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JetZero Secures $100 Million to Advance Ultra-Efficient Blended-Wing Aircraft

**JetZero's blended-wing aircraft architecture provides a step-change reduction in aerodynamic drag that halves fuel burn, substantially curbing atmospheric radiative forcing and high-altitude contrail-induced cirrus formation.**

Aligned Climate Capital Launches $500 Million Distributed Solar and Storage Fund

Decarbonization-focused investment firm Aligned Climate Capital announced the launch and first close of Aligned Solar […]

Auxxo Raises Over €33 Million to Back Female-led Startups

**Auxxo's €33.3M deployment injects critical early-stage catalytic capital into diverse founders, accelerating the development of scalable climate-tech and ecological solutions.**

Suburban Sprawl Puts Western Homes at Risk from Wildfires

**Expanding wildland-urban interface (WUI) sprawl intensifies wildfire susceptibility, precipitating severe reversals in terrestrial carbon sinks and degrading critical fringe ecosystems.**

16 States Warn Big 4 Accounting Firms Over “Pushing Climate-Related Disclosures”

**Pushback against standardized climate disclosures threatens the verification infrastructure critical for nature-based carbon sequestration and LULUCF supply chain accounting.**

Guest post: Why tough methane cuts are crucial for keeping warming ‘well-below’ 2C

**Rapid methane abatement provides critical near-term cooling leverage, preventing irreversible ecological tipping points and stabilizing global climate systems.**

Indonesia urged to integrate 100 GW solar plan into national electricity scheme

**Integrating 100 GW of solar capacity across Indonesia will decisively curb coal-derived emissions, decelerating habitat degradation and preserving critical regional biodiversity.**

Glacier-driven Nepal flood shows mounting risks in warming Himalayas

**Rapid cryospheric destabilization in the Himalayas escalates physical catastrophe risks, directly threatening the permanence of regional LULUCF carbon sinks and montane biodiversity.**

Explainer: The CMIP7 emissions scenarios – and how they explore future climate change

**The updated CMIP7 emissions scenarios will fundamentally recalibrate global physical risk modeling and permanence thresholds for natural carbon sinks.**

As Death Toll From Nepal Flood Rises, Officials Call to Tackle Warming

**Accelerated cryospheric degradation and catastrophic glacial flooding in high-altitude watersheds severely destabilize Himalayan ecological corridors and threaten baseline carbon sinks.**

Hydrogen fuel cells could ease Singapore’s data centre power constraints: expert

**Hydrogen fuel cell integration provides a zero-direct-emission baseload alternative for constrained data infrastructure, though its net ecological impact is tied to the upstream emissions profile of the hydrogen carrier.**

Climate risks threaten more than 380 coastal World Heritage Sites

Coral reefs, medieval coastal castles and mangrove forests on UNESCO’s World Heritage list now share something in common: Precise digital boundaries.

Coal phase out lessons from a coal-power giant

Shandong province has led China in retiring small coal-fired power units. But the real test, cutting coal reliance while keeping heat and power supplies secure, lies ahead.

New Zealand Legislates Away Climate Tort, Part II: International Climate Obligations and Access to Justice

This is the second of two posts examining New Zealand’s Climate Change Response (Tort Liability) Amendment Act 2026. Part I examined the legislation’s intervention in Smith v Fonterra and situated it within an emerging international backlash against corporate climate litigation. This post asks a different question: what does New Zealand’s decision to extinguish climate tort […]

In Africa, a Growing Underground Solar Boom

Households and businesses are driving a solar boom in Africa, where rooftop arrays and other small systems account for the bulk of new solar installations. But this rapid buildout, which is driving solar additions to record levels, is largely unaccounted for in official statistics, analysts say. Read more on E360 →

August Research Roundup: Select Papers

This month, we covered a long-term analysis suggesting that landfill methane emissions may be far higher than estimated, as well as new research on unexpected trends in U.S. extreme rainfall. Here are additional studies worth noting.

