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Trump deep sea mining order violates law, China says
The US president speeds up permits for a practice opposed by many countries and environmentalists.
Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source:
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Individual action wonโt save the climate โ unless governments and businesses back it
Without transforming overarching systems, green efforts by consumers will fall far short of their potential to cut emissions The post Individual action wonโt save the climate โ unless governments and businesses back it appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source:How Will Trumpโs Effort to Revitalize Coal Play Out in the Nationโs Most Productive Coal Fields?
On a cool morning in late February, Mark Fix was up before the sun to watch the Tongue River on his ranch in southeast Montana. He was concerned that a breaching ice dam could put his cattle and property in the path of rushing water carrying plates of ice the size of a dinner table. [โฆ]
Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source:The Worldโs Biggest Meat Company Gets the Greenlight to Go Public on the New York Stock Exchange
The worldโs largest meat company, Brazil-based JBS, has sought a listing on the New York Stock Exchange for more than a decade, but the company, which has long been accused of links to illegal deforestation in the Amazon, was stymied by corruption charges. On Wednesday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission greenlighted the listing, despite [โฆ]
Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source:Trumpโs Latest USDA Cuts Undermine His Plan to โMake America Healthy Againโ
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Early in the morning last Monday, a group of third graders huddled in the garden of Mendota Elementary School in Madison, Wisconsin. Of the dozen students present, a handful were busy filling up buckets of compost, others [โฆ]
Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source:Just Stop Oil was policed to extinction - now the movement has gone deeper underground
Climate activists may be going deeper underground.
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:A Grim Signal: Atmospheric CO2 Soared in 2024
The latest anomaly in the climate system that canโt be fully explained by researchers is a record annual jump in the global mean concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere measured in 2024. The concentration, measured in parts per million, has been increasing rapidly since human civilizations started burning coal and oil in the mid-1800s [โฆ]
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:At energy security talks, US pushes gas and derides renewables
The US envoy to the IEA's energy security summit criticised renewables, arguing that they cause power cuts and increase reliance on China The post At energy security talks, US pushes gas and derides renewables appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:Xi commits China to full climate plan but emissions-cutting ambition still unclear
The Chinese president told fellow global leaders that the country's updated climate plan would cover all economic sectors and greenhouse gases The post Xi commits China to full climate plan but emissions-cutting ambition still unclear appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:State of the climate: 2025 close behind 2024 as the hottest start to a year
Global temperatures in the first quarter of 2025 were the second warmest on record, extending... The post State of the climate: 2025 close behind 2024 as the hottest start to a year appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:Community Solar Plays Defense in Minnesota
A groundbreaking community solar program is fighting for its life in Minnesota. Legislation in the state Senate would end the subscription-based โsolar gardenโ program that started in 2013, got a major revision in 2023 and has been a model for other states. The case against this initiative can be summed up by testimony last month [โฆ]
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:Miliband urges global cooperation amid energy 'challenges'
The UK Energy Secretary was speaking at the opening of a two day summit on energy security.
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:Australia election 2025: Where parties stand on climate change, energy and nature
Australia is heading to the polls for a general election on 3 May. The ruling... The post Australia election 2025: Where parties stand on climate change, energy and nature appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:Fingerprints of city-sized icebergs found off UK coast
Deep tracks gouged in the seafloor off the coast of Scotland could help us understand Antarctica today.
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:N.C. Farm Bureau Asks State Supreme Court to Strike Environmental Protections From Hog Farm Permits
The North Carolina Supreme Court seemed to side with the agriculture lobby Wednesday in a hearing for a case whose outcome could nullify key environmental, civil rights and public health protections for neighbors of the stateโs 2,000 industrialized livestock farms. If the justices uphold an appellate courtโs decision in favor of the N.C. Farm Bureau [โฆ]
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:Water firms admit sewage monitoring damaging public trust
The industry says powers to self-monitor water quality should be handed back to the regulator.
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:Judge Asks Trump Administration for More Evidence That Funding Freeze Is Constitutional
The Trump administration will have another opportunity to argue in court that it has the constitutional authority to freeze hundreds of millions of dollars in funding granted by Congress, in a case brought by nonprofit groups and municipalities that were to be beneficiaries of the money. Judge Richard Gergel, a U.S. District Court judge for [โฆ]
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Bites on gladiator bones prove combat with lion
Experts say the discovery provides the first physical evidence of gladiatorial combat with animals.
