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Poor infrastructure and land use worsen India’s monsoon floods

**Deforestation and rapid land-use conversion in Assam have severely eroded natural watershed absorption capacities, compounding seasonal flood severity and destabilizing regional carbon sinks.**

Indonesia’s captive coal: Financing industrial decarbonisation

**Unabated captive coal expansion across industrial nickel and processing corridors directly accelerates local habitat fragmentation and threatens regional carbon sink stability in Indonesia.**

ESG Today: Week in Review

**Consolidation of enterprise sustainability software enhances granular tracking of Scope 3 emissions and LULUCF-related supply chain risks.**

Las baterías domésticas podrían convertirse en el próximo electrodoméstico imprescindible

**Distributed residential battery storage curbs reliance on carbon-intensive peaker plants and reduces marginal grid emissions.**

Rising CO2 Speeds the Growth of Grasses on the African Savanna

**Accelerated savanna grass biomass accumulation driven by CO2 fertilization escalates wildfire intensity and destabilizes dryland carbon sinks.**

Mafix Raises $5.4 Million to Turn Rocks into Carbon-Removing Fertilizer

Ag-tech startup Mafix announced that it has raised $5.4 million in a pre-seed funding round, […]

Position Green Appoints Julia Staunig as New CEO

**Enhanced digital ESG tracking infrastructure provides vital baseline integrity for monitoring corporate nature-based and LULUCF supply chain interventions.**

A federal case in Texas could change how we treat prisoners during hot weather

**Intensifying thermal anomalies and urban heat island effects demonstrate the critical failure of infrastructure unbuffered by nature-based climate adaptation.**

How does climate change affect tornadoes?

**Shifting tornadic activity and severe convective storm patterns introduce acute physical risks to terrestrial carbon sequestration and LULUCF permanence pools.**

Neocrete Raises $3.5 Million to Cut Carbon and Cost of Concrete

**Neocrete's low-carbon additive directly tackles industrial clinker reliance, significantly reducing lifecycle embodied carbon and upstream raw material extraction pressures.**

Google Invests $60 Million in New Water Stewardship Projects Across the U.S.

**Google's $60 million deployment into U.S. water stewardship accelerates watershed replenishment while generating tangible nature-based co-benefits for carbon sequestration and biodiversity.**

Factcheck: 10 flaws in the Conservative report on ‘cheap power’

**Grid decarbonization delays undermine national emissions reduction pathways, threatening terrestrial and marine ecological resilience through sustained reliance on fossil infrastructure.**

The Changing Shape of Extreme Rain in the U.S.

**Shifting spatial footprints and intensification of extreme precipitation substantially elevate physical permanence risks and soil degradation across domestic LULUCF and watershed ecosystems.**

12 picks for your last book of the summer

**The highlighted regional literary settings spotlight historical ecological degradation such as the Dust Bowl, but generate zero direct biophysical carbon sequestration or additionality under ICVCM Core Carbon Principles.**

New ‘living seawall’ habitat in Boston is already teeming with life

**Living seawall installations demonstrate immediate coastal biodiversity enhancement and establish foundational substrates for localized Blue Carbon and benthic biomass accumulation.**

How well are Malaysia’s outdoor workers protected during the upcoming ‘Super El Niño’?

Labour rights advocates are calling for stronger heat protection regulations in Malaysia as its meteorology department warns that the country could experience record high temperatures next year. Malaysia’s occupational health regulator says that it is focused on strengthening enforcement of existing laws, while on the ground instead of introducing new measures.

Filipino Cacao Growers Learn to Live With a Hotter Climate

In “Chocolates Melting Away” — the First-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — Breech Asher Harani explores how cacao growers in the Philippines are developing new techniques to protect their crops from increasingly turbulent weather. Read more on E360 →

Palm oil and primates, can they coexist?

**Integrated wildlife corridors in palm oil concessions offer critical ecological connectivity for primates but cannot replicate the high-integrity biomass density of primary forests.**

Developing double materiality for climate-related financial policy

**Mandating double materiality frameworks compels financial institutions to account for outward ecological impacts, fundamentally elevating the standard for verifiable biodiversity and carbon sink preservation.**

Q&A: What is ‘long-duration energy storage’ – and why does the UK need it?

**Long-duration energy storage (LDES) accelerates the displacement of fossil-fueled peaker plants, reducing localized pollution and minimizing ecological pressures associated with grid infrastructure expansion.**

A London Scheme to Cut Car Pollution Restored Lung Growth in Children

**Targeted urban emission abatement schemes generate immediate micro-environmental recovery and human health co-benefits, underscoring the biophysical impact of localized pollution reduction.**

Thermal justice in urban climate change adaptation

**Targeted urban greening for thermal justice enhances microclimate stability, biodiversity corridors, and localized ecological resilience in historically redlined and heat-vulnerable communities.**

Bringing justice to informal adaptation to heat stress

**Informal adaptation to extreme heat stresses the urgent need for equitable urban LULUCF strategies to counteract localized ecological collapse in vulnerable settlements.**

A climate impact taxonomy operationalizing IPCC physical driver and risk concepts

**Operationalizing IPCC physical risk drivers establishes a standardized baseline for quantifying ecological resilience, directly reinforcing the integrity of nature-based carbon sequestration.**

Explainer: How the ‘super El Niño’ will reshape the world’s weather

The world is currently experiencing what is expected to become the strongest El Niño on record – dubbed a “super El Niño”… The post Explainer: How the ‘super El Niño’ will reshape the world’s weather appeared first on Carbon Brief.

