Climate news on July 24, 2026

1. 0116:45 UTC

   California cannot replant forests fast enough, report says

   2 outlets · first: paloaltoonline.com Extreme weather

   Machine summary A CalMatters report published by KPBS says California is not replanting forests quickly enough to match severe wildfires, citing a working draft of a state reforestation strategy. That draft says high-severity fires burned 2.3 million acres of forestland over the past quarter century so severely that trees probably will not regrow by themselves, and Cal Fire estimates seed bank capacity would need to rise by roughly 300% to replant a quarter of private forestlands. The report also says California would need a 35% annual increase in reforestation to meet goals starting at 280,000 acres a year in 2030, while the draft strategy has no dedicated funding.

   1. Cal Fire's Lewis A. Moran Reforestation Center in Davis holds about 42,000 pounds of seeds, some more than a half-century old, according to the report
   2. A working draft of California's new reforestation strategy obtained by CalMatters says high-severity wildfires burned 2.3 million acres of California forestland over the past quarter century so completely that trees are unlikely to return on their own
   3. One recent analysis reports that by 2071, half of California's forest area could be gone

   Reported by paloaltoonline.com and kpbs.org.

   • CalMatters
   • Cal Fire
   • Lewis A. Moran Reforestation Center

2. 0213:45 UTC

   Report: data centers not to blame for Pennsylvania power woes

   2 outlets · first: dailylocal.com Regulation

   Reported by dailylocal.com and timesherald.com.

3. 0315:45 UTC

   Coverage recordhot96.com: “Record - low Danube water levels in Serbia, Croatia leave boats beached, reveal decades - old shipwrecks”

   2 outlets · first: hot96.com Extreme weather

   Reports ran between 15:45 and 16:00 UTC on Jul 24.

   The outlets that reported this event are listed with links to their reports; no summary of ours passed our automated checks for it, which says nothing about the event (how they work).

   Reported by hot96.com and wsau.com.

   • Serbia
   • Croatia

4. 0414:30 UTC

   Coverage recordwokv.com: “Talking the Tropics With Mike: Last day of the Atlantic hurricane season!”

   2 outlets · first: wokv.com Extreme weather

   Reports ran from 14:30 UTC on Jul 24 to 15:30 UTC on Jul 25.

   The outlets that reported this event are listed with links to their reports; no summary of ours passed our automated checks for it, which says nothing about the event (how they work).

   Reported by wokv.com and actionnewsjax.com.

   • Atlantic hurricane season

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