Climate change policy, regulation, and international agreements
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Former US Vice President Al Gore has endorsed Kamala Harris for the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, praising her strong stance on climate issues and middle-class support. Harris, after Joe Biden's withdrawal, has yet to be officially nominated. She will contest against former President Donald Trump in the upcoming November elections.
American voters face a tough choice between a climate change sceptic Donald Trump and Kamala Harris who promises carbon emission mitigation.
Neither of them had a reassuring stance on the climate crisis, but Trump’s appeared unearthly. America’s climate apathy was apparent in the debate. Both have taken more of a kitchen-sink approach to energy, from drilling to windmills and everything in between.
Click for the latest from The Hill {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Hurricane Helene spotlights Trump, Vance climate skepticism Hurricane Helene’s devastation is shining a spotlight on former President Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance‘s (R-Ohio) skepticism of well-established climate science. © Stephen Maturen, Getty Images Trump this week…
With control of the White House and the Senate, Republicans are poised to upend U.S. climate policy
The US had been a major diplomatic force in climate talks under previous administrations, but Donald Trump's election will likely usher in a new era.
Donald Trump has been much less shrill on climate change during campaigning this time compared to 2016, though pulling out of the Paris Agreement again is very much on his stated agenda.
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Biden flew over the jungle by helicopter and met with Indigenous leaders in the Brazilian city of Manaus on the penultimate leg of a valedictory South American tour which has been overshadowed by Trump's election win
Professor Robert Wilson told Newsweek that Trump's rhetoric seems to suggest he won't take the threat climate change has on wildfires "seriously."
Critics say Nasa faces ‘extinction-level event’ with budget plan, with climate research funding also to be slashed
If Donald Trump can be president, Deborah Kelly reasoned, then she could start a religion. The artist's project began as a parody, but soon morphed into a genuine source of spiritual solace for a growing community.
World now in era of repressive regimes’ impunity, climate inaction and unchecked corporate power, says report
Demand for household batteries in Australia is on the cusp of an explosion, and new data suggest most people are motivated by personal considerations.
Storm streamers are using radars and AI robots to predict extreme weather for millions of YouTube subscribers, in some cases faster than the National Weather Service, which has been gutted by DOGE.
Bill isn't buying what the MAHA movement is selling.
States will continue to get FEMA federal disaster aid this year but may see less assistance after changes made in 2026
Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.
A longtime critic of U.S. biofuels says an expansion of biofuels policy under President Donald Trump would lead to more greenhouse gas emissions and fewer food crops.
Experts predict this summer might be hotter than average—and the U.S. is not prepared to meet the challenge.
The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?
'Iran is a significant supplier of oil to global markets, producing roughly 4 million barrels of oil daily.'
A new report reveals massive backtracking on climate pledges.
As London Climate Week nears, it highlights the growing disconnect between public demand for bold climate action and global leaders' inaction.
There have been some wildly ambitious schemes to knock the power out of hurricanes and cyclones over the years. Now, scientists believe they have come up with a way to successfully subdue these destructive storms, long before they have a chance to reach land.…
New strains of misinformation about climate change are spreading, meant to slow the growth of renewable energy needed to fix the problem. Rather than flat-out denying the mountains of evidence that show that humans are causing climate change, more recent talk…
Summer has officially begun with a blast of scorching temperatures across much of the United States. The National Weather Service is warning of “extremely dangerous heat” baking 160 million people under a heat dome stretching from the Midwest to the East Coas…
More than 120 million Americans remain under heat alerts Wednesday as record-breaking temperatures and dangerous humidity grip the East Coast.
Google’s carbon emissions jumped yet again as the company continues to push ahead in AI. The company’s 2025 sustainability report emphasizes that its “ambition-based emissions” grew 11 percent last year to reach 11.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide poll…
They know better but they’d rather fight than switch
The Global South did not create the climate crisis. But it is counting on the rest of us to help solve it.
At least 50 world leaders gather in Seville to address global concerns, including hunger, climate change and healthcare.
The National Climate Assessment is the most influential source of information about climate change in the United States.
Four research firms project that the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act will raise greenhouse gas emissions and likely put U.S. and global climate goals out of reach
The "Big Beautiful Bill" destroys science, freedom, equality, democracy, and collective progress.
The greenhouse effect was discovered more than 150 years ago and the first scientific paper linking carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere with climate change was published in 1896.
Private jet usage increased 3% year-over-year in the first half of 2025 with big players expanding their fleets. Trump's Big Beautiful Bill could froth the market more.
