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Nickel boom puts Indonesia’s biodiversity goals under pressure: study

Indonesia holds the world’s largest nickel reserves and has rapidly expanded production, which a new study says has grown roughly tenfold over the past decade.

Can REDD+ protect forests and deliver justice for the Indigenous Iraya Mangyan?

The Mindoro Forest and Biodiversity Conservation Programme combines Indigenous forest patrols, ancestral-domain support, carbon monitoring and livelihood projects to protect more than 40,000 hectares (nearly 99,000 acres) of Iraya Mangyan forest.

Se forma la tormenta tropical Dolly en el Atlántico

Se espera que Dolly se debilite antes de llegar a las islas del noreste del Caribe, aportando lluvias muy necesarias, pero con impactos limitados por el viento.

Boricuas educan sobre el clima extremo y crean comunidad entre sordos pese a falta de recursos

Miembros de la comunidad sorda de Puerto Rico identifican formas de protegerse ante el clima extremo

Tropical Storm Dolly forms in the Atlantic

Dolly is expected to weaken before reaching the northeastern Caribbean islands, bringing some much-needed rainfall but limited wind impacts.

What triggered Nepal flash floods? And why are experts worried a second flood is ‘imminent’?

Signal detected by monitors for seismic activity actually came from the force of ‘glacial collapse and debris flow’, says USGS

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.

Green hydrogen: made in MENA, built with China, sold to Europe?

The region has emerged as a hub for hydrogen investments, with construction and tech from China, and eyes on EU markets. But securing buyers remains a challenge.

Why couldn’t NGOs sue to stop blasting of Chinese white dolphin habitat?

When the ocean is at stake, the courts consider environmental public-interest lawsuits as beyond the remit of civil society organisations.

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 […]

Nepal flash floods mapped: Where deadly floods hit along Tibet border

Police say they expect the death toll, already in the hundreds, to rise further as search teams reach cut-off areas

10 things athletes, fans, and outdoor advocates can do about climate change

Sports and recreation have more influence than you might think.

Oceans have gotten about 34% more acidic since before the Industrial Revolution

Ocean acidification makes it harder for corals to grow and for oysters and clams to create shells.

Nuveen Raises Over $1 Billion for Fund Backing Energy, Water, Resilience Upgrades for Buildings

Global investment manager Nuveen and its sustainable commercial real estate financing solutions business Nuveen Green […]

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.**

Deloitte to Pay Over $20 Million to Settle U.S. Anti-DEI Case

**Governance and workforce compliance failures at premier assurance providers jeopardize market trust in the independent auditing of environmental and social safeguards mandated by the ICVCM.**

Certain Energy Raises $13 Million for New Low-Cost, Long Duration Energy Storage Solution

**The scale-up of Certain Energy's long-duration energy storage (LDES) mitigates grid reliance on fossil-fuel peaker plants, directly suppressing localized emissions and ecological disruption.**

Philips Issues its First EuGB-Aligned Green Bond

Health technology company Philips announced the pricing of its new €650 million green bond offering, […]

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.**

Data Center Power Solutions Startup Emerald AI Raises $150 Million at Unicorn Valuation

**Emerald AI's grid flexibility technology directly mitigates the environmental strain of surging data center power demand by optimizing real-time clean energy dispatch and curtailing reliance on carbon-intensive peaker plants.**

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.**

Bomb Fishing Is Wreaking Havoc on Indonesia's Coral Reefs

Fishers operating off the coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia, are detonating more than 8,000 underwater explosives each year, researchers estimate. The practice is turning picturesque coral reefs to “rubble.” Read more on E360 →

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.**

One of the World's ‘Most Wanted’ Lost Fish Is Rediscovered

**The rediscovery of the spinach pipefish confirms intact ecological resilience across Papua New Guinea's river systems, strengthening the ecological integrity case for adjacent watershed and forest conservation projects.**

Climate warming drives thermal shocks and accelerated freshwater habitat fragmentation

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.**

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.**

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.

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.**

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.**

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.**

Renewable microgrids hold huge promise for First Nations communities – so why aren’t they being built?

Small solar and battery-based microgrids have outsized impacts on remote communities, but are not being rolled out at scale. Here's what could help. The post Renewable microgrids hold huge promise for First Nations communities – so why aren’t they being built? appeared first on Renew Economy.

Australian feed additive company eyes overseas expansion

An Australian feed additive company has applied for regulatory approval in three overseas countries as it seeks to grow its business, eyeing what it believes will be a A$90 billion ($58 bln) market in the coming years.

Community programs linked to lower forest loss in Indonesia’s Borneo during COVID-19

Villages in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan saw less forest loss during the COVID-19 pandemic when conservation groups provided health and livelihood support, a new study has found, suggesting social safety nets can help protect forests during economic crises. The peer-reviewed study, published last month in Lancet Planetary Health, suggests forest loss in West Kalimantan province on […]