Extreme weather and climate impacts
‘National priority’ to equip UK firefighters amid growing wildfire threat
Exclusive: FBU calls for more funding as ‘unprecedented summer’ puts rising demands on already stretched crews Firefighters in the UK are under increased pressure as a result of an unprecedented summer of dangerous and volatile wildfires, the Fire Brigades Union has said, as many parts of the country brace for a fifth heatwave of the year.…
‘Unprecedented, dangerous territory’: US north-west reckons with a summer of historic wildfires
Extreme conditions in Washington and Oregon have fueled fast-moving fires, leaving the region draped in toxic plumes – and the danger isn’t over Piles of twisted metal and ashen debris line the cul-de-sacs where the tranquil suburbs of Spokane, Washington , once stood.…
‘I couldn’t breathe’: the deadly health burden of wildfire smoke
Scientists race to untangle complex links between exposure and mortality as fire weather grows more prevalent A thousand kilometres from the infernos gorging on northern Ontario’s boreal forests, Erin O’Connor watched the sky above Canada’s biggest city turn an almost post-apocalyptic orange as it filled with light-scattering particles of soot and ash.…
What another Texas flood revealed about the state’s warning system
When torrential rain doused the Texas Hill Country last month, Paul Welch stayed up past his bedtime checking radar and rain gauges on RiverHub, the Upper Guadalupe River Authority’s new tracking website. At midnight, comforted by what he saw, he went to bed. Four hours later, his phone rang.…
Wildfire season is changing. Spokane is showing how.
Betsy Robertson was standing in the center of the Spokane Convention Center on Monday afternoon, but she wasn’t there for a gala or a conference. Instead, the event space in the middle of Washington state’s second-largest city had been transformed into a Red Cross emergency shelter as a trio of wildfires, just a few miles away, burned down entire neighborhoods.…
Fossil fuels and corporate accountability
In Montana, a controversial $2B pipeline hits a speed bump
The Bridger Pipeline Expansion project has been moving through the permitting process with unusual speed. If built, the $2 billion, 650-mile pipeline will run through Montana and Wyoming and is one of three proposed pipeline legs connecting oil sands in Alberta, Canada to the trading hub in Cushing, Oklahoma. The project appears to be a priority for the Trump administration.…
Courts, regulators and legal accountability
A controversial plan to update Line 5 just suffered a major loss at the Michigan Supreme Court
In a win for opponents of Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 pipeline, the Michigan Supreme Court vacated a key permit last week for a proposed project that would replace a segment of the pipeline running underneath an environmentally-sensitive area of the Great Lakes, finding that a state commission did not examine the full scope of possible harm to the environment.…
Energy transition and industrial policy
VICTORY: Court Overturns Trump Administration’s Wind Pause
Portland, Oregon — Today, the United States District Court for the District of Oregon ruled in favor of clean energy developers in a legal challenge against Donald Trump’s Department of Defense for freezing reviews of wind projects and delaying development for renewable energy. The review freeze created a de-facto moratorium on new wind, …
Climate finance and forest protection
A legal fiction blocking billions in climate finance will be challenged this week
Governments will gather in New York for tax negotiations which could unlock $500 billion a year
Source URLs
- ‘National priority’ to equip UK firefighters amid growing wildfire threat — https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/10/firefighters-fbu-wildfires-drought-heatwave-weather
- ‘Unprecedented, dangerous territory’: US north-west reckons with a summer of historic wildfires — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/us-wildfires-pacific-north-west
- ‘I couldn’t breathe’: the deadly health burden of wildfire smoke — https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/wildfire-smoke-unknown-health-impacts
- What another Texas flood revealed about the state’s warning system — https://grist.org/extreme-weather/what-another-texas-flood-revealed-about-the-states-warning-system/
- Wildfire season is changing. Spokane is showing how. — https://grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-season-spokane-washington-state-climate/
- In Montana, a controversial $2B pipeline hits a speed bump — https://grist.org/energy/in-montana-controversial-pipeline-hits-a-speed-bump/
- A controversial plan to update Line 5 just suffered a major loss at the Michigan Supreme Court — https://grist.org/energy/controversial-plan-line-5-major-loss-michigan-supreme-court/
- VICTORY: Court Overturns Trump Administration’s Wind Pause — https://cleantechnica.com/2026/08/06/victory-court-overturns-trump-administrations-wind-pause/
- A legal fiction blocking billions in climate finance will be challenged this week — https://www.climatechangenews.com/2026/08/05/a-legal-fiction-blocking-billions-in-climate-finance-will-be-challenged-this-week/
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