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A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, August 30, 2026 thru Sat, September 5, 2026.
Stories we promoted this week, by category:
Climate Change Impacts (6 articles)
When a mountain falls: How ice and rock triggered Nepal`...
Open access notables
Misrepresentation of Human Climate Fingerprint in DOE Report, Santer et al., Earth s Future
A July 2025 report from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) made the key claim that the stratosphere has warmed since 2000, contrary to model projections and inconsistent with the expecte...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Karin Kirk
It’s been a rough summer for outdoor sports. July was the hottest month ever recorded in the contiguous U.S., and wildfire smoke has repeatedly reached unhealthy levels across large areas of the country.
Soccer players competing in the Worl...
This is a re-post from By the Numbers by Hannah Ritchie
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about why the UK needs to get its act together and build some new reservoirs. It hasn’t built one in my lifetime — despite adding 10 million people — and the mismatch between winter and summer rain is probabl...
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink
On the morning of August 26th, part of a glacier cliff on the north face of Langtang Lirung (a ~7,200 meter peak 60 km north of Kathmandu) collapsed. The falling mass of ice and rock released energy equivalent to a magnitude 5.2 earthquake according to the USGS...
A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, August 23, 2026 thru Sat, August 29, 2026.
Stories we promoted this week, by category:
Climate Change Impacts (8 articles)
Climate change is unearthing new archeological discoveries...