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Climate change is creating ‘new vulnerabilities’ for disease pandemics
Climate change is creating “new vulnerabilities” for pandemics, according to new research. The study, published... The post Climate change is creating ‘new vulnerabilities’ for disease pandemics appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:
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Global goal for clean cooking by 2030 out of Africa’s reach, IEA says
A shortage of funding and infrastructure means sub-Saharan Africa will have to delay the deadline to 2040, the International Energy Agency estimates The post Global goal for clean cooking by 2030 out of Africa’s reach, IEA says appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:Top UN court says countries can sue each other over climate change
The decision from the world's highest court has been welcomed by developing nations at most risk from climate change.
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:World’s top court opens door to compensation from countries responsible for climate crisis
International Court of Justice rules that governments have a legal duty to prevent and repair damage to the climate system The post World’s top court opens door to compensation from countries responsible for climate crisis appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:Journalism, Propaganda and Climate Change
Recently I was on a Zoom call with a philanthropic advisor who toward the end of our conversation asked me an open-ended question: What do you think is missing from climate communications today? He regarded journalism to be a branch of communications—perhaps I didn’t agree with that characterization, he wondered? For context he provided a […]
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:New Study Reveals Mycorrhizal Fungal Hotspots and Their Lack of Protections
In the soils of most ecosystems around the world, mycorrhizal fungal communities form intimate relationships with the roots of the plants above them, exchanging nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen for carbon, of which they store an estimated 13billion tons annually. But with mycorrhizal fungi living underground, science’s understanding of their global distribution has lagged behind […]
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:Gaps in our knowledge of ancient Rome could be filled by AI
A new system fills in missing words from ancient inscriptions carved on monuments and everyday objects.
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:Brazil under fire for weakening environmental rules ahead of COP30 climate summit
Green lawmakers and campaigners fear a new bill making it easier to secure environmental licences could fuel pollution, forest loss and oil exploration The post Brazil under fire for weakening environmental rules ahead of COP30 climate summit appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:Startups Make Products From the Carbon in Fossil Fuels
At a San Antonio research campus, a four-story-tall contraption breaks apart the molecules of Texas shale gas, producing hydrogen and carbon. But that carbon doesn’t form CO2 gas and drift into the atmosphere where it fuels global warming. Instead, it comes out as black powder that can be stored in bins, moved by railcar and […]
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:Republican Excitement for Wyoming Rare Earth Mining Contradicts the Party’s Disdain for Renewables
At the foot of Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains sits a mine potentially full of minerals crucial for renewable energy, yet capable of drawing praise from some of the United States’ most ardent supporters of fossil fuels. On July 11, the U.S. secretary of energy Chris Wright, the former CEO of a hydraulic fracturing company, joined former […]
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:Nine Governors Write to Regional Grid Operator PJM, Expressing Frustration Over Governance and Interconnection Delays
A bipartisan group of governors wants a larger seat at the table of PJM Interconnection, the regional electric grid operator that has had issues getting clean and affordable energy sources onto the grid in multiple states, including Virginia. Nine governors, including Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-Va.), sent a letter to PJM last week asking for the […]
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:A South Bronx Park is a Hive of Activity—for Bees and for New Yorkers Training for Green Jobs
The buzz of bees at Concrete Plant Park in the South Bronx is a hint to some grand ambitions for job opportunities in this once abandoned industrial site. For nearly 50 years, the massive silos near the Bronx River were home to a bustling private concrete enterprise. Abandoned in the 1980s, the seven-acre site rotted […]
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:Teeth marks suggest 'terror bird' was killed by reptile 13 million years ago
Terror birds could be taller than a human and had powerful legs and hooked, flesh-ripping beaks.
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:PJM Capacity Price Hits Cap as Clean Energy Projects Remain Stalled
PJM Interconnection, the electric grid operator for 13 Mid-Atlantic and Midwest states and the District of Columbia, announced its capacity price on Tuesday for the upcoming service year at $329.17 per megawatt-day, hitting the price ceiling it set for the next two years. Analysts said the price was indicative of a region struggling to secure […]
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:The 'underwater bushfire' cooking Australia's reefs
Divers at one of Australia's world-famous reefs said their experience was "like swimming on a corpse".
