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EU’s record wildfire emissions highlight threat to forest carbon sinks
As carbon emissions from forest fires spike in Europe, experts warn that wildfires pose a growing risk to national efforts to meet climate goals The post EU’s record wildfire emissions highlight threat to forest carbon sinks appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:
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Summer 2025 'almost certainly' UK's hottest on record
Provisional figures from the Met Office show that the UK is on course for its hottest summer on record with just a few days of the season remaining.
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:Guest post: Is climate change making UK droughts worse?
The year 2025 has seen exceptionally dry conditions in many parts of the UK. At... The post Guest post: Is climate change making UK droughts worse? appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:The Colorado River Is This Tribe’s ‘Lifeblood,’ Now They Want To Give It the Same Legal Rights as a Person
In far western Arizona, the dusty beige expanse of desert stretches as far as the eye can see. Under the baking summer sun, which regularly pushes temperatures above 110 degrees in the summer, even scrubby desert bushes can struggle to survive. But in the middle of that desert, the Colorado River creates a striking strip […]
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:New Tool Maps the Health Impacts of Toxic Air Pollutants Released With Methane in Super-Emitter Events
On a breezy late summer day in the small Colorado town of Fort Lupton, a massive plume of methane escaped from a hydrocarbon storage tank about 200 feet from an RV park. The leak, the second over four days in September 2023, released enough of the potent climate-warming gas per hour to fit the Environmental […]
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:Trump Administration Issues Stop Work Order for Offshore Wind Project, Citing National Security Concerns
The Trump administration on Friday issued an order to stop work on a nearly complete offshore wind energy project, the latest step in the Trump administration’s crackdown on wind power. In a letter to Orsted, the Danish company developing Revolution Wind, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said its order is tied to concerns about […]
Published on: August 25, 2025 | Source:Does the future of green manufacturing lie in 3D printing?
Digital manufacturing is increasingly being used to reduce waste, improve energy efficiency and enhance circularity of materials in the economy The post Does the future of green manufacturing lie in 3D printing? appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: August 25, 2025 | Source:Maryland’s Governor and Legislature Just Got So-So Grades on Their Environmental Scorecards
ANNAPOLIS, Md.— When Wes Moore became Maryland’s governor in 2023, he pledged to lead the state into a climate-resilient future by lowering emissions and decarbonizing the economy—and leave no one behind in doing so. But two and a half years into his term, the Moore administration has fallen short on its climate and environmental justice […]
Published on: August 25, 2025 | Source:Get ready for fracking, Reform UK tells energy firms
The party is serious about going after shale gas - but critics argue it's too difficult and costly.
Published on: August 25, 2025 | Source:Climate change pushing winemakers to blend wines from different years
Non-vintage still wine is now increasingly being made in response to more challenging weather.
Published on: August 24, 2025 | Source:The Woman Holding Chinese Mining Giants Accountable
Planet China:Fifth in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world. When Jingjing Zhang saw a string of urgent texts light up her phone, she knew something had gone wrong. Photo and video messages showed a tidal wave of brown sludge rushing into the Zambian countryside with horrifying […]
Published on: August 24, 2025 | Source:The Trump Administration Dismisses the Endangered Species List as ‘Hotel California.’ But There’s Far More to the Story
“You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.” It’s the ominous slogan for “Hotel California,” an iconic fictional lodging dreamed up by the Eagles in 1976. One of the rock band’s lead singers, Don Henley, said in an interview that the song and place “can have a million interpretations.” For […]
Published on: August 24, 2025 | Source:Sewage Taints Canadian Oysters. Then Americans Eat Them
Mark Kapczynski had been looking forward to it for weeks. He had VIP tickets for him and his wife to attend an upscale seafood festival in Los Angeles last December, where they would feast on the food he grew up eating as a kid in Boston. Surrounded by shellfish presented raw on ice by some […]
Published on: August 24, 2025 | Source:The ‘Hotel California’ of Biodiversity
More than 2,370 species have received protections from the federal government under the Endangered Species Act, from schoolbus-sized North Atlantic right whales off the East Coast to tiny Oahu tree snails in Hawaii. But only a fraction of that number has ever come off the law’s endangered-species list. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum recently compared it […]
Published on: August 24, 2025 | Source:For orca left in limbo, zoo resorts to sexual stimulation to stop inbreeding
Wikie, 24, and her 11-year-old son Keijo still don't have a new home despite months of wrangling.
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Amazon nations pledge support for Brazil’s COP30 rainforest fund
In a joint declaration issued at the Amazon summit, eight South American nations pledged to support Brazil's Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) The post Amazon nations pledge support for Brazil’s COP30 rainforest fund appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Climate Change Likely to Expand the Range of an Asian Bat and the Deadly Disease it Carries
On May 3, 2018, a 26-year-old man living in the town of Perambra in the Indian state of Kerala went to the hospital complaining of fever and body aches. Muhammad Sabith’s symptoms did not seem serious enough for an overnight stay, so hospital staff sent him home after examining him. Two days later, he died. […]
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Great Lakes Microplastics Research Could Inform National and Global Policy
As experts gathered in Geneva this month to negotiate an enforceable global plastic pollution treaty, scientists studying the Great Lakes continued their research that could pinpoint how microplastics impact human health and ultimately inform decisions made across the world. The effects of microplastics in wildlife have been documented for over a decade. These effects include […]
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Citing Environmental Concerns, Judge Orders Alligator Alcatraz to Wind Down Operations
A federal judge has ordered a winding down of operations at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz, the hastily assembled Everglades detention site where the Trump administration aims to incarcerate thousands of undocumented migrants before deporting them. Judge Kathleen Williams Thursday granted a preliminary injunction for environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe, which had sued to stop the […]
Published on: August 22, 2025 | Source:Amid Ongoing Pollution From Steel Plants, Trump EPA Urged to Drop Delay in Fenceline Monitoring Requirements
Public health advocates urged the Trump administration to protect residents and workers by sticking to a Biden-era timeline for reducing benzene and chromium emissions at the perimeter of steel and coke plants in Pennsylvania and other states rather than continuing to delay compliance rules. A report released Thursday by the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project said […]
Published on: August 22, 2025 | Source:15 Children in Wisconsin File the Latest Youth Lawsuit Citing Climate Dangers
Youth climate activists in Wisconsin are suing the state’s Public Service Commission over state laws that they say perpetuate a fossil fuel-dominated electricity sector and undermine renewable energy, thereby exacerbating the climate crisis, which is already inflicting harmful impacts across the state. The filing comes less than two weeks after catastrophic flooding from severe storms […]
Published on: August 22, 2025 | Source:COP bureau meeting ends in stalemate as Brazil insists Belém logistics can work
A UN survey this month showed a majority of nations had yet to book hotels in Belém due to high costs, raising concerns about lower participation at the climate summit The post COP bureau meeting ends in stalemate as Brazil insists Belém logistics can work appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: August 22, 2025 | Source:Employers need plans to protect workers from rising heat stress, UN says
As temperatures rise, the UN's health and weather agencies release guidelines to reduce risks for workers facing extreme heat The post Employers need plans to protect workers from rising heat stress, UN says appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: August 22, 2025 | Source:New dinosaur named after record-breaking sailor
The medium-sized herbivore once roamed the floodplains of what is now the Island's south-west coast.
Published on: August 22, 2025 | Source:Asian Development Bank backs Pakistan copper mine despite human rights fears
Campaigners argue the Reko Diq copper-gold mine in Balochistan risks worsening the plight of human rights defenders in a region marred by conflict The post Asian Development Bank backs Pakistan copper mine despite human rights fears appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: August 22, 2025 | Source:Scientists are ‘most trusted’ source of climate information in global-south survey
Scientists are the most trusted source of information for climate change in some of the... The post Scientists are ‘most trusted’ source of climate information in global-south survey appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: August 22, 2025 | Source:Pennsylvania Lured Shell to the State With a $1.65 Billion Tax Break. Now the Company Wants to Sell Its Plant
In 2020, the Department of Energy predicted that Appalachia was “on the cusp of an energy and petrochemical renaissance” fueled by abundant shale gas. The agency saw the ethane cracker plant Shell was building outside Pittsburgh as “the first of what could be multiple facilities” in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Five years later, Shell […]
Published on: August 22, 2025 | Source:Colombia’s President Called Out an Alabama Company’s Coal Exports to Israel. Now Alabamians Are Protesting
VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala.—On Friday evening, a group of protesters gathered at a busy intersection in Liberty Park near the corporate campus of Drummond Company Inc., an Alabama-based coal producer. Their message was clear, painted and printed on signs bearing the green, red and black of the Palestinian flag: “Drummond Fuels Genocide.” Chris Izor, one of […]
Published on: August 22, 2025 | Source:There’s a ‘Lake’ of Oil Under LA’s Soon-to-Close Refinery. Who’s Going to Clean It Up?
This story was originally published byCapital & Main. One of Los Angeles County’smost polluted stretches of land will soon be clearedfor new development, and a full accounting of the ground’s degradation will be left largely to an oil company. For almost 40 years in the middle of the 20th century, workers at an oil refinery […]
Published on: August 22, 2025 | Source:Water Management in Great Lakes States Deserves a Closer Look, Group Says
Demand for water in Great Lakes states is likely to spike from data centers, mining and other uses, and officials should take a more proactive management approach to stave off shortages, according to a new report published by the nonprofit Alliance for the Great Lakes. Municipalities will need more information about usage, and potentially will […]
Published on: August 22, 2025 | Source:Atlantic Shore Towns Feel Hurricane Erin’s Sting Without It Ever Making Landfall
Hurricane Erin hasn’t had to make landfall on the East Coast to batter it. Churning more than 200 miles offshore Thursday, the storm has brought flooding, life-threatening waves and rip currents and strong winds to coastal communities from Florida to Maine, according to the National Weather Service. Erin rapidly intensified to a Category 5 over […]
Published on: August 21, 2025 | Source:Emerging economies turn to Asian reactors for new wave of nuclear power
China, Korea and Russia move ahead of the West in the race to sell reactors overseas, as developing states back nuclear energy in a "new era of growth" The post Emerging economies turn to Asian reactors for new wave of nuclear power appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: August 21, 2025 | Source:Why we couldn’t agree on a plastics treaty in Geneva – and what might happen next
Switzerland's lead negotiator at INC-5.2 reflects on why the talks didn't succeed - and the options now for getting an effective agreement The post Why we couldn’t agree on a plastics treaty in Geneva – and what might happen next appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: August 21, 2025 | Source:The Researcher Who Wrote the Book on How Solar Got Cheap Is Back to Assess the Current Moment
Five years ago, Greg Nemet wrote about the economic and technological factors that were helping to make solar power one of the world’s least-expensive electricity sources. Now, the University of Wisconsin-Madison professor is back with a second edition of his book, How Solar Energy Became Cheap. The new version examines recent developments and then looks […]
Published on: August 21, 2025 | Source:China’s emissions fall but growing coal-to-chemicals sector raises concern
The fast-rising use of coal in the production of synthetic fuels and plastics could put China's climate targets at risk despite record additions of renewables, new analysis shows The post China’s emissions fall but growing coal-to-chemicals sector raises concern appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: August 21, 2025 | Source: