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Q&A: European Commission’s proposal to cut EU emissions 90% by 2040
The European Commission has set out a proposal to cut EU emissions 90% by 2040,... The post Q&A: European Commission’s proposal to cut EU emissions 90% by 2040 appeared first on Carbon Brief.
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UN development conference backs innovative ways to boost climate finance
Leaders push for better financial systems at the Financing for Development summit to help poor nations cope with climate and economic shocks The post UN development conference backs innovative ways to boost climate finance appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:$88m pollution-tracking satellite missing in space
MethaneSat was meant to keep track of potent greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas production.
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:Violating California Residents’ Right to Water
MOSS LANDING, Calif.—Vernon Trindade learned the water from the well he was digging wasn’t safe to drink around 1985 when he and his wife were building a live-work space with enough room for a wood shop, two painters’ studios and his nine-foot canvases. Trindade, a master woodworker and abstract painter with shoulder-length gray hair and […]
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:In Florida’s Fragile Everglades, Trump Praises ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
President Donald Trump landed this week on an airstrip in the Florida Everglades for a visit to a swiftly assembled detention facility that federal and state officials say will house 3,000 undocumented migrants, as the president aims to fulfill his plans for mass deportations. Dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” for its location within a swampy thicket of […]
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:Zohran Mamdani Made Addressing Climate Change Central to His Affordability Plan for New York
On June 24, the day of the New York City primary, Central Park hit its highest temperature for the day—99 degrees—since 2012. That morning, the city’s emergency notification system, NotifyNYC, alerted residents that they should conserve power, implying that there was a risk of blackouts. By the evening, Con Edison, the city’s main electricity provider, […]
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:Trump Administration Acts to ‘Severely Weaken’ a Key Environmental Law
The Trump administration began this week to radically alter how the National Environmental Policy Act is implemented across the federal government, alarming environmentalists. Passed in 1970 and often called the “Magna Carta” of U.S. environmental law, NEPA requires agencies to assess the environmental impacts of their actions during the decision-making process. Its scope is broad, […]
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:Flint Completes Required Lead Pipe Replacements
On Tuesday, Michigan completed replacing nearly 11,000 lead service lines across the City of Flint. The accomplishment comes more than decade after the lead crisis began, and five years later than originally planned. “While this milestone is not all the justice our community deserves, it is a huge achievement,” the Rev. Allen C. Overton of […]
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:On Senate Floor, Tillis Offered Inside Look Into the Lobbying Against Clean Energy
Sen. Thom Tillis had cast off any election worries by the time he took to the Senate floor this week to provide a rare window into the lobbying that already is slowing down the U.S. transition to cleaner energy sources. The North Carolina Republican announced Sunday that he would not seek a third six-year term […]
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:NIH Scientists Link Air Pollution and Lung Cancer Mutations in Non-Smokers
New findings published Wednesday by the National Cancer Institute link tiny, toxic air pollutants to changes in lung cancer tumors at the genomic level in people who have never smoked. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the U.S., and the American Cancer Society reports that more people die of lung cancer […]
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:EU Commission proposes allowing carbon offsets to help meet 2040 climate goal
Campaigners accuse the European Commission of adding "loopholes" and "distractions" to the 90% emissions reduction target The post EU Commission proposes allowing carbon offsets to help meet 2040 climate goal appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:African and Pacific delegations air “big concerns” over COP30 accommodation
Negotiators from African and Pacific governments have sent letters to COP host nation Brazil expressing concerns over "astronomical" accommodation prices The post African and Pacific delegations air “big concerns” over COP30 accommodation appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:Ancient Egyptian history may be rewritten by DNA bone test
A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago sheds new light on the rise of Ancient Egypt.
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:Cropped 2 July 2025: US public lands under attack; How India’s gig workers are suffering under climate change; Bonn to Belém
We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food... The post Cropped 2 July 2025: US public lands under attack; How India’s gig workers are suffering under climate change; Bonn to Belém appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:Chart: UK misses tree-planting targets by forest the ‘size of Isle of Wight’
A forest area equivalent to the size of the Isle of Wight has not been... The post Chart: UK misses tree-planting targets by forest the ‘size of Isle of Wight’ appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:Recent droughts are 'slow-moving global catastrophe' - UN report
It says drought has compounded poverty, hunger, and energy insecurity worldwide.
