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Cropped 13 August 2025: Fossil-fuelled bird decline; ‘Deadly’ wildfires; Empty nature fund
We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food... The post Cropped 13 August 2025:Fossil-fuelled bird decline; ‘Deadly’ wildfires; Empty nature fund appeared first on Carbon Brief.
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Evacuations in Alaska after glacial melt raises fears of record flooding
Meltwater is escaping from a basin that is dammed by a glacier - prompting fears of a deluge in state capital Juneau.
Published on: August 13, 2025 | Source:Can Colorado Recycle Toxic Water from Oil and Gas Drilling Without Increasing Emissions?
RIFLE, Colo.—The vegetation along the Colorado River as it runs next to Interstate 70 is lush in early June, soaking up the tail end of this year’s meager spring runoff as it makes its way West. But as you approach Rifle, Colorado, splotches of dry grass begin popping up on the slopes above the river’s […]
Published on: August 13, 2025 | Source:An Environmental Justice Test Case for Trump’s EPA: A Creek That Smells Like Death
DURHAM, N.C.—On a summer afternoon in Burton Park, hip-hop throbs from a car stereo over the backbeat of a basketball slapping on concrete. The sun bakes a grid of identical brick buildings, whose wheezing window air conditioners can barely keep pace with the 96-degree heat. Three young boys laugh and shout as they speed down […]
Published on: August 13, 2025 | Source:RAGBRAI, the World’s Largest Recreational Bike Ride, Is Getting Hotter and Harder
Laura Ferguson has a strict no-plastic-water-bottle rule when she bikes across Iowa. She has managed to complete 19 RAGBRAIs—the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa—relying solely on hoses, taps and her reusable water bottles. But on a blisteringly hot Wednesday this July, with 72 miles of Iowa roadways to cover, Ferguson finally caved, accepting […]
Published on: August 13, 2025 | Source:Will Endangerment Finding Repeal Trigger New State Actions on Climate?
President Donald Trump’s administration is not the first to declare it has no legal authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Twenty-two years ago, President George W. Bush’s administration came to the same conclusion, but that was hardly the end of the matter. The Bush decision touched off an era of aggressive legal and regulatory action […]
Published on: August 12, 2025 | Source:Inside Australia's billion-dollar bid to take on China's rare earth dominance
Recent moves by Beijing have got businesses worried - and Australia is looking to offer an alternative.
Published on: August 12, 2025 | Source:The Trump Administration’s Concerted Attacks on Wind Threaten the Industry’s Future
In the weeks leading up to his inauguration, President Donald Trump made a pledge: “no new windmills.” He’s made major headway on that this year. Since January, the administration has issued a flurry of orders and actions disrupting wind development on the country’s federal lands and waters, which has had ripple effects across the industry. […]
Published on: August 12, 2025 | Source:A Week of Gulf South Solidarity in New York City
NEW YORK—Manning Rollerson stood at the glass doors of Chubb Insurance’s Midtown Manhattan headquarters, a petition in hand and a Houston Texans cap shading his face. Chants echoed off the surrounding buildings, but no company representatives came out—only building security. Rollerson’s request was clear: He wanted Chubb to stop insuring fossil fuel projects near his […]
Published on: August 12, 2025 | Source:Show courage to vote for a strong plastics treaty, campaigners urge countries
As UN talks on a new global plastics pact reach their endgame, environmentalists call for a vote that could stop a handful of states blocking an ambitious deal to curb production The post Show courage to vote for a strong plastics treaty, campaigners urge countries appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: August 12, 2025 | Source:Guest post: Why China is still building new coal – and when it might stop
Last year, China started construction on an estimated 95 gigawatts (GW) of new coal power... The post Guest post: Why China is still building new coal – and when it might stop appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: August 12, 2025 | Source:After floods and failed harvests, Korean farmers sue state power utility for damages
Six farmers are seeking compensation from South Korea's KEPCO, arguing its fossil fuel emissions have contributed to economic and emotional harm The post After floods and failed harvests, Korean farmers sue state power utility for damages appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: August 12, 2025 | Source:Analysis: England’s most ethnically diverse areas are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat
Neighbourhoods in England that are home to the most minority-ethnic people are 15 times more... The post Analysis: England’s most ethnically diverse areas are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: August 12, 2025 | Source:Broiled by Heat Waves, Residents of the Concrete Jungle Suffer
Summer heat in New York City beats down on asphalt and tall buildings, which get hotter, scorching the locals, who can’t stop sweating. Exhaust from trucks and cars hangs in the air and the subway stations trap extreme amounts of heat. Some residents face greater exposure to high temperatures than others. That depends on multiple […]
Published on: August 12, 2025 | Source:As Climate Change Makes Hail More Destructive, Illinois Residents Pay the Price
For 40 days this summer, Illinois atmospheric scientist Victor Gensini and roughly 100 other specialists and students traveled the Great Plains chasing storms. More specifically, they investigated severe convective storms, the weather events that cause tornadoes and thunderheads. But their true quarry was something more elusive: hail. “It’s just an underappreciated peril that causes billions […]
Published on: August 12, 2025 | Source:Worst bleaching on record for Western Australian coral reefs
Scientists say the damage was caused by the "longest, largest and most intense" marine heatwave on record.
Published on: August 12, 2025 | Source:After Turmoil and No-Confidence Votes, Sierra Club Terminates Ben Jealous
Ben Jealous’ tenure at the Sierra Club has come to an end. Leadership at the environmental organization announced the executive director’s firing to staff in an email Monday evening. “Following an extensive evaluation of his conduct, the Board of Directors unanimously voted to terminate Ben Jealous’ employment for cause. This was not a decision we […]
Published on: August 12, 2025 | Source:Coal Company Sues UK After Environmentalists Win Major Climate Case in British Court
A coal company is pushing back against the United Kingdom after a British court canceled a proposed mine due to a flawed accounting of its potential climate impacts. On Friday, the mine’s Singaporean and U.K. investors initiated arbitration proceedings against the British government based on a 1975 treaty between the U.K. and Singapore that allows […]
Published on: August 11, 2025 | Source:Deadlock in UN plastics talks raises fears of watered-down deal
During a webinar hosted by Climate Home in Geneva, Panama's climate envoy said his country would reject a weak deal that ignores the growing production of plastics The post Deadlock in UN plastics talks raises fears of watered-down deal appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: August 11, 2025 | Source:Brazil set to weaken environmental controls despite Lula’s intervention
The president approved a bill to streamline the country's environmental licensing processes but vetoed some of its more harmful provisions The post Brazil set to weaken environmental controls despite Lula’s intervention appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: August 11, 2025 | Source:Perseid meteor shower: When, where and how to catch a glimpse
The Perseids are considered the best meteor shower of the year
Published on: August 11, 2025 | Source:A mineral mining boom is not ‘critical’ for the green transition
New research shows renewable energy goals could largely be met withthe amount of minerals produced today - but the military industry wants more The post A mineral mining boom is not ‘critical’ for the green transition appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: August 11, 2025 | Source:COP experts: How could the UN climate talks be reformed?
This year marks a decade since nations successfully negotiated the Paris Agreement, a landmark treaty... The post COP experts: How could the UN climate talks be reformed? appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: August 11, 2025 | Source:British man who perished in Antarctic glacier found 65 years later
His brother tells BBC News that he had lost hope he would ever be found.
Published on: August 11, 2025 | Source:Moving on From the Heartbreak Hotel
PLAINFIELD, Vt.—Eli Barlow loved his home in the Heartbreak Hotel. His back porch sat above the water and held memories of dinners and parties, talking with friends under the golden haze of Christmas lights that hung year round. At night he would fall asleep lulled by the sound of the Great Brook flowing underneath his […]
Published on: August 11, 2025 | Source:Record warm seas help to bring extraordinary new species to UK waters
The UK's seas have had their warmest first seven months of the year on average since records began.
Published on: August 11, 2025 | Source:Meteorite that hit home is older than Earth, scientists say
Scientists who analysed fragments that crashed into a roof in Georgia, US, say it likely formed 4.56 billion years ago.
Published on: August 10, 2025 | Source:The Slow-Moving Fight to Clean New Jersey’s Most Contaminated River
Isiah Cruz is alone on the banks of the Passaic River—in North Ironbound, just east of Newark, New Jersey—hacking away at a bundle of tall, leafy plants. It is a hot, muggy Sunday afternoon, hazy from Canadian wildfires. He stands in a muddied mess of sludge thick with styrofoam, human waste and hundreds of discarded […]
Published on: August 10, 2025 | Source:Can We Alter the Ocean to Counter Climate Change Faster? This Experiment Aims to Find Out
Later this summer, a fluorescent reddish-pink spiral will bloom across the Wilkinson Basin in the Gulf of Maine, about 40 miles northeast of Cape Cod. Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will release the nontoxic water tracer dye behind their research vessel, where it will unfurl into a half-mile wide temporary plume, bright enough […]
Published on: August 10, 2025 | Source:Atmospheric Rivers May be Diminishing on the West Coast and Surging in the East, Study Finds
It makes sense that atmospheric rivers would flood West Coast headlines as well as its coastlines. Eighty percent of all West Coast flood damage is attributable to these immense highways of water vapor, which can drench Central California with a season’s worth of rain or freeze Seattle in place with a blizzard. Damages to Pacific […]
Published on: August 09, 2025 | Source:Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 astronaut, dies aged 97
The commander of Apollo 13 famously rescued his men from near certain death in space.
Published on: August 09, 2025 | Source:Canyon Wildfire in Los Angeles Forces Thousands to Evacuate
Thousands are being forced to evacuate in Southern California as an explosive wildfire grows rapidly, fueled by extreme heat and dry conditions. The Canyon Fire started Thursday afternoon and has spread quickly across more than 5,000 acres. It’s now moving east in Los Angeles County. Evacuation orders in northern Los Angeles County and Ventura County […]
Published on: August 08, 2025 | Source:Federal Judge Halts New Construction at Alligator Alcatraz
MIAMI—A federal judge has paused new construction at Alligator Alcatraz, the Everglades detention site where the Trump administration aims to incarcerate and deport thousands of undocumented migrants. Judge Kathleen Williams issued a temporary restraining order Thursday barring activities at the site such as paving, filling, excavating and installing fencing, along with new buildings, tents or […]
Published on: August 08, 2025 | Source:Record Krill Catch Prompts Early End to Fishing Season in Antarctica and Growing Calls to Protect its Fragile Ecosystems
Antarctica’s krill fishery has shut down months ahead of schedule after reaching its full seasonal catch-limit—a historic first. The early closure is fueling urgent calls to protect the Southern Ocean’s fragile marine ecosystems from mounting industrial fishing and climate change. Typically, the fishery runs from December 1 to November 30. This year, it closed the […]
Published on: August 08, 2025 | Source:EU advises DR Congo against oil drilling in “Green Corridor”
The DRC has opened bids for drilling rights in oil blocks cutting across half of the country and most of the EU-backed green corridor, raising fears of forest destruction The post EU advises DR Congo against oil drilling in “Green Corridor” appeared first on Climate Home News.
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