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Analysis: UK climate aid to hit £11.6bn goal – but only due to accounting rule change
The amount of foreign aid the UK spends on climate action reached a record high... The post Analysis: UK climate aid to hit 11.6bn goal – but only due to accounting rule change appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: June 29, 2025 | Source:
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N.C. Has Allowed a Likely Carcinogen Into Three Rivers Serving 900,000 People
ASHEBORO, N.C.—Boxy, gunmetal gray buildings loom over a labyrinth of ducts and tubes and catwalks, beyond which 100 train cars loll on their tracks. Smokestacks wait to exhale. This is StarPet, a mammoth factory in north Asheboro that manufactures PET polymers, derived from fossil fuels and used in polyester fibers and plastic bottles. The facility […]
Published on: June 29, 2025 | Source:Truckers Say Oil and Gas Companies Are Violating Hazardous Materials Transport Regulations
Fracking’s Forever Problem: Fifth in a series about the gas industry’s radioactive waste. When Tom McKnight started working for the oil and gas industry as a truck driver in Ohio more than 10 years ago, he attended an orientation where someone in the class asked about the possibility of radiation exposure from fracking waste. The […]
Published on: June 29, 2025 | Source:Texas’ Risk of Summer Blackouts Reduced Thanks to Solar and Batteries
The ever-increasing demand for power in Texas—not only from data centers, but due to industrial electrification, manufacturing and population expansion—has outpaced anything the state’s electricity grid operator has seen or managed in the past, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. Yet even with those demands—and most of what could be one of the […]
Published on: June 28, 2025 | Source:A Class-Action Lawsuit Aims to Restore Climate and Environmental Grants
The Environmental Protection Agency and its administrator, Lee Zeldin, face a class-action lawsuit after canceling $3 billion in grant funding for climate and environmental programs in disadvantaged communities. The lawsuit, filed June 25 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, argues the EPA violated Congress’ spending power and legislative authority by eliminating […]
Published on: June 28, 2025 | Source:The Danger of Losing the EPA’s Endangerment Finding
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host and executive producer Steve Curwood with Richard Lazarus, the Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Record summer heat is scorching the northern hemisphere around the world from Japan and China to Europe and North America. […]
Published on: June 28, 2025 | Source:Chesapeake Bay Program Says No to Full Membership for Virginia Tribal Nations—for Now
The Chesapeake Bay Program declined to grant tribal nations full membership and voting rights in its governing body at a meeting Friday, its principal staff committee instead saying officials could explore advisory roles and potential partnerships with tribes. That decision came in response to a formal request by the Indigenous Conservation Council (ICC) on behalf […]
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:‘Systematically Failed’: Civil Society’s Latest Attempt to Reform UN Climate Talks
From Pacific Island students to executives at global organizations like Greenpeace, a wide swath of people are losing patience with the slow and often uneven international process for reining in climate change. This week, more than 200 civil society and Indigenous peoples’ groups released a joint statement calling for major reforms, from how decisions are […]
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:Countries reach hard-fought compromise on climate adaptation metrics in Bonn
Thorny negotiations on the Global Goal on Adaptation almost broke down as developing countries accused richer nations of trying to shirk their responsibilities The post Countries reach hard-fought compromise on climate adaptation metrics in Bonn appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2025 UN climate conference
Climate negotiators have wrapped up another two weeks of technical talks in the German city... The post Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2025 UN climate conference appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:Mining for transition minerals can be responsible with joint push, experts say
Strong regulation and community involvement can help avoid rights abuses and pollution in meeting clean tech demand, said a panel co-hosted by Climate Home The post Mining for transition minerals can be responsible with joint push, experts say appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:Trump Joins the Opposition to Vermont’s Climate Superfund Act, Calling it ‘Burdensome’ and ‘Ideologically Motivated’
Vermont’s Climate Superfund Act became law last summer. New York followed its lead in December. Four days later, the Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute sued Vermont for abusing its power and putting an unreasonable burden on the industry. On May 1, the Trump Department of Justice sued both Vermont and New York […]
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:Bonn Climate Talks Rife With Roadblocks and Dead Ends
As the United Nations climate talks came to a faltering end Thursday in Bonn, Germany, the world’s least developed countries and island nations feared for their future while some rich, developed countries backslid on climate promises and doubled down on fossil fuels. Preventing long-term warming of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above the […]
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:A third of Pacific island nation applies for Australian climate change visa
More than 4,000 Tuvalu citizens have entered the ballot for a world-first climate visa to Australia.
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:How Do You Escape a Heat Wave When You Have Nowhere to Go?
CHICAGO—In a large, air-conditioned room in East Garfield Park on Monday afternoon, Dhruv Trivedi waited quietly to hear if a bed would be available for him at a local shelter that night. It was a sweltering 95 degrees outside. Trivedi, unhoused for the past four months since losing his job at a grocery store, was […]
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:Brazil’s environment minister suggests roadmap to end fossil fuels at COP30
Brazil's environment minister Marina Silva suggests this year's COP30 climate summit could result in a roadmap to guide a "planned and just transition" The post Brazil’s environment minister suggests roadmap to end fossil fuels at COP30 appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:Five Years After Pennsylvania’s Landmark Fracking Report, Its Public Health Goals Remain Largely Unmet, Groups Say
Five years after a Pennsylvania grand jury made eight recommendations to protect public health and the environment from fracking, the state has largely failed to follow through, five environmental groups said on the anniversary of the report. On Wednesday, the groups—Earthworks, the Sierra Club, Protect PT, the Center for Coalfield Justice and Environmental Health Project—called […]
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:Shoots of hope for Britain's cherished ash trees
Scientific evidence suggests ash trees are ‘fighting back’ against a deadly disease.
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:China Briefing 26 June 2025: First UK-China climate dialogue; China-climate conference summary; Oil peak ‘in 2027’
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate... The post China Briefing 26 June 2025: First UK-China climate dialogue; China-climate conference summary; Oil peak ‘in 2027’ appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:Bonn bulletin: Just transition talks find firmer footing
After stalling at COP29, governments agree on how to frame a just transition that is fair to workers, protects nature and promotes clean energy access The post Bonn bulletin: Just transition talks find firmer footing appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:The Revised ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Still Contains a Poison Pill. A Tax Expert Explains
Ever since the first draft of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” appeared in the House, renewable energy trade groups have been trying to make sense of language intended to stop tax credits from going to a “prohibited foreign entity.” The House version of the budget reconciliation measure could be read as saying that a […]
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:How UN climate negotiations can end fossil fuel-industry influence
Climate COPs remain alarmingly exposed to lobbyists, unlike most global health and anti-corruption bodies that have safeguards to limit interference The post How UN climate negotiations can end fossil fuel-industry influence appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:Chicago’s Plan to Replace Lead Pipes Puts It 30 Years Behind the Federal Deadline
This story is a partnership between Inside Climate News, Grist and WBEZ. Growing up in Chicago, Chakena D. Perry knew not to trust the water coming out of her tap. “It was just one of these unspoken truths within households like mine—low-income, Black households—that there was some sort of distrust with the water,” said Perry, […]
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch
Scientists start a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life, in what is thought to be a world first.
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:Texas Legislature Increases Well Plugging Budget as Backlog Grows
The state of Texas will infuse more cash into a program for plugging inactive oil and gas wells in 2026 and 2027, as the average cost of sealing each well has rapidly increased. The state will allocate a one-time $100 million appropriation for the Railroad Commission’s State Managed Well Plugging Program. This is the largest […]
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:World's oldest boomerang doesn't actually come back
The 40,000-year-old boomerang was made with an astonishing level of skill and ingenuity, say scientists.
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:Bonn bulletin: Waiting for a plan to rescue COP28 breakthrough
While in Bonn countries remain deeply divided over how to implement the responses to the global stocktake, Brazil seeks inspiration in London The post Bonn bulletin: Waiting for a plan to rescue COP28 breakthrough appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:Severe Weather, Uncertain Funding: What’s It Like to be a Local Emergency Manager These Days?
In the middle of May, a rare, severe dust storm swept across the dry farmland of Central Illinois and headed in the direction of Chicago. Driver visibility on roads dropped to zero, and wind speeds rose to over 60 miles per hour. “I got a report from a weather spotter who said, ‘Hey, I can’t […]
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:River pollution suffocating the sea, campaigners say
New reports are set to show pollution from farming and sewage is affecting protected areas of the sea.
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:India sends its first astronaut into space in 41 years
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla has become only the second Indian to travel to space.
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:More people buying electric cars and heat pumps than ever before
But the Climate Change Committee warns there's still a long way to go for the UK to reach net zero by 2050.
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:Brazilian activists vow to fight Amazon oil auction in court, hail ‘partial victory’ over unsold blocks
Brazil has faced criticism over last week’s auction of exploration blocks just months before it hosts COP30 talks focused on shifting away from fossil fuels The post Brazilian activists vow to fight Amazon oil auction in court, hail ‘partial victory’ over unsold blocks appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:Dog-sized dinosaur that ran around feet of giants discovered
The dinosaur was mislabelled and misunderstood - but scientists now realise how special it is.
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:This burger was made from cow cells in a lab. Should it really be served in restaurants?
Lab-grown beef, chicken and even quail are served in restaurants in some countries around the world - and now some cultivated meats could soon be sold in the UK too
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:This burger was made in a lab from cow cells… Should it really be served in restaurants?
Lab-grown beef, chicken and even quail are served in restaurants in some countries around the world - and now some cultivated meats could soon be sold in the UK too
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source: