 1.300 Jahren nicht mehr.
Die Flussmenge ist heute um 76 Prozent geringer als beim schlimmsten historischen #Dürreereignis im 16. Jahrhundert. Hauptursache ist menschliches Handeln, darunter ein geschwächter Sommer-

The Ganges River is drying at an unprecedented rate, new study finds
The Ganges River is in crisis. This lifeline for around 600 million people in India and neighboring countries is experiencing its worst drying period in 1,300 years. Using a combination of historical data, paleoclimate records and hydrological models, researchers from IIT Gandhinagar and the University of Arizona discovered that human activity is the main cause. They also found that the current drying is more severe than any recorded drought in the river's history.

#idw #WMO report on global #water resources: 2024 was characterized by both extreme #drought and intense

WMO report on global water resources: 2024 was characterized by both extreme drought and intense rainfall

"Report reveals nearly 80% of the world's poor live in regions exposed to climate hazards"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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Report reveals nearly 80% of the world's poor live in regions exposed to climate hazards
Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty—887 million out of 1.1 billion globally—are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, drought, or air pollution.

Report reveals nearly 80% of the world's poor live in regions exposed to climate hazards #environment

Report reveals nearly 80% of the world's poor live in regions exposed to climate hazards
Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty—887 million out of 1.1 billion globally—are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, drought, or air pollution.

"Europe's summer of extreme weather caused €43bn of short-term losses, analysis finds"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange

Pats' Diggs turns corner, ends 100-yard drought https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46414919/patriots-stefon-diggs-readies-bills-101-yards-win

Who is Malik Davis? Meet Cowboys RB who scored for the first time in three years against Chiefs on Thanksgiving https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/who-malik-davis-cowboys-rb-scored-chiefs-th…

Generative AI-Downscaling of Large Ensembles Project Unprecedented Future Droughts
Hamish Lewis, Neelesh Rampal, Peter B. Gibson, Luke J. Harrington, Chiara M. Holgate, Anna Ukkola, Nicola M. Maher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21844

Generative AI-Downscaling of Large Ensembles Project Unprecedented Future Droughts
Understanding how droughts may change in the future is essential for anticipating and mitigating their adverse impacts. However, robust climate projections require large amounts of high-resolution climate simulations, particularly for assessing extreme events. Here, we use a novel dataset, multiple large-ensembles of Global Climate Models (GCMs), downscaled to 12km using generative AI, to quantify the future risk of meteorological drought across New Zealand. The ensembles consists of 20 GCMs, i…

Dak, Schotty frustrated at inconsistent Cowboys: 'It's unacceptable' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/dak-schotty-frustrated-at-inconsistent-cowboys-it-s-unacceptable

Dak, Schotty frustrated at inconsistent Cowboys: 'It's unacceptable' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/dak-schotty-frustrated-at-inconsistent-cowboys-it-s-unacceptable

Stargazing: Cowboys who tried to fly at Mile High https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/stargazing-cowboys-who-tried-to-fly-at-mile-high

Cowboys' Javonte Williams makes Dallas running back history not done since 2008 Marion Barber https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-javonte-williams-dallas-running…