The festival of leftfield electronic music returns to Central London next month for its second edition

Soho Electronic, the Central London festival championing leftfield electronic music, will return for its second edition next month.

More than 30 artists are scheduled to play across four stages on and around Dean Street, with the likes of Nik Colk Void and Mark Van Hoen, otherwise known as Locust, set to make appearances. The festival will also host sets from reel-to-reel tape manipulator Howlround, Sculpture, Sonny E (FKA Adamski) and Agnes Haus, in addition to our very own Reviews Editor, Bobby Barry.

Alongside the aforementioned acts, the full lineup includes live sets from Axon, Death Magazine 52, Artificially Yours, Lifeloose, E.M.Arson, kWeRk + Ch20, Disinformation, Xuanni_Space, Dom...

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Top defense officials are expressing increasing worry about the vulnerability of U.S. bases around the world and even within the United States as cheap drone technology upends long-standing defense strategies.

The fear is mounting after a series recent attacks and threats against ground targets, including the destruction of key bases in the Middle East by Iran, plots against mega-bases in Europe, including to U.S. bombers at a British air base, and a Russian campaign that damaged European military facilities, according to two government officials.

While the Pentagon is notorious for inflating threats to press for additional funding, the officials stressed that the anxiety is real, not invented. Despite the U.S. military's enormous budget, they say, the United States now finds itself scrambling strengthen its fortifications, protect its costly equipment, and recall personnel from some locations.

"Now all the world knows what the SecDef should have," said one of the officials.

Foreign adversaries have taken notice of Iran's ability to defeat U.S. air defenses using missiles and drones, they said. The officials drew specific attention to Tehran's ability to damage or destroy bases that have been the key to U.S. power-projection and war-making for decades in the Middle East.

An Iranian missile and drone attack on February 28 destroyed Navy facilities in Manama, Bahrain, the region's most critical logistics hub. The Combined Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, was severely damaged by Iranian missiles early in the war, rendering it inoperable. Both were recently attacked again, raising questions about whether either will ever be rebuilt. The destruction of these bases has fundamentally altered America's future force posture in the region, according to the officials. One of them called it a "seismic shift."

On Friday, the Trump administration leaked highly classified intelligence to Fox News and Axios suggesting Iran has "substantially increased" efforts to target U.S. diplomats and other officials in the Middle East and beyond. The October 23 memo claimed that "the lethal plotting efforts by the Iranians against U.S. citizens have reached advanced stages." A U.S. official confirmed the accuracy of the intelligence but questioned the motives of the "official leak," suggesting it's part of a case being built to justify renewing the failed war.

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The leak came as the State Department ordered a further reduction in staff at multiple diplomatic posts across the Middle East, including in Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. One of the officials said the move "definitely" spoke to America's inability to defend its assets overseas. Those fears now extend to the United States, according to the officials.

Last month, buried in an unhinged address to troops in which he attacked the press and those within the military he calls beardos, weirdos, and wimps, self-styled War Secretary Pete Hegseth tacitly acknowledged the vulnerability of U.S. domestic bases, noting that the Pentagon was now "hardening every installation on American soil" against "sabotage and drones." And last week, the Pentagon quietly began seeking advice on new ways to protect bases by using innovative advanced materials, camouflaging facilities, obscuring their thermal and electromagnetic signatures, hiding them underground, and making them more resilient in the face of successful attack by adversaries, according to a special notice issued by a top Pentagon official.

As the Pentagon refines this "base of the future" concept, Iran is teasing a "war of the future" effort that builds on its successes in throttling the Strait of Hormuz, regionalizing the war, and battering U.S. bases, according to Mahdi Mohammadi, a senior adviser to Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the lead negotiator and speaker of Parliament. "The second generation of surprises will be on their way; at the time and place of our choosing, in the manner we have devised, and with the creativity that only our unparalleled fighters can muster," he wrote on X, teasing how Iran would respond if America ramps up the war.

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Iran's successful attacks on U.S. bases have added to the growing realization that foreign adversaries, proxies, terror groups, and lone wolf actors can use low-cost, easily obtained drones to attack the military bases, aircraft, and military personnel of the U.S. and its allies.

While Iran dominated the headlines for months, officials became increasingly worried about danger from Russian attacks. "When do we stop calling it gray zone?" asked a third official briefed on the intelligence, referring to a Russian drone attack on a massive air freighter, used to carry military assistance to Ukraine, at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany in August. One drone hit the cargo plane but failed to explode, another struck a different aircraft, and a third was found near the airport. "That's what Putin always does. He keeps testing us, pushing us, to see how far he can go," said the official. That official and another said that the intelligence proved there was "no question" that Russia was behind the operations. Russia has denied responsibility.

The August drone attack was part of a monthslong campaign of nonstop sabotage, cyberattacks, and psychological operations against NATO nations. "These were happening in sequence from earlier in the year, through August, through September and they didn't show any signs of stopping," said the third official. But the attacks slowed or stopped after President Donald Trump announced earlier this month that the United States would buy Russian diesel in an effort to bring down fuel prices before the midterm elections and called on Ukraine to stop striking oil Russian refineries.

The officials noted that Pentagon leadership has been slow to respond to the changing nature of warfare, specifically drawing attention to tactics honed by Ukraine in its war with Russia. Earlier this month, for example, intelligence suggested that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was planning a complex drone attack on U.S. B-1 bombers used to attack Iran, and U.S. personnel at Royal Air Force Fairford air base. The plot, they said, was to launch small drones from just beyond the bases' fenceline, attacking the supersonic bombers, which were not in hardened shelters but in the open on the tarmac. They noted that the plot appeared to be patterned on a Ukrainian attack, dubbed Operation Spider's Web, against Russia last year. The plot so unnerved top military officials that the bombers were flown out while some aerial refueling aircraft were still being deployed to support their panicked flights back to the U.S. In addition to RAF Fairford, U.S. officials referenced additional threats against other bases in Europe, including Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

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Last August, Hegseth established Joint Interagency Task Force 401 to deliver "C-sUAS" or counter-small unmanned aircraft system "capabilities to America's warfighters, [to] defeat adversary threats, and promote sovereignty over national airspace." But an inspector general report from January said "immediate attention" was required to protect the most critical bases in the U.S. against drones and noted that Pentagon "documents contradict one another and do not speak to certain aspects of C-UAS authorities and capabilities." The IG found also that key "military installations, government-owned, contractor-operated facilities, and contractor-owned, contractor-operated facilities conducting critical missions" were not even designated for protection.

In March, small drones flew over Louisiana's Barksdale Air Force Base, the home of Global Strike Command which oversees America's bomber fleet and its intercontinental-ballistic missiles. And the IG report mentions "10 DoD installations and activities where Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) incursions have occurred."

Late last month, the Air Force awarded a contract for counter-drone systems for Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey. The military has also been looking into drone-killing technologies to defend Yokota Air Base in Tokyo, Japan; Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota; Battle Creek Air National Guard Base in Michigan; and Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina, among other facilities.

Two of the officials suggested that new Pentagon plans for military base modernization are rooted in an uneasy acknowledgment that U.S. outposts around the world — including within the continental United States — are increasingly vulnerable to complex and asymmetric attacks. A recent Pentagon inspector general report revealed Iranian strikes "damaged and destroyed hundreds of buildings and structures at U.S. bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman, and Jordan during the conflict." 

Hegseth's office did not respond to multiple requests for comment by The Intercept.

One U.S. official told The Intercept that the cost of repairing and rebuilding these Middle East outposts could be "upwards of $50 million," but said the "real cost" might be "far higher." The Pentagon, however, refuses to disclose the price tag of the damage, which has only been shared in a classified briefing.

"The American people deserve to know the full cost of the Trump administration's unauthorized war against Iran. Even if DoD has not yet determined which facilities it is planning to rebuild, disclosing these costs represents the bare minimum transparency DoD owes the public," wrote Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumentha, Mazie Hirono, Tammy Duckworth, and Gary Peters in a recent letter to Adm. Brad Cooper, the chief of Central Command. CENTCOM did not reply to a request from The Intercept for the total cost.

Last week, the Pentagon quietly began seeking information for "near-term" procurement and long-term modernization strategies to "move past traditional 'pour-concrete-and-hope' hardening" of its facilities and increase the "survivability of these installations under kinetic and multi-domain threats," according to a special notice from the office of Dale R. Marks, the assistant secretary of war for energy, installations, and environment.

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Following the destruction of NSA Manama and Al Udeid Air Base, the Pentagon is seeking ways to promote "operational capability and survivability under kinetic impact," by employing decentralized energy grids, "autonomous backup utility systems," innovative base layouts, and modular structures. Recognizing the need to "protect assets and personnel from kinetic impacts, thermal effects, and blast overpressures," the military is looking at ways to harden facilities. This means employing advanced construction methods involving metamaterials designed for surviving air attack, energy-dissipating composites, self-healing materials, and "novel concrete formulations." 

The U.S. is also seeking ways to lower the profile or conceal the location of its bases through technological means. This includes camouflaging facilities and integrating them into the natural environment to make them more difficult to spot, masking their thermal and electromagnetic signatures, and creating decoy structures to draw fire. 

