An Oil Influenced Climate Study

71% of the world’s carbon emissions have no carbon price at all, and those that do exist fall far below the $100+ per ton that economists across the political spectrum agree would actually change behavior. (Our World in Data)

🌍 Antarctica just shattered its winter heat record, with temperatures hitting 28 degrees Celsius above the seasonal average. (The Guardian)

🌎 Climate models underestimated France’s June heatwave by decades, suggesting our worst-case scenarios aren’t worst-case enough. (The Climate Brink)

🌎 Fashion brands are facing a supply chain reckoning as extreme heat threatens tens of millions of garment workers. (Bloomberg)

A new satellite constellation called FireSat launched its first three satellites, designed to detect wildfires as small as a shipping container and image any point on Earth every 20 minutes. (HEATMAP)

A $500 million initiative is betting that respiratory infections like colds and flu don’t have to be inevitable, drawing a parallel to how clean water infrastructure eliminated cholera a century ago. (Intercept)

🌏 Strep A kills an estimated 639,000 people per year globally, rivaling HIV/AIDs and malaria, but receives dramatically less funding, prompting the launch of a new Strep A Vaccine Fund to accelerate vaccine development. (Coefficient Giving)

🌎 Evidence synthesized from billions of COVID mRNA vaccine doses affirms it is sage, effective, and adaptable. (The Lancet)

Cities like Philadelphia are looking to places like Vienna as models for social housing (publicly-owned, income-diverse rental properties with permanently affordable rents). (The Philadelphia Citizen)

The federal government withheld federal homelessness data for months, and when they finally released 2025 numbers showing a 3.3% decrease, the gender data had been scrubbed entirely, erasing rising homelessness rates among women. (American Inequality)

🌎 Economists are beginning to quantify how extreme weather events are showing up directly in grocery bills, water rates, and insurance premiums worldwide. (Bloomberg)

More than 776,00 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits following changes to the federal food program. (ProPublica)

🌎 New Zealand is becoming a real-world laboratory for low-methane livestock farming, with the first generation of tools to reduce cow and sheep burps now approaching commercial scale. (Bloomberg)

🌎 A major coffee trader is pushing to expand weather insurance for smallholder farmers in Vietnam fivefold this year, from 500 to 2500 farmers. (Bloomberg)

A study in Santa Cruz, California found household water bills could nearly double by 2050, as drought intensifies and utilities face higher infrastructure and treatment costs. (Bloomberg)

A viral paper claimed that the iPhone caused 33-52% of the decline in US birth rates, but this demographer explains that big demographic shifts rarely have simple explanations, and a reminder that correlation doesn’t equal causation. (Data for Health)

AI-powered cyberattacks have increased by four times from 2024 to 2025, and companies are being hacked every single day, but no one is adequately prepared. (The Atlantic)

AI is generating $110 billion in real revenue annually, growing three times faster than the mobile or internet waves, but the question is whether that revenue can cover the enormous capital investment required to build AI infrastructure. (Exponential View)

Decades of private data stored in the cloud are far more vulnerable than most people realize, as AI tools make hacking faster and easier. (NY Magazine)

AI is already being used to improve embryo selection, sperm quality assessment, and ovarian stimulation protocols in IVF. (Scientific American)