Collapse of Atlantic Currents Could Drive a Surge in Warming

**The destabilization of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) threatens catastrophic disruption to marine and terrestrial carbon sinks, triggering non-linear climate tipping points globally.**

Cities need robust carbon dioxide removal strategies to meet net-zero targets

Analysis: The two largest reservoirs in the US have hit record-low levels

**Severe multi-decadal drought driving US reservoir depletion degrades critical riparian corridors and severely undermines baseline LULUCF sequestration capacities.**

Columbia Climate School Welcomes Inaugural Cohort of Climate, Earth and Society Distinguished Fellows

**The establishment of interdisciplinary fellowship programs strengthens the scientific foundation required to quantify and protect complex LULUCF and Blue Carbon ecosystems.**

Climate School Students Analyze Extreme Heat Risk and Mitigation Efforts at the 2026 FIFA World Cup

A Columbia Climate School student team examined extreme heat, poor air quality and emergency management at MetLife Stadium during the FIFA World Cup in New York/New Jersey.

So Far This Year, China Has Wasted Enough Clean Energy to Power Mexico

China is leading the world on renewable energy, last year installing more wind and solar capacity than every other country put together. But its buildout has unfolded at such a ferocious pace that China is now generating much more electricity than its power grid can handle, meaning that huge amounts of clean power are going unused. Read more on E360 →

Why land-use emissions have fallen by a third this century – in six charts

**A sustained reduction in global land-use emissions signals stabilizing terrestrial carbon sinks, yet ongoing forest degradation continues to threaten ecological resilience.**

Sabin Center Interns Get to the Core of Climate Science

**Empirical paleoclimate and earth system research at facilities like LDEO provides the scientific foundation necessary to establish baseline integrity and permanence for LULUCF and Blue Carbon assets.**

You Asked: Is There a Community Prepared To Withstand a Wildfire?

**Catastrophic wildfire events at the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) induce acute ecological degradation and trigger severe carbon reversal risks across regional LULUCF systems.**

Columbia Climate School Welcomes Environmental Social Scientist Garrett Albistegui Adler

**Interdisciplinary socio-environmental scholarship reinforces the operationalization of rigorous safeguards and community-centric ecological stewardship across carbon projects.**

Record Low Lake Mead: “Millennium Drought” or Inevitable Result of Demand Exceeding Supply?

**Depleting water levels at Lake Mead destabilize regional hydrology and threaten surrounding desert carbon sinks and aquatic ecosystems.**

A Big Win in Few Words: What to Glean from the Climate United Fund Decision

**The appellate court's ruling safeguards $20 billion in federal climate financing, providing essential capital continuity for landscape-scale decarbonization and natural carbon sink deployment.**

Decommissioning Data Centers: Avoiding Stranded Assets

**Unmanaged data center decommissioning poses severe localized ecological risks through electronic waste accumulation and persistent land degradation if stranded assets are not systematically remediated.**

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for July, 2026: +0.48 deg. C

**Persistent atmospheric warming trends (+0.48°C anomaly) exacerbate ecological stress, directly threatening the permanence of nature-based carbon sequestration.**

Reading the Appellate Tea Leaves of a Recent Federal Funding Order

**Abrupt freezes in federal climate spending threaten the continuity of land stewardship and nature-based carbon sequestration programs across the United States.**

Trump Administration’s Unified Agenda Suggests Major Reversals on Climate Safeguards

**Federal regulatory rollbacks proposed in the 2026 Unified Agenda threaten long-term ecological protections and risk accelerating habitat degradation across critical land-use sectors.**

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for June, 2026: +0.46 deg. C

**The persistent +0.16°C per decade global warming trend directly threatens the permanence and stability of LULUCF and Blue Carbon sequestration sinks.**

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for May, 2026: +0.53 deg. C

**Rising global lower tropospheric temperatures threaten the ecological permanence of nature-based carbon sinks.**

Pressure Causes Temperature? It’s Time to Climb Down from “Mount Stupid”

**Fringe thermodynamic theories challenging radiative forcing threaten the foundational scientific consensus required for validating long-term ecological carbon sequestration.**

Softening EV target in UK adds CO2 emissions and cuts investment, warns trade body

Slashing the mandate for the rollout of electric vehicles (EVs) in the UK would increase CO2 emissions by 71 million tonnes if the 80% target for 2030 is cut down to just 50%, according to a trade body.

World must look to the past to prepare for likely unprecedented El Niño

Countries across the world are bracing for what is increasingly certain to be a historic El Niño, with latest modeling suggesting the 2026-2027 event will be the strongest ever measured, possibly breaking records by a considerable and dangerous margin. International bodies including the World Health Organization (WHO), World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and World Food Programme […]

Consumer groups call for reduced network charges as regulator reviews rates of return

Consumer, small business and social sector groups are calling for a rethink of rates being paid by energy users to cover the costs of network infrastructure. The post Consumer groups call for reduced network charges as regulator reviews rates of return appeared first on Renew Economy.

China’s reusable rocket engine just ran for a full 100 seconds without a single hitch

A Chinese rocket engine just ran for a full 100 seconds without a hitch. That...

A failed hunt for an exotic strangeonium reveals two strange particle structures

The particle zoo just got even stranger. Physicists searching for an elusive exotic particle instead...