In the latest attack on science by the Trump administration, researchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Center will no longer receive data from a fleet of military satellites.
The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" takes aim at American jobs and technology
A climate change activist was arrested after spray-painting Apple’s 5th Avenue store as part of a protest against Big Tech’s “climate hypocrisy.” Protestors from the Extinction Rebellion environmental group staged a demonstration at the New York City storefro…
New York’s flagship Fifth Avenue Apple Store was spray-painted by climate change protesters, calling for a boycott of the company. Three slogans were sprayed onto the glass frontage of the store, with Extinction Rebellion accusing Apple of hypocrisy on env…
The deadly floods in Central Texas were caused by extremely heavy rain. Climate change is causing even more rain to fall during the heaviest storms.
The one-time QAnon supporter and House representative is now targeting the legitimate practice of geoengineering, a common bogeyman of chemtrail true believers.
Forecasts and warnings largely worked during the recent flooding catastrophe in Texas. Those systems are expected to degrade as President Donald Trump’s cuts to the National Weather Service, satellites and other key services take hold
The “One Big Beautiful Bill” just signed by President Trump will slash support for clean energy, leaving the US far short of its Paris Agreement pledge
In Trump’s eyes, anything that doesn’t make white people appear to be the saviors of the world is something that should be buried. Whatever the phrase “fake news” won’t make go away is subject to seemingly daily government edicts that declare any recognition …
In the wake of deadly flooding in Texas, my colleague Noel King, who cohosts the Today, Explained podcast spoke with CNN senior climate reporter Andrew Freedman about what we know about the impact of cuts to the National Weather Service and what those cuts co…
In 2023, my husband and I bought our house in southwest Colorado, in part, because it backed up to open space. That was the dream: trails just past the fence, a scrubby network of oak and sage stretching out into the hills beyond. But a little over a year int…
Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has said she will hold a hearing on geoengineering as conspiracy theories have swirled around cloud seeding after the recent floods in Texas
If NASA must pull back, Europe is ready to step up — and do so with open arms.
There are just a few weeks left to tap federal programs that make purchasing an EV, heat pump, or solar panels more affordable.
Elizabeth Kolbert on how, even as the death toll climbs in Texas, the Trump Administration is actively undermining the nation’s ability to predict—and to deal with—climate-related disasters.
"We have stadiums with roofs and we will definitely use [them] during the day" said Infantino. What difference will that make to sustainability and climate-preparedness?
Many states, including Texas, have not used billions of dollars from FEMA intended to reduce damage from flooding and other disasters
Earlier this month, the government websites that hosted the authoritative, peer-reviewed national climate assessments went dark. Officials say they're only obligated to give the reports to Congress.
The Trump administration wants to reduce the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s budget by $2.2 billion, eliminating research that might help advance AI weather models
Proposed budget cuts in the US will lead to the loss of vital carbon dioxide measurements, but no other countries are preparing to step in so far, researchers warn
Big banks are “all deathly afraid of being sued,” a top deputy to Texas A.G. Ken Paxton told conservatives in secret audio obtained by Rolling Stone
Climate change and funding cuts are putting our drinking water, ecosystems and lives in danger
Excess rainfall has fueled disease and pest pressure in Ohio’s soybean fields as a trade war with China puts farmers’ biggest export market in doubt Seventh-generation farmer Brian Harbage grows corn, soybeans and grass, and runs a cattle operation across fi…
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President Donald Trump has called for a review of Smithsonian museums, saying they focus too much on "how bad Slavery was".
The U.S. is drifting away from science and climate reality. So why does life seem so normal?
An anonymous reader shares a report: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is narrowing the capabilities and reducing the number of next-generation weather and climate satellites it plans to build and launch in the coming decades, two people fam…
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
The White House’s recently-unveiled “AI Action Plan” wages war on so-called “woke AI”—including large language models (LLMs) that provide information inconsistent with the administration’s views on climate change, gender, and other issues. It also targets mea…
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The Trump administration halted construction on a nearly complete offshore wind project near Rhode Island as the White House continues to attack the battered U.S. offshore wind industry that scientists say is crucial to the urgent fight against climate change…
The US president publicly acknowledged 'real starvation' last month.
Two key documents from the Trump administration aimed at revoking the long-standing finding that climate change is dangerous were filled with errors, bias...
"We have not seen tariffs of this magnitude before."
