Findings of new study – released as fuel prices for motor vehicles soar internationally – include fatality rates dropping, per 10 million trips, by 88% in Paris, 82% in London and 62% in New York City Meanwhile in Ontario…Doug Ford is demanding that bike lanes are removed! 😱

Post-pandemic cycling boom in major cities, as cyclist safety improved thanks to more and better cycling infrastructure - Taylor & Francis Newsroom

Cycling in some of the world’s largest cities has continued to increase since the pandemic, thanks to safer and improved infrastructure which is also leading to a drop in fatality rates. Tracking data...

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“.. With Saudi oil now blockaded, Americans are about to discover why maintaining stability in the Middle East and not handing it to a consortium of Russia and Iran was always important.” @jayinkyiv.bsky.social

Recommended read: Drilled interviewed Nepalese climate negotiator Raju Pandit Chhetri about the country’s demands for loss-and-damage financing and climate justice.

Nepal Floods Put Climate Loss and Damage Fund to the Test

An interview with  Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice.

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25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.

Not sure people understand how bad El Niño already is. In Southern California today, we had an offshore pacific hurricane (not normal) take out homes and beaches. We had temperatures topping 111°F with high humidity. There's a fire in LA. And we are just getting started with El Niño.

More than 444,000 fire hotspots have been detected across Indonesia as wildfires spread toxic haze across five nations. Environmental groups note about half of the fires are in oil palm and timber concessions, causing states of emergency and severe health impacts. @yennikwok.bsky.social reports.

As Indonesia’s wildfires rage, haze spreads farther across Southeast Asia

Haze from wildfires in Indonesia has spread even farther this week, reaching beyond Malaysia and Brunei to Singapore and the Philippines. On Sept. 4, Singaporean residents woke to a smoggy sky as air…

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How's this for the latest installment of our current #polycrisis? Panama canal to reduce shipping as El Niño strikes vital route: Further restrictions on shipping lane possible as Central America gripped by severe El Nino related drought www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Panama canal to reduce shipping as El Niño strikes vital route

Further restrictions on shipping lane possible as Central America gripped by severe drought

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Possibly the most American news of all time

Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt

Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.

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What to do about expensive imported LNG in the year 2026?

Bangladesh Pays Most for Gas Since 2022 to Ease Power Blackouts

Bangladesh was forced to pay the most for liquefied natural gas than it has in about four years, threatening to drive up energy costs as the government scrambles to contain rolling blackouts.

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🟡 New analysis: Federal and NT Government's comprehensively repudiate their own commitment to fully offset climate pollution from the Beetaloo Basin 🟡 A precondition for fracking in the NT set by the 2018 Pepper inquiry was that all new Australian climate pollution should be fully offset.

An El Niño-induced coastally-trapped Kelvin wave will likely raise water levels about 9-14 inches (relative to 1993-2025 averages) along the California coast in early October. Water temperatures will also increase. The sudden increase will be as much as “the entire climate change anomaly in one go”

El Niño-driven wave to raise California sea levels by a foot — in weeks

A slow-moving wave driven by El Niño is creeping up the coast of North America and should hit California within weeks.

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Saw a post from someone who works at harborview medical center who said 3-5 of their 30 beds are usually lime scooter injuries and they call it lime disease

Local govt offices in-charge of rescue and relief were wiped out in the floods and several employees are missing. "The constitution designates the local level as the primary responder to an emergency but Wednesday’s flood has left people’s councils crippled." kathmandupost.com/national/202...

Floods wipe out local governments’ ability to lead rescue, relief

The constitution designates the local level as the primary responder to an emergency but Wednesday’s flood has left people’s councils crippled.

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Pressure mounts to make “balcony solar” legal in Australia, as it goes on sale in the UK #energysky -- via Renew Economy: reneweconomy.com.au/...

It's too darn hot: July 2026 surpasses dust bowl record as hottest month ever recorded in US. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/08/the-...

The U.S. just had its hottest month in recorded history, surpassing Dust Bowl record » Yale Climate Connections

A long-infamous record from the 1930s has bit the dust.

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👉 Wanna know what the worst energy policy in the world is? In an op-ed for @science.org, @profmichaelross.bsky.social and I talk about the dangers of fossil fuel subsidies during a once-in-a-generation opportunity to accelerate the transition away from oil and gas. www.science.org/eprint/8VEX5...

The worst energy policy in the world

The Iran war could serve as a turning point in accelerating the global transition away from fossil fuels: Every additional day that oil and gas prices are high and future supplies are uncertain, wind ...

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TL;DR: Climate shocks can and do open windows of opportunity for social change. The effects are most prominent for political moderates (aka the moveable middle). Here is a visualization based on our new pre-print: osf.io/preprints/so...

As the summer of climate shocks rages on, I wrote about how these climate shocks can motivate social change and what our new paper finds based on data from a nationally representative sample from the US. danarfisher.com/2026/08/29/h...

How Climate Shocks Motivate Social Change

Even though September begins on Tuesday, this summer of climate shocks has yet to slow down: record-breaking heat and extreme weather are continuing across much of the northern hemisphere and thous…

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I can't teach on Monday because I have died from laughter.

Ashley@ashleysays.bsky.social · 3w ago

Chefs kiss

People can "just adapt" to a changing climate, a thousand rightwing voices keep telling us. Either they lack imagination or they don't care. Try "adapting" to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Nepal flash flood: more than 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet border

Entire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims

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apparently in GTA 6, you're going to be able to build your own farm, combining heritage skills and modern technologies to tackle the polycrisis by building sustainable and environmentally-friendly food systems. you're also going to be able to fire rockets out of a Ferguson tractor

The footage coming out of Nepal is horrific. So many lives swept away in an instance. And the confronting reality that there is a direct line between this disaster and deaths, and countries like Australia doubling down on fossil fuel production/exports and accelerating climate change.

Nepal floods: children as young as 11 among Australian tour group missing after flash flooding

Nepali tour operator fears 15 Australians who had been on a trek near the border with China have died after devastating flood

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BREAKING: Most of the Pacific Ocean

#booksky

let's all take a moment to thank the EU for being the only slightly serious governing body in the west

The Verge@theverge.com · 4w ago

A screwdriver is all you’ll need to swap a new battery into the Momentum 5’s charging case and earbuds. www.theverge.com/tech/982216/...

“When batteries set the marginal price instead of gas turbines that cost two to three times as much to run, wholesale power gets cheaper during the hours it used to be most expensive … utilities will likely choose batteries over new gas plants long term.” #battchat #batteries #energysky #greensky

How batteries now set electricity prices in wholesale markets

Batteries have begun setting electricity prices once controlled by gas peaker plants. Wholesale power now costs less during the hours it used to be most expensive

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As a former aid worker, Musk and Trump’s overnight destruction of USAID will always be one of their most callous and consequential crimes. It sickened me then, and the news of the impacts always twist the knife.

Tim Dunlop@timdunlop.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Yet many deaths linked to the funding cuts will remain invisible, in part because the cuts themselves left scores of mortality data collectors jobless. In some places, there is simply no one left to count those who died." www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/u...

"Yet many deaths linked to the funding cuts will remain invisible, in part because the cuts themselves left scores of mortality data collectors jobless. In some places, there is simply no one left to count those who died." www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/u...

USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying

The U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that no one — and, particularly, no children — has died because of its funding cuts. But the AP has documented the deaths of women and children from Myanmar...

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"If you aren't building your own bank robbing robot, you're going to be left behind in the new economy."