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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 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

Iucn red list officially declares multiple species extinct in 2025: slender-billed curlew and christmas island shrew among the lost

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List has formally declared several species extinct in 2025, marking the end of years-long scientific assessments that…

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

Remembering jay m. Savage: the scientist who first sounded the alarm on global amphibian disappearances

In the late 1980s, something alarming began happening in the world’s most protected places. Cloud forests that had been shielded from chainsaws and development were suddenly…

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

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

Nsw launches citizen science initiative to protect endangered sea turtle nests along 400-mile coastline

A critical rescue operation for the season’s first sea turtle nest has sparked a statewide call for citizen scientists to help protect endangered marine species along…

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

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 advocates in Chicago community meeting discussing EPA Community Change grant cancellation impacts

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.

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

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

A decade of un climate summits: same struggles, different stages

Over the past ten years, the United Nations Climate Change Conference has unfolded across dramatically different backdrops—from the breakthrough optimism of the Paris Agreement to pandemic-disrupted…

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

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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