A report found 57% of 81 analyzed data centers in census tracts with the highest shares of people of color and 47% in communities facing high cumulative environmental-health risks. Front and Centered is calling for a statewide moratorium on hyperscale facilities.
A workshop in Chuy brought together participants from Rocha, Treinta y Tres, Lavalleja and Maldonado to connect weather data with lived territorial experience. It is the first of three sessions under the 2026–2030 Gender and Climate Change Action Plan.
Afghanistan recorded at least 31 deaths, Chattogram received 412.3 millimeters in 24 hours and more than 890,000 people were evacuated in Guangdong. Warming increases available moisture, while vulnerable housing, crops and infrastructure turn heavy rain into disaster.
North Wales and the Upper Severn basin officially entered drought after receiving less than 2% of expected July rainfall, with rivers at record lows, fires still burning and mounting damage to habitats, crops and wildlife.
The municipality of Zárate, in northern Buenos Aires province, is preparing for a potential historic rise in the Paraná River due to the imminent arrival of a "Super Niño." With temperature anomalies of up to 7 degrees in the Pacific, the phenomenon could surpass the events of 1997 and 2015, and resemble that of 1877-1878, with impacts on the Río de la Plata Basin between October and February.
At the midpoint of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, specialists set out seven recommendations for projects to better integrate scientific data, local knowledge, flexible financing and adaptive management.
Preliminary assessments of the June heatwave recorded at least 12,000 additional deaths in Europe and a sharp rise in excess mortality during the most critical week. The episode shows that warnings, health plans, urban adaptation and protection for vulnerable people must be treated as essential infrastructure.
A subpolar Atlantic region south of Greenland and Iceland is cooling while much of the planet warms. Recent studies link that signal to changes in ocean heat transport and reinforce the need to monitor the AMOC without simplified diagnoses or alarmism.