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Arnab made landfall near Narsapur as a very severe cyclonic storm, leaving five dead, toppling 6,270 poles and prompting the evacuation of nearly 180,000 people across two states.
All three main greenhouse gases set records in 2025, with carbon dioxide at 153 percent of its pre-industrial level and two overlooked industrial gases drawing fresh scrutiny.
Two peer-reviewed Nature Health papers model mortality across 854 cities in 30 countries and attribute 32,619 deaths to warming caused by burning coal, oil and gas.
Lawmakers voted 341 to 225 to give oil, gas and coal importers until May 2031 to prove their fuel meets EU methane standards, going two years beyond what the European Commission had proposed.
Three power generators will import renewable gas for factories and data centres while a new S$143 million package funds industrial carbon cutting projects and shared testbeds.
The North Sea Transition Authority has cleared production at Jackdaw after ministerial agreement, while ministers unveiled a £2 billion fund to reinvest oil and gas tax revenue in renewable and low carbon projects.
UNEP's latest assessment finds that breaching the Paris temperature goal can no longer be avoided, and that steep near term cuts plus large scale carbon removal offer the only route back.
Satellite data shows 1,916,588 hectares burned across Indonesia this year while the Health Ministry counts 283,270 respiratory infections and protesters in five cities demand national disaster status.
Norway's Arctic town of Longyearbyen has kept a full-population advisory against drinking tap water since September 2025, and a SINTEF study on permafrost thaw is not due until 2027.
Brazil's space agency INPE says Amazon clearance fell to 3,335 square kilometers in the year to July, the smallest tally since 1988, with a presidential runoff set to decide whether the policy survives.
A deadlock of nearly three years over the Seventh Assessment Report schedule deepened when talks in Ethiopia ran out of time, with a 30 country coalition warning the science may miss the 2028 stocktake.
Seven of sixteen tracked planetary indicators hit record extremes in 2026, and scientists say the pace of warming has roughly doubled since 2010 to about 0.36C per decade.
A UC Irvine and NASA JPL ice sheet model that lets seawater intrude beneath grounded ice roughly doubles Thwaites Glacier's projected 2100 sea level contribution.
Global average surface air temperature reached 16.27°C in September 2026, 1.63°C above pre-industrial levels, marking the second straight month above the 1.5°C threshold.
Rescuers in Nepal's Gorkha district deployed helicopters and hundreds of personnel after a landslide dam on the Budhi Gandaki River burst, destroying bridges, houses and a hydropower camp.
Smoke from hundreds of wildfires pushed Amazonas state to declare an emergency across 36 municipalities while schools and municipal offices in Manaus remained shut for a third day.
NOAA NCEI reports September 2026 ranked as the second warmest September globally while global ocean surface temperatures hit an all time monthly record, driven by a record strength El Nino.
The National Hurricane Center says Isaias packed 120 mph winds and 959 mb as it closed on the western Florida Panhandle, forcing evacuations and shutting in 63 percent of Gulf oil output.
A joint letter from Rome and Prague asks Brussels to pause the EU Emissions Trading System and delay ETS2, arguing that high energy and carbon costs threaten European manufacturing.
Satellite monitoring shows the Silivri landfill near Istanbul emits 7.4 tonnes of methane an hour, a finding that complicates Turkey's methane agenda as it prepares to host COP31 in Antalya.
The justices heard nearly two hours of argument on whether ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy can be sued under Colorado law for climate damages, with Justice Alito recused and a four to four tie possible.