Covering the last 90 days

Environment

Environment on Scoop.it is currently led by climate pressure made visible: Antarctic sea ice, wildfire emissions, hurricanes, floods, stressed forests, coastal resilience and the politics of response. The most active selections treat nature, infrastructure and public safety as connected stories.

The subject area spans 101 topics maintained by 63 curators, with activity through 2026-10-17. It includes broad climate and nature feeds, specialist topics on water, oceans, rainforests and agriculture, and education-focused topics that turn environmental change into classroom material.

What is moving now is not only climate change. Farming and pesticides are accelerating terms, and recent selections also follow digital infrastructure, data centers, reuse, recycling, sustainable construction and dark-sky campaigns. The result is a live map of environmental pressure and adaptation over the last 90 days.

Key figures

  • 101 topics
  • 63 curators
  • 1334698 views
  • October 17, 2026 last activity

Cross-cutting issues

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Climate risk is no longer abstract; it is redrawing places

Recent selections show climate change appearing as altered ice, wildfire emissions, stressed drylands and tests of regional resilience.

A huge hole almost the size of Portugal found in Antarctic sea ice | by Victoria Heath | Geographical.co.uk geographical.co.uk

New Geo 2024 frames the story at planetary scale. A Guardian report selected there warns that core ecological limits are being crossed, while other selections move from global thresholds to visible stress in Indonesia, the Sahel and the Caribbean.

@The Convergence of ICT, the Environment, Climate Change, EV and HEV Transportation & Distributed Renewable Energy brings the polar signal into the same frame. Its Antarctic sea-ice selection turns climate risk into a change in the physical map, not only a debate about emissions or targets.

The landscape stories are not all about collapse. New Geo 2024 also follows rewilding and the Great Green Wall, showing how restoration is being tested as an answer to warming, fire and drought. The tension is between repair at landscape scale and the speed of climate disruption.

The Caribbean resilience selection adds the human and institutional layer. It puts adaptation beside the physical signals from ice, fire and forests, making clear that climate risk is now a question of which places can absorb repeated shocks.

Further reading

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Extreme weather has become the everyday climate story

Storms, floods, wildfires and hurricane warnings are appearing across topics as a continuous environmental signal.

Istanbul floods: Turkey hit by heaviest rainfall in 80 years youtube.com

Operation Deimos turns weather into a rolling record of disruption. Its recent selections move quickly from severe storms in the northern United States to a Malibu wildfire, hurricanes near Mexico, an East Coast storm threat and flooding risk in Oklahoma.

Geography resources for teachers brings a different editorial use. The Istanbul flood selections make extreme rainfall legible as a classroom current event, linking a local disaster to wider climate and geography teaching.

Together, the topics show why extreme weather now dominates environment coverage. The individual events are different, but the pattern is similar: faster intensification, heavy rain, fire, evacuations and repeated warnings for communities in the path of storms.

The strongest thread is immediacy. These posts are not mainly about distant projections. They follow alerts, rainfall records, evacuations and coastal threats as they unfold, turning climate literacy into a practical need for readers and students.

Further reading

Curators to follow

  • OverSoul

    Tracks day-to-day severe weather coverage, including storms, wildfires, hurricanes and flooding, through an active weather topic.

  • Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc

    Links climate change, renewable energy, transport and digital infrastructure in a topic that also follows polar and policy-related climate signals.

  • CIHEAM News

    Follows Mediterranean agriculture, forests, food systems, fisheries and environmental policy through a steady press-review format.

  • TRA

    Gathers local and regional water reporting from Texas, including reuse, leaks, water planning, reporting rules and treatment infrastructure.

  • LIGHTING

    Selects lighting-industry and dark-sky material where design, biodiversity, nocturnal wildlife and light pollution meet.

Frequently asked questions

What does the Environment page cover on Scoop.it?

It brings together 101 topics on nature, conservation and environmental issues. The selections range from climate change, extreme weather, water reuse and agriculture to rainforests, oceans, circular economy, sustainable construction, dark skies and environmental education. The material reflects posts selected in the last 90 days.

Why are climate risks so prominent right now?

Recent selections connect broad climate warnings with visible changes in places. They include Antarctic sea-ice disruption, wildfire emissions in Indonesia, questions about the Great Green Wall, Caribbean resilience and repeated floods, storms and wildfires. Climate change is also one of the accelerating terms in the subject area.

Does this subject include technology and infrastructure?

Yes. Several topics treat technology as part of the environmental story, not outside it. Recent selections include data centers and power demand, AI and fossil-fuel emissions, AI hurricane prediction, repairable smartphones and environmental monitoring. The emphasis is on both environmental cost and practical use.

How does the page cover water stress?

Water appears through local infrastructure, reuse and public-health stories. Texas selections include wastewater reuse, major leaks, water-level requests, data-center reporting requirements, missed planning around Corpus Christi and plant improvements. Other topics add rivers, floods, drought and coastal hazards to the wider water picture.

Is agriculture part of the Environment subject area?

Yes. Agriculture appears through Mediterranean food and forestry coverage, conservation agriculture research, sustainability education and development topics. Recent selections include warming effects on young trees, farm emission rules, food waste, pastoral economies, bees and ecological approaches to terroir. Farming and pesticides are both accelerating terms.

Who feeds these selections?

The subject area is fed by 63 curators maintaining environment-related topics, with last activity recorded on 2026-10-17. Some follow specialist beats such as Mediterranean agriculture, Texas water, severe weather, lighting impacts or climate infrastructure, while others maintain broader nature, science and sustainability collections.

Most quoted sources

  • theconversation.com 5
  • theguardian.com 5
  • insideclimatenews.org 4
  • youtube.com 3
  • linkedin.com 3
  • cbsnews.com 3
  • wired.com 3
  • arstechnica.com 3
  • thecooldown.com 2
  • euronews.com 2

On the rise

  • climate change 14
  • farming 9
  • pesticides 6

This page was written by an AI from the public curation of Scoop.it topics. The posts, topics and curators it cites are real and linked directly.

Updated on October 17, 2026