More than half of France’s population under severe weather warning with temperatures expected to exceed 40C
More than half of France’s population is under a severe weather warning as large swathes of western Europe endure the second extreme heat event of the year, with temperatures expected to exceed 40C (104F).
The French president called for “extreme vigilance”, urging people to “take care of our oldest and most vulnerable people” and follow government advice. “We are going through difficult days,” Emmanuel Macron said.
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Breaking Waves: Ocean News
06/19/2026 - 06:39
06/19/2026 - 06:00
As datacenters’ connections to electric grids are held up, big tech is forced to throw money at producing its own power
Datacenters are driving unprecedented growth in the US clean energy industry, paradoxically boosting a sector that was sputtering before the artificial intelligence boom even as AI’s rollout creates immense environmental challenges.
However, observers caution that while the centers are propelling wind, solar, and other clean energy companies, datacenters remain a climate nightmare.
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06/19/2026 - 05:00
Do we really want to play dice with our planet?
A series in the Guardian recently declared “it’s time to talk about geoengineering.” So let’s talk about it. And let us start with some simple truths about this cluster of techno-optimistic “quick fixes” which purport to somehow offset our slow progress towards zeroing out planet-warming carbon emissions.
Solar geoengineering proposals – reducing sunlight – have received the most attention, but a host of desperate schemes have been proposed in an effort to “fix” the disruption of climate caused by the growing burden of carbon dioxide human activities add to the atmosphere.
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06/19/2026 - 02:00
This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world
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06/19/2026 - 01:00
Veteran campaigner Robin Hanbury-Tenison is raising money for a research station near his home in Cornwall
Pedalling on water for more than a hundred miles in a heatwave, pushed back by east winds and having to navigate 31 locks would be a challenge for anybody. But when that body is 90 years old, with a bad knee, failing balance and malfunctioning arms and shoulders, it’s a herculean feat.
Rainforest campaigner Robin Hanbury-Tenison, 90, is pedalling 104 miles down the River Thames from Oxford to Richmond on a water-bike to raise money for a unique research station which is being built to study Britain’s temperate rainforest.
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06/18/2026 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 19 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s44183-026-00216-y
Projecting biodiversity change to support climate-smart ocean planning in Portugal
06/18/2026 - 11:19
Expansion could also hit access to housing, education, healthcare, open spaces and transport, analysis says
Construction of a third runway at Heathrow is likely to have significant adverse effects on the health and wellbeing of up to 3 million people living nearby, an official report has said, as the government launched the next stage of its rapid airport expansion plan.
An analysis for the Department for Transport (DfT) has found that expanding London’s hub airport could have “major adverse” impacts on the health of the most local population.
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06/16/2026 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 17 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s44183-026-00215-z
Global warming threatens to eradicate Earth’s tropical corals. As legal interventions addressing climate change expand, fossil fuel companies’ historical awareness of their products’ damaging effects is increasingly important. We searched historical documents using a large-language-model-based agent, finding that carbon majors were aware by the 1980s of prospective impacts of fossil fuels on corals from ocean acidification, marine heatwaves, sea-level rise, and intensified storms and later funded efforts downplaying such impacts.
06/16/2026 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 17 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s44183-026-00219-9
The future of global ocean observations: five scenarios
06/14/2026 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 15 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s44183-026-00208-y
Unprecedented Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sustainability in the Blue Economy: A Perspective on Indian Policy
