BBC World
Australia's giant cuttlefish mating season hit a record low with a 97% plunge, likely due to a toxic algal bloom - proving that even cephalopods can't catch a break in a warming world.
Grist
Nepal's flash flood kills 160 as glaciers retreat, scientists confirm that warming ice is indeed unstable, and a 2,000-foot ice chunk falls 4,000 feet, because gravity.
The Guardian
West Point fires its only climate scientist for teaching climate science, proving that ignorance is now a military strategy.
The Guardian
A Himalayan glacier collapse kills 360 and leaves 1,400 missing, confirming that climate change is now literally destabilising mountains - because what else could go wrong?
The Guardian Europe
After 60 years, a hiker gets his backpack back from a melting glacier - proof that climate change is great for lost-and-found, terrible for everything else.
The Guardian Europe
Nepal's flood death toll hits 353, a new lake threatens to burst, and climate change probably had a hand in it - because why not?
BBC World
Algeria's wildfires kill 12 as North Africa swelters, and even camels are saying 'nope' to this heat.
The Atlantic
NIPSCO finally restores power to 99% of Gary after a derecho, but the other 1% can still enjoy the authentic blackout experience - and the city's infrastructure problems remain as glaring as ever.
The Guardian
Europe's leaders respond to record heatwaves with a collective shrug, preferring to discuss air conditioning than the actual crisis.
The Guardian
Josephine County is America's wildfire smoke capital, where residents live in a convection oven and love it anyway - because, you know, art and magic.
The Guardian
Woodside Energy kills its climate targets, banks war profits, and says 'different market context' - which is corporate for 'we choose money over planet'.
BBC World
In drought-stricken Bundelkhand, India's caste system makes getting a drink of water even more of a scorching ordeal.
The Guardian
A BBC panel audience wants to talk climate, but a Tory MP's lines evaporate faster than summer rain - because there is no summer rain.
The Guardian
A brain-eating amoeba crashes an eight-year-old's birthday party in Louisiana, because the climate crisis is now serving up deadly microbes in new locations.
Ars Technica
Volcanoes have been ruining harvests, toppling empires, and inspiring art for centuries - and scientists are finally connecting the dots.
The Guardian
France's wildfires burned record land and displaced thousands, but the roots go back to Napoleon III's pine plantations - now a flammable nightmare made worse by climate change.
The Guardian
Colorado's chubby rodents get their own voting contest to fund research, because apparently bears aren't enough.
The Guardian
Delaware beaches are a jellyfish gauntlet this summer, with hundreds of daily stings and lifeguards avoiding the water - because apparently, getting stung is now a guarantee.
BBC Politics
Greenpeace paints giant climate message on wildfire-scorched mountain; locals respond with rakes and a healthy dose of 'how dare you'.
Grist
New research reveals that drought can actually boost certain infectious diseases like cholera and West Nile virus, because nature loves a good paradox.
The Good Times
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