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Three months after the second inauguration of President Donald Trump, the new administration dismissed hundreds of scientists and authors who were at work on the National Climate Assessment.

The Energy Department is using an emergency provision of the Federal Power Act, Section 202(c), to order coal plants to run past their retirement dates. Orders that may conflict with environmental law expire after 90 days but can be renewed, and the 2026 list runs to 61 entries. On September 11 the D.C. Circuit vacated the order that kept Michigan’s J.H. Campbell plant open, but the department keeps issuing orders. Oil and gas workers face a different squeeze: extraction employment fell to 114,500 in June with production near a record. The orders settle whether a plant runs. They leave open what happens to the people who run it.

Spain’s summer of 2026 has shown how dangerous extreme heat and wildfires can be. Thousands of fires have damaged forests, threatened communities and raised concerns about the effects of climate change. According to Spain’s Ministry of the Interior, by September 29 the country had recorded 8,122 forest-fire incidents, with 275,209 hectares (680,056 acres ) of land burned.

Coldplay puts sustainability at the forefront of their world tour, using innovative energy-producing practices such as a power-producing dance floor to combat the high-emission live music industry.

Record-breaking heat and extreme fire activity made this year one of Europe’s worst wildfire seasons in recent history. 1840 fires have burned over 634,473 hectares in the EU so far, more than double the average of the last 20 years, leading to thousands of evacuations across the continent and at least 14 deaths.

On July 13, President Trump announced he is reducing the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah by 90%, which many argue is illegal without Congressional approval. This will leave 3 million acres unprotected and susceptible to uranium mining, oil drilling and more.

So far this year, over 45,000 wildfires have burned more than 12 million acres across the U.S. and Canada, and it’s only July. The U.S. has seen more wildfires so far this year than any January to July in the past decade. The ever-worsening climate crisis increases the risk of wildfires, the length of wildfire season, and limits responders’ ability to contain the fires.

Climate change has fundamentally reshaped global human mobility, acting as a dominant and accelerating force behind mass displacement. Unpredictable weather patterns, rising sea levels, and catastrophic extreme heat are rendering vast swaths of the planet uninhabitable. A nearly 2026 report from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reveals that almost 120 million people are displaced globally, with a staggering 75 percent residing in countries facing high-to-extreme exposure to climate-related hazards.

In early February 2026, the Federal Judicial Centre removed a chapter explaining climate science from the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. Judges used this manual to evaluate scientific testimony in U.S. courtrooms. The removal was prompted after Republican state attorneys argued that the chapter presented climate science in a manner that could influence litigation against fossil fuel companies. The chapter,