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Global Climate Talks Resumed This Week in Germany, For the First Time in 30 Years Without the United States
For the first time since the United Nations started its annual climate talks in 1995, the United States is not sending an official government delegation to one of the biannual global negotiation sessions. In Bonn, Germany, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is currently holding the annual intersessional round of talks involving various […]
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:
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Climate Change Makes Protests Harder—Including Climate Change Protests
Last Saturday, Laurie Marshall joined hundreds of people in El Paso, Texas, for the city’s “No Kings Day” protests, part of a nationwide series of actions in opposition of what organizers say is authoritarian behavior by the Trump administration. As protesters flooded the streets, temperatures climbed past 100 degrees Fahrenheit. After four years living in […]
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:Bonn Bulletin: Slow start to climate talks fails to reflect urgency
A bitter row over the agenda ended with a compromise on adding finance and trade measures, while COP30 host Brazil sold off oil blocks to fossil fuel giants The post Bonn Bulletin: Slow start to climate talks fails to reflect urgency appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:In Canada’s ‘Silicon Valley’ of Mining, Speculators Power a Hunt for Alaska’s Minerals
This story was published in partnership with Northern Journal and is the first in a two-story series. VANCOUVER, British Columbia—On a January evening, dozens of people crammed into a banquet space at the glitzy Pan Pacific Hotel overlooking Vancouver’s waterfront. Buttoned-up corporate executives mingled with government officials by a wood-paneled bar. Old-school geologists and mineral […]
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:What could a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty look like?
As climate negotiations get underway in Bonn, an initiative set up to work on a pact against fossil fuels is discussing its structure and ways to promote the phase-out of coal, oil and gas The post What could a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty look like? appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:England needs more hosepipe bans and smart water meters - watchdog
The Environment Agency warns England needs a 'continued and sustained effort' to cut water demand.
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:The World’s Banks are Still Betting on Fossil Fuel Industry Growth
The world’s biggest banks continue to bankroll the expansion of the fossil fuel industry and have largely retreated from their climate commitments, even as the world heads toward breaching thresholds for a livable planet. A new report from a coalition of environmental and banking advocacy groups, published Tuesday, finds that the world’s 65 biggest banks […]
Published on: June 17, 2025 | Source:Bonn Bulletin: Climate talks delayed by agenda fight
Start of mid-year negotiations held up by push to add finance for developing countries and trade measures as formal discussion items The post Bonn Bulletin: Climate talks delayed by agenda fight appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 16, 2025 | Source:The Darter Fish and the Data Center
BESSEMER, Ala.—A newly identified species of fish in central Alabama is already endangered due to human development, experts say. Now, plans to build a massive hyperscale data center could turn an already dire situation into an extinction event. “This would nuke this creek,” Yale University biologist Thomas Near said of the data center project and […]
Published on: June 16, 2025 | Source:Analysis: Reform-led councils threaten 6GW of solar and battery schemes across England
Reform UK’s local-election victories in May 2025 could put 6 gigawatts (GW) of new clean-energy... The post Analysis: Reform-led councils threaten 6GW of solar and battery schemes across England appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: June 16, 2025 | Source:Truckloads of Scotland's rubbish will be sent to England, experts say
Up to 100 trucks a day could take Scotland's waste to England once a landfill ban comes in at the end of the year.
Published on: June 16, 2025 | Source:Two Suns, One City: Karachi’s Dueling Realities in a Warming World
KARACHI, Pakistan—Inside a sprawling estate in Karachi’s elite Defense neighborhood, air conditioning hummed in a low-frequency buzz. Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s former federal minister for climate change, walked into a chilled study room and clutched her shawl tighter around her. “Turn this down,” she told an aide. “It’s freezing in here.” A Karachiite born and bred […]
Published on: June 16, 2025 | Source:As Data Centers Proliferate Across Illinois, Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water
Illinois is already a top destination for data centers, and more are coming. One small Chicago suburb alone has approved one large complex and has proposals for two more. Once they’re online, data centers require a lot of electricity, which is helping drive rates up around the country and grabbing headlines. What gets less attention […]
Published on: June 16, 2025 | Source:'Forever chemical' found in all but one of tested UK rivers
The long-term impact of the chemical on human health is still unclear and being researched.
Published on: June 15, 2025 | Source:The Wrestler vs. the Utility
SAN DIEGO—On a walk near his house, with views of the ocean, Mark Ellis speaks with urgency about how the utility business—the industry that long employed him—is harming the public with unsustainable rate increases. He keeps coming back to the same point: The complexity of utility regulation is obscuring a transfer of wealth from the […]
Published on: June 15, 2025 | Source:Saved From the Saw: Conservation Deal Spares 8,000 Acres of Sensitive Land in Alabama From Becoming a Wood Pellet Mill
Long before he was writing bestselling books that defined the understanding of biodiversity, Edward O. Wilson was a boy in Mobile, Ala., exploring the bayous and backwaters of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta and marveling at its wildlife. Now, conservation groups are dedicating nearly 8,000 acres of that Delta, one of the most biodiverse places in North […]
Published on: June 15, 2025 | Source:EPA Grants Were Set to Address Health Risks on the Hopi and Navajo Reservations, Until the Trump Administration Cut Them
TUBA CITY, Ariz.—When Carol Parrish built her first fire using her new wood-burning stove, tears streamed down her face. “My prayers have been answered,” she remembers thinking. For years, Parrish’s home had been in a state of disrepair. Her previous stove, the only way she had to warm her home during the winter, was cracked […]
Published on: June 15, 2025 | Source:Race to mine metals for EV batteries threatens marine paradise
Photographs appear to show how nickel mining damaged one the world's most diverse marine environments
Published on: June 15, 2025 | Source:New York City Has a Trash Problem. A Packaging Reduction Bill Could Help
New York City knows it has a waste management problem. The average city household generated 1,899 pounds of trash in 2023. Only around 17 percent of the city’s curbside waste is recycled, despite efforts to change, such as the city’s 2020 plastic bag ban. Much of the city’s solid garbage and waste, if it is […]
Published on: June 14, 2025 | Source:Chesapeake Bay Health Slips in 2025 Report Card as Persistent Challenges Threaten Long-Term Gains
The Chesapeake Bay’s health has taken a downturn, according to a new report card, with the estuary relegated from a “C+” to a “C” as climate extremes and runaway pollution limit restoration efforts. The annual scorecard, produced by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES), evaluates the state of the bay and its […]
Published on: June 14, 2025 | Source:Trump Officials Visit Alaska as Interior Department Pushes Proposal Rescinding Biden-era Arctic Protections
The Department of the Interior announced a proposal last week to cancel its protections of 13 million acres of Alaskan land inside a previously created reserve. More than 40 Indigenous communities rely on the acreage in question for clean water and critical subsistence resources like caribou, fish and other wildlife. Indigenous people have occupied the […]
Published on: June 14, 2025 | Source:Animals—Living and Dead—Can Help Track Humanity’s Toxic Legacy
In the early 20th century, more than a million miners in Britain made a daily descent into the depths of the Earth to extract coal, the country’s main source of energy at the time. Joining them on their journey to the harsh, dark underground: bright yellow canaries, about the size of a coffee cup. These […]
Published on: June 13, 2025 | Source:Fourth Power Plant Approved in Newark Despite Tearful Protests From Ironbound Residents
The Ironbound neighborhood in Newark, N.J., has two distinct sections: an immigrant-rich area of rowhouses, ethnic restaurants and shops, and a clogged industrial zone with three power plants, the state’s largest incinerator and biggest sewage facility, a slew of factories and a near-constant parade of diesel trucks. And now, there will be a fourth power […]
Published on: June 13, 2025 | Source:In a Deep Red State, a Mining Regulator Is Wary of Possible Trump Cuts to Its Budget
JASPER, Ala.—If federal funds designated for Alabama’s mining regulator dry up—there is a 16 percent cut in state grants now being debated in Congress—director Kathy Love believes she has a quick and compelling rebuttal. Alabama has primary oversight, as do 14 other states, over its mines but it needs the federal government to help pay […]
Published on: June 13, 2025 | Source:New Climate Study Highlights Dire Sea Level Warnings
A new set of detailed clues gleaned from ancient fossil reefs on the Seychelle Islands shows an increasing likelihood that human-caused warming will raise the global average sea level at least 3 feet by 2100, at the high end of the projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Due to regional variations, sea level […]
Published on: June 13, 2025 | Source:'Glimmer of hope' for marine life at UN Ocean conference
Environmental groups have praised government's progress made on marine protection at the UN meeting
Published on: June 13, 2025 | Source:A COP30 roadmap to inaction or ambition on climate finance?