It takes a degree of cognitive dissonance to blast the AC. Such is the American way.
Hurricane forecasts have made huge leaps since Katrina hit 20 year ago, but that progress is threatened by Trump administration cuts to research
Two decades after Katrina, we revisit the storm and discuss the evolution of hurricane preparedness since then.
The Enabled Emissions Campaign aims to hold Microsoft accountable for its technology's impact on fossil fuel production.
New details about the mysterious disappearance of Konrad 'Koni' Steffen, a pioneering climate scientist, who vanished on Greenland's melting ice sheet, raising urgent questions about climate change's dangers.
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New Orleans marks 20 years since Katrina, experts warn that reduced funding and policies could affect preparedness
Normal life continues for most of us, most of the time — but everything we took for granted is slipping away
Guterres’ visit comes ahead of the developing nation commemorating the 50th anniversary of its independence from near-neighbor Australia on Sept. 16. “The...
The United Nations on Wednesday urged nations late in turning in their climate plans to do so quickly, with major polluters among dozens of countries still to unveil new commitments.
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A new study finds dozens of heat waves would be "virtually impossible" without the activity of major fossil fuel producers, including oil companies.
Data centers are growing at breakneck speed, but so is the opposition to them.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright has disbanded a controversial Climate Working Group (CWG), which wrote a report that scientists say was full of errors and misrepresented climate science.
"It relies on ideas that were rejected long ago."
An infectious disease — one that rejects scientific expertise, metastasizes conspiracy theories and contaminates programs that track and treat illnesses...
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Readers respond to John Seabrook’s piece on floods, Eyal Press’s article on the National Restaurant Association, and Adam Gopnik’s essay on the history of gambling in New York.
Climate-fueled heat has caused thousands of excess deaths over the past three summers, which were the three hottest on record
Wildfire smoke is the air quality nightmare of our generation, eating away at previous gains made by cracking down on industrial emissions and tailpipe pollution. Constant exposure to smoke is becoming a chronic threat even in places that historically haven't…
Ten years after countries promised to cut climate pollution in the Paris Agreement, countries plan to produce more than twice the amount of fossil fuels that would be consistent with that deal.
Bill McKibben writes about progressive mayoral candidates, particularly Boston’s Michelle Wu, New York’s Zohran Mamdani, and Seattle’s Katie Wilson.
The US president also takes aim at the UN itself in an address lasting almost an hour.
It is China's first firm goal to reduce emissions but falls well short of what is needed to meet global targets.
In other words, more fire is coming, more often.
US officials have blamed Canada for not doing enough to stop its wildfire smoke from wafting south. Climate experts say it’s not so simple.
Some traditional journalists complain that McKibben is an advocate — the same criticism Woodward and Bernstein faced during Watergate.
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Major U.S. utilities earn an “F” on a new report card because they’re planning to build far too little clean energy and far too many gas-fired power plants.
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Last week's UNGA and Climate Week was a tale of two cities. Here are six key points from my Climate Week 2025 journey with business & nonprofit leaders and scientists.
With climate funding under threat, Wendy Schmidt is becoming an increasingly vital philanthropist—supporting deep-sea ...
In his first major statement on climate change, Pope Leo criticises those who minimise climate change.
A new book argues that simply replacing fossil-fuel extraction with critical-mineral mining is no way out of the climate crisis.
The “new fusionist” intellectuals are the missing link between nineteenth-century race science, twentieth-century libertarianism, and the contemporary alt-right.
FIFA is considering moving some kick-off times for next summer's World Cup to the early hours of the morning UK time in an attempt to avoid the extreme heat in North America that affected the recent Club World Cup.
As Trump targets his critics on the left, Sunrise says it needs to battle authoritarianism to protect the climate. The post Sunrise Movement, Founded to Fight Climate Change, Pivots to Fighting Trump appeared first on The Intercept.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Dozens of countries have yet to secure accommodation at next month's COP30 climate summit in Brazil and some delegates are considering...
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High gas prices and surging AI demand send operators back to the dirtiest fuel in the stack US datacenters are experiencing a significant shift toward coal-powered energy due to elevated natural gas prices and rapidly growing electricity demand.…
Researchers warn against ‘top down’ solutions as US President Donald Trump brokers first phase of peace deal.
Britain's flagship polar research vessel heads to Antarctica next week to help advance dozens of climate change-linked science projects, as Western nations spearhead studies there while the United States withdraws.
AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warned that in "20 years' time" the effects of research funding cuts could be deep.
