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A massive winter storm has swept across the eastern United States, leaving hundreds of thousands without power, canceling thousands of flights, and creating widespread travel chaos. The disaster marks the first major test for the Federal Emergency Management Agency under…
Deep in the tangled forests of Vanuatu’s Espiritu Santo Island, Richard Rojo navigates familiar paths with the confidence of someone who has called this land home for four decades. Armed with a bush knife and rice sack, the subsistence farmer…
Texas's power grid passes its first major winter resilience test since 2021's deadly Storm Uri, while proposed transmission lines threaten golden-cheeked warblers in Hill Country. An Alabama judge orders quarry closure after nine years of community environmental battles.
This weekend’s freezing temperatures across Texas served as a crucial benchmark for the state’s independent electrical grid, offering the first major test of winter resilience improvements made since the catastrophic failure during Winter Storm Uri in 2021. For millions of…
A growing chorus of climate researchers is sounding the alarm that current international climate targets may be too little, too late for some of Earth’s most vulnerable ecosystems. According to scientists studying climate tipping points, critical environmental systems including coral…
Devastating wildfires have torn through Argentina’s pristine Patagonian forests since January, highlighting a growing crisis in the country’s underfunded environmental protection efforts. Two major blazes erupted in Chubut province, directly threatening Los Alerces National Park—a UNESCO World Heritage Site that…
Southeastern Australia braces for potentially record-breaking 49°C temperatures with fire evacuations underway, while Tasmania reports devastating salmon farm deaths from warming oceans. Meanwhile, UK partners with nine European nations on groundbreaking multi-country wind farm project.
While President Trump recently claimed that Greenland was surrounded by Chinese destroyers and Russian submarines, the reality on the water tells a very different story. The only significant fleet operating in Greenland’s waters consists of nearly 4,000 fishermen pursuing a…
Despite covering 70% of Earth’s surface and absorbing 90% of excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases, our oceans remain surprisingly absent from mainstream climate change discussions. This oversight represents more than just a gap in public awareness—it’s a costly miscalculation…
A colossal winter storm is currently battering the United States, plunging more than 230 million Americans—two-thirds of the nation’s population—into a dangerous deep freeze that could last through early next week. The system is delivering heavy snowfall and catastrophic ice…