If it lets wealthy countries off the hook, the “Baku-to-Belém” roadmap risks entrenching climate injustice and increasing debt burdens in the Global South The post A COP30 roadmap to inaction or ambition on climate finance? appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 13, 2025 | Source:DeBriefed 13 June 2025: Trump’s ‘biggest’ climate rollback; UK goes nuclear; How Carbon Brief visualises research
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed.An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate... The post DeBriefed 13 June 2025: Trump’s ‘biggest’ climate rollback; UK goes nuclear; How Carbon Brief visualises research appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: June 13, 2025 | Source:Chart: The rise, fall and rise of UK nuclear power over eight decades
The UK’s chancellor Rachel Reeves gave the green light this week to the Sizewell C... The post Chart: The rise, fall and rise of UK nuclear power over eight decades appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: June 13, 2025 | Source:Guest post: How climate change is fuelling record-breaking extreme weather
Recent years have seen a rapid succession of climate-related records broken. To name just a... The post Guest post: How climate change is fuelling record-breaking extreme weather appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: June 13, 2025 | Source:Pennsylvania Bill Would Create a State Board to Oversee New Energy Projects
Pennsylvania lawmakers heard conflicting views this week over whether the state should set up a board that oversees the siting and operation of new electric-generating plants amid national fears that growing demand for electricity will exceed supply. The Reliable Energy Siting and Electric Transition Board, or RESET, would set statewide standards for the selection and […]
Published on: June 13, 2025 | Source:Biofuels Policy, a Mainstay of American Agriculture, Has Been a Failure for the Climate, a New Report Claims
The American Midwest is home to some of the richest, most productive farmland in the world, enabling its transformation into a vast corn- and soy-producing machine—a conversion spurred largely by decades-long policies that support the production of biofuels. But a new report takes a big swing at the ethanol orthodoxy of American agriculture, criticizing the […]
Published on: June 13, 2025 | Source:California Sues Trump Administration Over Right to Clean Air
President Donald Trump signed congressional resolutions Thursday morning to repeal California’s pioneering vehicle emissions standards, which he called a “disaster for this country.” California was ready. “We made a promise that if the president attempted to illegally interfere with our clean air standards, we’d hold him accountable in court,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said […]
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:Study Says Clean Energy Rollbacks Will Cost Economy $1.1 Trillion by 2035
In a week when the Trump administration moved forward on multiple fronts to repeal U.S. climate policies, a new analysis quantified the potential costs for public health, households and the economy—including a stunning $1.1 trillion reduction in U.S. gross domestic product by 2035. The study by the University of Maryland’s Center for Global Sustainability found […]
Published on: June 12, 2025 | Source:As Wildfire Smoke Increases Bad-Air Days, Are Government Agencies Doing Enough?
CHICAGO—As Canadian wildfire smoke moved south into the American Midwest last week, this city experienced not only some of the worst air quality in the United States, but in the entire world. The day before smoke rolled in, the Cook County government sent out air-quality warnings to residents who subscribed to text alerts. Yet even […]
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