The CDC updates COVID vaccine guidance and stirs controversy over childhood immunizations. And global health experts warn of rising child malnutrition in Gaza.
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Russia’s Coal Collapse signals the end of the fossil era. From bankrupt mines to battery booms, the global energy transition is accelerating but facing political resistance.
The national database on billion-dollar weather and climate disasters has found a new home after the Trump administration decided to ax it earlier this year. Thanks to researchers continuing the work despite a lack of federal support, we can keep the tally go…
As the United States rapidly builds massive data centers for the development of artificial intelligence, many Americans are concerned about the environmental...
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ExxonMobil is suing California over state laws that compel large companies to share a more comprehensive picture of their greenhouse gas emissions, as well as disclose financial risks that climate change might pose to their investors. The oil and gas company …
The UN's review of national climate plans shows the world is well off track to limit warming
The UN estimated Tuesday that nations' carbon-cutting pledges imply a far-from-sufficient 10% emissions cut by 2035, cautioning that it was unable to provide a robust global overview after most countries failed to submit their plans on time.
World leaders will soon gather for the annual UN meeting on how to tackle climate change.
The tech billionaire used to be a fierce climate advocate. What changed?
Never one to shy away from holding Donald Trump accountable, Harrison Ford is criticizing the president over his lack of concern for the climate crisis. The Oscar nominee recently slammed the POTUS over his “clear expression of ignorance, of hubris and purpos…
Nuclear, once the bête noire of Democrats and the environmental movement, is now accepted. The lesson for the future here is that public and political attitudes change and change back.
As federal support and financial incentives for climate action wither, this sort of local action is becoming more difficult but also more urgent, advocates say.
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Expectations are low for the UN climate conference in Belém, Brazil, but the host’s pragmatic approach could help make progress on implementation
Despite Paris Agreement pledges, countries 'have landed off target' on climate goals multiple times, the UN warns.
World leaders address COP30 climate summit in Belém and take aim at Trump record on climate change.
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UN chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday said leaders must confront the "moral failure and deadly negligence" of missing the 1.5C climate target and urgently correct course at the COP30 summit.
Seven in 10 climate researchers expect China's carbon emissions to peak by the end of the decade, survey shows.
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Friday condemned the COP30 environmental summit as harmful and misguided — defying the global scientific consensus and ...
You’ve probably noticed that Democrats are talking a lot less about climate change. But connecting clean energy to household bills proved to be a successful way to win voters in the elections across the US on Tuesday. This off-year election was a pressure t…
Appearance at Amazon summit comes before talks with Trump in Washington after UN Security Council lifted sanctions.
As countries meet at COP30 in the Amazon, a new Oxford University study gives the most detailed view yet of how different nations' laws and regulations are aligning—or not—to climate goals. The survey of climate policies across 37 countries (including the who…
There are growing calls for developed nations that produce the most gas emissions to take more responsibility.
Donald Trump is pushing to resume testing nuclear weapons, leading Vladimir Putin to do the same. The legacy of nuclear tests is devastating.
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Under President Trump, the U.S. has taken steps to roll back climate policies. Here are six significant changes.
The US president is notably absent from these UN climate talks, as are other world leaders, all of which prompts questions about the purpose of COP today.
The world must "defeat" climate denialism and fake news, Brazil's President Lula da Silva tells UN climate summit.
The House returns to vote on a bipartisan bill that could end the government shutdown. And, at the COP30, data show the world is still far from meeting its climate goals.
The Democratic governor accused President Trump of having 'abandoned any sense of duty' by not showing up to COP30.
Protest comes as Brazil's leader Lula says COP30 participants should be 'inspired' by Indigenous peoples.
Some of the country's highest home insurance prices are in the central U.S., a region generally considered to be protected from climate-driven disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes.
Donald Trump's assault on climate innovation is also affecting scientists researching geoengineering methods like carbon dioxide removal.
Symbolic struggles cannot be a force of resistance to the Trump administration.
If there is hope for the earth, it will depend in part on acknowledging indigenous sovereignty in the face of insatiable resource extraction.
As US President Donald Trump retreats on climate, Southeast Asia must lead where the US won’t.
Three years ago, Patagonia’s founder Yvon Chouinard made an unprecedented move: he and his family gave away the company. Instead of selling the multibillion-dollar retailer or taking it public, they created a new trust and nonprofit that would use the company…
US withdrawal from monitoring projects has sent the world scrambling for alternatives.
