The Bering Sea continues to swallow the Alaskan Native village Shishmaref, and on August 16 residents voted to leave their 400-year-old home. The village has been losing up to 10 feet of shoreline a year, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Auburn University. Since 1969, 200 feet of shoreline has been eaten away, a state-funded study concluded. 

If you’re in Philadelphia, Washington, or any of the other places where the mercury is soaring, stop complaining. On July 22, the temperature hit 129 degrees in Basra, Iraq. Stepping outside is like “walking into a fire,” said Zainab Guman, a university student in Basra told The Washington Post’s Hugh Naylor. “It’s like everything on your body — your skin, your eyes, your nose — starts to burn,” she said. 

As beach season winds down, anyone who enjoys beaches should be concerned about their future. One of New England’s most famous beaches, Herring Cove on Cape Cod, is being consumed by rising sea levels, presumably due to climate change. “We’re retreating,” Cape Cod National Seashore Superintendent George E. Price, Jr., told the New York Times’ Jess Bidgood.

In 2008, U.S. coal production peaked at 1.172 million short tons and has since plummeted by 24 percent to 890 million short tons. The rate of decline is accelerating. Total U.S. weekly coal production fell by 39 percent from early April 2015 to early April 2016.