Beyond the use of "terrain-integrated facility design," the U.S. is also seeking to take its most sensitive facilities deep below ground. Increased vulnerabilities to aerial attack have led to a reemergence and increased reliance on subterranean warfare in the Russia-Ukraine war, harkening back to World War I trench warfare and the use of massive underground tunnel networks and bases by Vietnamese forces in the American war.

Iran, for its part, uses underground facilities to shield its missile and nuclear programs. The Pentagon, according to the documents, is interested in new methods of "high-speed tunneling," the rapid creation of protected caverns, and "shock-isolated underground structural design[s]."

Last week's quiet plea from the Pentagon follows an announcement by Hegseth of a FORTRESS America initiative that he calls a "national insurance policy for the American homeland." One former Pentagon analyst, however, said it sounded more like "cutting America and Americans loose" in the event of a major conflagration, tying it to Hegseth's belief that the military is a warrior elite superior to civilians.

"Every major military installation in America is going to generate its own power. Independent of the civilian grid. If an adversary takes down the grid by cyberattack, by sabotage, by any means, our bases stay lit. Our aircraft keep flying. Our command centers never go dark," said Hegseth, explaining the FORTRESS concept. "We are building long overdue strategic reserves deep enough to fight through disruption. Think munitions. Fuel. Medicine. Blood. Deep enough that if the world's supply lines break, and in a real war, they are going to break — America keeps fighting anyway."

The former advisor said that Hegseth's plan appeared to send a message to 99 percent of the American public: "It sounds as if he is saying to people 'fuck off and you're on your own.'"

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It is hard to write a book in the second person. It is even harder to make it this good. It would have been easier to write a salacious cash-in with a dozen shocking revelations in each chapter. Instead, Andrew Hankinson attempts to use Raoul Moat's own words to build up a picture of the man.

You have nine days and your whole life to prove you are more than a callous murderer.

Go.

It is written with sympathy, but without being sympathetic. A stream of consciousness interrupted only occasionally by the voice of god [it probably isn't god] to provide clarity to an unreliable narrator. The paranoia and delusion come streaming off the page, couched in a tone of voice that exudes reasonableness. It doesn't glorify the man, nor does it make excuses for him, instead it asks you to consider what you choices you could have made under similar circumstances.

Almost every sentence is set up as a challenge to the reader. Is this man telling the truth? If so, are his actions understandable or explainable? If not, where is the truth and how would you know? When someone has such a fundamental disconnect from reality, when their model of the world and human interactions is so broken, what can society do to help?

From Moat's point of view, he is the Biblical Job. A callous god tests and torments him. Beset by challenges he never loses faith even after the all the world can throw at him. The god [in parentheses] is also an unreliable narrator. The author has built upon all the official reports, the suicide notes, the rambling messages, and interviews with contemporaries. But, as is acknowledged, we can never truly know what goes on in someone's head; we can only judge their actions and their aftermath.

A constant drumbeat is the way Moat claims he was repeatedly victimised by the police. Given all his other delusions, the reader might easily conclude that this is yet another piece of self-pitying nonsense. And yet, when discussing how Moat actually died there does appear to be a conspiracy of silence. The police's behaviour and attitudes are exactly what you would expect from people perpetrating a cover-up.

Naturally, this is a depressing and often upsetting read. It reminds me of the autobiography Mini and Me about a child arsonist. In both that book and this, we witness people being offered help and refusing it. Much like the parable of the drowning man it seems people often overlook the helping hand.

Are you responsible for this? The start of the book describes Moat reaching out for psychiatric help. He is offered an appointment but never turns up. He's offered another one, but still doesn't attend. Whereupon the offer of help is withdrawn. Our society strongly favours individual responsibility. Autonomy is to be persevered for all but the most extreme cases. Should Moat have been forcibly removed from home and made to attend his appointments?

Do you want to live in a society where missing a few meetings with a social worker results in you being detained against your will? Are you happy to accept his attacks as a price worth paying for your freedom?

If a journalist took words you'd written in the heat of the moment, would it paint you in a terrible light? How confident are you that you know the truth of any situation? Are you lying to yourself right now?

This is an excellent and provocative book. I picked this up after seeing Rob Manuel post about it. I like the idea of an informal online book club! If someone wants to set one up, please do invite me.

Last week Elon Musk arbitrarily started throttling the LEO (low-Earth orbit) satellite connections of Ukraine's military, preventing it from engaging in offensive and defensive operations. The decision blindsided the White House, caused significant financial and operational headaches for Ukraine, and created no shortage of bipartisan backlash.

After spending a week blaming one another, both the White House and Musk ultimately settled on the flimsy excuse that the throttling was because Ukraine had been violating Starlink's terms of service.

Regular Starlink terminals have automatic network throttling implemented if a connected vehicle operates in excess of 70 km/hr. Starshield — the significantly more expensive military variant — is supposed to have no cap, but was throttled by Musk if drones or vehicles exceed speeds of 90 km/hr, preventing Ukraine from conducting both defensive and offensive operations.

Musk of course knows that Starlink and Starshield alike are used for military operations, terrorism, and criminal activity planet-wide. Smuggled Starlink terminals are routinely used for all manner of military, criminal, and black-market operations. Ukraine had been using both Starshield and cobbled together black market Starlink solutions for years without issue. Why the sudden issue?

As a right wing extremist in alliance with global authoritarians, it seems most likely that Musk interfered to drive Ukraine into Moscow's arms for a negotiation in which they'll be expected to surrender significant territorial gains (something Musk has long openly advocated for).

The move came as the Trump admin temporarily suspended intelligence sharing with Ukraine and lifted Russia sanctions to allow for diesel imports from Moscow — something Trump hopes (falsely) will lower domestic gas prices and save him from an expected midterm bloodbath.

But it seems very likely Musk was also exploiting a crisis to upsell a country fighting for its life to a more expensive broadband plan (kind of like Verizon did to those California firefighters back in 2018).

Obviously Musk isn't keen on openly admitting he's a greedy, traitorous, and unstable national security threat, so he spent much of the last week defensively insisting he arbitrarily messed with Ukraine's satellite connectivity because he's so bravely anti-war. From a post to Musk's personal right wing propaganda website, X:

"Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week.

Starlink remains critical to the defense of Ukraine, as it is the only system that cannot be jammed or blown up, at least for now. Were Starlink to be turned off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately. This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact.

Starlink was also crucial to preventing Russia from overrunning Ukraine in the early days of the war, as all other means of communication were destroyed or jammed by Russia.

SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR.

That said, I have nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell.

End of story."

That non-threat is definitely a threat. Claiming the loophole is now "closed" also makes no sense, given that Ukraine says the limitations have been removed after significant bipartisan backlash, and there's no indication that Ukraine actually changed anything. What actually changed things was global, bipartisan, political pressure against Musk and the Trump administration for their ratfucking of an American ally.

Recall that Musk, at one point, had already restricted Ukraine's access to the service near Crimea because he personally opposed Ukraine's military aims (defending itself from unprovoked invasion by authoritarians). It's clear that Musk has a goal in mind, and it's not Ukraine regaining full territorial control after being invaded by an authoritarian neighbor.

Musk isn't anti-war as much as he is sympathetic to Putin (in perfect sync with his favorite politician) and keen on ensuring that if Starlink is used for war, the violent result is as profitable as possible.

Given the ugly nature of an unstable billionaire proving he's a national security threat, I'd suspect we'll see more investigations into this episode in the new year (especially if Republicans lose control of both the House and Senate). And countries worldwide are clearly accelerating their exploration and funding of numerous fledgling LEO Starlink alternatives to try and demuskify the planet.

Earlier this month I was in a Vietnamese restaurant near my office. As the waiter brought water, napkin, and chopsticks, he dropped the chopsticks (still in their paper wrapper) on the floor. So he picked up the chopsticks, returned them to the bin with all the other chopsticks ready for setting tables, and picked up a different pair from the same bin to bring to my table. I didn't say anything to the waiter; presumably this happens all the time, and there was a paper wrapper on them anyway.

Also this month, a resident of Key West, Florida noticed that an early voting site (Big Pine Community Park) had been left unlocked and unattended with the voting machines inside. The Supervisor of Elections removed those voting machines from the polling place, replaced them with other voting machines kept in reserve. And of course, the unattended voting machines will be "set aside as back-ups if needed". Reminds me of those chopsticks.

Seriously, there is nothing surprising here. It's long been known that voting machines tend to be left unattended in unlocked rooms before elections. Professor Ed Felten used to regularly visit regularly visit polling places before election day and photograph unattended voting machines. He wrote about it in 2006, 2008, 2008 again, 2009, and 2010.

Voting machines need to be delivered to polling places (early vote centers and election-day precincts) before the elections. Those polling places are distributed through the community: elementary school gymnasiums, church basements, community centers, town halls, public libraries. None of those places are owned by the Board of Elections, so the Supervisor of Elections has little control over who has keys to them.

This has serious cybersecurity implications. A hacker with unsupervised physical access to a voting machine could modify the data on the (removable) memory card to change votes, they could modify the election definition so that future ballots are counted incorrectly, or they modify the firmware so that the machine cheats in future elections. They might even be able to modify the data file that will be read by the county's central Election Management System (EMS) so that the EMS becomes infected with malware that spreads to machines throughout the county in the next election cycle. 

Some models of voting machine are more resistant to these attacks than others. Key West uses are Dominion voting machines, which are not very secure in this regard.

This is why we don't (or shouldn't) rely entirely on the cybersecurity of voting machines, for the trustworthiness of elections. Yes, voting machines do have some protections against tampering by people who obtain unsupervised physical access to them; but those protections are often weak. The best protection is the paper ballot, marked by the voter with a pen that's difficult to cyber-hack; counted by an optical-scan voting computer that retains the paper ballot.

But for the paper ballots to provide meaningful security, there must be procedures that go with them, standard in elections for well over 100 years: ensure the ballot box is empty just before voting starts; keep count of how many authorized voters deposit ballots, and check that count against the number of ballots in the box at the end of the day. The voting machine's "public counter" (showing the number of ballots scanned, according to the computer) should also match that number.

With vote centers open over multiple days, additional protections are needed for the paper ballots. Witnesses should record the public counter (on paper!) at the close of each day before the machines are locked away, and compare it to the public counter when they're unlocked the next morning. If it's grown by a few hundred, that would suggest ballot stuffing. (The public counter is shown on the optical-scanner's display, continuously throughout the election. It's also available on the printed poll-tape, but that poll-tape is available only after the polls close, so it's not useful for this purpose during the election.)

And what about tampering with the paper ballots in the (supposedly sealed) ballot box while it's stored overnight in the Community Center? What some election supervisors do is to empty out the ballot boxes each night at the close of polling, in bipartisan teams of pollworkers, putting those ballots into sealed pouches and transporting them to the Board of Elections vault. That way, one can verify each morning that the ballot box is empty, as it's supposed to be.

And finally, paper ballots sitting in a vault, transported there by careful chain of custody procedures, don't do any good if nobody ever looks at them. That's why Risk-Limiting Audits are essential: that is, statistically sound methods (by examining a well-chosen random sample of the paper ballots) that provide a quantifiable guarantee that the election outcome claimed by the computers is the same as you'd get by an accurate hand count of the paper ballots.

These are just a few examples of procedures used by security-conscious election administrators to ensure that vote centers and precinct polling places produce trustworthy results. I would like to think that these methods are used everywhere.

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• Surface mass balance
• Total mass balance
• Surface melt
• Snowfall
• Iceberg calving 
• The impact of global weather
• Three decades of decline
• Greenland in the global sea level picture

Greenland has now marked the 30th consecutive year where it lost more ice than it gained. 

This guest post is by:

Dr Martin Stendel, climate scientist at the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), part of the Polar Portal 

Prof Ruth Mottram, climate scientist at DMI and honorary professor at Aarhus University

Over the 12-month period to August 2026, the world's second-largest ice sheet lost around 135bn tonnes of ice. 

This major ice loss came as the region experienced a relatively cool start to summer and less surface melt than in previous years. 

In other words, it was not an "extreme" year for weather in Greenland - and, yet, the ice sheet ended firmly in the red.

Three decades of continuous ice loss in Greenland is significant, given that scientists typically need 30 years of data to separate the "fingerprint" of human-caused climate change from natural variations in the climate. 

In Greenland, the direction of travel has been the same - downward - every single year for 30 years.

These latest figures come as a new report highlights that ice melting processes seen for decades in Greenland are increasingly being replicated in Antarctica.

Greenland, therefore, is not only the largest present-day source of ice-driven sea level rise - but offers a preview of what is in store for the world's largest ice sheet. 

(For our previous analyses of Greenland's ice cover, see coverage in 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015.)

One way that scientists track the health of the Greenland ice sheet is by tracking changes to its "surface mass balance".

This is the difference between ice gains from snowfall and losses from melt at the surface of Greenland's ice sheet.

Greenland's annual ice cycle runs from 1 September through to the end of August. The surface mass balance at the end of this period has, to date, always been positive, because the surface accumulates more snow than it loses from melting ice.  

The ice sheet typically gains mass during the colder months of autumn, winter and spring. Then, as temperatures increase from around mid-June, the ice sheet begins to lose more ice through surface melt than it gains from snow. 

(Greenland also loses ice when icebergs break off - or "calve" - into the sea, as well when the front of glaciers melt when they meet warm sea water. These losses are included in the "total mass balance" - see below.)

Greenland ended 2025-26 with an overall surface mass balance of 519bn tonnes.

This is the sixth highest in a dataset stretching back 46 years and about 178bn tonnes above the 1981-2010 average of roughly 350bn tonnes.

The map below shows the difference between the surface mass balance in 2025-26 and the 1981-2010 average, where blue shows ice gain and red shows ice loss.

The blue lines in the charts below show the surface mass balance throughout 2025-26 for individual days (top) and cumulatively throughout the year (bottom). They highlight how Greenland gained ice between September 2025 and May 2026, before starting to lose ice from June onwards.

Another way scientists measure the health of the Greenland ice sheet is by looking at its "total mass balance".

This calculation accounts for ice loss at the surface, as well as the calving of icebergs and the melting of glacier fronts where they meet warm seawater. The latter two components are known as the "marine mass balance".

It also accounts for a small amount of ice melt at the underside of the ice sheet. This is known as the "basal mass balance".

In recent decades, Greenland's total mass balance at the end of the ice cycle year has been negative.

The 12 months to August 2026 were no different. Once all these factors are considered, Greenland lost around 135bn tonnes of ice.

We reached this figure using the same method featured in previous Carbon Brief analyses of Greenland ice cover. This approach is based on an average of three climate models. 

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However, for the first time, this year's update includes a separate estimate for Greenland ice loss, based on data from one climate model and automatic weather stations, satellites, GPS data and observations from planes.

This approach estimates that the ice sheet lost an even greater 173bn tonnes of ice over 2025-26.

(Scientific estimates for ice loss in Greenland vary because there is incomplete information about how thick the ice sheet is, how fast it is moving as well as the rate at which it is melting at the surface. Scientists use different approaches for accounting for these uncertainties.)

The chart below shows how Greenland's total mass balance has changed since 1985, featuring the higher 173bn estimate for the last ice cycle year. 

It shows how 2025-26 was the 30th consecutive year of ice loss in Greenland, with 1996 the last year that saw an annual net gain of ice.

The chart below shows how Greenland's surface mass balance, marine mass balance and basal mass balance have changed since 1985. All of these components are combined to calculate the ice sheet's total mass balance (red). 

Winter and early spring in 2025-26 were unusually dry in the southern half of Greenland, leaving around 40bn tonnes less snow on the ice sheet than normal. 

Dry winters typically mean high ice melt rates later on, given that heavier winter snowfall often acts as a protective shield that prevents ice loss in the early part of summer.

However, the relatively dry winter was followed by a relatively cool start of summer. Frequent snowfall and extensive cloud cover limited the sun's ability to warm the surface at the time of year when solar radiation is typically strongest. 

The onset of the melt season - the first of at least three consecutive days with melting over more than 5% of the ice sheet - occurred on 5 June, nine days later than the 1981-2010 average.

From the end of June, the weather in Greenland changed markedly, as warm, sunny conditions took hold. 

During the first 20 days of July, melting was well above the 1981-2020 average. At its peak on 22 July, melting covered 74.9% of the ice sheet. 

(For comparison, July 2025 holds the record for melt area in Greenland, when 81.2% of the continent was melting simultaneously.) 

However, the early season fresh snow in June helped to form a cold and bright buffer, reducing the subsequent summer ice melt and runoff.

The map below shows how roughly three-quarters of Greenland's ice sheet - shaded in red - was experiencing surface melt on 22 July. The chart shows how surface melt on that date (blue line) outpaced the 1981-2010 average (grey line and shading).

As mentioned above, snowfall is the only way for the ice sheet to gain mass.

Because the dry 2025-26 winter did not provide the usual thick layer of snow to act as a protective buffer, the ice sheet started the summer already "behind" on ice levels.

However, even though there was above-average melting during summer, the surface mass balance remained almost constant from mid-June to mid-July. It was only slightly smaller by the end of August.

This was because much of the melt trickled into the snow below and refroze.

South-east Greenland is typically the wettest part of the ice sheet and this year was no exception. Unlike other years though, there was also significant snowfall on the west coast north of Nuussuaq. 

Summer snowfall helps to preserve the ice sheet, as fresh snow is brighter than old glacier ice and reflects more of the sun's energy back to space. 

Increases in both snowfall and melt are in line with what scientists expect in a warming climate. Warmer air holds more water vapour, bringing more snow and rain, while higher temperatures drive more ice melt. 

The most dramatic ice loss of 2025-26 happened at Greenland's edges.

On 4 August, a vast tabular iceberg - an "ice island" with nearly vertical sides and a flat top - broke away from the floating ice tongue of Petermann glacier in north-west Greenland. 