"The International Energy Agency's latest outlook signals that oil demand could keep growing through to the middle of the century," reports CNBC, "reflecting a sharp tonal shift from the world's energy watchdog and raising further questions about the future o…
According to Freedom House, the internet is more controlled and manipulated than ever before. And democracies aren't immune.
In Florida, a new pilot program teaches doulas how to prepare pregnant people for hurricanes, flooding, and extreme heat — addressing a growing climate and maternal health crisis.
Efforts to expand deep-sea mining are alarming scientists and Indigenous leaders, who worry mining risks fisheries and food security.
Pope Leo XIV urged countries at United Nations climate talks to take “concrete actions” to stop climate, saying God’s creation "is crying out in floods, droughts, storms and relentless heat.”
To keep profits rolling in, oil and gas companies want to turn fossil fuels into a mounting pile of packaging and other plastic products
People do not have to dismiss or exaggerate the climate threat to justify concerted action.
Students played the roles of different countries, made speeches, and "negotiated" to strike deals.
India says it has met a key target of its previous climate action plan, but many say it needs to do more.
Brazil's new draft proposal does not contain a roadmap for a transition, nor mention 'fossil fuels' at all.
The 2015 Paris Agreement forged a path for the world to stave off the worst climate change scenarios. Here’s where we stand 10 years later
The host country's agenda focuses on more help for poor countries against climate crisis and to reduce debt burden.
Cop30, the U.N.’s annual climate summit that the U.S. failed to send a delegate to this year, nonetheless achieved something President Donald Trump would celebrate.Delegates in Brazil reported that they had reached a tentative deal on Saturday, and while some…
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says there is a "renewed commitment to multilateral co-operation".
What did we learn from a climate summit that ended in a deal with no new mention of fossil fuels?
The Belem summit has restored some trust in the fraying global climate negotiation process. The challenge now is to take on the tougher challenge of expediting climate action
"It's a wrap … Don't forget to buy an 'i survived Belém' shirt," reads the opening line of an email I got Saturday, the final day of highly anticipated United Nations climate negotiations in Belém, Brazil. The email was sent from Shravya Jain-Conti, the US cl…
The 194 countries still taking part in UN climate negotiations reaffirmed the Paris Agreement following the US withdrawal, even if they agreed on little else
Myriad factors can cause blackouts.
Since 1903, the United States has established more than 580 National Wildlife Refuges, designating a diverse array of lands and waters as protected areas for plants and wildlife.
I don’t have access to Big Oil’s internal emails about this. But they sure look wildly desperate to dodge the growing array of lawsuits over the damage caused by their decades-long scheme to deceive the public about climate change. Oil companies are doing wha…
The program aims to use federal funds awarded under the Biden administration to deploy more than 500,000 heat pumps in the chilly region over the next few years.
The technology of the future that no one seems to want, brought to you by the energy of the past.
The Department of Justice wants to join the cruise ship industry’s lawsuit against the state over a new tax on passengers visiting the islands.
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I suppose we might all be tiring of the whole “the leopard you voted for eventually comes to eat your face” cliche at this point, but when the allegory fits you have to use it. And in this case, it fits so well that it would be comical if not for just how hea…
The government has spent more than $3 billion on beach replenishment over the last four decades. But with worsening climate change, experts say more dramatic change is in order
As federal data becomes less available, our journalists are doing shoe-leather reporting to provide readers with the precise numbers.
The EPA is prioritizing review of new chemicals to be used in data centers. Experts say this could lead to the fast approval of new types of forever chemicals — with limited oversight.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has removed any mention of fossil fuels — the main driver of global warming — from its popular online page explaining the...
The biosphere itself cannot endure yet another round of capitalist expansion, he argues, so the capitalist system itself must instead be dismantled.
Since 1779 photosynthesis has been the standard-issue explanation for the continuation of life on earth: plants absorb sunlight, which fuels their metabolism, and create oxygen as waste. This is such basic, grade-school science that it normally wouldn’t bear …
Twenty states had challenged the end of the programme, meant to make localities more resilient to natural disasters.
A scientist, a journalist and a remarkable scent‑detecting dog race to learn what’s endangering the last southern resident orcas
President Trump continues to shake up science. We look at the impact it’s already having.
The White House plans to break up a key weather and climate research center in Colorado, a move experts say could jeopardize the accuracy of forecasting and prediction systems.
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In the latest effort to undermine climate action, President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which underpins global efforts to address rising temperatures
The sweeping changes will see the US quit major forums for cooperation on climate change, peace and democracy.
A new 9.1-megawatt solar array will help residents of Waukegan, Illinois, reduce energy bills. State incentives for low-income solar made the project possible.
A New Orleans collective is a heartening example of community self help...and an indictment of income inequality and failing social programs.
An open letter organized by US-based researchers working in Greenland opposes any takeover of the territory.
The skyrocketing electricity demands of AI data centers—and a cold snap—are driving up America’s emissions after years of declines, a new report finds
Models can predict catastrophic or modest damages from climate change, but not which of these futures is coming.
Global warming surpassed 1.5 degrees Celsius for the past three years, meaning Earth is currently on track to breach the Paris climate agreement by the end of the decade
For Bloomberg, Molly Smith reports on the state of government data: But Trump has made it clear that some data collection simply didn’t align with White House “priorities” that no longer include “w…
The fires affected millions of people in the region. It could take years to understand the health consequences, but ongoing research is helping to prepare people to weather the next fires more safely.
U.S. emissions rose last year, new research says: The country spewed 2.4% more heat-trapping gases from the burning of fossil fuels in 2025 than in the year before.
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The United States is leaving some of the world’s oldest and most influential scientific networks involved in biodiversity research, climate science and conservation. Affected organizations tell Nature that their work continues.
Trump’s attacks on bedrock environmental and climate laws are inherently fragile—and could reflect the president’s preference for political dominance over lasting change.
Tens of millions of people are in the path of a major winter storm. Federal cuts threaten efforts to understand the causes of such weather.
It’s not just about cuts to research. It’s about power.
Geopolitics made Greenland the unexpected focus of the world’s attention. But the territory has long been a unique region for science.
Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival.
Reduce emissions? Screw that - we have money to lose and memes to generate Fossil fuel-fired power plant development is roaring back to life in the US thanks to the AI datacenter boom, with data from 2025 suggesting we're reaching the point where the renewabl…
Scientists have long opposed polar geoengineering. Some now believe it will be necessary.
DoE trims NEPA paperwork for advanced reactors The Department of Energy says advanced nuclear reactor designs - many of which have so far existed mainly at the experimental, testing, or demonstration stage - generally pose limited environmental risk and can q…
To the Editors: Regarding Bill McKibben’s review of The Story of CO 2 Is the Story of Everything [“It’s a Gas,” NYR, January 15], and with all due respect to McKibben, I believe that his characterization of the transition to a wind and solar economy as someth…
Alarm grows that new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American history.
Trump and Stephen Miller don’t just want to erase the 20th century. Their dream is much bigger than that
Some countries have to choose between development and the environment. We don't.
President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the repeal of the endangerment finding, the legal bedrock for the agency's actions against planet-warming pollution.
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The Trump administration is about to tear down a load-bearing ruling that considers climate change as a threat to Americans’ health. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is announcing that it will publish its final rule to dismantle the endangerment fi…
Trump's order is the latest move by US administration to boost fossil fuel industry despite climate change concerns.
The visit suggests a possible FBI probe into Extinction Rebellion NYC as the Trump administration increases surveillance of activist groups. The post FBI Counterterrorism Agents Spent Weeks Seeking a Climate Activist — Then Showed Up at His Door appeared firs…
"The classroom is heavy with rumor and ominous unease."
Trump administration rescinds 'endangerment finding' that serves as the legal bases to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.
A cable seen by Al Jazeera says the US 'strongly objects' to the island nation seeking support for the ICJ's ruling.
America’s two utility-scale offshore wind farms performed as well as gas power plants and better than coal in January — including during Winter Storm Fern.
The greedy, grasping, living cartoon of a Scrooge who currently occupies the White House is leveraging coal power to support his plans for killing as many Americans as possible. Hopefully he will leave office again — peacefully, this time — before doing much …
Climate-change denialism used to be a fringe right-wing tendency. Now it’s the law of the land, and we’ll all suffer from it.
The 'Late Night With Bill Maher' host sent a blunt message to the POTUS and his administration.
Stephen Hawking used his fame to warn humanity about its potential - and rapidly approaching - end. He provided a possible solution, but just how viable is it?
We take a look at President Trump’s decision to reject a landmark climate finding, the cause of an unusual winter in the U.S. and the physics behind a bizarre ski jumping scandal
The Trump administration’s hostility to science is real, but it isn’t matched by the rest of the GOP.
Medical and environmental groups are challenging the EPA’s decision to break with the long-standing scientific evidence that climate change endangers human health
A new book buries the Obama-era idea that small shifts in personal behavior can greatly improve the world.
Environmental group says FBI is visiting activists' homes as Trump administration rolls back pollution protections.
The US Environmental Protection Agency rescinded the climate change finding as part of a push to slash regulation.
You might be chilly right now, but that doesn't mean the world is getting colder.
Scientific knowledge about the damaging effects of nuclear-weapons testing helped to end such tests. Those findings haven’t changed.
Way back in the ancient days of the year 2020, the world went through this pandemic thing called COVID-19. For those of you not old enough to remember such ancient history, it was a fairly significant health issue that caused a few disruptions throughout the …
Surging electricity demand from AI data centers is colliding with a federal energy policy that favors slow-build fossil fuels over fast-deploy renewables. Price impact?
Tesla, Ford, and Volvo occupy the top three spots in a new ranking of 18 global automakers based on their efforts to eliminate carbon emissions, environmental harms, and human rights violations from their supply chains. Toyota, meanwhile, lurks near the botto…
Why measles cases are rising in the U.S., how artificial intelligence is shaping warfare, and what accelerated global warming means for the world
Climate change fears grip Nuuk as winter temperatures reach record highs.
xAI can power data centers at the cost of greenhouse gas pollution. Elon Musk used to speak out against this sort of thing.
Data centers power the AI revolution, and are sprouting all over the US. They can also drain water and energy, and face growing opposition.
From emergency oil reserves to nuclear scrutiny, bigger hail, and research on a connection between the aging gut and the brain
Ehrlich’s lurid predictions of imminent planetary doom captivated the public, but they did not come true.
Tyriek White’s We Are a Haunting traces the lives of Black Brooklynites dealing with the porous boundaries between the past and the present as they forge lives amid the detritus that others have discarded.
The Trump administration revoked key scientific finding that formed a basis for regulations to address climate change.
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Gasoline prices continue ticking higher as the United States and Israel’s war with Iran continues. As of March 23, the national average stands at $3…
Climate scientist Kate Marvel talked to Scientific American about her decision to leave NASA amid federal government turmoil and funding challenges
An enduring menace to the global economy, this unnecessary and illegal war also pushes the world toward long-term environmental disaster
In the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico lives one of the world’s rarest and most elusive marine mammals: Rice’s whale. There are just 51 of them left, according to the most recent scientific estimates, meaning they are quite literally on the knife’s edge of …
Democratic governors’ affordability politics is trashing “what remains of U.S. climate policy,” Politico reports this week. The piece points to New York Governor Kathy Hochul trying to delay legally binding emissions targets; Maryland Governor Wes Moore “back…
An update on NASA’s historic moon mission, alarm over the low snowpack in the western U.S. and a move that could endanger wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico
The value of forest ecosystems is hard to overstate. Blanketing roughly a third of the US, they supply clean water and air, absorb planet-warming carbon dioxide, and provide homes for imperiled wildlife and a tranquil place for Americans to hunt and fish. It’…
The U.S. just had the hottest March it's ever recorded, but sure, throw on a "super El Niño" on top of that.
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. From the cold snap this winter to the US war with Iran, rising energy bills are making headlines. But there’s a larger story behind sp…
Most bills being considered are part of a coordinated effort by groups linked to right-wing activist Leonard Leo
When a political movement believes that ignorance is strength
Two experts unpack how trends in climate and geopolitics might unfold to shape the far north.
So much for those net-zero emissions pledges huh, guys?
This Earth Day three environmental experts share stories about times when environmental action succeeded in saving the planet—and explain why this can be done again
The environmental crises of the past often seem to disappear—have problems like acid rain and smog been solved?
Solar power is rapidly becoming one of the globe's most important energy sources.
Some 60 countries are meeting in Colombia as frustration grows with lack of progress in tackling climate change
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.
The abrupt firing of the board comes at a time of climate crisis and international competition
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 …
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…
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…
Researcher Sasha Luccioni argues we need better emissions data and a better sense of how people are using AI in the first place.
AI and the bit barns that power it have developed a serious PR problem
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.
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.
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are moving forward with their climate plan despite the loss of state support and federal funding.
Funding cuts in health research, and the antivaccine movement make it challenging to respond to viruses.
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…
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 …
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.
The Trump administration likes to cast renewables as a socialist scam, but solar has soared in the competitive markets of the Lone Star State.
