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Trump’s Climate Reversals Trigger Policy Crisis While UK Architect Unveils £11 Billion Tidal Power Station — Today’s Environmental Briefing for Sun, Dec 28 2025

The Trump administration's aggressive dismantling of environmental protections creates unprecedented climate setbacks, as London Eye architect Julia Barfield proposes a massive 14-mile tidal lagoon to power Britain's AI energy demands. Plus conservation victories in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and Burkina Faso. Read the full article

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

Trump’s Climate Reversals Trigger Policy Crisis While UK Architect Unveils £11 Billion Tidal Power Station — Today’s Environmental Briefing for Sun, Dec 28 2025

Political figure at podium with environmental agency logos in background

The Trump administration's aggressive dismantling of environmental protections creates unprecedented climate setbacks, as London Eye architect Julia Barfield proposes a massive 14-mile tidal lagoon to power Britain's AI energy demands. Plus conservation victories in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and Burkina Faso.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Global co2 emissions hit all-time high in 2025 despite massive renewable energy growth

Despite unprecedented growth in renewable energy, global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels are set to reach a record-breaking 38.1 billion metric tons in 2025—a 1.1%…

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 reality strikes home: mel gibson’s house burns while he dismisses climate science on joe rogan podcast

A striking moment of irony unfolded in January 2025 that seemed to capture the contradictions of our climate era. While actor Mel Gibson sat in a…

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

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

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…

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