More than 76 square kilometres (km2) in size, with an estimated thickness of 150 metres, the amount of water frozen in this iceberg would be enough to submerge the entirety of greater London to a depth of 6.65m. 

This was the largest loss of floating ice at the Petermann glacier since 2012 and the biggest calving event by any Arctic glacier since 2020. 

Similar breakoffs occurred in 2010 and 2012 and the current one had long been expected, given growing cracks in the glacier for several years. 

Scientists anticipate more calving events at the Petermann glacier. Two further ice islands, with estimated areas of roughly 94 and 84km2, are expected to detach as existing rifts continue to cut across the ice tongue. 

Together, the three would remove about 22% of Petermann's remaining floating ice.

Because the ice tongue is already floating, this calving does not directly raise sea levels. But Petermann is one of Greenland's largest marine-terminating glaciers, acting as a brake on ice flowing from the interior to the ocean. 

The recent breakaway is a reminder that calving and glacier retreat continue apace in Greenland, even in years when the surface mass budget is unremarkable. (To date, calving and glacier retreat have driven roughly two-thirds of total ice loss on the continent.)

Greenland's relatively high surface mass balance in 2025-26 can be explained, in part, by the hot summer in Europe.

Multiple heatwaves were observed across southern Europe and North America over the summer of 2026, with temperature records recorded in multiple countries.  

When high-pressure systems that cause heatwaves become blocked in place, the jet stream - fast-moving winds that blow from west to east high in the atmosphere - is shaped like the Greek capital letter Omega (Ω). This is the pattern that dominated this year.

Warm conditions settle near the cores of high-pressure systems, while cool, wet conditions can be found at the "feet" of the Omega. 

This year, Greenland was on the right side of the Omega-shaped jet stream and thus experienced cooler conditions. 

If the Omega pattern had been displaced by half a wavelength, Greenland would have likely seen warm temperatures that brought record levels of melt - and a lower surface mass balance. 

So, why does the milestone of 30 years of ice mass decline in Greenland matter? 

A single year, however dramatic, can be strongly influenced by the weather. An extreme melt summer - or an unusually cold, snowy one - says little on its own about the region's  long-term trajectory. 

This is why climate scientists typically look at 30-year periods when distinguishing a change in climate from natural variability.

Thirty years of data shows that the annual ice budget in Greenland has ended in the red, without exception, since 1996. This applies to warm years, cold years and snowy years.

The largest single-year loss remains 2012, when around 458bn tonnes of ice disappeared from the ice sheet. 

The past two years have been moderate by comparison - yet even these "quiet" years produced losses of more than 100bn tonnes each.

Thirty years of data on ice mass decline means that scientists now can confidently say that Greenland mass loss is due to climate change. 

A new assessment highlights how Greenland's losses are the largest single contribution from the ice sheets to global sea level rise. 

The Ice Sheet Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise (IMBIE) combines 42 independent estimates of ice sheet mass change from satellite gravimetry, altimetry and the input-output method - including the Danish Meteorological Institute's surface mass balance estimates detailed in this article - all into a single record.

The latest assessment, published in the journal Scientific Data in September, shows that Greenland and Antarctica together lost 11,309bn tonnes of ice between 1979 and 2023, raising global sea levels by around 32mm. 

The two ice sheets now account for almost one-quarter of observed global sea level rise.

Greenland dominates that record. It lost 6,215bn tonnes of ice between 1972 and 2023 - an average of 119bn tonnes per year. Two-thirds of the loss was driven by increased ice discharge and one-third by reduced surface mass balance due to increased melt. 

Annual losses from ice melt accelerated from around 60bn tonnes in the 1980s to 264bn tonnes in the 2010s.

In contrast, Antarctica lost 4,780bn tonnes over the same period, raising sea levels by around 13mm. 

All of Antarctica's losses are due to discharge from the ice sheet, concentrated in west Antarctica. East Antarctica, on the other hand, has so far remained relatively stable, with record snowfall in recent years even producing a small mass gain. 

This division in sea-level contribution is expected to change. Greenland's losses to date amount to only a few centimetres of sea level rise, but Antarctica's ice sheet is roughly 10 times larger and therefore could lead to significantly more sea level rise in the future. 

The IMBIE assessment notes that Antarctica's losses are dominated by marine-terminating glaciers whose stability is hardest to predict.

The processes now increasingly observed in Antarctica - increasing surface melt, shrinking sea ice, loss of ice shelves and seasonal patterns of retreat of outlet glaciers - have been seen in Greenland for decades. We call this the "Greenlandification" of Antarctica. 

Greenland, in other words, is not just the largest present-day source of ice-driven sea level rise - it is also a preview of what may come from the far larger ice sheet at the other end of the planet.

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1, Rio Tinto begins plans the possible use of a large heat battery, one of the first to be used in an industrial process.

US-based Rondo will work on the design of a 360 MWh heat storage project for an alumina works owned by Rio Tinto in Queensland, Australia. If the plan goes ahead, it will be one of the first such 'batteries' in large scale heavy industry. Rondo's technology is designed to take in electricity at times of day when power is very cheap - an increasing feature of the solar-dominated Australian grid - and convert it to very high temperature heat. The heat is released as steam over the rest of the 24 hours.

2, Electricity generation using cheap aluminium pellets.

The growth of data centres is being accompanied by an increase in behind the meter electricity production, often using highly polluting and noisy generators. This is contributing to the widespread resistance to the building of these large and highly energy intensive plants. Voya Energy uses scrap alumimium made into pellets and then combined with air, water and an electrolyte to produce electricity for buildings such as this. There is no combustion, no CO2 emission, no noise and no other source of pollution. The end product is an aluminium compound that can be used in a variety of other industries but eventually, Voya hopes, will be recycled back into pure aluminium for re-use in electricity generation. This isn't a process that it is going to out-compete conventional sources of electricity such as solar power but may well be able to beat diesel, particularly in today's conditions. Initial estimates are for a cost of around 30 cents per kilowatt hour. The company raised $35m in a venture capital fund raising backed by some of the best known US investors. (Thank you to Jesse Scharf).

3, Burgenland, Austria aims for net zero by 2030, largely by over-installing wind and solar.

Burgenland is a small Austrian province on the eastern edge of the country, running along the border with Hungary. Its population is only about 300,000 but it has aggressive ambitions for decarbonisation. It has raised more cash from the European investment bank to build more wind and solar farms. The intention is to use surplus energy to power heat networks and battery storage. This is accompanied by such policies as heavy investment in building insulation improvements and support for agrivoltaics in farming The detailed plan is to achieve full net zero by 2030, making it probably the first part of the EU to hit this target.

4, Should utilities be privately or publicly owned?

Bloomberg carried an article about the comparative electricity prices of two towns in Massachusetts, separated by a narrow lake. On one side, customers of a municipal utility pay 16 cents per kWh while on the other side, households pay 34 cents, a price that rivals the costliest countries in Europe. Their supplier is privately-owned National Grid, a subsidiary of the UK's main transmission operator. Massachusetts prices are generally high by US standards and have increased above inflation in recent years. Moreover the gap between the two sides of the lake has increased in recent years. Can we generalise from this example to say that municipally owned utilities are more capable of delivering lower priced electricity? Not necessarily, but new work from an Oxford-based group has suggested that the large difference in the costs of capital between publicly owned electricity generators and private competitors may mean a real difference in prices charged. Their analysis suggests that the cost of capital of a fully public system in today's financial condition may be 3 to 5 % percent less than a private owner. As a result, they conclude the state could buy out all UK generating assets at a fair market price of £72bn to generate an annual saving in electricity bills of almost £15bn.

5, Even as EU manufacturers ask for a relaxation of targets for the EV share of automotive sales, demand booms for electric cars.

Sales of EVs in Europe were up 60% in September 2026 compared to the same month last year. Tesla was up 71%. Chinese makers increased their market share as the EU debates rules that will slow the surge. So almost one third of car sales in Europe were fully electric in September.

6, Separating CO2 from other gases using specialised membranes.

Unisieve in Zurich raised $9m of capital to commercialise its technology for point source carbon capture using metal oxide frameworks (MOFs) to split different gases. The company writes 'At the core of our technology is a membrane cartridge that continuously separates gas into two streams. Inside, crystal-tuned pores act as molecular sieve, allowing selected molecules through while retaining others'. If this approach works it will be particularly valuable for industries such as cement production. My guess is that MOFs are a plausible contender to be the lowest cost point source carbon capture route.

7, Large scale green hydrogen, ammonia and methanol production in China.

China Energy Engineering started construction of the second phase of a plant that will eventually produce 600,000 tonnes of green ammonia as well as hydrogen and e-methanol. This appears to be the first commercial scale green ammonia plant in China. (For reference, global production is about 200 million tonnes). Separately, ammonia from the existing much smaller factory on the site was used in the first refuelling at sea of a long distance vessel that uses it as a fuel. China's low costs for producing hydrogen will give it a major advantage in producing internationally competitive ammonia, whether for powering ships or for fertiliser. In an additional boost for ammonia as a shipping fuel, Maersk obtained EU funding to convert four of its large carriers that transport ammonia to dual-fuel engines that can also run on ammonia.

