🌋 Powering Homes With the Help of a Volcano

✅ ForecastWatch Compares Hurricane Season Forecasts

Earlier this year, our sister company ForecastWatch collected 2025 hurricane season forecasts from several notable forecast providers. The forecasts included the number of predicted named storms, hurricanes, and major hurricanes in the Atlantic between June 1 and November 30. Most forecast providers predicted an above average season, with average being 14 named storms, 7 hurricanes, and 3 major hurricanes. The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season actually ended up slightly below average to average, with 13 named storms, 5 hurricanes, and 4 major hurricanes. The first named storm did not form until June 23, marking the latest start to an Atlantic hurricane season since 2014. There were three Category 5 hurricanes, the second-most in a season on record. It was also the first time in a decade that there was not a hurricane landfall in the United States. So, which forecast provider was the most accurate this year? Click the link below to find out!

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🇧🇷 Takeaways from COP30

The 30th annual UN climate meeting wrapped up in Brazil last week. Countries agreed on a sweeping package to scale up climate finance and accelerate the implementation of the Paris Agreement, but did not produce a clear commitment to move away from fossil fuels. After two weeks of intense negotiations, the takeaways are as follows. The meeting calls for mobilizing at least $1.3 trillion per year by 2035 for climate action, alongside tripling adaptation finance and operationalizing the loss and damage fund agreed at COP28. Two major initiatives were launched - the Global Implementation Accelerator and the Belem Mission to 1.5C, which will help countries deliver on their nationally determined contributions and adaptation plans. There was also a commitment to promote information integrity and counter climate disinformation. In closing, Brazilian scientist Carlos Nobre issued a stark warning that fossil fuel use must fall to zero by 2040-2045 to avoid catastrophic temperature rises of 2.5C by mid-century.

Felipe de Carvalho, UN News

🌋 Powering Homes With the Help of a Volcano

A start-up called Mazama Energy plans to power homes by tapping energy from “superhot rock”, producing cheap, clean, constant energy almost anywhere. Engineers are in the process of building a geothermal power plant on the slopes of one of the largest and most hazardous active volcanoes in the United States - Newberry Volcano in Oregon. The plant will tap into the infernal energy, where temperatures have already reached 629 degrees Fahrenheit, making it one of the hottest geothermal sites in the world. Next year, Mazama Energy will start selling the electricity produced in the plant to nearby homes and businesses. Today, geothermal produces less than 1% of the world’s electricity. But tapping in to superhot rock, along with other technological advances, could boost that share to 8% by 2050. Geothermal using superhot temperatures could theoretically generate 150 times more electricity than the world uses, according to the International Energy Agency.

Nicolás Rivero, The Washington Post

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