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Wednesday, May 20, 2026 13 stories

Today on The Fair Wind Gazette: climate modelers retire the extremes at both ends of the warming range, the Senate finally clears the procedural hurdle on Iran war powers, and the seabird die-off on t…

Tuesday, May 19, 2026 15 stories

Today on The Fair Wind Gazette: the Pacific marine heat wave moves from abstraction to body count along the Southern California coast, NOAA pushes El Niño odds to 82%, and the Justice Department unvei…

Monday, May 18, 2026 13 stories

Today on The Fair Wind Gazette: the post-Selma voting-rights campaign moves on toward Mississippi, climate scientists nail down yet another Antarctic feedback the models missed, and California's comme…

Sunday, May 17, 2026 12 stories

Today on The Fair Wind Gazette: the Antarctic sea-ice collapse finally gets a mechanism, the Senate parliamentarian quietly rewrites the GOP spending bill for a second week running, and thousands gath…

Saturday, May 16, 2026 12 stories

Today on The Fair Wind Gazette: the Southern Ocean is showing climate modelers a feedback they had quietly left out, the West Coast marine heatwave is now producing a body count of starving seabirds, …

Friday, May 15, 2026 17 stories

Today on The Fair Wind Gazette: courts beginning to push back on executive orders across three fronts, fresh paleoclimate work pointing to the Southern Ocean's role in past CO₂ jumps, and a tidy piece…

Thursday, May 14, 2026 13 stories

Today on The Fair Wind Gazette: warming oceans are now writing themselves into the daily count of dead pelicans and missing puffins, while in Washington and the federal courts the questions about exec…

Wednesday, May 13, 2026 13 stories

Today on The Fair Wind Gazette: the Supreme Court's shadow docket clears Alabama to redraw its map, a 1.2-million-year Antarctic ice core extends the climate record into deep time, and a Dutch court p…

Tuesday, May 12, 2026 14 stories

Today on The Fair Wind Gazette: the AMOC slowdown moves from projection to direct measurement, the post-Callais redistricting cascade reaches the Supreme Court's shadow docket, and a quiet alarm sound…

Monday, May 11, 2026 12 stories

Today on The Fair Wind Gazette: mechanism is the through-line. A new paper finds vegetation canopies are warming faster than the air around them — a quiet flaw running through every Earth system model…