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Trump Admin Enabling the Systematic Slaughtering of Thousands of Wild Horses Hospitals Are Getting So Hot That Surgeries Are Getting Canceled and Staff Are Fainting It's Getting So Hot That Nuclear Plants Are Being Forced to Power Down AI's Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds Giant Oil Tanker Runs Aground in Marine Nature Preserve, Spills Nonstop for Weeks It's Official: This Is the Hottest America Has Ever Been Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States Droughts Are Getting So Intense That Ancient Ruins Are Beginning to Surface Scientists Genetically Engineer High-Protein Lettuce Jeff Bezos Harshly Criticized for $200 Million Pledge to Protect the World's Most Endangered Species AI Data Centers Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of Air Pollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build Google Data Center Announces Plans to Pave Over Protected Wetlands Man Sues Bank for Being Stupid Enough to Give Him a Mortgage Even When Experts Were Warning Him It Was About to Fall Into the Ocean It's So Hot in Japan That Zoo Animals Are Dropping Dead Global Warming Is Rapidly Accelerating, New Paper Finds SpaceX Vows to Keep Poisoning Nearby Towns With Its Fume-Belching Data Center For Another Year El Niño Set to Upend the World Economy The Type of Orbital Data Centers That Billionaires Want to Launch Into Space Would Wreak Ecological Catastrophe, Scientists Warn Trump Decimated a Satellite Program That Would've Vastly Improved Wildfire Smoke Monitoring Terrifying Video Shows Locomotive Engulfed in Wildfire Flames A Staggering Number of People Are Dying Because of Record Heatwaves Scientists Propose Dimming Sun to Combat El Niño Climate Scientists Aghast at How Bad Things Are Getting, and So Fast The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It’s Almost Incomprehensible You'll Never Guess Which Country Is Causing the Most Global Warming Freak Tornado Sucks Man Out of 12-Floor Apartment Microsoft's $7.3 Billion AI Data Center Just Caught a Nasty Lawsuit From Furious Neighbors You'll Never Guess Why Government Officials Are Sinking a Four-Story Riverboat Casino Into the Abyss Something Weird Is Going on With the 66 Billion Trees China Planted in a Huge Wall El Niño Already Killing Thousands in Europe
As Much of the East Coast Is Choking on Wildfire Smoke, T...
Joe Wilkins · 2026-07-18 · via Futurism

Rowdy Loftin, left, and Zane Brewer of Santa Fe look at the swollen Frio River along State Highway 127 in Concan on Wednesday, July 15, 2026.

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Fresh off a month that saw all but five states mired in severe drought, the US is reeling from multiple crises of national proportions.

First, there’s the record-breaking heat dome which is currently baking most of the continental US. According to the Guardian, over 100 million Americans are currently living under extreme heat warnings, forecasted to persist well into the weekend.

At the same time, the country is being smoked out by dozens of wildfires across North America, a situation the heat wave isn’t exactly helping. On top of that, smoke from over 800 blazes in Canada is helping choke out the US Midwest and North-East, making the air hazardous to breathe.

Things aren’t necessarily any prettier outside of the smoke-zone — just wetter. Communities situated around the Guadalupe River in Texas are reeling after near endless rainfall triggered massive floods across the state for the second year in a row.

So far, at least one person is dead, while thousands have been forced to evacuate. At least 57 counties representing over six million people were placed under flood watches over the past few days. With even more rain on the horizon, it remains to be seen when Texas will get relief from the torrential downfalls.

Stepping back, it’s clear this cascade of extremes isn’t happening in a vacuum. The overlapping wildfires, floods, and heat waves are all being amplified by the same climate forces: a rapidly warming planet, fueled in no small part by skyrocketing carbon emissions from the US itself.

All in all, it’s been an action-packed summer as the El Niño cycle rolls on — and unfortunately, the devastation is far from over.

More on climate disaster: Scientists Propose Dimming Sun to Combat El Niño