Climate Science Digest: October 29, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (October 29, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. Environmental shifts are pushing endangered reptiles to the brink of extinction...

Environmentalists are strengthening cooperation with the German society for international cooperation

A signing ceremony for protocols to Memoranda of understanding on two regional programs of the German society for international cooperation (GIZ) – «Climate risk management in Central Asia» and «Integrated and climate-sensitive land use in Central...

Climate doom claims ‘go well beyond the science’, says leading environmentalist

Leading environmentalist and Breakthrough Institute Executive Director Ted Nordhaus has warned that much of the global conversation around climate change has become detached from scientific reality, saying alarmist rhetoric about planetary...

Heat-related deaths rise due to climate change - report

The warming effects of climate change have seen the rate of heat-related deaths surge 23% since the 1990s - to over 546,000 a year - according to the ninth Lancet Countdown Report on Health and Climate Change. This year's report said the continued...

Climate inaction is claiming millions of lives, warns new report

The average annual heatwave days in 2020–24 by country. Image: Lancet WHO and global partners are calling for the protection of people’s health to be recognised as the most powerful driver of climate action, as a new global report released today...

Climate Disasters Drive Stronger Adaptation in Africa, GCA Finds

New Resilient Economies Index shows countries with most disasters lead in climate policy African countries that have suffered the most from climate-related disasters are showing the greatest resilience in adapting to future risks, according to the...

Climate change raising insurance rates, local experts say

On Monday night at Missouri River Regional Library, two local experts sought to explain what is driving up insurance rates. The culprit, overwhelmingly, is climate change, they agreed. The prevalence of severe weather events across the county have...

Climate change won’t end civilisation, says Bill Gates

WASHINGTON – Climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise”, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has said in a long memo in which he argued that tackling global disease and poverty will help prepare the planet’s poorest for a warming world....

Climate Bonds Initiative: ‘Integrity remains the number one concern for investors’

Sean Kidney, CEO and co-founder of the Climate Bonds Initiative talks to PA Future‘s Natalie Kenway about innovation, the evolution of the green bond market and where he sees the the green bond universe heading in the next two to three years. Q:...

Climate fund backs $6 billion Jordan water project with its largest deal

LONDON/AMMAN - The world's largest multilateral climate fund has made its largest financial commitment to date to help build a $6 billion water desalination project in Jordan, its top executive said. The Green Climate Fund's backing comes ahead of...

Climate fund backs $6bln Jordan water project with its largest deal

LONDON/AMMAN - The world's largest multilateral climate fund has made its largest financial commitment to date to help build a $6 billion water desalination project in Jordan, its top executive said. The Green Climate Fund's backing comes ahead of...

Climate dollars eyed to backfill Washington wildfire funding

Washington’s lands commissioner, Dave Upthegrove, is on a mission to secure $60 million of additional wildfire funding in next year’s legislative session, despite a tightening budget outlook. On Monday, he and a leading Democratic House lawmaker...

Climate change driving up costs in remote communities

Climate Action Evanston hosts ‘OAKtober’ with native species plantings

Kneeling in a wooded area of Harbert-Payne Park, a 13.5-acre city park nestled along the bank of the North Shore Channel, 4th Ward resident Allison Sloan pinched the leaves of a young buckthorn shrub with her pink gardening gloves. Its round...

Environment Minister Murray Watt in tough talks with Bureau of Meteorology over website debacle

Australia’s national weather agency is reviewing its recent website upgrade after the minister raised “significant” community complaints over it. The Bureau of Meteorology came under fire on Monday as powerful storms smashed parts of Queensland...

Climate finance for urban resilience

Heavy rainfall and floods continue to plague Thailand's cities. A trifecta of heavier-than-usual rainfall exacerbated by the La Niña weather pattern, unsafe overcapacities at major dams, and unusually high sea tides is a stern reminder of how...

CFM closes largest emerging market climate adaptation infrastructure fund

Climate Fund Managers (CFM), a climate-focused blended finance investment manager, has announced the final close of its second blended finance facility, Climate Investor Two (CI2), at nearly $1.07-billion. With new commitments of $190-million plus...

EarthTalk: Renters At Greater Risk From Climate Change

Climate change poses a growing threat to human civilization by rapidly altering our environment and increasing the frequency, intensity, and destructiveness of natural disasters. Our homes are at the forefront of these challenges, facing rising...

Marathon records less likely because of climate change

Climate change is reducing the chances of runners breaking marathon records, new research claims. The study by US-based non-profit organisation Climate Central said rising temperatures "have made record-breaking runs in some races nearly...

Rizwana: Global commitments on climate finance must be fulfilled

Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and the Ministry of Water Resources, has urged developed nations to honour their climate finance commitments, warning that the survival of climate-vulnerable...