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The year 2025 will be remembered as a pivotal moment in the climate crisis, marked by devastating disasters, troubling scientific discoveries, and surprising signs of hope. The year began catastrophically with month-long wildfires consuming 78 square miles of Los Angeles,…
Britain's Conservative Party promises to scrap the 2030 petrol and diesel vehicle ban if elected, while Spain's renewable energy transition faces political headwinds as the governing coalition struggles with parliamentary pressure and weakened environmental policies.
Washington communities recover from 5 trillion gallons of flooding as another massive storm approaches. Meanwhile, California faces credibility questions after 168 gallons of crude oil contaminated Monterey County farmland, and Interior Department conflicts emerge over Nevada lithium mining.
A landmark report from New South Wales’ official climate agency has delivered a decisive blow to future coal mining developments, declaring that new expansions would violate the state’s legally binding emissions reduction commitments. The NSW Net Zero Commission’s findings represent…
The Congo Basin, Earth’s second-largest tropical rainforest, is disappearing at a devastating pace—losing nearly 1.8 million hectares annually between 2015 and 2019. This massive forest system, which spans six countries and stores more carbon than the Amazon, faces relentless pressure…
A pipeline failure released 168 gallons of crude oil across Monterey County farmland as volunteers race to save hundreds of sea turtles trapped in Cape Cod's frigid waters. Plus: Paris Climate Agreement gains legal enforcement power after decade-long wait.
A decade after 194 countries defied skeptics and reached the historic Paris Climate Agreement, the landmark treaty has received a crucial upgrade that transforms it from aspiration into legal obligation. The 10th anniversary of the Paris accord arrives with unexpected…
The discovery of a dead Tapanuli orangutan buried in mud and debris in northern Sumatra has raised alarming concerns that recent catastrophic flooding may have devastated a key population of the world’s rarest great ape. Scientists are calling the disaster…
The remote Inupiaq community of Ambler, Alaska, faces an agonizing choice: embrace a controversial mining road that could provide desperately needed jobs, or protect what remains of their traditional subsistence lifestyle from further destruction. Climate change has already devastated the…
In the bustling port city of Douala, Cameroon, fisherman Henry Belle Ekam returns from hours on the Wouri Estuary with nothing but a single tiny catfish and mounting frustration. The 37-year-old represents a growing crisis facing coastal communities across West…