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:Canadian Company Exits Contentious Uranium Mining Project in Western Alaska
This story was originally published byNorthern Journal. A small Canadian company behind a controversial effort to mine uranium in Western Alaska has pulled out of the project, the firm hasannounced. Panther Minerals last year proposed exploratory drilling over the next four years in search of uranium on Alaska’s Seward Peninsula. But it ultimately decided to […]
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:Burn Scars Can Exacerbate Flooding, Posing Compounding Climate Hazards
Southern New Mexico was already parched by drought when the South Fork fire ignited on June 17, 2024. The blaze burned roughly 17,000 acres near the town of Ruidoso in the Lincoln National Forest and the Mescalero Apache reservation, killing two people and destroying 1,400 structures. Since then, several disasters have hit in the scars […]
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:New climate plans must supercharge energy transition, says UN’s Guterres
UN secretary-general urges governments to send a clear signal in their NDCs about the 'inevitable' shift away from fossil fuels The post New climate plans must supercharge energy transition, says UN’s Guterres appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:UN: Five reasons why switching to renewables is ‘smart economics’
The global energy transition is now “unstoppable” due to “smart economics”, UN secretary-general António Guterres... The post UN: Five reasons why switching to renewables is ‘smart economics’ appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:The Just Energy Transition Partnerships are faltering – fresh thinking is needed
The JETPs have the right idea on phasing out coal and boosting renewables, but are struggling as geopolitical tensions and Global South debt levels rise The post The Just Energy Transition Partnershipsare faltering – fresh thinking is needed appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:Want To Fight Climate Change? Give Afro-Descendant Communities Land Rights, New Report Says
Territories owned and managed by Afro-descendant communities in Amazonian countries are under threat from miners, loggers and oil companies eager to exploit natural resources. Yet those territories are among some of the region’s healthiest, according to a new peer-reviewed study. The report, published Tuesday by the nonprofit Conservation International in the journal Nature Communications Earth […]
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:Potential Repeal of Roadless Rule Could Permanently Damage Midwest National Forests
Following the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s rescission of a longstanding rule that protects thousands of acres of national forests against logging, experts say that the repeal would not only damage natural beauty, but also ignores the interests of Midwest residents and industries. On June 23, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said at a Western Governors’ […]
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:Dismantling of EPA’s Scientific Research Arm Fulfills Key Chemical Industry Goal
Soon after President Donald Trump took office in January, a wide array of petrochemical, mining and farm industry coalitions ramped up what has been a long campaign to limit use of the Environmental Protection Agency’s assessments of the health risks of chemicals. That effort scored a significant victory Friday when EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced […]
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:Weather Extremes Caused by Climate Change Are Driving Up Food Prices, a New Report Says
Extreme weather has stoked food prices around the world in recent years and could lead to more political instability and inflation, with the world’s poor bearing most of the economic pain and health impacts, according to new research. A report published Monday in the journal Environmental Research Letters tracks 16 weather events, many directly attributed […]
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:EPA Extends Leave and Demands Answers From Employees Who Signed a ‘Declaration of Dissent’
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has extended the administrative leave of 160 employees as part of its investigation into workers who used their official titles and positions last month in signing a petition objecting to the agency’s policies, Inside Climate News has confirmed. The employees were scheduled to return to work July 18, but the […]
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:Water bill rises needed to fix investment, report says
A major review of the water industry also suggests compulsory smart meters and scrapping the regulator Ofwat.
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:How much sewage is spilled near you?
Companies can release raw sewage during bad weather, but it poses risks to human health and wildlife.
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:Five key takeaways from the landmark water sector review
The wide-ranging review was launched amid growing public concern about sewage spills and rising bills.
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:Alabama’s New Utility Commission President Wants to Hear From ‘All Sides’ as She Assumes New Role
There aren’t many jobs in Alabama like president of the Public Service Commission. The state’s chief utility regulator is the head of a three-person council that sets rates and policies for the state’s electric, gas, telecommunications and other utilities. If Alabama Power, the state’s largest electricity provider, wants to raise rates or build a new […]
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:Iowa Agriculture Runs on 110 Billion Pounds of Manure, at a Cost to Its Water
During planting season in Iowa, Landon Plagge’s fields reek. Sour and earthy, almost like rotten eggs and fermenting hay, the scent repels the unacquainted nose. But Plagge is unbothered. “I’m used to it,” he said, laughing. “I’m immersed in shit, I guess.” In addition to the soy, corn, oats and rye he grows on his […]
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:Mapped: 16 times extreme weather drove higher food prices since 2022
UK potatoes, South Korean cabbage and west African cocoa are just some of the foods... The post Mapped: 16 times extreme weather drove higher food prices since 2022 appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: July 20, 2025 | Source:Sewage discharges to halve by 2030, minister pledges
Environment Secretary Steve Reed says the government is preparing a "water revolution" and that the water sector is broken.
Published on: July 20, 2025 | Source:Out in the Storm
We were bombing up I-10 over Lake Pontchartrain, one week to the day after Hurricane Francine passed the same way with its tempest winds and a month’s worth of rain. Chenier “Klie” Kliebert, a Native New Orleanian so many generations back the family had lost count, drove comfortably while I sat shotgun and wide-eyed at […]
Published on: July 20, 2025 | Source:Are You a Customer of PJM? Its Capacity Auction Will Affect Your Electricity Prices in 2026
Skyrocketing electricity prices this summer may just be the start of something big for the 65 million residents relying on PJM Interconnection, the largest power grid operator in the United States. PJM held its annual power capacity auction this month—following record-high price increases in 2024–and analysts are expecting prices could again jump or remain at […]
Published on: July 20, 2025 | Source:Efforts to Reduce Toxic Algae in Lake Erie Appear to Be Making Progress. Now They Face State and Federal Cuts
Cuts to a major water-quality program in Ohio’s biennial budget will likely weaken efforts to control the spread of toxic blue-green algae in Lake Erie. The program in question, H2Ohio, has invested millions of dollars in improving water quality throughout the state. Much of that money has gone toward cutting off the supply of nutrients […]
Published on: July 20, 2025 | Source: