BeyondKONA: Climate

In April 2026 we published a guest blog post by John Lang in which he introduced his "Climate Trunk" graphics project and website. Since then, he has been […]

This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler and Zeke Hausfather This is the second in our three-part series discussing the use of unadjusted […]

A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, August 9, 2026 thru Sat, August 15, 2026. […]

Open access notablesMethane Emissions From Wildfires: Trends and Anomalies, Zhu et al., Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres Wildfires emit smoke […]

This is a re-post from The Climate BrinkAI energy use is a huge and controversial topic at the moment. Credible estimates have AI data centers accounting […]

Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need […]

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters When a weak 45-mph tropical storm named Harvey moved through the Lesser Antilles Islands in […]

A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, August 2, 2026 thru Sat, August 8, 2026. […]

Open access notables ‘Towards electric vehicle misinformation communities: Shared narratives, networked validation, and reassurance among Australian […]

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Karin Kirk It’s hot. Fans and air conditioners are humming in homes, offices, commercial buildings, and […]

This is a re-post from By the Numbers by Hannah Ritchie Over the last week, this chart of wildfire burn in Europe has been doing the rounds on social media […]

This is a re-post from The Climate Brink Jim Hansen and I have spent much of this year making seemingly opposite predictions about where 2026 will end up in […]

This month’s open thread on climate topics. The annual ranking horse race is in full swing, discussions of extreme weather abound, Arctic sea ice is reaching […]

A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 26, 2026 thru Sat, August 1, 2026. […]

Open access notablesObserved Multi-Decadal Acceleration of Globally Averaged Abyssal Ocean Warming, Johnson, Geophysical Research LettersGiven sparse […]

This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Neha Pathak Most of us sense it without being told why: A walk in the woods or an hour in the park leaves […]

There is a new El Niño out there and it was officially declared already on June 11 by NOAA. This is both unusually early in the year and very soon since the […]

This month’s open thread on climate topics. Impending El Niño, fossil fuel funded wedges, retirements, heat waves, and the same old, same old, from the […]

This month’s open thread on climate topics. Please be respectful and substantive. The post Unforced Variations: June 2026 first appeared on RealClimate.

The 4th UArctic congress on the Faroe islands finished with the message that the Arctic Council is still alive. It has overcome recent setbacks with […]

The fantasy version of the normal updating of scenarios for a new round of CMIP simulations doing the rounds is bad faith BS. As climate folk will know, the […]

This month’s open thread on climate topics. El Niño coming (shades of 2023), competitive predictions, ill-advised geo-engineering ideas, and massive shifts […]

Somewhat belated open thread for this month! (Oops). Please stick to climate related topics, and remain respectful. The post Unforced Variations: Apr 2026 […]

Confirmation bias and a profound lack of curiosity mark the latest ABC (Anything But Carbon) contrapalooza in DC this week and a decade-old albedo error trips […]

We previously highlighted Roy Spencer’s poor practices in comparing models with observations, but we’ve now dug down a little deeper, and it’s not […]

By Olivia Rosane and Cristen Hemingway Jaynes Quick Key Facts What Is Methane? What has no color or smell and is found in wetlands, cow burps and your basement […]

New York is now the first state in the U.S. to require new buildings to be built entirely electric, without hookups to fossil fuels including gas, the New York […]

A new peer-reviewed study has linked pesticides as a likely cause to a mass die-off of Western monarch butterflies that occurred in 2024. In January 2024, […]

Thousands of mollusks and worms have been discovered by a Chinese submersible in the Mariana Trench, almost six miles below sea level. The new study revealed […]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is home to many species of rare and endangered wildlife, such as mountain gorillas, eastern lowland gorillas and […]

World hunger fell overall last year, but continued to rise in most of Africa and western Asia, according to a new report — The State of Food Security and […]

A beneficial bacterial probiotic is restoring hope for mitigating disease spread in corals off the coast of Florida. In a new study, scientists have […]

Earth Overshoot Day is the point in the year when human demand for materials obtained from nature exceeds what the Earth can naturally regenerate in one year. […]

The underground fungi networks that help sustain Earth’s ecosystems are in need of urgent conservation action, according to researchers from the Society for […]

In a landmark finding, the United Nations’ top court on Wednesday issued an advisory opinion stating that a “clean, healthy and sustainable environment” […]