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Surviving the Thaw: Greenland’s Inuit Grapple with Their Melting World
This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. There is also an online chat at 988lifeline.org. The suicide and crisis helpline in Greenland can be reached at +299 80 11 80 or SMS: […]
Published on: April 19, 2025 | Source:
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What You Need to Know About Geothermal Heating and Cooling
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with Inside Climate News reporter Phil McKenna. One sign of hope for the climate crisis may be geothermal energy. You may have heard about deep geothermal, like the plants in Iceland that typically involve wells up to […]
Published on: April 19, 2025 | Source:National Park and Forest Service Staffing Levels Have Been Dramatically Reduced
America’s 34th annual National Parks Week will feature dramatically scaled back staffing and services at national parks and forests following weeks of slashing by the Trump Administration. Friday, the day before parks week begins, was the Trump administration’s deadline for federal employees to voluntarily resign in exchange for paid leave—an offer that was overturned and […]
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:Trump May Target Environmental Nonprofits in Executive Orders Expected on Earth Day
Environmental groups across the country are battening down the hatches in preparation for what could be an Earth Day onslaught. Sources in Washington, including within the Department of Justice and on Capitol Hill, have told Inside Climate News that White House officials are preparing various executive orders on environmental issues, possibly to be announced on […]
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:Trump May Target Environmental Nonprofits in Executive Orders
Environmental groups across the country are battening down the hatches in preparation for new executive orders from President Donald Trump. Sources in Washington, including within the Department of Justice and on Capitol Hill, have told Inside Climate News that White House officials are preparing executive orders on environmental issues. One order, they say, would target […]
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:Oak Flat is Sacred to Western Apache. The Trump Administration Intends to Approve a Plan to Destroy It
The Trump administration on Wednesday signaled it intends to approve a land transfer that will allow a foreign company to mine a sacred Indigenous site in Arizona, where local tribes and environmentalists have fought the project for decades and before federal courts rule on lawsuits over the project. Western Apache have gathered at Oak Flat, […]
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:Urban Parks Can Support People and Biodiversity—if They Are Designed With Both in Mind
Research shows that parks are crucial for supporting city dwellers—people or the surprising abundance of animals that inhabit urban wildlands. However, designing parks with both in mind can be a tall task. Bright lights are good for human safety, but can be disruptive to insect populations. Tall grass provides habitat for pollinators and mammals, though […]
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:As EPA Rolls Back Regulations for Large Industrial Polluters, It Finds a New Target: A Two-Person Geoengineering Startup
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is demanding information from a small geoengineering startup company it says is launching pollution into the air. The EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation submitted a demand for information to Make Sunsets, which launches balloons filled with sulfur dioxide (SO2) into the atmosphere in an attempt to lower the planet’s […]
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:Shipping’s climate deal sets up battle over pollution calculations for gas and biofuels
The IMO will set emissions intensity levels for different fuels that decide how ship owners will be rewarded or penalised for using them in new green push The post Shipping’s climate deal sets up battle over pollution calculations for gas and biofuels appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:Federal Judge Orders Florida to Address Pollution That Led to Manatee Deaths
The state of Florida is in violation of the Endangered Species Act and must develop a plan for addressing the pollution that led in recent years to an unprecedented die-off of manatees, a federal judge has ruled. The litigation is centered on state wastewater discharge regulations that have failed to control nutrient pollution in the […]
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:Trump Administration Halts Construction on New York Offshore Wind Project
The buildout of renewable energy projects in downstate New York—the region that includes the Hudson Valley and below—is often complicated. The space for these projects is limited, particularly in New York City, and they’re often expensive. Though an approach of smaller battery storage and solar projects could inch the state closer to its ambitious renewable […]
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:Project to suck carbon out of sea begins in UK
A pilot project will test whether it is a useful way of fighting climate change.
Published on: April 18, 2025 | Source:A Father of Environmental Justice Rebukes Sierra Club, Ben Jealous Over Treatment of Black Alabamians
SHILOH COMMUNITY, Ala.—The promises, like the floodwaters, have come in waves. Over the years, Pastor Timothy Williams, a resident of the Shiloh Community in south Alabama, has led more politicians and environmental leaders on neighborhood tours than he can count. At every turn, he said Thursday, one man has been there for it all: Dr. […]
Published on: April 17, 2025 | Source:How the Trump Administration’s Interpretation of One Word—‘Harm’—Could Gut Habitat Protections for Endangered Species
The Trump administration proposed a new rule Wednesday that would rescind widespread habitat protections for species protected under the Endangered Species Act, a landmark law enacted in 1973 to conserve the country’s imperiled animals and plants. That would open the door for developments across the country to be approved even if they significantly disrupt critical […]
Published on: April 17, 2025 | Source:Congo’s deadly rains predicted to occur every two years in a warming world
After floods devastate the DRC's capital, scientists say climate change is making heavier rains more likely and call for better data to help prepare The post Congo’s deadly rains predicted to occur every two years in a warming world appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 17, 2025 | Source:China Briefing 17 April 2025: US-China tariff war; AI and data centres; Coal construction ‘till 2027’
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate... The post China Briefing 17 April 2025: US-China tariff war; AI and data centres; Coal construction ‘till 2027’ appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: April 17, 2025 | Source:DeBriefed 17 April 2025: India and Pakistan heat ‘tests human limits’; UK steel crisis sparks net-zero attack; Why Nigerian households are turning to solar
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed.An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate... The post DeBriefed 17 April 2025: India and Pakistan heat ‘tests human limits’; UK steel crisis sparks net-zero attack; Why Nigerian households are turning to solar appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: April 17, 2025 | Source:EV Sales Are Up in the US, But Tariffs Are a Storm Cloud for an Industry That Craves Stability
It’s a rough time to be in the automobile industry. President Donald Trump’s tariffs are punching holes in plans that took years to develop regarding global supply chains and managing the long-term shift to electric vehicles. And then, on April 14, Trump suggested he might pause a 25 percent tariff on imported cars that took […]
Published on: April 17, 2025 | Source:Scientists find 'strongest evidence yet' of life on distant planet
Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.
