Climate Adaptation & Food Security: Scotland’s climate-and-rural leaders warn that hotter, drier summers are already reshaping farming and wildfire risk, pushing a “adapt to the new reality” approach that also rejects cutting livestock numbers to hit targets. Local Climate Monitoring: In the Philippines’ Eastern Visayas, DOST is installing automatic weather stations for farmers as El Niño threatens rainfall and irrigation. Health & Climate: A Monash-led review links warming and shifting rainfall to expanding malaria and dengue risk, stressing vector control, vaccines, and emissions cuts. Pollution Accountability: Chicago’s AG and Mayor Johnson ask a court to halt Pullman Innovations’ plant operations over excessive odors and alleged environmental law violations. Clean Energy Finance: Canada backs 162 home retrofit projects with $66.3M to cut emissions and energy bills. Climate Justice Funding: Nepal’s foreign minister calls for grant-based climate finance and “concrete” loss-and-damage support. Fossil Fuel Backlash in Court: Environmental groups sue the Trump administration over relaxed vehicle fuel economy rules, arguing higher pollution and gas costs. Polluter-Pays Settlement: Hawaiʻi reaches a Monsanto PCB contamination settlement with an initial $10M payment. Energy Infrastructure: South Africa reaffirms procurement for its Independent Transmission Projects Programme to speed grid buildout for renewables. Mining & Environment Tension: Panama weighs restarting the suspended Cobre Panama mine via a state partnership, despite major environmental and jobs fallout from its closure. Carbon Pricing Debate: Economist Michael Greenstone argues rich countries should pay for climate damage—if the Global South adopts carbon pricing. AI & Public Trust: Reporting highlights how generative AI is changing how people find government info, raising new accountability and accuracy challenges.