New Zealand Legislates Away Climate Tort, Part I: Smith v Fonterra and the Global Backlash Against Climate Litigation

This is the second of three consecutive posts on corporate climate accountability. Yesterday’s post examined the Paris Judicial Court’s June 2026 ruling in Notre Affaire à Tous et al. v. TotalEnergies SE. On August 18, 2026, New Zealand’s Parliament enacted the Climate Change Response (Tort Liability) Amendment Act 2026 (the Liability Act), passing 67 votes to […]

A Hard-Won Rule to Cut Chemical Plant Pollution Is Being Unraveled

In 2024, the Biden administration enacted wide-ranging regulations to protect communities near petrochemical plants from air toxics. The Trump administration has since granted exemptions to scores of polluting facilities and is working to rewrite the long-awaited rule. Read more on E360 →

Alex de Sherbinin Named Director of New Earth Institute Hub

**The appointment of Alex de Sherbinin to lead the Columbia Climate School's Earth Institute Hub will accelerate the integration of geospatial modeling and Earth observation systems essential for high-integrity LULUCF and Blue Carbon MRV.**

Climate change exposes 580 million children to 20 extra ‘heat-stress days’ every year

**Accelerating extreme heat anomalies amplify physical climate risks, destabilizing terrestrial biomes and undermining the permanence of Nature-Based carbon sinks.**

Access to Urban Woodlands Linked With Lower Use of Antidepressants

**Urban woodland preservation delivers quantifiable public health co-benefits while enhancing municipal ecological resilience and local carbon sink capacity.**

Recognizing Scope 3, Reserving the Remedy: The Paris Court’s TotalEnergies Judgment

**Judicial recognition of Scope 3 emissions establishes a direct legal nexus between corporate downstream fossil combustion and accelerated global ecosystem degradation.**

Sabin Center Releases Summary Report for the Second Conference on Attribution Science and Climate Law

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Columbia Climate School have published the summary report for the Second Conference on Attribution Science and Climate Law, held at Columbia University on June 10–11, 2026. This event brought together physical scientists, legal scholars, public health researchers, economists, and policy experts to discuss key developments in climate change […]

Capturing the Future of Climate Change Mitigation: IEAGHG CCS Summer School 2026

**Accelerating engineered carbon capture and storage (CCS) deployment provides critical permanent sequestration capacity to curb atmospheric heat-trapping, shielding vulnerable biomes from severe climate-induced thermal stress.**

Harlem Week Climate Change Conference Centers Community Voices

**Urban environmental justice initiatives increasingly steer localized nature-based interventions and urban LULUCF enhancements to mitigate ecological disparities.**

A Polar Climate Ambassador Visits an Arctic Museum in Maine

**Arctic socio-ecological systems face acute disruption from rapid cryosphere thaw, threatening indigenous subsistence and permafrost carbon reservoirs.**

Climate warming drives thermal shocks and accelerated freshwater habitat fragmentation

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.**

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.**

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.**

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.**

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.**

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.**

Safer solid electrolyte hits highest-ever 16.3 mS/cm lithium-ion conductivity

Safer solid electrolyte for lithium-ion batteries has reached a record conductivity of 16.3 millisiemens per...

Three-in-one cybersecurity shield protects military nuclear reactors from complex risks

Advanced reactor developers preparing for U.S. military installations now have a new cybersecurity team built...

PREVIEW: Linkage prospects, coming sales loom large over Q3 Washington auction

The prospect of linkage with the California-Quebec market and other sales ahead of next year's full compliance deadline are likely to shape Washington’s Q3 carbon auction, traders and analysts told Carbon Pulse, who generally expect a result around secondary market prices, but with some market participants anticipating a settle several dollars higher or lower.

Flawed assumptions reverse case for US vehicle emissions standards rollback -analysis

A rollback of US vehicle GHG standards would cost more than it saves, according to economists who adjusted a number of assumptions made by the EPA to inform the February rollback, which followed the rescission of the Endangerment Finding.

Dark matter finally found? Detector spots rare particle event with no source

A dark matter detector buried nearly a mile underground has recorded a single particle event...

Project developer withdraws from two CO2 storage sites in US Midwest

A project developer has scaled back its multi-state carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the US, according to court documents seen by Carbon Pulse, marking the latest in years of regulatory challenges.

US CO2 storage maps too broad for site investment -report

National-level assessments of US carbon capture and storage (CCS) potential lack enough details to support project-level investment decisions, a federal advisory report found.

“New questions,” as review finds short-term carbon credits used for long-term pollution

Australia's carbon credit scheme is working, according to a review, but some of the nation's biggest polluters have become its biggest customers. The post “New questions,” as review finds short-term carbon credits used for long-term pollution appeared first on Renew Economy.

Togo cosponsors proposal to review commercial whaling ban

Togo is cosponsoring a proposal to review commercial whaling quotas, drawing criticism from whale conservation groups. The draft resolution was submitted for discussion at the upcoming 70th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), which will be held Sept. 27 to Oct. 2. Togo was the only African nation to support the proposal, which was […]

Biological twist: Engineered proteins separate rare earth elements with over 90% purity

A protein-based separation technique from Battelle could offer US manufacturers a new way to recover...