8, Emissions from plug-in hybrid cars (PHEVs) far higher than officially estimated.

Two recent studies demonstrated again that PHEVs are used far less in electric mode than current EU estimates. As a result, their emissions are almost as great as ICE cars. A report from Transport and Environment using data from 2024 car registrations suggested an emissions level of 146 grams per kilometre, not the 24 grams officially estimated. For comparison, T&E wrote that non plug-in cars registered in 2024 had average emissions of 169 grams A study from the International Council on Clean Transportation offered a slightly lower figure for PHEV emissions but stlll far higher than expected. The main reason for the huge underestimate of CO2 emissions appears to be that PHEVs are only driven in electric mode from 21% of the time compared to the 80% assumed in official figures.

9, German battery storage companies go into insolvency even as the national energy storage market booms.

Sonnen, a well-established home battery brand with 150,000 installations, went underthis week. This follows several other failures of local energy storage companies in the German market. Nevertheless battery storage, both commercial and residential, continues to grow rapidly in the country. Over 500,000 new installations were made in the first nine months of this year, with residential customers alone - including those with small plug-in solar kits - buying just under 4 GWh of capacity. (For comparison, the UK probably has about 15 GWh of total battery storage). Perhaps surprisingly, Sonnen's US subsidiary continues to prosper but in the German market lower priced Chinese competitors and aggressive larger competitors buying their hardware from Asia left Sonnen nursing huge losses.

10, The first Lego bricks made from plastic derived from e-methanol.

Lego said it would use e-methanol from European Energy's pioneer plant at Kassø to make some of its components. The company suggests it will gradually increase the percentage of e-methanol used in the plastic production process for 90 of its bricks. The European Energy factory makes the e-methanol from green hydrogen and CO2 collected from a biomass electricity plant. Lego's move into using e-methanol as a raw material follows the increasing use of recycled plastics in its products. Its goal is that the bricks will be 100% low carbon by 2032 as part of the company's path to net zero by 2050. But this week's announcement about e-methanol didn't hide from saying that progress is difficult. The move 'follows more than five years of partnership, testing, learning and scaling to use e-methanol for the production of plastic. It's been a complex journey.'

As always, I'm very grateful to those readers who sent in suggestions for news items to cover. Thank you.

I've finished the two books I planned to read for Halloween. A few comments:

Twice As Dead by Harry Turtledove is an urban fantasy, set in Los Angeles in the years following World War II. The protagonist is a mixed-race detective. There are vampires, ghosts and other supernatural beings. The detective has a talking cat who periodically kills rats that are sent by the detective's enemies to snoop on him. I thought it was one of Turtledove's better books.

The Return by Walter de la Mare has a protagonist who falls asleep at a graveyard. When he wakes up and returns home, he and others discover his face has changed to resemble the person who was buried where the hero took his nap. There is not much else that actually happens in the book and the reader is left wondering if the protagonist is experiencing everything he describes or suffers from mental illness. At first I was a little disappointed by the book, but then I started noticing how atmospheric and poetic many passages were.  I started marking them. 

"After all, what is every man?" he talked on; "a horde of ghosts -- like a Chinese nest of boxes -- oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front -- in our ancestors, back and back, until -- "

Another passage:

The still grave face beneath the shadow of its veil had never turned, though the moon poured all her flood of brilliance upon the dark profile. And once when as if in sudden alarm he had lifted his head and looked at her, a sudden doubt had assailed him so instantly that he had half put out his hand to touch her, and had as quickly withdrawn it, lest her beauty and stillness should be, even as the moment's fancy had suggested, only a far-gone memory returned in dream.

One of the characters is named Herbert Herbert, so I wondered if Vladimir Nabokov referenced the novel when he named the main character in Lolita Humbert Humbert. But whereas Humbert Humbert liked very young girls, Herbert Herbert surrounds himself with very old books. 

De la Mare also wrote ghost stories and I plan to hunt them up. 

The Epstein files have surged back into the headlines, now that the House Committee on the Judiciary has released a staff report detailing US President Donald Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, complete with names and photographs.

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The US government's cybersecurity watchdog has confirmed attackers are exploiting both critical PHP2Shell vulnerabilities, giving federal agencies three days to patch the bugs that have wreaked havoc across the web over the past week.

CISA added CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on Monday, setting an October 29 deadline for federal civilian agencies to address the flaws. The move marks a shift from last week, when the agency warned of the danger posed by PHP2Shell but said it had not yet observed successful exploitation in the wild.

Both bugs are rated 9.2 on the CVSS scale and can be exploited without authentication to run code on vulnerable PHP servers. That's bad news given how much of the web still relies on PHP, and just how many sites could be left exposed.

Patches landed on October 21, but attackers had already beaten the maintainers to it. AWS spotted attempts to exploit the flaws as early as October 17, four days before the bugs were publicly disclosed.

CISA's confirmation comes amid growing evidence that attackers are doing more than simply knocking on the door.

On October 24, Perplexity security researcher Adel Karimi recorded 35 successful shell executions across three honeypots running PHP 8.4.26 under Apache mod_php. The attacks came from two IP addresses and used memory exhaustion and disclosure to achieve remote code execution.

The attackers then tried to contact external servers using PHP, curl, and wget, although no additional malware was successfully downloaded. Karimi's findings were consistent with exploitation of CVE-2026-109618, but he found no evidence that the second PHP2Shell flaw was involved. He also warned that the honeypots used a favorable single-worker configuration, so the results don't necessarily reflect how reliably the exploit works against production servers.

Still, attackers appear to be giving it a good go. Delft University's Threat Intelligence Lab has tracked more than 50,000 PHP2Shell exploitation requests from over 600 IP addresses across 70 countries. Of those, 171 addresses went beyond probing for vulnerable servers and started sending exploit code or malware droppers.

CISA's confirmation also comes after some of the earlier reports of successful PHP2Shell attacks turned out to be rather premature. Sophos walked back its initial assessment after determining that the activity it observed amounted to scanning and failed attempts, while Palo Alto Networks withdrew claims linking the vulnerabilities to an intrusion at a European government agency.

CISA has not disclosed which organizations have been compromised or provided details of the attacks behind its decision to add the flaws to KEV. The listing confirms that the agency considers both vulnerabilities actively exploited, but it does not confirm how many production systems have been successfully breached.

For federal agencies, the clock is now ticking. CISA is also urging organizations outside the federal government to prioritize the fixes, although the deadline does not apply to them.

Admins should update to PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, or 8.2.35, depending on their release branch. Those running older, unsupported versions face the added headache of upgrading or obtaining vendor-supported fixes, while systems that cannot be secured should be taken offline until the risk is addressed.

And with CISA now officially acknowledging exploitation, anyone still waiting for more proof before patching may be waiting a little too long. ®

Three-quarters of corporate board members expect AI to deliver productivity gains and cut costs, yet only three percent of organizations have hit their targets, according to researchers at Gartner.

The figures came out of the analyst's HR Symposium, where it also reported that 38 percent of companies are over budget on AI spending, and 85 percent still plan to spend even more next year.

"Ultimately, organizations will not generate cost savings from AI at this point," said CV Viverito, senior director analyst for Gartner's HR practice. "The greater opportunity is to use AI to do things that weren't possible before, such as shifting employee time into new capabilities, outcomes, and sources of growth."

Gartner claims that at least 75 percent of biz leaders are out of step with the broader organization on where AI creates value, which stalls transformation efforts and muddies how to position the workforce and bag those returns.

Organizations should concentrate AI on the work that matters most to the business, with HR helping execs to agree on the top bets based on strategy, Gartner advises. Companies should also spread existing AI expertise across the business rather than wait to hire scarce specialists, and give managers room to redesign the work around the technology, it adds.

Only about one in five employees' time is freed-up by AI, letting them redirect toward more innovative work, the HR Symposium heard.

"There isn't a struggle to create capacity, that's happening already as organizations redesign work," claimed Viverito. "What organizations are struggling with is how to make that capacity usable and redirecting it to what is valuable."

That starts - or so we're told - by giving employees the skills to take on higher-value, AI-enabled work, which, of course, means spending more on training.

The takeaway is that getting a return on AI projects is harder than expected, and companies are going to have to stick with it and be prepared to institute changes in the way they and their staff work before they see any tangible benefits.

A recent Forrester report concluded that AI will likely account for 20 percent of all business technology spend next year, yet more than half of CIOs are likely to miss their ROI targets for the technology

Another piece of research from KPMG earlier this year found that most UK business leaders aim to keep AI at the top of their spending priorities even if it isn't working, with 65 percent planning to maintain investment whether they see immediate measurable returns or not.

How long that resolve lasts is an open question. Private equity giant Apollo Global Management is the latest to raise doubts, noting this week that the "Magnificent Seven" tech giants are reaping the rewards of all that AI spending, while the rest of the S&P 500 has seen no sign of AI boosting productivity growth. ®

BYD's big story in the last year or tear and a half has been its rapid growth outside of China. The Chinese electric vehicle company has been selling more and more cars in other countries — across Europe, South America, other parts of Asia, Australia, and Africa (basically, everywhere except ... [continued]

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Randomised trials of omega-6s do not show an increase in inflammation caused by the fatty acid

• Read more in the Antiviral series

If you've been online lately, you've probably been bombarded with the discourse about seed oils. Once a completely innocuous food that no one really talked about, they have become the enemy of the moment. Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of health and human services in the US, has called them "toxic" and vowed to act against them. There are countless activewear-clad influencers online saying that nothing harms your health more than these products.

Which is odd, because the Australian dietary guidelines say seed oils are basically fine. You should limit them because they're high in calories but otherwise there's no major reason - according to the guidelines and most experts - why you should avoid them. As Prof Lauren Ball, director of the University of Queensland's Centre for Community Health and Wellbeing, says: "There's no convincing evidence that eating seed oils like canola or sunflower oil in normal dietary amounts harms our health. In fact, these oils contain unsaturated fats, which are generally beneficial for cardiovascular health." Dr Jason Wu, a professor at the University of New South Wales, agrees: "The evidence base consistently points to health benefits of eating seed oils."

The album has been out-of-print for some time

Photo by Andrew Catlin

Throwing Muses' self-titled debut album is being reissued to mark its 40th anniversary.

The album has been out-of-print for some time, in addition to not being available on streaming services. It marked the first release from the band on 4AD, with the group being the first American signees to the label.

The release of Throwing Muses on 4AD in 1986 marked a shift in the label's direction going forward as it looked more significantly towards the American market and signed Pixies via their connection to Throwing Muses not long after. The album went out of print in the early 1990s when plans were made by the band's American label, Sire Records,...

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It marks the band's first release for Jack White's Third Man Records

The Flaming Lips have a new album on the way, titled The Teardrop Throbs.

Featuring 13 tracks, the record marks the band's first release for Jack White's label, Third Man Records. It's the band's first album in seven years, and their first in 35 years to not feature multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd, who is no longer a member of the band.

In a lengthy statement about the album and each of its tracks, frontman Wayne Coyne said: "Please keep in mind there are a thousand things that go into making a song. I don't really believe any song has a fixed meaning, and I don't want my songs to have a...

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They've also shared two tracks from the LP

Photo by Harry Ward

Factory Floor have shared details of their first studio album in 10 years, titled One Trip.

Spanning 10 tracks, it marks the first full-length release from the current formation of Gabe Gurnsey, Nik Colk Void and new member Joe Ward. The new record's foundations lie in a set that the group played at MUTEK in Montréal in 2024 after returning from an extended hiatus, with the performance providing a catalyst for a new chapter in the project.

In a collective statement, the group said: "After the MUTEK performance, we felt an appetite to work in a space where artists could connect emotionally and physically, both in the studio and on a live...

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The following track days, riding schools, and racing events are scheduled by organizations based in the United States and Canada during November and December 2026.

This list includes many opportunities to ride at races, schools, and track days during the months of October and November in North America.

To have your motorcycle racing or riding event added to the Event Calendar on this website and published in the print edition of Roadracing World & Motorcycle Technology magazine, submit your calendar and contact information via the contact page on this website or by emailing to calendar@roadracingworld.com or to pressreleases@roadracingworld.com.

Before heading to an event, contact the organization or track and confirm that it's going to be held as publicized.

11/1 Superbike-Coach Corp. (School), TRACK DAY & Track Academy Class, Thunderhill Raceway, Willows, CA

11/7 Sandy Hook Mini Moto Races & Track Days, Sandy Hook Spdway, Street, MD, Race

11/7 Compact octane Track Days, Streets of Willow Course, Willow Springs Raceway, Rosamond, CA

11/7-8 FIM MotoMini USA East / SFLMiniGP Championship, Bushnell Motorsports Park, Bushnell, FL (Round 8)

11/7-8 ASMA Track Days and Advanced Rider Training, Firedbird Motorsports Park West, Chandler, AZ

11/7-8 Precision Track Days, Atlanta Motorsports Park, Dawsonville, GA

11/8 Socal Supermoto School, Apex Motorsports Park, Perris, CA

11/10 Socal Supermoto School, Apex Motorsports Park, Perris, CA - Semi Private Supermoto School

11/12-13 California Superbike School, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, NV (All Levels)

11/13-15 Chuckwalla Valley Motorcycle Association (CVMA) Winter Series, Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, CA (CW)

11/14 Southeast Mini Moto Track Days, Lamar County Speedway, Barnesville, GA

11/14-15 California Superbike School, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, NV (All Levels)

11/14-15 Let's Ride Track Days & Schools, Buttonwillow Raceway Park, Buttonwillow, CA

11/15 Superbike-Coach Corp. (School), Cornering School Day 1, Little 99 Raceway, Stockton, CA

11/15 Socal Supermoto School, Apex Motorsports Park, Perris, CA

11/15 XCEL Trackdays Track days, Firebird Motorsports Park, , Chandler, AZ, East Track

11/17-18 Yamaha Champions Riding School, Inde Motorsports Ranch (ChampGrad), Willcox, AZ

11/20 2Wheels Track Days, Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, CA

11/21 Socal Supermoto School, Apex Motorsports Park, Perris, CA

11/21-22 California Superbike School, Podium Club, AZ (All Levels)

11/21-22 Precision Track Days, Carolina Motorsports Park, Kershaw, SC

11/22 ED Bargy Motorcycle Racing School, Roebling Road Raceway, Bloomingdale, GA

11/22 Superbike-Coach Corp. (School), Cornering School Day 2, Little 99 Raceway, Stockton, CA

11/28-29 N2 Track Days, Barber Motorsports Park, Birmingham, AL

11/28-29 RideSmart Motorcycle School, Circuit of The Americas, Austin, TX

11/28-29 Sportbike Track Time Track Days, Talladega Gran Prix Raceway, Munford, AL

11/28-29 Trackdaz Track Days, Buttonwillow Rcwy Park, Buttonwillow, CA (TurkeyDaz)

11/28-29 TrackXperience Track Days, Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, CA

11/29 Socal Supermoto School, Apex Motorsports Park, Perris, CA

12/5-6 Sportbike Track Time Track Days, Jennings GP, Jennings, FL

12/6 Superbike-Coach Corp. (School), Cornering School Day 3, Little 99 Raceway, Stockton, CA

12/6 Socal Supermoto School, Apex Motorsports Park, Perris, CA

12/6 XCEL Trackdays Track days, Firebird Motorsports Park, Chandler, AZ, West Track

12/11-13 Chuckwalla Valley Motorcycle Association (CVMA) Winter Series, Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, CA (CCW)

12/13 Socal Supermoto School, Apex Motorsports Park, Perris, CA

12/14 2Wheels Track Days, Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, CA

12/19 Socal Supermoto School, Apex Motorsports Park, Perris, CA

12/27 Socal Supermoto School, Apex Motorsports Park, Perris, CA

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Thanks for an incredible 2026: Midwest Banquet is set

What a year.

To every racer, crew member, volunteer, track partner, and fan who made the 2026 ASRA season happen — thank you. From the early rounds to the high banks at Daytona, you showed up, raced hard, and kept the paddock fun. The season ended the way it should: With titles decided, new stories created, and a lot of tired but happy people heading home.

Now it's time to celebrate.

ASRA Midwest Region Awards Banquet

Saturday, December 12, 2026 • 5:30 p.m.

Lake Lawn Resort

2400 E. Geneva St., Delavan, WI 53115

We'll honor the champions, recognize the top Amateur and Expert points finishers, eat good food, and tell a few paddock stories (some of which may be only slightly exaggerated). Come for the awards. Stay because it's December in Wisconsin and the resort has heat.

Tickets are $25 — available now at asraracing.com.

Special room rates are available at the resort — just mention ASRA when you book.

Get Your Tickets

Questions? Email support@asraracing.com.

Looking ahead:

The 2027 ASRA/BRL National Championship calendar is live, and endurance details are on the way. We're taking the energy from this season and putting it straight into the new championship.

Thank you again for being part of it. See you in December.

The ASRA Team

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The design for a difficult-to-interpret monument that was never intended to be built.

Many thanks to my friend Barry Smiler for being October's sponsor. Do take a look at his climate site, which nicely complements mine. He recently added some nifty enhancements to his Research page. And for your climate listening pleasure, he suggests this little song.

"On 2.0°C watch.

"The global temperature anomaly for October 22nd was 1.94°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC pre-industrial baseline and set a new daily record… Forecast global anomaly on October 31st: 2.06°C above pre-industrial."

[Prof Eliot Jacobson]

https://x.com/EliotJacobson/status/2114133049936109816

"The World's Oceans Just Hit Their Hottest Temperature Ever Recorded at a Time of Year When They Should Be Cooling.

"On August 22, the average surface temperature of the planet's extra-polar oceans hit 21.1°C (70°F), the highest daily level in recorded modern history. The timing makes the record especially concerning. This is because global ocean temperatures typically reach their peak around March and April."

https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/world-ocean-temperature-record-high/

"Satellites show some of the strongest evidence the AMOC is weakening.

"The crucial Atlantic current system that brings warmth to Europe has slowed 18 per cent in 40 years, according to an analysis of how much heat the ocean is releasing to the atmosphere… Another recent study, which examined reanalyses of the ocean rather than the atmosphere, similarly found the AMOC has weakened 15 per cent in 30 years."

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2595629-satellites-show-some-of-the-strongest-evidence-the-amoc-is-weakening/

"'Heartbreaking': Largs shops flooded overnight as Storm Boelo hits Scotland…

"A video shared by ice cream shop Geraldo's shows the North Ayrshire street swamped in floodwater. "26 years of being here and it's the highest it's ever been," the owner said in the footage. "We're standing here in a doorway trying to protect our businesses from this disaster. It's just heartbreaking. It really is."

https://news.stv.tv/west-central/heartbreaking-coastal-areas-flooded-overnight-as-storm-boelo-hits-scotland

""A suspected tornado ripped through part of a Hampshire village, leaving "devastation" in its wake, a resident has said.

"The weather phenomenon left a line of damage about one mile long (1.6km) and about 100m (328ft) wide in the village of Portchester on Thursday night."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6pqg4rvzjqeo

"UK Shoppers Strip Shelves of Beans and Water After Government Emergency Advice.

"Bottled water, tinned food and batteries are selling out at some British retailers after the government urged households to put together emergency kits. Online grocer Ocado listed several brands of water as unavailable on Monday, according to AOL and the Daily Mail."

https://aroundprague.cz/en/news/world/uk-shoppers-strip-shelves-of-beans-and-water-after-government-emergency-advice

"Britain's biggest garden centre switches plants for extreme heat.

"Hydrangeas have long been among the most popular plants in Britain and a mainstay of summer gardens up and down the country. But the shrubs could soon become a thing of the past as soaring temperatures threaten to change the face of flowerbeds for good."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/10/26/britains-biggest-garden-centre-switches-plants-extreme-heat/

"EU Wants Countries to Draw Up Plans to Deal With Warming of 3C…

"The EU's 27 member states will be required to come forward with national plans for how they will adapt by end-2030, while the European Commission, the bloc's executive branch, will identify major risks, including possible climate tipping points."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-26/eu-wants-countries-to-draw-up-plans-to-deal-with-warming-of-3c

"Crop losses from recurring droughts 'shrinking Poland's economy and impacting businesses'…

"Recurring periods of drought are causing losses worth billions of złoty to the Polish economy every year and are affecting business across the agrifood supply chain, a new report has found… drought reduces cereal and rapeseed crop yields by around 12% in an average year, while potato and sugar beet yields see drops of about 20%."

https://tvpworld.com/96134070/droughts-causing-losses-of-billions-to-polands-economy

"I've seen the disaster that's coming to the Alps within decades…

"I study glaciers for a living and I am a keen mountaineer. I have seen many examples of smaller-scale disasters across the European Alps, including major rockfalls on famous and popular climbing routes. Sadly these incidents are getting more common and much more deadly."

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/get-ready-nepal-style-glacier-collapse-alps-4838550

"Melting glaciers in Dolomites reveal cache of first world war munitions…

"The devices, which included Italian artillery shells and French mortar bombs, were removed and defused by the army's Julia Alpine brigade… The weapons originated from the white war, a battle between the Austro-Hungarian army and Italian troops across treacherous and bitterly cold terrain between 1915 and 1918."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/27/melting-glaciers-dolomites-first-world-war-munitions-italy

"Istanbul braces for new round of flooding.

"Istanbul is bracing for another round of heavy rainfall on Oct. 27, with Türkiye's meteorological authority warning of possible flash floods and inundations in the city and other parts of western Türkiye, less than two weeks after torrential downpours killed eight people in Istanbul…"

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/istanbul-braces-for-new-round-of-flooding-228608

"At least four workers died when a tornado struck a construction site in Antalya, overturning accommodation cabins and a tower crane. Heavy rain also flooded roads in Istanbul.

"Four construction workers were killed and a fifth injured when a sudden tornado struck a building site in Antalya, southern Turkey, late on Monday."

https://www.euronews.com/video/2026/10/27/turkey-tornado-kills-at-least-four-workers-at-antalya-construction-site

"As your author forecasted two weeks in advance, today 30C [86F] is returning in SPAIN.

"TURKEY has recorded up to 36C in the past days, but from Wedsnesday it will cool up,while Spain will be warm all week (only daytime).

[Extreme Temps]

https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2114733030694916387

"CRAZY RECORDS ALL OVER AFRICA:

"OCT RECORDS: 38.0 [100.4F] Wa GHANA, 37.5 Kara TOGO, 34.8 Mvengue GABON… BENIN, IVORY COAST, TOGO & CAMEROON ALL  HAD THEIR HOTTEST OCT NIGHT EVER!" [Extreme Temps]

https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2114788939487707179

"Climate change is amplifying extreme weather conditions across southern Africa.

"Dry seasons are getting hotter and drier, while rains are becoming heavier and more concentrated. This means greater swings between production surplus and scarcity for rural communities that make their living from the land."

https://theconversation.com/drought-forces-livestock-farmers-to-make-tough-decisions-our-model-shows-the-impact-on-inequality-293453

"Saudi Arabia issues red and orange alerts as heavy thunderstorms threaten several regions.

"A red alert for heavy rainfall has been issued in parts of Jazan Region from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m., accompanied by strong winds, zero horizontal visibility, hail, flash floods and thunderstorms."

https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/665734/saudi-arabia/saudi-arabia-issues-red-and-orange-alerts-as-heavy-thunderstorms-threaten-several-regions

"Severe Flash Floods Hit Shalateen, Egypt!

"…footage shows floodwaters completely surrounding buildings in Shalateen, located south of the Red Sea Governorate. Heavy torrential rains have triggered massive flash floods across the region, leaving areas submerged under water."

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1076967791822467

"Stormy election day ahead as Israel braces for heavy rain and flooding.

"Thunderstorms, hail and strong winds are expected across much of Israel on Tuesday, with rain intensifying by midday and flash floods possible in the Negev, Arava Valley, Judean Desert and Dead Sea area."

https://www.ynetnews.com/environment/article/sjnqq2p2gl

"Hailstorm hits Sirsa crops [N India], farmers seek compensation.

"Farmers in Sirsa have demanded immediate compensation for crops damaged by unseasonal rain and hailstorms. Farmer organisations have urged the Haryana Government to conduct a special crop damage survey and provide financial assistance to the affected farmers."

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/hailstorm-hits-sirsa-crops-farmers-seek-compensation/

"Cyclone 'Arnab' hurtling towards Andhra Pradesh coast.

"Very severe cyclonic storm "Arnab" has intensified over the west-central Bay of Bengal and is hurtling towards the Andhra Pradesh coast, with landfall expected by the forenoon of Wednesday, October 28, 2026… the storm has prompted red alerts across coastal districts in Andhra Pradesh and southern Odisha."

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/odisha/cyclone-arnab-hurtling-towards-andhra-pradesh-coast/article71629610.ece

"Why Arunachal's Gen Z is protesting against India's mega dam to counter China.

"While the government cites water security and flood control, indigenous communities fear displacement, environmental damage, seismic risks, and the loss of ancestral land and cultural heritage."

https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/why-arunachals-gen-z-is-protesting-against-indias-mega-dam-to-counter-china-14055587.html

"EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN CHINA - 37 [98.6F] DEGREES OVER 1000m asl.

"Thousands of records have fallen every day of this month and October records keep falling even at month end like today: 33.3C Shuangjiang and 32.9C Menglian."

[Extreme Temps]

https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2114727145385951616

"INCREDIBLE SUMMER HEAT IN JAPAN:

"Mind blowing August-like weather continues in Southern Japan with up to 33C [91.4F] and stifling suffocating hot nights with MINIMUMS up to 28C. Absolutely insane and unprecedented." [Extreme Temps]

https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2114219316929544602

"Typhoon Champi declared strongest storm of year so far…

"Typhoon Champi was declared the strongest storm of the year so far after recording sustained winds of 185mph last week. From late Thursday to early Saturday, the typhoon battered Taiwan and Japan's southern islands."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/26/typhoon-champi-taiwan-japan-storm-greece-floods

"Taiwan's tea growers rethink farming as climate pressures intensify.

"…tea production in Alishan declined by 13.5 per cent from 2014 to 2023, as its farmers are facing threats not only from soil degradation but also from climate change. This growing sense of ecological crisis has led a handful of tea growers like Lin to adopt more environmentally friendly farming methods and nature-based solutions."

https://www.eco-business.com/news/taiwans-tea-growers-rethink-farming-as-climate-pressures-intensify/

"RECORD AGAIN IN THAILAND - MINIMUM 29.7C [85.5F] Bangkok Pilot is HOTTEST OCTOBER NIGHT in THAI HISTORY; broken and rebroken.

"Eight MONTHS often with Mins >29C. No place on Earth ever made this. Brutal. Incredible heat also in BANGLADESH." [Extreme Temps]

https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2114700870382141929

"Flash floods send rocks and mud through Patong [Thailand].