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:There is no climate finance gap – only a tax sovereignty gap
If governments reclaimed the power to tax extreme wealth, they could shift resources from billionaires and corporate giants to climate solutions The post There is no climate finance gap – only a tax sovereignty gap appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:In Chicago, a Landmark Environmental Justice Bill Inches Toward Passage
CHICAGO—Cheryl Johnson’s perspective on the Hazel Johnson Cumulative Impacts Ordinance is that it’s been a long time coming. It’s not just the two years that community groups collaborated with the city’s revived Department of Environment to craft the environmental justice ordinance, but also the four decades that she has been doing the work that her […]
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:Wastewater Treatment Plants Channel ‘Forever Chemicals’ Into Waterways Nationwide
Harmful “forever chemicals” flow from wastewater treatment plants into surface water across the U.S., according to a new report by a clean-water advocacy group. Weekslong sampling by the Waterkeeper Alliance both upstream and downstream of 22 wastewater treatment facilities in 19 states saw total per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) concentrations increase in 95 percent of […]
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:In Trump’s Megabill, a Clean Energy Phase Out and a Big, Beautiful Tax Break for Met Coal Exporters
A provision slipped into President Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act would provide millions of dollars in tax credits to U.S. companies that produce metallurgical coal—coal largely exported overseas for use in foreign steelmaking. The language was added to the 887-page tax and spending-cut bill before its narrow passage by the U.S. Senate on […]
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:In Budget Crunch, New Jersey Strips Clean Energy Fund in Near-Record ‘Raid’
For the 17th year in a row, the New Jersey Legislature diverted tens of millions of dollars meant for clean energy investments to plug shortfalls in their general state budget. On Monday, Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law the fiscal year 2026 budget totaling around $58.8 billion, the largest in New Jersey’s history. Tucked in […]
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:Border Wall Plans at New Mexico’s Mount Cristo Rey Raise Environmental Concerns
EL PASO—U.S. Customs and Border Protection plans to build a 1.3-mile border barrier on Mount Cristo Rey, an iconic mountain rising above the Rio Grande and the neighboring cities of Juárez and El Paso. Most of the mountain lies in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. Its southern flank is in Mexico, near the Anapra neighborhood […]
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:International Investigation by Inside Climate News Wins an SPJ Award
Inside Climate News has won an award from the Society of Professional Journalists for its investigation into a little-known arbitration system that has allowed multinational corporations to win billion-dollar claims against developing nations. “Cashing Out,” reported by Katie Surma and Nicholas Kusnetz, showed how investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS, lets companies doing business outside their […]
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:An Important Archive of Congressionally-Mandated Climate Change Reports Just Went Dark
On Monday, the website for the federal government’s 35-year old Global Change Research Program—an entity that is required to release periodic reports concerning the environmental change in the Earth’s climate—went dark. The program is part of an interagency effort to, among other things, create an authoritative report known as the National Climate Assessment every four […]
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:As Sea Levels Rise, an Island Nation Creates an Escape Route
The small island nation of Tuvalu is being swallowed by the sea. With just around 10,000 residents, this Pacific network of reef islands and atolls has seen sea levels rise around 6 inches over the past three decades—one and half times the global average. Tides are projected to climb another 6 inches by 2050, which […]
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:Coalition set sights on taxing luxury air travel to fund climate action
A group of eight countries is pledging to tax premium flying in a bid to find new money for resilience-building The post Coalition set sights on taxing luxury air travel to fund climate action appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:How off-grid solar is beating the odds to transform lives in rural Africa
By embracing solar power, many African countries are seeing improvements in electricity access, but financial barriers remain The post How off-grid solar is beating the odds to transform lives in rural Africa appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:Texas Supreme Court Rules on Produced Water Ownership
Texas is awash in billions of gallons of produced water, the wastewater brought to the surface in oil and gas drilling and fracking. Most produced water is injected into disposal wells. But since these wells were linked to earthquakes, companies are seeking alternatives. The race is on to turn produced water from a waste stream […]
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:National Science Foundation to Leave Virginia Headquarters as HUD Moves Out of DC
The National Science Foundation will be moving so the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development can take over its offices in Alexandria. The 1,800 employees at the science foundation were notified last week in a staff memo, a day before authorities from the federal and state government—including HUD Secretary Scott Turner and Gov. Glenn […]
Published on: July 01, 2025 | Source:Latest GOP Provisions in Budget Bill Seek to Crush Renewable Energy
Far from the front lines of the climate crisis, 100 men and women in air-conditioned offices, 61 of them millionaires, are making decisions that could increase United States carbon dioxide emissions, and the warming of the climate they are driving, for decades to come. In the latest political wrangle over energy and climate policy, a […]
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:Part of the New York City Park Experience: Joining the War on Invasives
It’s on the walls of brownstones and train stations and in New York City parks. And it isn’t mold—it’s English Ivy. A non-native plant, English Ivy (Hedera helix) outcompetes native flora and fauna for vital resources, degrades habitats and disrupts delicate ecosystems. Recognizing the threat, the Prospect Park Alliance hosted an invasive species removal event […]
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:Fast-growing, global-south cities are ‘strikingly underrepresented’ in climate research
Research on climate change in urban areas is skewed towards large, well-established cities in the... The post Fast-growing, global-south cities are ‘strikingly underrepresented’ in climate research appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:How unusual is this UK heat and is climate change to blame?
Scientists are clear that global warming is making heatwaves like this hotter and more likely.
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:The Carbon Brief Interview: Ofgem CEO Jonathan Brearley
Jonathan Brearley became chief executive of the UK’s energy regulator Ofgem in 2020. Since then,... The post The Carbon Brief Interview: Ofgem CEO Jonathan Brearley appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:Helping Bees Find New Homes Across New York City, From Fresh Kills to Street Planters
Tucked away in Brooklyn’s Calvert Vaux Park near Coney Island, one of the largest bee habitats in the city was once a rose garden, full of ornamental “Knock Out roses,” which are not native to the region. Now, replanted with mountain mint, coneflowers and milkweed, a pollinator garden attracts a variety of bees and birds […]
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