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.
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.
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 …
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…
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…
A surge in malaria cases in Zimbabwe is exposing fragile health systems and growing treatment shortages in rural areas.
The abrupt collapse of USAID one year ago impacted food security, agriculture, and climate resilience across the Caribbean.
The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade
The Trump administration plans to scrap a $368-million investment in deep-sea ocean monitoring that is critical to monitoring extreme weather.
Some jurisdictions have weakened their public health authorities in response to criticism of lockdowns, school closures, mask mandates, vaccine requirements and other COVID-era restrictions.
Coal is the most significant fossil fuel contributor to climate change
The president announced plans for two new coal plants in Alaska and West Virginia, using the Defense Production Act.
Despite the Trump administration's efforts to revitalize domestic coal power, renewables continue to set new records.
President Trump is trying to downsize the U.S Forest Service and eliminate wildfire and smoke research as the American West is facing a potentially epic summer fire season.
As the US shuts its doors to most refugees, there’s little hope of a new system to help those forced from home by climate impacts.
Kevin Bryan riffs on on my post The Nationalization of American Science. He is rightfully incensed: AT is right this is a red tape-filled science policy of “losers”. If you think “cut funds from DEI-driven professors in the small departments no one cares abou…
Bulk buying is a tried-and-true way to get discounts on rooftop solar. Now programs aimed at heat pumps are popping up too, helping people save thousands of dollars.
Report highlights the growing threats posed by climate change and calls for the green transition to be accelerated.
The scientists have been right about climate change all along, says former Vice President Al Gore on the 20th anniversary of the release of "An Inconvenient Truth."
The People of the Sun event this September will bring together climate activists, philanthropists, and anyone seeking to experience the wisdom of Native people
The Trump administration revealed the first public list of materials on civil rights and the environment that the National Park Service removed across the country.
As the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, former national park rangers are hosting teach-ins and sharing history that the Trump administration has sought to erase from federal land.<br>
Remove something from the internet? You can't stop the (climate change) signal, Mal
More than 2,500 donors put in roughly $250,000 to stand up climate.us, the independent nonprofit that now hosts the data dashboards, maps, explainers, and teaching tools that once lived on NOAA’s climate.gov.
Photo Credit:Image: woodleywonderworks via Flickr, CC BY 2.0. woodleywonderworksFilm critics hate it, but it is resonating with the general public.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s public-facing hub for climate science, climate.gov, has been reborn as climate.us.
It’s no secret that Donald Trump has been waging an Orwellian war on knowledge and information for most of his second term thus far. While purging history of American racism, slavery, and anything else that makes us look less than perfect has been the primary…
From measles to screwworm, Americans keep paying the price for the admin's war on science.
The soaring temperatures are raising concerns as President Donald Trump hosts America's 250th birthday celebrations and multiple World cup matches take place outdoors.
As it was foretold: the Trump regime gutted the NOAA and now weather forecasts are less accurate. An atmospheric scientist: “The forecasts I’m able to offer you are less accurate than they would other
The US Department of Energy reportedly deleted about 6,000 pages related to energy conservation as a historic heatwave tears across the country. The deletion was suspiciously timed, following Republican outrage over Mayor Zohran Mamdani asking New Yorkers to …
America’s 250th unfolds through competing visions of patriotism, extreme heat and weather and large-scale events
Our rattled daily links: Record sea temps, China real estate sinks. yen crisis? >1 million Gaza deaths, Yemen threatens Saudis. grocery price emergency, Trump corruption details, quant emergency? retail dip-buying frenzy, America 250 ignorance, Cuba blackouts…
American’s are paying more for power as the Trump administration’s attacks on renewable energy collide with increased energy demand.
Longer-lasting hot spells and high temperatures at night are making it harder to cope, leading to thousands more deaths from extreme heat
Civil rights groups like the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) have noted how Elon Musk’s Colossus xAI data centers in Memphis disproportionately pollute the air in minority neighborhoods. A joint lawsuit by SELC, Earthjustice, and the NAACP filed last…
MAGA political loyalists, not researchers or experts, could soon decide what counts as legitimate knowledge
As heat waves strain the power grid, passive cooling can help homes stay safer when the air goes out.
Workers proud of their efforts to grow renewable energy say the U.S. president is pursuing a "personal vendetta" at their expense.
Cyberattacks on power grids and shifting federal policy are pushing Americans toward rooftop solar and batteries — not for climate ideals, but personal security.