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2 New Orleans students crushed millions of discarded bottles into recycled glass sand to fight coastal erosion; the result transformed Louisiana's sinking marshes by anchoring new grass and helping rebuild one of America's most vulnerable coastlines

Two New Orleans students saw a problem hiding in plain sight: discarded glass had little practical recycling value in their city, while Louisiana's coast desperately needed material to rebuild eroding wetlands. Their solution was to crush unwanted bottles into sand and gravel through Glass Half Full, the recycling operation they…

The Economic Times

How Much Does New York Actually Recycle? The N.Y. Comptroller Says the State Doesn't Really Know.

A comptroller audit says New York State's recycling data are unreliable.

Reason

2026 Super El Niño Forecast: What happens this winter could shock California, here's why

California anticipates a dangerous winter with record coastal sea levels. A rapidly strengthening El Niño threatens increased flooding and erosion along the shoreline. Higher seas could combine with large waves and winter storms for greater pressure. Beaches may lose their sand buffer, exposing infrastructure to powerful surf. Warmer Pacific waters…

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A remote Alaska village is slowly sinking as the frozen ground beneath it thaws, releasing ancient carbon locked away for thousands of years

A remote village on Alaska’s North Slope is facing a growing threat from beneath its feet. In Point Lay, also known as Kali, thawing ice-rich ground is causing the land to sink unevenly, damaging buildings and essential infrastructure. Researchers studying the community have documented widespread ground subsidence and found that…

The Times of India

Oregon's Siletz Bay is restoring 37 acres of tidal wetland this summer, digging new channels where more than a century of diking turned marsh into pasture

Efforts are underway to restore thirty-seven acres of wetlands at Siletz Bay National Wildlife Refuge. By filling in outdated drainage ditches and excavating new tidal channels, the project is set to enhance both habitat quality and water conditions for the local wildlife. The initiative seeks to revive historical floodplain areas,…

The Times of India

Major UK train operator suspends services as temperatures soar

A Met Office amber heat warning is in place

The Independent UK

Heatwaves to cost UK economy £4.4bn – but there’s worse yet to come

Losses could add up to £25 billion by the end of the decade, a new report warns

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In 1871, Wisconsin’s Peshtigo Fire killed more than 1,200 people as Chicago burned, becoming the deadliest wildfire in US history

The Peshtigo Fire of 1871 stands as a grim testament to nature’s fury, claiming over 1,200 lives and marking it as the deadliest wildfire in American history. This catastrophic event unfolded in Wisconsin with unimaginable speed. While overshadowed by the Chicago Fire, the immense toll on Peshtigo's community was staggering.

The Times of India

In 1964, Wisconsin closed this railway line. Today, 60,000 visitors come here every year

A railway line in Wisconsin that stopped carrying trains in 1964 has found a surprising second life. The former Elroy-Sparta route is now a popular recreational trail and a wildlife corridor connecting forests, wetlands, prairies and farmland.

The Economic Times

In 1981, China began planting billions of trees to restore degraded land. Decades later, the 78-billion-tree effort produced a surprising outcome: it altered the water cycle, sending more rain to some regions while drying out others

China’s decades-long reforestation campaign has dramatically expanded vegetation across the country, including through the Three-North Shelterbelt, or “The Great Green Wall.” According to Reuters, China added about 116,000 square miles of trees, while forest coverage increased substantially. However, a 2025 study in Earth’s Future found that the transformation has also…

The Economic Times

Dry lightning, record-low lake: British Columbia drought puts region on high fire alert

British Columbia's prolonged drought is increasing the risk of new wildfires as Okanagan Lake falls to its lowest level since provincial monitoring began, officials said Tuesday.

The Times of India

Colorado cleaned up Rocky Mountain Arsenal after decades of weapons and chemical production; a 15,000-acre refuge now supports more than 330 animal species

The Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Colorado has undergone a remarkable transformation from a heavily contaminated chemical weapons and pesticide production site into a thriving wildlife sanctuary. This story explores the Arsenal’s polluted industrial past, decades-long cleanup and ongoing environmental monitoring, while highlighting the return of bison, bald…

The Times of India

July was just the hottest month on record in the US. So what does that mean for August?

Climate change and El Niño are working together to make your summer extra hot

The Independent UK

Famed tourist destinations evacuated as wildfire threatens California’s Big Sur

Nearly 500 personnel battle Timber fire in Los Padres national forest as blaze grows to 3,000 acres

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Chicago’s industrial wetlands were written off for decades, but scientists found a large colony of endangered black-crowned night herons nesting there

For most of the twentieth century, the marshland tucked into Chicago's Calumet region was treated as little more than industrial leftover space, a stretch of land scarred by heavy manufacturing, solid waste dumping and decades of altered water flow. Few people expected anything to thrive there. Yet buried among the…

The Times of India

Texas avoided a huge electricity crisis and blackout risk, thanks to the massive 20,000-megawatt solar buffer

Texas has relied on its old thermal power plants for a long time, but a massive shift is currently reforming the state's electric network. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas(ERCOT), the body responsible for managing the majority of the state’s power flow, has supervised a required change towards renewable energy…

The Economic Times

AI's hunger for power sparks US private gas plant boom

As US tech companies race to build the data centers fueling the AI boom, they are increasingly putting up their own power plants -- off the grid and running on gas -- to get online faster. After years of decline, new announced fossil fuel capacity for the grid hit a…

The Times of India

US records hottest month ever as July heat shatters 132-year-old record

The United States has recorded its hottest month in more than a century of official temperature records. July’s average temperature was 76.89F (24.94C) across the Lower 48 states, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The Lower 48 refers to all US states except Alaska and Hawaii.

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California proposes narrowing Scope 3 emissions reporting

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) proposed limiting companies' initial, mandatory Scope 3 (indirect value chain) emissions disclosures to five of 15 categories under the state's corporate climate reporting law. CARB presented the proposal July 22 during a public workshop on the California Corporate Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, created under…

The Guardian - US

July was hottest month ever recorded in US as heatwaves scorched country

Scientists have made clear that the elevated heat in the US was being amplified by the human-caused climate crisis

The Independent UK

11 weekend fires in Canada send new round of smoke to blanket the US

Wildfire smoke originating in Canada blanketed huge swaths of the eastern U.S. in mid-July

Medical Daily

Montana Reports Unhealthy Air as Pacific Northwest Wildfire Smoke Pushes Particle Pollution Farther East

Montana DEQ issued air quality alerts across western counties as smoke from Oregon and Washington fires pushed particle levels to unhealthy.

Medical Daily

Colorado Issues an Ozone Action Day for the Denver Metro with Unhealthy Levels Possible for Sensitive Groups

Colorado issued an Ozone Action Day Alert for the Front Range through Monday afternoon, with unhealthy levels possible for sensitive groups.

The Times of India

In 1962, an Indiana family rejected $25,000 for two acres; by 1969, their land stood as an island of nature surrounded by industrial sprawl

In a remarkable act of defiance, a World War II veteran and artist chose to keep his land intact, rejecting offers from industrial developers along the picturesque Lake Michigan shore. This commitment to environmental preservation raised awareness about the area’s ecological challenges, igniting a grassroots movement that culminated in the…

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One man spent decades transforming a Kenyan quarry left barren by limestone mining into a thriving wildlife sanctuary filled with forests, wetlands and wildlife

A landscape near Mombasa, Kenya, once looked almost impossible to restore. Decades of limestone quarrying had left the ground hard, hot and largely devoid of vegetation, while salty groundwater made growing plants even more difficult. Then Dr René Haller, a Swiss-born naturalist and agronomist working with Bamburi Cement, began an…

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