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Caribbean Food Security, One Year After The Collapse Of USAID
Daphne Ewing-Chow, Senior Contributor, Daphne Ewing-Chow, Senior Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/daphneewingchow/, Forbes
The abrupt collapse of USAID one year ago impacted food security, agriculture, and climate resilience across the Caribbean.
May 30, 2026, 10:14 PM
The Download: climate tech goes public and the AI Hype Index returns
Thomas Macaulay, MIT Technology Review
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Climate tech companies are going public. What’s next? Solar and battery company Solv Energy went public in February, hitt…
May 28, 2026, 12:10 PM
Aid cuts and climate change drive deadly malaria surge in Zimbabwe
Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English
A surge in malaria cases in Zimbabwe is exposing fragile health systems and growing treatment shortages in rural areas.
May 28, 2026, 2:18 AM
Sunrise Movement Backs Saikat Chakrabarti, Progressive Firebrand Behind the Green New Deal
Jessica Washington, The Intercept
The former AOC staffer is an at-times divisive figure known for provoking the political establishment. Sunrise argues he’s needed in Congress to take on Trump. The post Sunrise Movement Backs Saikat Chakrabarti, Progressive Firebrand Behind the Green New Deal…
May 27, 2026, 7:21 PM
10 Sunday Reads
Barry Ritholtz, Ritholtz.com
Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • The Global Fertility Crisis Is Worse Than You Probably Think: Everybody knows about the decline in birthrates. Fewer people understand why—or just how significantly it …
May 24, 2026, 10:30 AM
How Prepared Are We for a Public-Health Emergency?
Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker
Dhruv Khullar on how the recent outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola expose the shortsightedness of the United States’ retreat, under the Trump Administration, from its role as a global-health leader.
May 24, 2026, 10:00 AM
Solar to overtake coal on Texas grid for the first time ever this year
Julian Spector, Canary Media, Grist
The Trump administration likes to cast renewables as a socialist scam, but solar has soared in the competitive markets of the Lone Star State.
May 23, 2026, 1:00 PM
Trump calls a climate projection 'WRONG!' Turns out, climate action is working
CBC News
Surely you've heard of RCP 8.5? Maybe not. But it's been in the spotlight since U.S. President Donald Trump who stirred up a conversation about a projection of future climate change that's rarely mentioned by name.
May 23, 2026, 8:00 AM
The Download: online safety’s future and climate tech’s big pivot
Thomas Macaulay, MIT Technology Review
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Tech researchers are suing the Trump administration over the future of online safety For months, the Trump administration…
May 21, 2026, 12:10 PM
Our Climate’s Wild Card
Jonathan Mingle, The New York Review of Books
Methane's part in the climate crisis remains largely overlooked, even though it is responsible for 30 percent of all global warming to date, and despite the fact that it's still possible to purge it from our skies.
May 21, 2026, 12:00 PM
Climate tech companies are pivoting to critical minerals
Casey Crownhart, MIT Technology Review
We’re over a year into the second Trump administration here in the US, and support for climate causes is weak. But climate tech companies are finding ways to survive and even thrive in this new environment, including by focusing on potential benefits outside …
May 21, 2026, 10:00 AM
Ebola, hantavirus: Is the world prepared for the next pandemic?
Priyanka Shankar, Al Jazeera English
Funding cuts in health research, and the antivaccine movement make it challenging to respond to viruses.
May 18, 2026, 1:11 PM
Montana tribes combine traditional knowledge and Western science in climate plan
Ellis Juhlin, NPR
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are moving forward with their climate plan despite the loss of state support and federal funding.
May 18, 2026, 9:00 AM
Wild blueberry farms across Maine suffer as climate change upends growing seasons
Sydney Cromwell, Inside Climate News, Grist
Like lobster rolls, wild blueberries are iconic in Maine. But heat and drought have set the plants back to a point where many small farmers are struggling against reduced yields and increased costs for mulch and irrigation.
May 16, 2026, 1:00 PM
Slashing Climate, Weather and Ocean Research to Pay for 32 Hours of Iran War
FAIR, Juancole.com
While cuts to NOAA would substantially harm the agency’s work, the proposed "savings" of $1.6 billion is 1.3 days of the war on Iran.
May 16, 2026, 4:06 AM
Americans would rather have a nuclear plant in their backyard than a datacenter
Dan Robinson, Theregister.com
AI and the bit barns that power it have developed a serious PR problem
May 14, 2026, 12:30 PM
What It Will Take to Make AI Sustainable
Molly Taft, Wired
Researcher Sasha Luccioni argues we need better emissions data and a better sense of how people are using AI in the first place.
May 13, 2026, 7:15 PM
In coal country, black lung surges as federal protections stall
Kate Morgan, Grist
While the Trump administration is directing hundreds of millions of dollars to coal projects, miners in Appalachia are suffering from a resurgence of black lung disease. But industry pushback is delaying federal rules that would reduce miners’ exposure to dea…
May 9, 2026, 1:00 PM
Links 5/9/2026
Yves Smith, Nakedcapitalism.com
Our poka-dotted daily links: Sunstone reveal, hantavirus worries, CO2 still rising, Starmer refuses to leave after big Labour loss, Trump-Xi summit doubts, Japan militarism, EU self-harm with cyber scheme, Trump tries to impose ceasefire on Ukraine, Gaza heal…
May 9, 2026, 10:59 AM
As federal scientists faced turmoil, the Devils Hole pupfish reached a crisis point
Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR
The Devils hole pupfish lives in just one spot in Death Valley. Wildlife officials have managed this iconic fish for decades, and last spring, just as the Trump administration was laying off all kinds of scientists, the wild population of this fish plummeted …
May 7, 2026, 10:00 AM
Trump’s latest science purge could bring major risks, experts say
Garrett Owen, Salon
The abrupt firing of the board comes at a time of climate crisis and international competition
May 2, 2026, 1:00 PM
Wyoming celebrates 'nuclear renaissance' as feds approve license for a new reactor
Kirk Siegler, NPR
Construction of an advanced nuclear power plant partly funded by the U.S. government -billed as the first of its kind this century, is now underway in Wyoming. The Bill Gates-backed company says its technology is proven but there are still hurdles to nuclear.
May 2, 2026, 4:01 AM
First ever talks to ditch fossil fuels as UN deadlock deepens
BBC News
Some 60 countries are meeting in Colombia as frustration grows with lack of progress in tackling climate change
Apr 24, 2026, 5:42 AM
AI Companies Think Destroying the Planet Is an Acceptable Trade-Off for Unlimited Profits
AJ Dellinger, Gizmodo.com
So much for those net-zero emissions pledges huh, guys?
Apr 22, 2026, 6:20 PM