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Rice, sugar, cotton and pulses prices surge as climate shocks and shipping costs hit supplies - CNBC TV18

Lower production forecasts in major growing regions, including India, Brazil and Thailand, are adding to supply concerns. Rising crude oil prices are also boosting biofuel demand, lifting vegetable oil prices and adding to inflationary pressures worldwide.

Governments that support climate science must stand firm against naysayers

The IPCC is meeting to decide the timing of its next major report, as some countries try to delay it and weaken the case for faster emissions cuts

The big threat has been climate change. Now comes AI.

Both are human-caused, both are frightening, and one of them has raced to the forefront of the global conversation.

Western Europe Continues to Experience Record-Breaking Weather in September

In September, the unusually warm and dry conditions of the summer continued across Europe. In Western Europe, it was the warmest September on record—tied with September 2023—according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.

El Nino sets temperature record in key Pacific zone: EU monitor

Global forecasters have been warning for months that the El Nino in 2026 would likely become the strongest ever observed. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Crossing Paris climate target 'only a matter of time'

After Europe sweltered through a record-breaking summer heatwave, the world has recorded its second warmest September on record.

Mirage News

Australia Moves to Strengthen Homes Against Climate Risks

The report builds on IAG's extensive body of resilience research, including Severe Weather in a Changing Climate (3rd Edition, 2025), Addressing

the Guardian

Our place in the sun: Australia’s uptake of solar panels is already through the roof. How much higher could it get?

Sunshine, government subsidies and high power prices are driving record solar installations

the Guardian

Nuclear war and malicious use of AI threaten end of humanity by 2100, says Lancet assessment

Newly established commission identifies 17 catastrophic threats to human health but says ‘realistic route to act’ on each exists

Futura-Sciences

If We Don’t Act Now on Climate Change, Nothing Else Will Matter - Futura-Sciences

Drought on Our Plates and in Our Supermarkets The first cracks are not just in the fields, but in what ends up on our tables. The Federation of Trade and Distribution (which brings together most of France’s big retail players) announced on August 18th that they would now welcome “ugly”...

ecoportal.net

Pacific hurricane season reaches 20 named storms and nine hurricanes as El Niño keeps ocean waters unusually warm

Discover how the 2026 Pacific hurricane season, fueled by El Niño, is wreaking havoc with record storms and warnings of more destruction ahead.

summitdaily.com

Climate advocates hope the loss of St. Mary’s Glacier will bring ‘urgency’ to issue of a global warming and disappearing snowfields

For a century, the snowfield known as St. Mary’s Glacier has been a popular Colorado destination that captured the hearts and imaginations of thousands of visitors. Only an hour or so from Denver, the snowfield...

Climate Crisis 247

64,000 Wildfires Have Hit US This Year

It has been a record year for wildfires. So far, there have been 64,000 wildfires, a record. These have burned nearly nine million acres. The reasons are drough

Turkey's Green Taxonomy paradox ahead of COP31: ‘Nuclear energy and fossil gas are unacceptable’

Europe’s major rivers are drying up, threatening energy security and trade

The EU Copernicus Climate Change Service warns that the flow of 12 of the continent’s largest waterways was the lowest in 30 years this summer

Asian countries, including India, must accelerate transition to renewable energy

Asian countries, including India, must accelerate transition to renewable energy

Inside Climate News

In One Historically Black Florida Community, the Drinking Water Is Brown - Inside Climate News

In Whitted, testing has confirmed the water is contaminated with arsenic and PFAS/PFOS. An effort to connect the residents to the local water system has moved slowly.

BIOENGINEER.ORG

Crop and Forest Waste Could Reshape the Global Energy Map, Study Finds

A new Nature Communications study projects that residue-based bioenergy could meet nearly 20 percent of Canada's energy demand by 2060, but finds that most lower-income regions would struggle to