Today in climate change (26 September 2025)

Please find below links to recent climate change news…

Exploring the associations of weather and climate with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review https://bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/3/2/e001805

Australia’s main grid hits record renewable share of 78.6 pct, one state reaches 155 pct wind and solar https://reneweconomy.com.au/australias-main-grid-hits-new-renewable-record-share-of-77-9-per-cent-driven-by-rooftop-pv/

Bushfire deaths increase if climate change not reduced https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/am/bushfire-deaths-increase-if-climate-change-not-reduced/105792382

Europe’s climate refugees: The Greek communities wiped off the map https://www.politico.eu/article/europes-climate-refugees-the-greek-villages-wiped-off-the-map/

Indicators of climate change and environmental degradation https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/foresight/topic/climate-change-environmental-degradation/indicators-climate-change-environmental-degradation_en

Why COP30 must confront the widening climate reality gap https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/09/cop30-must-confront-climate-reality-gap/

Climate Summit 2025 https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/climate-summit-2025

Climate change is fast shrinking the world’s largest inland sea https://phys.org/news/2025-09-climate-fast-world-largest-inland.html

Solar Energy in the North May Work Better Than Previously Thought https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/solar-energy-north-may-work-better-previously-thought

Climate change linked to landslide that buried Swiss village https://phys.org/news/2025-09-climate-linked-landslide-swiss-village.html

Droughts Sync Up as the Climate Changes https://eos.org/research-spotlights/droughts-sync-up-as-the-climate-changes

Half of the annual precipitation falls in fewer and fewer days https://www.climatechangepost.com/news/half-of-the-annual-precipitation-falls-in-fewer-and-fewer-days/

More than 50,000 heat-related deaths in Europe’s recent summers https://www.climatechangepost.com/news/more-than-50000-heat-related-deaths-in-europes-recent-summers/

Extreme weather and climate change impacts hit Africa hard https://www.preventionweb.net/news/extreme-weather-and-climate-change-impacts-hit-africa-hard

Canada, major fossil-fuel producers widen gap between output and climate targets: report https://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/573729/Canada-major-fossil-fuel-producers-widen-gap-between-output-and-climate-targets-report

Climate change tripled heat-related deaths in early summer European heatwave https://www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/publications/all-publications/climate-change-tripled-heat-related-deaths-in-early-summer-european-heatwave.php

Dangerous climate change threatens Northern Australia’s big ‘food bowl’ dreams https://theconversation.com/dangerous-climate-change-threatens-northern-australias-big-food-bowl-dreams-265727

Running dry: New study warns of extreme water scarcity in the coming decades https://phys.org/news/2025-09-dry-extreme-scarcity-decades.html

New Research Answers Lingering Questions About Siberia’s Exploding Tundra https://gizmodo.com/new-research-answers-lingering-questions-about-siberias-exploding-tundra-2000659562

From drought to deluge: WMO report highlights increasingly erratic water cycle https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/from-drought-deluge-wmo-report-highlights-increasingly-erratic-water-cycle

Is flooding under climate change more predictable than we thought? https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1099151

Rivers in the Sky, Arctic Warming, and What this Means for the Greenland Ice Sheet https://today.uconn.edu/2025/09/rivers-in-the-sky-arctic-warming-and-what-this-means-for-the-greenland-ice-sheet/

Heatwaves in US rivers increasing up to four times faster than air heatwaves https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/heatwaves-us-rivers-increasing-four-times-faster-air-heatwaves

Unlivable: Confronting extreme urban heat in Latin America and the Caribbean https://www.preventionweb.net/publication/documents-and-publications/unlivable-confronting-extreme-urban-heat-latin-america-and

How Vanuatu is facing up to rising climate risks https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/09/23/how-vanuatu-is-facing-up-to-rising-climate-risks/

Who moves under climate stress https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-025-00732-4

By 2100, unchecked climate change could slash global GDP per capita by up to 24% https://phys.org/news/2025-09-unchecked-climate-slash-global-gdp.html

Australia’s horrifying climate future in four charts – and how we can avoid the worst https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/25/australias-horrifying-climate-future-in-four-charts-and-how-we-can-avoid-the-worst

Simpler models can outperform deep learning at climate prediction https://phys.org/news/2025-08-simpler-outperform-deep-climate.html

Pathways for prevention of cascading tipping points https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02662-x

What Powered the World in 2024? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/what-powered-the-world-in-2024/

Heat Stress Is a Major Driver of India’s Kidney Disease Epidemic https://e360.yale.edu/features/india-kidney-disease-climate-outdoor-workers

How cities are beating the heat https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/25/world/europe/cities-heat-solutions-climate-crisis.html

Asynchronous abrupt warming across Eurasia since the 1980s https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-025-01209-3

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