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Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano Swallows Camera While New Mexico Utility Seeks Zero Emission Label for Gas Plant — Today’s Environmental Briefing for Mon, Dec 8 2025

Dramatic footage shows molten lava engulfing monitoring equipment at Kilauea as Southwestern Public Service pushes controversial greenwashing bid. Meanwhile, NOAA's critical ocean buoy network faces funding collapse during peak hurricane season, threatening coastal weather forecasting nationwide. Read the full article

November 26, 2025

Financial Giants Continue Pumping Billions Into Forest Destruction Despite Climate Promises

Ten years after world leaders signed the Paris Climate Agreement, major banks and investment firms are actually increasing their financial support for companies that destroy forests,…

November 26, 2025

UK Labour Expands North Sea Oil Drilling While Trump Skips UN Climate Summit — Today’s Environmental Briefing for Wed, Nov 26 2025

Oil drilling platform in North Sea waters under cloudy sky

Britain's Labour government prepares major North Sea drilling expansion despite climate pledges, as Trump becomes first US president in 30 years to skip UN climate talks. Meanwhile, 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists successfully derailed COP30 progress in Brazil.

November 26, 2025

Trump Administration Skips UN Climate Summit for First Time in Three Decades, Joining Russia and Saudi Arabia in Blocking Climate Progress

The United States made an unprecedented move at the recent UN climate summit in Brazil by becoming the first major power in 30 years to send…

November 26, 2025

Sri Lanka’s Elephant Relocation Program Sparks Scientific Concerns as Human-Wildlife Conflict Intensifies

The devastating human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka reached a tragic crescendo in Hambantota district this year, where two heartbreaking incidents just kilometers apart highlight the desperate…

November 26, 2025

Political Cartoonist Highlights the Critical Timing of Climate Action and Political Responses

Renowned political cartoonist Fiona Katauskas has released a new piece examining the intersection of political leadership and climate activism, focusing on the shared concern over timing…

November 26, 2025

The Leaf Blower Battle: Why America’s Most Hated Garden Tool Proves So Hard to Eliminate

Actress Cate Blanchett may have put it best when she declared that leaf blowers “need to be eradicated from the face of the Earth,” calling them…

November 26, 2025

Race Against Time: How Scientists Are Saving South Africa’s “Ugly Duckling Daisy” From Extinction

In 2006, botanist Ismail Ebrahim made a heartbreaking discovery in South Africa’s shrinking renosterveld shrublands near Cape Town. His team found just 27 surviving plants of…

November 26, 2025

As California Dries Up, Wildlife Increasingly Clashes With Humans in Search of Water and Food

When drought strikes California, it’s not just crops and lawns that suffer—wild animals are driven from their natural habitats in search of water and food, leading…

November 26, 2025

COP30 Makes Historic Strides in Ocean-Climate Solutions Despite Global Temperature Records

More than 56,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries converged in Belém, Brazil, from November 10-21 for COP30, the second-largest climate summit in history. The timing couldn’t…

November 26, 2025

Labour Government Set to Expand North Sea Oil and Gas Drilling Despite Climate Commitments

The UK’s Labour government is preparing to announce increased oil and gas drilling operations in the North Sea as part of a new energy strategy, according…

November 25, 2025

UK Could Create Over 5,000 Jobs by Ending Plastic Waste Exports and Building Domestic Recycling Infrastructure

A new report reveals that the United Kingdom could generate 5,400 jobs and strengthen its economy by closing a regulatory loophole that currently makes it cheaper…

November 25, 2025

COP30 Climate Summit Rescued From Collapse as Saudi Arabia Agrees to Landmark Deal Targeting Fossil Fuel Industry

The 30th UN Climate Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil narrowly avoided complete failure after Saudi Arabia made a surprise last-minute decision to support a groundbreaking agreement…

November 25, 2025

Billionaire’s 496-Unit Housing Development Threatens New Jersey’s Old-Growth Forest and Retiree’s Dream

Roy Oser’s vision of a peaceful retirement is now under threat from an unexpected source: affordable housing mandates. When the former attorney purchased his North Jersey…

November 25, 2025

Climate Crisis Claims Hidden Victims: Young Migrant Workers Return Home With Kidney Failure From Gulf’s Extreme Heat

In the dialysis wards of Kathmandu, Nepal, a devastating pattern is emerging that reveals one of climate change’s most overlooked casualties. Young men who traveled to…

November 25, 2025

Thousands of Wales Species Face Extinction While COP30 Climate Summit Leaves Critical Issues Unresolved — Today’s Environmental Briefing for Tue, Nov 25 2025

Welsh countryside landscape showing diverse native wildlife habitats threatened by extinction risk

A groundbreaking Wales conservation report identifies thousands of species at extinction risk due to geographic restrictions, while the COP30 climate summit in Brazil concludes without concrete fossil fuel phase-out plans or essential climate breakthroughs scientists demand.

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