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EPA Cancels Community Change Grants, Alabama’s Segregationist Past Drives High Electric Rates While World’s Largest Fungi Library Faces Closure — Today’s Environmental Briefing for Sat, Dec 27 2025

Environmental justice groups reel from abrupt EPA funding cuts after transformative community grants disappear. Alabama's civil rights history creates today's sky-high electricity rates and renewable energy resistance. Meanwhile, federal budget cuts threaten the world's most extensive living fungi collection at University of Kansas. Read the full article

December 28, 2025

How a controversial conservation experiment in burkina faso saved elephants from extinction

In the late 1970s, southern Burkina Faso faced a conservation crisis. Elephants had nearly vanished, wildlife populations were crashing, and subsistence hunting had turned into widespread…

December 28, 2025

London eye architect unveils £11 billion tidal power station to fuel uk’s ai energy demands

Julia Barfield, the visionary architect behind London’s iconic Eye and Brighton’s i360 tower, has proposed an ambitious £11 billion tidal energy project that could transform Britain’s…

December 28, 2025

2025 climate report card: trump’s return, federal agency cuts, and soaring energy demand create perfect storm of environmental uncertainty

The year 2025 delivered a devastating combination of climate setbacks that environmental experts are calling a turning point for the worse. Donald Trump’s return to the…

December 28, 2025

How one woman transformed mexico’s yucatán peninsula into a conservation success story

Conservation work isn’t the romantic adventure many imagine—it’s a daily grind of permits, budgets, and convincing reluctant communities to embrace change. For over four decades, Joann…

December 28, 2025

Climate setbacks and global shifts define 2025: inside climate news reviews a turbulent year for environmental policy

2025 proved to be a pivotal yet troubling year for climate action, marked by significant policy reversals, devastating natural disasters, and an alarming acceleration toward dangerous…

December 27, 2025

Sri lanka develops disaster-resilient housing plans after cyclone ditwah triggers deadly landslides

When Cyclone Ditwah struck Sri Lanka in late November, it triggered devastating landslides that left thousands homeless and reluctant to return to their damaged communities. Bandara…

December 27, 2025

How alabama’s segregationist past shaped today’s sky-high electric rates and clean energy struggles

A new investigative series reveals how Alabama’s troubled civil rights history directly contributed to the state’s current energy challenges, including some of the nation’s highest electricity…

December 27, 2025

Climate change makes extreme weather events dramatically more likely, new science shows

Scientific breakthroughs in attribution research are revealing the stark reality of how climate change amplifies extreme weather events around the globe. The numbers paint a sobering…

December 27, 2025

Kristina gjerde, pioneering champion of international ocean protection, dies at 68

Kristina Maria Gjerde, the influential marine lawyer who dedicated her career to protecting the world’s unguarded oceans, died December 26th from pancreatic cancer at age 68.…

December 27, 2025

Climate change turns french alps ski resorts into frozen-in-time ghost towns as rising snow lines force permanent closures

The French Alps are witnessing an unprecedented transformation as climate change forces ski resorts to permanently shut their doors, leaving behind eerie “ghost resorts” frozen in…

December 27, 2025

Two-thirds of us voters connect climate change to rising living costs despite trump’s “green scam” rhetoric

A majority of American voters are drawing clear connections between climate change and their household budgets, according to new polling data from Yale University. The survey…

December 27, 2025

Africa faces $365 billion climate funding gap as agricultural communities bear the brunt of global crisis

African agriculture is drowning in a climate crisis it didn’t create, with a staggering $365 billion funding shortfall looming through 2035 despite recent pledges at UN…

December 27, 2025

World’s largest living fungi library faces closure as federal funding cuts threaten decades of research

A remarkable collection that could hold keys to restoring damaged ecosystems and boosting crop yields is in jeopardy. The International Collection of Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi…

December 27, 2025

Mixed progress for world’s rainforests in 2025 as deforestation slows but new threats emerge

The world’s tropical forests experienced a complex year in 2025, marked by encouraging reductions in deforestation rates alongside the emergence of less visible but equally concerning…

December 27, 2025

Chicago environmental justice groups still reeling after epa abruptly cancels community change grants

After four decades of environmental justice organizing, Cheryl Johnson had never witnessed funding as transformative as the EPA’s Community Change grants. “It gave real money to…

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