Charles Thistlethwaite

You should care about AB32 in 2026 because it proved that, even when politics are toxic and the future looks bleak, collaborative governance can change the world.

The Sierra Nevada Regional Report provides #adaptation strategies for various counties within the range, which serves as a biodiversity hotspot. The region faces major shifts in water availability, while simultaneously facing the immediate threat of severe wildfire activity.

The death toll is considered an underestimate as it excludes data from May and covers only 40% of the European population residing in the studied cities. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Major global systems, including the Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Triangle, are currently categorized as critically endangered under this first-of-its-kind IUCN assessment. While the situation is dire, there remains a window for recovery through CO2e reductions and conservation efforts.

To meet AB32's goal of cutting CO2 emissions to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030, an additional 86 million metric tons of carbon must be cut in the next four years. The 2045 goal — cutting emissions to 85% below 1990 levels — requires reductions of 8.8% per year starting in 2030.

SARDI hace un llamado urgente a gobiernos y comunidades locales para implementar medidas de monitoreo, vigilancia y coordinación transfronteriza que eviten una nueva mortandad masiva.

Climate scientist Daniel Swain reports that numerous seasonal forecast models indicate high probabilities for record-breaking precipitation across Southern and Central California from January through March 2027. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/10/clim...

The report cites the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and a rise in U.S. emissions: America accounted for 70% of emissions growth among countries that increased pollution in 2025. www.unep.org/en/publicati...

To return to the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C target by the end of the century, humanity must implement immediate, deep emissions cuts of 18 per cent by 2030, 45 per cent by 2035, and 69 per cent by 2040. Full compliance with all existing commitments and net-zero targets would only limit warming to 2.1°C

The next Kelvin wave will reach San Diego in late October or early November. Several more waves are expected through the fall and early winter. Kelvin waves usually subside before the peak of El Niño,according to Josh Willis, a climate scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Scientists identified 'tidal pumping' as a critical mechanism that allows warm water to reach the glacier's grounding zone, where it melts the ice from below and threatens to detach the glacier from the underwater Mouginot Ridge, which could occur as early as the late 2030s.

According to the report, average temperatures are likely to increase in California by about 4 degrees Fahrenheit by the middle of the century, and by 5 to 8 degrees by 2100. Current warming in California is unprecedented compared with the past century and estimates for the past millennium.

“We get through one storm only to face another,” said Javier Soto, 39, a travel agent in the beach town of Bahía de Banderas, north of Puerto Vallarta, where it has been raining for weeks straight. “It feels like a tunnel with no exit in sight.”

Making matters worse, high sugar prices are also complicating India’s energy security goals. Sugarcane is a key crop for the country’s biofuels push, all the more so as India seeks to curb oil imports while the waterways of the Middle East are choked by war.

However, the October 25th presidential run-off between incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and challenger Flávio Bolsonaro presents a critical choice for the future of the Amazon, as the two candidates hold opposing views on environmental protection and #climatechange.

Climate scientist Friederike Otto noted that while El Niño is a temporary phenomenon, the trend of climate change continues to worsen, ensuring that future East Pacific hurricanes will carry a stronger climate change signal. www.worldweatherattribution.org/effect-of-cl...

The study by the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology emphasized the need for future crop breeding programs to prioritize maintaining high baking quality and reducing potentially intolerable proteins in wheat as atmospheric CO2 continues to rise. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The study identified four key pillars of sustainability—nature, equity, tolerance, and shared responsibility—to segment tourists into groups, finding that while those with higher sustainability values are more likely to support offset schemes, a substantial portion still refuses to pay.