Heatwaves and melting ice
Record June heat brings red warnings to south east England while much of Europe deals with the extreme temperatures.
Red warning for south-east England after record June heat; 150 million Europeans to experience temperatures above 35C today – Europe heatwave live
Paris to ban drinking alcohol in public as police ask organisers to cancel city’s Pride march; First time red warnings issued in UK for three consecutive days
Jakub Krupa and Taz Ali and Joanna Partridge
Switzerland's glaciers have run out of snow reserves, so every drop of meltwater now leads to more ice loss.
Swiss glaciers have exhausted their snow reserves
From June 29 onward, Switzerland’s glaciers will have exhausted their snow reserves. Every liter of meltwater now causes them to lose mass—this is Glacier Loss Day. Between the extreme years of 2003 and 2022 alone, 200 square kilometers of ice—an area almost as large as the canton of Zug—have disappeared. This is reflected in the volume of meltwater, as analyses show: Although ice loss was more severe in the summer of 2022 than in 2003, less water flowed off the glaciers.
Stephanie Kusma
Renewable energy PPA prices might double after the July 4 tax credit cliff. It may be worth looking into now before costs rise.
Renewable energy PPA prices could more than double after the July 4 tax credit cliff, warns LevelTen - pv magazine USA
With the OBBBA’s July 4 construction deadline arriving, developers warn that waiting out the market will lead to a high no-tax-credit premium, with some ERCOT PPA prices projected to more than double.
Ryan Kennedy
There is a growing effort to protect prime farmland from being turned into data centers across the US.
Data Centers Have a Farmland Problem, Too
It’s not just renewables anymore.
Jael Holzman
More lawsuits are popping up as people try to protect the climate laws we already have in place.
Trump’s ‘Unprecedented’ Regulatory Rollbacks Fuel Surge in Protective Climate Lawsuits - Inside Climate News
With President Trump’s intensified attacks on climate policy during his second term, lawsuits challenging U.S. federal actions drove global climate litigation, a new analysis shows.
Derek Harrison
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