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:US and Europe set for clash on what โenergy securityโ means
While European politicians seek to strengthen the link between clean energy and security, Trump officials are expected to push for more gas at a key summit in London The post US and Europe set for clash on what โenergy securityโ means appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:White House says not taking aim at green group tax status
Concerns ran high after President Trump took aim at the charitable status of Harvard University, seen as a first shot against tax-exempt non-profit organisations The post White House says not taking aim at green group tax status appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:New Jersey Cut Back on Prescribed Burns in the Pine Barrensโand Faces a Wildfire That Charred Thousands of Acres
New Jersey has a million acres filled with towering pitch pines. Itโs springtime and the trees stand straight, bare and bonelike, above a carpet of winter needles that worry state fire service professionals. This week, a swath of the Pine Barrens went up in flames, a stark warning of what might be a treacherous fire [โฆ]
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Canada election 2025: What the manifestos say on nature, energy and climate
On 28 April, Canadians will go to the polls to vote for the next prime... The post Canada election 2025: What the manifestos say on nature, energy and climate appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Analysis: Conservative election win could add 800m tonnes to Canadaโs emissions by 2035
A Conservative victory over the Liberals in the Canadian election could lead to nearly 800m... The post Analysis: Conservative election win could add 800m tonnes to Canadaโs emissions by 2035 appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Virginia College Students Want More Climate Action on Earth Day
RICHMOND, Va.โIn the middle of Monroe Park, the central gathering spot for students at Virginia Commonwealth University, Carolyn Hindle, a third-year student graduating early and studying political science, called out the schoolโs president on Earth Day, sunny and bustling. โHey, Michael Rao, climate justice now,โ Hindle said in front of about 20 students chanting it [โฆ]
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:โItโs shamefulโ: Amazon Indigenous people call for oil drilling ban at COP30
Indigenous leaders representing dozens of Amazon ethnicities have signed a declaration calling for a COP30 roadmap to phase out fossil fuels The post โItโs shamefulโ: Amazon Indigenous people call for oil drilling ban at COP30 appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Nearly Half of Americans Are Breathing Unhealthy Air as Pollution Exposure Numbers Reach Decade High
More Americans are being forced to breathe unhealthy air than at any other time in the past decade, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Lung Association. Nearly half of Americansโor about 156 million peopleโare living in counties with failing grades for ozone or particulate matter pollution, two of the most common and [โฆ]
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Mystery of medieval cemetery near airport runway deepens
Skeletons and artefacts unearthed from the site near Cardiff Airport are baffling archaeologists.
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:The Inside Scoop: Covering Politics and Energy in 2025
In this topical Q&A, Washington bureau chief Marianne Lavelle and clean energy reporter Dan Gearino field questions from executive editor Vernon Loeb about what itโs like to cover their beats during a nonstop breaking news cycle and the dismantling of environmental protections. They discuss recent anticipated moves by the Trump administration, the best U.S. state [โฆ]
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:EPA Continues to Dismantle Environmental Justice Office, Announces Plans to Terminate Nearly 300 Employees
The Trump administration has taken another step toward stripping the governmentโs ability to tackle environmental pollution and its dangerous health effects in historically disadvantaged and overburdened communities. In a notice issued to employees late Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said 280 staffers who work in the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights [โฆ]
Published on: April 22, 2025 | Source:Guest post:ย Why hydrogen cars are being outsold by Ferraris
Hydrogen has long been hyped as the โSwiss army knifeโ of the energy transition, but... The post Guest post:Why hydrogen cars are being outsold by Ferraris appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: April 22, 2025 | Source:System change is our only way out of the climate and biodiversity crisesย
Global warming and biodiversity loss stem from the same economic, social and political systems that prioritise profits and reward exploitation The post System change is our only way out of the climate and biodiversity crises appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 22, 2025 | Source:Climate non-profits anticipate fight with Trump over tax status
US-based climate change campaign groups fear that President Donald Trump will try to use the US tax authority to damage them financially The post Climate non-profits anticipate fight with Trump over tax status appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 22, 2025 | Source:Giving nature breathing room builds climate resilience
Farming communities in El Salvador are reaping the benefits of working with nature by planting trees, harvesting rainwater and other ecological practices The post Giving nature breathing room builds climate resilience appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 22, 2025 | Source:Pace of Green Job Growth in New York City Is Slow
NEW YORKโEarly last year, New York City Mayor Eric Adams made a bold promiseโgreen economy jobs in the city would increase to nearly 400,000 by 2040. These jobs would include anything from solar panel installation, to caring for green spaces, to designing ways to decarbonize buildings. Since the passage of the stateโs Climate Act, which [โฆ]
Published on: April 22, 2025 | Source:Mission to boldly grow food in space labs blasts off
The mission will explore new ways of reducing the cost of feeding an astronaut.
Published on: April 22, 2025 | Source: