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Why a Fan Can’t Always Cool You Down, and Other Unexpected Challenges in Heat Waves
People across the United States are in for another scorcher of a summer, according to an outlook from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The agency predicts “hotter-than-average” temperatures, a trend that is becoming increasingly common as climate change worsens. These high temperatures can be deadly; research shows that heat-related deaths have more than doubled […]
Published on: June 10, 2025 | Source:
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Inside Climate News Selects 11 Summer Fellows to Report on Environmental Issues Around the Country
Eleven young journalists are joining Inside Climate News as reporting fellows this summer. ICN’s summer 2025 fellowship class draws from current college students and recent graduates in locations ranging from California to Illinois to Washington, D.C. The program is designed to hone participants’ writing and reporting skills and deepen their expertise in a variety of […]
Published on: June 10, 2025 | Source:Explainer: How human-caused aerosols are ‘masking’ global warming
Human-caused emissions of aerosols –tiny, light‑scattering particles produced mainly by burning fossil fuels – have... The post Explainer: How human-caused aerosols are ‘masking’ global warming appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: June 10, 2025 | Source:‘Hectic’ in high heels? Women still face gender hurdles at UN climate talks
Barriers to women's equal participation at COPs include high travel costs, onerous schedules, entrenched gender norms and a lack of childcare The post ‘Hectic’ in high heels? Women still face gender hurdles at UN climate talks appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 10, 2025 | Source:What are small nuclear reactors and why does the UK want to build them?
The government is betting on a new generation of 'mini' nuclear power stations.
Published on: June 10, 2025 | Source:As an Eastern Iowa Quarry Seeks to Quadruple Its Water Use, Residents Urge the State to Intervene
The Pattison Co. quarry in Garnavillo, Iowa, pumps nearly 1 billion gallons of groundwater each year, pulling it from the bedrock in order to mine limestone, sandstone and silica sand used in oil fracking. Now, the quarry is seeking permission from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to quadruple its water withdrawal. If the permit […]
Published on: June 10, 2025 | Source:Across the Country, Locals Rally to Protect National Monuments Threatened by the Trump Administration
IRONWOOD FOREST NATIONAL MONUMENT, Ariz.—Standing in front of a crowd of 100 people Saturday, Mike Quigley pointed out into the distance to a nearby copper mine. “We can have that,” he said. Then he gestured to the mountain behind him. “Or we can have this.” For 25 years, this stretch of 129,000 acres of the […]
Published on: June 10, 2025 | Source:US District Court Ruling Keeps Fight Against Mining of Site Sacred to Western Apache Alive
PHOENIX—A federal judge ruled Monday that the U.S. Forest Service cannot transfer land containing Oak Flat, a site sacred to the Western Apache, to a copper mining company until two cases against the project are settled after the Forest Service publishes its final environmental review for the project. The ruling resurrects the legal efforts by […]
Published on: June 10, 2025 | Source:Warning over 'dirty secret' of toxic chemicals on farmers' fields
Campaigners say that farmers' fields are being contaminated by chemicals and microplastics in sewage sludge.
Published on: June 10, 2025 | Source:The World’s Oceans Are a ‘Ticking Time Bomb,’ Reaching Dangerous Acidification Levels Earlier Than Scientists Thought
A critical measure of the ocean’s health suggests that the world’s marine systems are in greater peril than scientists had previously realized and that parts of the ocean have already reached dangerous tipping points. A study, published Monday in the journal Global Change Biology, found that ocean acidification—the process in which the world’s oceans absorb […]
Published on: June 10, 2025 | Source:UN Ocean Conference Opens With a Call to Defend the Deep Sea
NICE, France—The deep sea—Earth’s largest and least-explored biome—is taking center stage at the United Nations Ocean conference this week, where marine experts are demanding world leaders end bottom trawling for fish and impose a moratorium on deep sea mining. Bottom trawling has evolved into a largely unregulated commercial practice in which vast weighted nets are […]
Published on: June 09, 2025 | Source:Oceans cannot become 'wild west', warns UN chief
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres spoke at the start of the UN Oceans Conference in Nice, France.
Published on: June 09, 2025 | Source:UK proposes wider ban on destructive ocean bottom trawling
The government wants to prohibit bottom trawling from more protected areas of UK waters.
Published on: June 09, 2025 | Source:The Race to Engineer Coral Reef Solutions in the U.S. Virgin Islands
ST. JOHN, U.S. Virgin Islands—Thirty-five feet deep in clear turquoise waters, a three-foot-long yellow underwater robot maneuvers over a coral reef at a popular snorkeling site named Tektite. At the surface, computer scientist Yogesh Girdhar and a team of engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution hover over a computer on an inflatable research boat, […]
Published on: June 09, 2025 | Source:Engineering Coral Reefs of the Future
ST. JOHN, U.S. Virgin Islands—Thirty-five feet deep in clear turquoise waters, a three-foot-long yellow underwater robot maneuvers over a coral reef at a popular snorkeling site named Tektite. At the surface, computer scientist Yogesh Girdhar and a team of engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution hover over a computer on an inflatable research boat, […]
Published on: June 09, 2025 | Source:Shine On: Illinois Hopes to Continue Solar Boom Despite Federal Headwinds
Illinois saw unprecedented solar growth in 2024, adding 2.5 gigawatts of capacity to nearly double its total generation potential from the year before. But this year, the state faces some big speed bumps. A budget reconciliation bill passed by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives in late May, now under consideration in the Senate, […]
Published on: June 09, 2025 | Source:Pará’s Amazon forest carbon deal in doubt as prosecutors move to block it
The Brazilian state’s contract with foreign governments and companies has run into trouble over concerns it was premature and agreed without consulting Indigenous communities The post Pará’s Amazon forest carbon deal in doubt as prosecutors move to block it appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 08, 2025 | Source:William warns ocean life 'diminishing before our eyes'
The Prince of Wales gave a speech in Monaco hoping to drive investments to protect the world's oceans.
Published on: June 08, 2025 | Source:A Neighborhood Burned, a Home Saved, a Future in Question
After the Fires: Second in a series about health risks following the Los Angeles wildfires that destroyed Pacific Palisades and Altadena. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. LOS ANGELES—Gaylen Grody and her son, Shelby, pulled into 262 Quadro Vecchio Drive as flames leaped across the other side of Los Leones Canyon in Pacific […]
Published on: June 08, 2025 | Source:Funding Shortfalls Hamper North Carolina’s Program to Buy Out Hog Farms in or Near Floodplains
As soon as the skies clear after a hurricane hits eastern North Carolina, Larry Baldwin climbs in the passenger seat of a single-engine plane, usually with his friend and pilot Rick Dove, and surveys the industrialized swine farms inundated with flood water. “It’s almost indescribable. You look down and see that they’re either flooded or […]
Published on: June 08, 2025 | Source:Trump-Musk row heightens fears over Nasa budget cuts
The space agency has published its budget request to Congress which would see funding for science projects cut by nearly a half.
Published on: June 07, 2025 | Source:Trump-Musk row fuels 'biggest crisis ever' at Nasa
The space agency has published its budget request to Congress which would see funding for science projects cut by nearly a half.
Published on: June 07, 2025 | Source:Ocean damage unspeakably awful, Attenborough tells prince
Sir David Attenborough told Prince William he hopes the UN oceans conference will bring new protections.
Published on: June 07, 2025 | Source:Rockaway is a New York Coastal Community Trying to Fight Erosion–and Then EPA Cancelled Funding
Adriana Jovanovic clambered cheerfully over the metal railing next to the dunes along Rockaway Beach. She landed in a patch of sand where she and her team, nicknamed the “dune squad,” had sown roses and goldenrod among other native plants. “We’re hand watering those that need a little extra help,” she said as about a […]
Published on: June 07, 2025 | Source:In One of the Nation’s Most Polluted Communities, Trump Terminates Funding for Air Monitoring
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—When Jilisa Milton received the grant termination letter, she wasn’t surprised. She suspected this day would come. The language the Greater Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution (GASP) had used in its application to the Environmental Protection Agency had been clear. “We’re talking about helping a community,” Milton, GASP’s executive director, said last week, “where […]
Published on: June 07, 2025 | Source:Some Hopeful News About the Future of the World’s Corals
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O’Neill with Steve Palumbi, Stanford University professor of biology and oceans. Record-breaking heat in the oceans is disrupting marine ecosystems around the world in a multitude of ways, including the most widespread coral bleaching event ever documented. The […]
Published on: June 07, 2025 | Source:Schwarzenegger: Hey, stop whining, do something on climate change
The actor and activist was speaking to the BBC at a summit organised by his Climate Initiative.
Published on: June 07, 2025 | Source:Canceled Climate Grants Would Have Cut Pollution While Boosting Production, Jobs at Two Alabama Ironworks
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Two iron pipe manufacturers in Alabama learned last week they lost a combined $150 million in promised federal funding that would have increased productivity and employment while slashing greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollution. The grants, $75 million each, were issued to the American Cast Iron Pipe Company in Birmingham and the U.S. […]
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:People Using Apps Like iNaturalist and Merlin Are Helping Fuel Scientific Discovery
In April, more than 100,000 people from nearly 700 cities around the world set out on a mission to document as many plants and animals as they could in their urban environments. The early results from this effort are in: Participants made more than 3.3 million observations of over 73,000 species, thousands of which are […]
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:UN Scientists Propose a Plan to Meet Global Demand for Critical Minerals
Minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel and copper are essential to building clean energy technology. Without them, there can be no solar panels, no electric vehicles, no wind turbines and no batteries. As more sectors and countries invest in renewable energy and electric vehicles, along with artificial intelligence and data centers, the global appetite for these […]
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:A credible UN carbon market needs rules that count – we’ve just set them
The broad standards for a more ambitious market are now in place. But without a steady flow of investment, this progress will remain largely on paper The post A credible UN carbon market needs rules that count – we’ve just set them appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:DeBriefed 6 June 2025: Nigeria’s deadly flash floods; UK’s record spring drives solar surge; Lessons from Japan’s ‘Cool Biz’
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed.An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate... The post DeBriefed 6 June 2025: Nigeria’s deadly flash floods; UK’s record spring drives solar surge; Lessons from Japan’s ‘Cool Biz’ appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Nigeria’s deadly flood exposes urgent need for climate adaptation plan
Better drainage and early warning would help curb losses from future floods but, unlike many other nations, Nigeria has yet to publish an adaptation plan The post Nigeria’s deadly flood exposes urgent need for climate adaptation plan appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:Trump Hastens ‘Drumbeat’ of Deferred Coal Plant Retirements
The newest player on the U.S. coal scene, Core Natural Resources, had good news and bad news for investors when it announced its results for the start of the year. The company missed Wall Street expectations with its net loss of $69 million, which it attributed mostly to birth pains: the costs of the January […]
Published on: June 06, 2025 | Source:How Nantucket Is Preparing for Rising Seas
NANTUCKET—It’s no longer unusual to see a kayaker paddling along downtown Easy Street. The cobblestones along the town’s waterfront once were flooded a handful of times a year. That rose to an average of 37 days a year by 2020, according to tide gauge monitors by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The next year, […]
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