Published on: April 17, 2025 | Source:Sen. Bernie Sanders Brings His Fighting Oligarchy Tour to Conservative Rural California Districts
FOLSOM, Calif.—On a warm, sunny afternoon in a conservative rural California district, thousands of people lined up in the town of Folsom looking for inspiration, leadership and hope from an unconventional politician who has dedicated his career to fighting for working people. Some lived in Folsom, a suburb of Sacramento made famous by Johnny Cash’s […]
Published on: April 17, 2025 | Source:Australia opposition leader clarifies he believes in climate change after debate
Peter Dutton is facing outrage after comments he made on climate change during an election debate.
Published on: April 17, 2025 | Source:The truth about life on other planets - and what it means for humans
Could discoveries of alien life ever change the human psyche in how we view ourselves and each other?
Published on: April 17, 2025 | Source:More Than 60 Power Plants Exempted From Federal Mercury Limits
Included in the Trump administration’s order last week to boost the coal industry was a two-year exemption to a rule that would have forced some of the nation’s most polluting power plants to reduce emissions of mercury and other air toxics. The ramifications of this exemption are beginning to sink in for people across the […]
Published on: April 17, 2025 | Source:Half the World’s People Depend on Rice. New Research Says Climate Change Will Make it Toxic
Rice, the world’s most consumed grain, will become increasingly toxic as the atmosphere heats and as carbon dioxide emissions rise, potentially putting billions of people at risk of cancers and other diseases, according to new research published Wednesday in The Lancet. Eaten every day by billions of people and grown across the globe, rice is […]
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Dominion Among Utilities Allowed Exemption for Coal Emissions From Trump’s EPA
Dominion Energy is one of several utilities that received an exemption from stricter federal coal pollution reduction technologies under an order from the Trump administration that environmental groups call “farcical.” On April 8, President Trump announced several executive orders aimed at propping up the coal industry. The Trump orders gave 47 companies and a larger […]
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Dominion Among Utilities Allowed Exemption for Coal Emissions From Trump’s EPA
Dominion Energy is one of several utilities that received an exemption from stricter federal coal pollution reduction technologies under an order from the Trump administration that environmental groups call “farcical.” On April 8, President Trump announced several executive orders aimed at propping up the coal industry. The Trump orders gave 47 companies and a larger […]
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Texas Oilfield Company and Executive Plead Guilty in Hydrogen Sulfide Deaths
Aghorn Operating Inc., a Texas oilfield company, and its vice president pleaded guilty Tuesday to criminal charges resulting from the death of a worker and his wife in 2019 near Odessa. Aghorn will pay $1 million in fines and a services company, Kodiak Roustabout Inc., will pay an additional $400,000. Aghorn vice president Trent Day […]
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:As Trump upends aid and markets, who will pay for green development in Global South?
Ahead of key donor meetings, experts say a combination of debt relief, private investment and innovative sources of finance could help fill the gap The post As Trump upends aid and markets, who will pay for green development in Global South? appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Colossal squid filmed in ocean for the first time
Stunned scientists say the extremely rare squid can weigh up to 500kg (1,100lb).
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:The Hidden Climate Costs of Exporting US Liquefied Natural Gas
CAMERON, La.—For a ship the length of nearly three football fields, Energy Intelligence seemed to turn on a dime. With tugboats pushing and pulling at its bow and stern, the 295-meter liquefied natural gas tanker pivoted 180 degrees in the brackish waters of the Calcasieu Ship Channel in late February, preparing to refuel for a […]
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:EPA Weighs N.C. Environmental Harms From Sewage Sludge Used as Fertilizer
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.—Perhaps it was rain dripping through one of the many holes in the roof that condensed the ammonium nitrate into a potentially explosive cake. Or maybe it was an electrical short, like the one that had occurred a month earlier, igniting a pile of fertilizer. Regardless of the cause, on the evening of Jan. […]
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:UK's rarest wildlife being 'pushed to extinction' by grass fires
Wildfires 'could spell the end' for rare species such as water voles and hen harriers.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Explainer: How China is managing the rising energy demand from data centres
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies has driven the “surging” growth of... The post Explainer: How China is managing the rising energy demand from data centres appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:England water pollution at 10-year high, campaigners say
Campaigners release official data showing the most serious pollution incidents in England are double the target.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Texas Oil Drillers Can Bury Toxic Waste on Private Property Without Telling the Landowner. A New Bill Seeks to Change That
A bill in the Texas Legislature would require oil and gas drillers to notify landowners before burying toxic waste on their property. In addition, House Bill 4572 would strengthen other regulations for reserve pits, where oil and gas companies permanently bury waste next to drilling sites. The Texas House Energy Resources Committee heard testimony on […]
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source: