relevant headline links Weds with catoon

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AO
Colorado county preparing for wildfires with 21,000-gallon water tanks

AP
FBI seizing evidence at California plant where chemical tank overheated and forced evacuations  too bad no one trusts them to do the right thing
Solar power hits new milestones in the US even as Trump boosts coal over clean energy

Arizona Republic
California farmer in line to lead water agency as river crisis worsens

Aspen Public Radio
The Colorado River is at a tipping point, as states, feds look for a way forward

Aspen Times
How is drought impacting Western Slope communities, industries?

Carbon Brief
Guest post: How a record-high ‘energy imbalance’ is driving global warming

Colorado Politics
Colorado governor signs bill requiring pollution controls, cost reporting for extended coal operations

Colorado Sun
Northern Water wins some, loses some on its $2.7 billion dams project   More cities have dropped out, but Fort Collins may now be interested in order to avoid pricey Halligan expansion

Coyote Gulch
Data centers = heat factories: #DoloresRiver rambling; Forecasters call for sultry summer — Jonathan P. Thompson (LandDesk.org)
And here’s the thing: closed loop water systems are 100% possible. They just require a bit more investment — Katherine Hayhoe
The Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI) shows intense vegetation stress due to drought in the Southeast, parts of the High Plains, and to a lesser extent in other parts of the US — Denise Gutzmer

CPR
As drought deepens, a Colorado ranching family prays for rain

Cronkiter News
Arizona faces 77% cut in share of Colorado River as states remain deadlocked over water allocation

Desert Sun
California is conserving Colorado River water, but not some states

Esquire
Trump’s Following Every Last Climate-Destroying Detail of Project 2025

Grist
UN officials urge Russia to free Indigenous climate advocate
For first time, Americans are getting more of their electricity from solar than coal

High Country News
Billions in border wall contracts are going to a Montana firm run by a Trump donor

HuffPost
Dems Blast Trump Admin’s DOGE After Flesh-Eating Parasite Makes A Return

Illinois News Bureau
Global rice production nearly doubled despite climate change, driven largely by human management

Iron County Today
Utah, Wyoming Senators and Governors Meet on Colorado River Negotiations

KDVR
Douglas County gives inside look to proposed 'off highway vehicle' ordinance
Colorado county preparing for wildfires with 21,000-gallon water tanks

KJCT
Colorado monitors screwworm outbreak as cases confirmed in Texas and New Mexico

KUSA
Demonstration gardens offer creative solutions to conserving water

LaPorte Noth Forty News
Endangered Dace Stocked on Pawnee Grassland

Las Vegas Review Journal
In turbulent times, Trump admin picks Colorado River czar

LA Times
Rivian begins deliveries of cheaper electric vehicles
'It's an injustice': Shrinking state funds could slow fixes for Californians with toxic water

MSN
Colorado declares phase 3 drought emergency as conditions worsen
Trump said 'climate change is the greatest con ever' and experts responded – in-depth analysis

NY Times
A ‘Sultry’ Shift: Heat Creeps Into the Northeast
The movement to stop data centers

Welcome to the Era of Me-First Energy  The Iran war is pushing countries to prioritize domestic energy in order to protect themselves from volatile oil and natural gas markets.

Phys.org  
Hurricane rainfall and landslide risk are on the rise in Southern California
Global warming hit 1.37°C in 2025, with Earth accumulating heat at an accelerating rate
Coastal land shifts reveal faster local sea level rise than expected
How ice-age sea-level falls may have turned seafloor volcanoes into ocean fertilizer
Cool Routes' finds cooler walking paths with hourly forecasts and street-level shade data
'Atmospheric scrubbing' could reduce cooling effects of stratospheric aerosol injections
Extreme coastal flooding surges worldwide as rising seas rewrite 100-year odds
Demolishing homes after climate disasters can be devastating. Here's how we reused precious materials
Odds climb for record El Niño as 75% of models predict 2.5C warming
Greater international cooperation is needed to achieve the UN's global forest goals
Retreating glaciers increase iceberg sightings and reshape deep-sea habitats
How 'undone science' shaped Chile's glacier protection battle
Freshwater boundary breach deepens as climate and land use amplify extremes
Tyndall's Trail of Bergs: Ice splintered off southern Patagonia glacier drifts across a growing glacial lake

Popular Information
How data centers are blowing a hole in state budgets

Science Daily
A classic brain test exposed AI's biggest weakness
An invisible forever chemical rain is falling across the planet

SDG Knowledge Hub
Agrifood Experts Give Inputs to IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report
The Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue in the Implementation Era

Semafor
The case for data centers in space
Gas project forecast to lift Mozambique's economy
Foxconn to invest in Vietnam green energy  another company proven to lie
Poorer nations face fertilizer hit as prices soar
Global wholesale inflation grows amid rising energy costs

Sopris Sun
Release of federal funds brings Shoshone Water Rights purchase closer to completion

Summit Daily
Polis makes five appointments to Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission

Truthout
Trump Administration Is Turning Ocean Into a Gas Station and Garbage Dump, Expert Say

Your Wyoming Link
Wyoming, Utah government leaders discuss future of Colorado River Basin

Washington Post
10 Democratic senators demand answers on Trump’s use of national park fees
Oceans are warming, but scientists are concerned about this cold blob

Wired
China Opens World's First Wind-Powered Underwater Data Center

Wyoming Public Media
Colorado and Nevada negotiators throw cold water on parts of federal plan to manage Colorado River

Yahoo
The Cities Damaged Most By Climate Change; 3 Are In The U.S.

The Guardian
When is rare good news on climate science actually bad? When News Corp misrepresents it | Temperature Check
Trump targeting immigrants from countries hit most by climate shocks
Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown

World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report finds  JP Morgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say
Toby Carvery to pay to replant lost orchard in settlement for felling 500-year-old oak  could do that to the current administration for destroying sacred sites and habitat along the border and elsewhere?
‘Every day it’s more barriers’: how the US is shutting out climate refugees

The rightwing campaign to control how US judges view the climate crisis
Big agriculture is killing our bees. We’ll all pay the price | Jennie Durant
Pollinators in peril: scientists reveal the hidden human health costs of the world’s disappearing bees
More than half of clean energy schemes needed for Labour’s 2030 target offered grid connection
Super-rich’s assets cause outsized amount of climate harm, study says
Cattle in England to get tuberculosis vaccine from 2030 as badger cull to end
Bycatch has ‘shocking’ toll on British marine life, first-ever analysis reveals

BBC
'Worrying' pollution in Cotswolds river - volunteers
The fight to stop animals dying in fishing nets
'Our nature project has been amazing for wildlife'

RNZ
One-in-100-year coastal floods now happening twice a year in Wellington - study

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