"Heavy rain triggered flash flooding and mudslides in Phuket overnight, blocking roads and prompting emergency crews to clear debris and assist affected residents. The flooding began after heavy rain early on Monday, when runoff from nearby hills combined with a high tide."

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3343779/rain-runoff-rocks-and-mud-slam-phuket

"Indonesia sends oxygen bus to aid residents choking on forest fire haze.

"The Indonesian government and local volunteer teams have deployed mobile "oxygen buses" to the hardest-hit regions of Borneo and Sumatra to provide emergency breathing relief to residents choking on severe wildfire smoke."

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/indonesia-sends-oxygen-bus-aid-residents-choking-forest-fire-haze-2026-10-27

"Outback kaleidoscope: Australia's fabled desert lake bursts to life in rare sight…

"Rainfall nearly 50% above the long-term average caused havoc, killing livestock and cutting outback tracks, some of which remain underwater. But it also filled up three major river systems - the Georgina, the Diamantina and Cooper Creek."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/25/kati-thanda-lake-eyre-transformed-green-rainfall

"Giant hail observed in parts of south-east Queensland as 'very dangerous' storms strike.

"A series of "very dangerous" storms have brought hail up to seven centimetres in size to parts of south-east Queensland. The Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Logan, parts of Ipswich, Gold Coast, Brisbane City and Scenic Rim Council areas."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-27/queensland-hail-stones-thunderstorm/107315704

"Antarctica records its warmest October on record: what's happening?

"Near the Ukrainian Antarctic station "Akademik Vernadsky," the air temperature rose to +11.1 degrees Celsius. This is the highest reading for October in the entire history of observations. At the same time, the air warmed up by nearly 10 degrees in just two and a half hours."

https://ukranews.com/en/amp/news/1183480-antarctica-recorded-its-warmest-october-on-record-what-s-happening

"EXTRAORDINARY, HISTORIC:

"17 DEGREES (62.6F) IN ANTARCTICA (Esperanza) is ANTARCTIC HOTTEST SPRING DAY TIED (=Oct 1976). Records Also :14.1 Marambio, 6.0 Arturo Pratt."

[Extreme Temps]

https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2114401335701598645

"Breaking News! Code: y-Axis Alert!

"Yesterday's Nino 3.4 preliminary sea-surface temperature anomaly set a new record high, at 3.48°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. To clearly show this anomaly, the y-axis max was raised to 4.0°C." [Prof Eliot Jacobson]

https://x.com/EliotJacobson/status/2114736378873610450

"An impressive tornado causes significant property damage between Requínoa and Rengo, Chile

"Footage of a violent tornado passing through the O'Higgins Region, Chile. The vortex generated intense wind gusts and sent debris flying through inhabited areas."

https://www.yourweather.co.uk/videos/an-impressive-tornado-causes-significant-property-damage-between-requinoa-and-rengo-chile.html

"Chile deploys specialized helicopter to Peru to fight forest fires that leave 12 dead and more than 800 affected.

"The aircraft, financed with emergency funds from the Ministry of the Interior, already operates from Cusco and will support the extinguishing work in the regions of Cusco, Puno and Junín. The operation includes seven days of work, 35 hours of flight and an investment of almost 140,000 dollars."

https://icndiario.com/2026/10/chile-despliega-helicoptero-especializado-en-peru-para-combatir-incendios-forestales-que-dejan-12-muertos-y-mas-de-800-afectados/

"La Paz: heavy rains cause rivers to flood and floods in different areas [Bolivia].

"Due to the intense rains recorded this Friday in the city of La Paz, rivers flooded in the southern zone and flooding on different roads were recorded, according to reports and alerts issued by the Directorate of Risk Prevention and Urban Resilience."

https://eldeber.com.bo/pais/paz-fuertes-lluvias-provocan-crecida-rios-inundaciones-distintas-zonas_1792791113

"Floods in Argentina kill 2, displace over 2,000 amid El Nino.

"Flooding in northeastern Argentina has killed two people and forced more than 2,000 others from their homes, with rising river levels threatening communities across the region, Argentine newspaper Pagina 12 reported Saturday."

https://aa.com.tr/en/world/floods-in-argentina-kill-2-displace-over-2-000-amid-el-nino/4099759

"Records smashed all over Americas:

"Brutal 43.0C [109.4F] Pao de Acucar BRAZIL - HOTTEST DAY EVER RECORDED IN ALAGOAS STATE… Oct High Minimums: 25.6 Puerto Limon, COSTA RICA; 24.6 St Georges, FRENCH GUIANA; 26.8 Guayaquil, ECUADOR; 24.3 Piura, PERU." [Extreme Temps]

https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2114907694343864734

"Santa Marta under red alert for heavy rains and serious flooding in Barranquilla and Cartagena [Colombia].

"The Ideam report activated the maximum alarms in the main cities of the Colombian Atlantic coast, while local authorities attend to emergencies due to floods and overflowing streams."

https://www.elcolombiano.com/colombia/crisis-region-caribe-santa-marta-alerta-roja-fuertes-lluvias-inundaciones-barranquilla-cartagena-NB42705329

"30.1 [86.2F] Bonaire is HOTTEST NIGHT IN CARIBBEAN HISTORY!

"28.3 Vc Bird. HOTTEST NIGHT IN ANTIGUA. Nearly all Caribbean had its hottest night on record (28/30C)."

[Extreme Temps]

https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2114907694343864734

"GONE WITH THE FLOOD! Cars Swept Away as Heavy Rain Hits Ciudad Juarez [Mexico].

"Heavy rainfall over the weekend caused the La Montada dyke to overflow in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, sending floodwaters through residential streets, damaging homes and sweeping away vehicles. Drone footage filmed on Monday shows the scale of the flooding."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYbGkt5-f30

"Category 5 (beyond extreme) marine heatwave conditions are being observed offshore San Diego, where water temperatures are up to 77°F.

"California's severe marine heatwave is also marching north and has now reached Northern California, with water up to 68°F offshore Santa Cruz." [Colin McCarthy]

https://x.com/US_Stormwatch/status/2114867740947484951

"Historic flooding brings 'catastrophic destruction' to Colorado town.

"Heavy rain caused significant river flooding in the town of Pagosa Springs, Colorado, bringing "wide-scale catastrophic destruction," the local sheriff said. See the flooding that has stranded residents and damaged a main sewer line."

https://weather.com/2026/10/25/news/weather/video/historic-flooding-inundates-pagosa-springs

"Lawmakers Urge Emergency Declaration as Catastrophic Flooding Continues in New Mexico.

"The National Weather Service reported that the San Juan River is at its highest levels since 1909. The flooding is estimated to have affected 160,000 residents… Initial assessments indicate that as many as 18,000 homes in San Juan County alone may be underwater."

https://nativenewsonline.net/environment/lawmakers-urge-emergency-declaration-as-catastrophic-flooding-continues-in-new-mexico/

"The warmest start to fall on record; the full "Hunter's" moon rises tonight.

"Indianapolis is off to the warmest start to fall on record. Since September 1st, we've had 44 days with above average temperatures, 2 days with average temperatures and 10 days with below average temperatures. Monday was a sunny, mild day with above average highs near 70°."

https://fox59.com/weather/the-warmest-start-to-fall-on-record-and-the-full-hunters-moon-rises-tonight/

"Trump to Ease Oil Well Methane Curbs in Bid to Lower Costs.

"President Donald Trump is set to unveil a plan to dial back federal requirements designed to slash methane emissions from oil and gas operations, casting the proposal as a way to encourage more domestic energy production and lower costs."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-27/trump-to-ease-oil-well-methane-curbs-in-bid-to-lower-costs

"'A potential glimpse into the future': Climate change has triggered 'permafrost landslides' with house-size blocks of ice in Canada.

"These landslides, called permafrost detachment slides, occur in areas with relatively thin permafrost… Such slides have not been observed in the region before and may be unprecedented over the past 10,000 years or more, said study leader Joseph Young…"

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/a-potential-glimpse-into-the-future-climate-change-has-triggered-permafrost-landslides-with-house-size-blocks-of-ice-in-canada

"UN climate science body left in limbo without budget sign-off after deadlock.

"Work for the leading scientific body on global warming is in limbo after countries failed to approve its budget… The stranglehold on funding for the UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made up of hundreds of international experts, comes after a failure to resolve a three-year deadlock over when the next research should be delivered."

https://www.ft.com/content/f326afa1-962d-4a4e-b24f-f8695fa315d1?syn-25a6b1a6=1

"At Yerevan's COP17 biodiversity summit, a steep climb ahead for '30 by 30' target…

"According to the Campaign for Nature's global assessment, of the 196 state parties to the GBF, 132 have made formal commitments to protect a set amount of land. Together, these commitments would amount to 27% of the planet's terrestrial surface — but that would require translating them into concrete action. And with 2030 not far off, the clock is ticking."

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/at-yerevans-cop17-biodiversity-summit-a-steep-climb-ahead-for-30-by-30-target/

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