Andrew Freedman
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- Sep 10, 2026
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If August felt like the hottest month on Earth ⦠youâre right | CNN (opens the original)
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Earth just had its hottest August on record and tied the benchmark for the hottest month ever recorded since at least 1940, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, a European climate monitoring agency. The global average temperature during August was 62.53 degrees Fahrenheit (16.96 Celsius), which was 1.53 degrees Fahrenheit (0.85 Celsius) above the 1991 to 2020 average. The record-hot month was driven partly by ocean temperatures that were, themselves, reaching record highs. Global
The US just had its hottest summer on record, beating the Dust Bowl era | CNN (opens the original)
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The United States just had its hottest summer in 132 years of recordkeeping, soundly beating the summer of 1936 â during the Dust Bowl era â as well as the summer of 2021, according to data released Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Previously, those two years had tied for the hottest summer. The Dust Bowl summer of 1936 has been long been regarded as the benchmark of hottest summers in the US, but has now been equaled or eclipsed twice in the past five years
Sudden sea level rise â tied to El Niño â is about to hit the California coast | CNN (opens the original)
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A version of this story appeared in the CNN Weather newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The sea level along Californiaâs coast will increase by about a foot by mid-October due to the influence of El Niño, which is driving a large volume of water northward from offshore of Mexico and Central America. This water is coming in the form of a coastal âKelvin wave,â and it will mark the arrival of one of the first significant impacts of the powerhouse El Niño taking shap
The Trump administration cut funds for natural hazards monitoring in Nepal | CNN (opens the original)
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In January 2025, the Trump administration cut off funding for a long-running natural hazards program that aimed to identify and monitor landslide hotspots in Nepal. While the program would not have been able to prevent the disaster that happened this past week, it represented a first step towards making those kinds of protections possible in a future where they are going to be needed more. The disaster illustrates the growing peril of living in mountain regions like the Himalayas as the planet c
El Niño events are becoming stronger as the world warms | CNN (opens the original)
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The climate pattern that drives El Niño is becoming more erratic as the planet warms, and El Niño itself is becoming more intense, according to a comprehensive new study published Thursday. The research sheds new light on the developing Super El Niño gathering strength in the tropical Pacific, which is forecast to become the strongest such event since at least 1950 â and potentially long before that. The study, published in the journal Science, finds that El Niño events during the past 40
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