The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables, a Lifeline for Farmers - Inside Climate News
The agency said it’s concerned that farmland is being consumed by wind and solar facilities—which occupy a tiny fraction of the country’s productive acres.
insideclimatenews.org
August 19, 2025
By Georgina Gustin
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Melting on the Arctic’s Svalbard Islands Shows the Climate Future Is Now - Inside Climate News
The rapid disintegration of glaciers on the islands north of Norway foreshadows a catastrophic future for the Arctic, scientists warn.
insideclimatenews.org
August 19, 2025
Bob Berwyn
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NEW RESEARCH - Our planet is warming TWICE as fast as we thought!
Planet earth has been warming at a rate of about 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade since the 1970's. Recent record warm years have suggested that rate of change may have shifted in a very unwelcome direction. Now two highly experienced and respected climate analysts have rigorously interrogated that theory. And their conclusion is deeply concerning.
youtube.com
August 10, 2025
Just Have a Think
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The Great Barrier Reef records largest annual coral loss in 39 years
Australian authorities say the Great Barrier Reef has seen its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping.
youtube.com
August 07, 2025
Associated Press
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Trump’s EPA says climate pollution doesn’t endanger people : NPR
The Trump administration wants to reverse a 2009 EPA finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. The finding is the basis for much of the United States' climate change regulations.
npr.org
July 24, 2025
Jeff Brady
Climate & Environment
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Climate Scientist Michael Mann on Deadly Heat Domes Around the World
A heat wave is raising temperatures to dangerous levels across much of Europe, just days after a heat wave in North America saw over 3,000 temperature records set. For more, we speak with climate scientist Michael Mann, who warns that heat domes and flooding have nearly tripled since the 1950s. "At some level, this isn't that complicated. You make the planet hotter, you're going to have more frequent and intense heat extremes," says Mann, a professor of environmental science at the University of Pennsylvania. Mann's upcoming book, co-authored with vaccine expert Dr. Peter Hotez, is "Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces That Threaten Our World."
youtube.com
July 01, 2025
Democracy Now!
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Colorado’s tax credits for EVs, e-bikes and heat pumps will be cut in half next year - The Colorado Sun
The state’s dismal economic forecast requires the green tax credits be slashed in 2026, Colorado economists said Wednesday
coloradosun.com
June 19, 2025
Taylor Dolven
Climate & Environment
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Republicans’ pro-pollution agenda exposes the fraudulent MAHA movement
The GOP is making it easier for corporations to spread toxic waste to the masses, all while claiming to “Make America Healthy Again.”
msnbc.com
May 24, 2025
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Tropical forests destroyed at fastest recorded rate last year
Tropical forests vanished at record rates in 2024, with fires overtaking agriculture as the main driver but warn of Amazon tipping points
getaway.co.za
May 21, 2025
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Trump Administration Decommissions Sea Ice Data That Sounded an Alarm on Arctic Climate Change - Inside Climate News
Cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are now degrading the datasets used to monitor the most rapidly warming parts of the planet. More such moves are coming, NOAA has warned.
insideclimatenews.org
May 07, 2025
Climate & Environment
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Trump has launched more attacks on the environment in 100 days than his entire first term
Blitzkrieg has hit protections in place for land, oceans, forests and wildlife, and will worsen the climate crisis
theguardian.com
May 01, 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/oliver-milman
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US House votes to block California's nation-leading vehicle emissions rules
The U.S. House has voted to block California's vehicle emission standards. The chamber passed a measure aimed at keeping the state from enforcing a state rule to phase out the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.
apnews.com
May 01, 2025
https://apnews.com/author/sophie-austin
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Fifteen years after Deepwater Horizon, Trump is setting the stage for disaster | Terry Garcia
Cuts to science, environmental and safety agencies are a rejection of hard-won knowledge gained from studying the disaster that occurred 15 years ago
theguardian.com
April 20, 2025
Terry Garcia
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Destroying endangered species' habitat wouldn't count as 'harm' under proposed Trump rule
The Trump administration is reinterpreting a key word in the Endangered Species Act that could have big consequences for the habitats of species at risk.
npr.org
April 17, 2025
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Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging
An emergency order removes protections covering more than half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims to boost timber production.
washingtonpost.com
April 05, 2025
Climate & Environment
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A stunning number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled
Billions of dollars in clean energy projects have been canceled since Donald Trump took office again.
washingtonpost.com
April 04, 2025
Shannon Osaka
Climate & Environment
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Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023 | Nature
Glaciers are indicators of ongoing anthropogenic climate change1. Their melting leads to increased local geohazards2, and impacts marine3 and terrestrial4,5 ecosystems, regional freshwater resources6, and both global water and energy cycles7,8. Together with the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, glaciers are essential drivers of present9,10 and future11–13 sea-level rise. Previous assessments of global glacier mass changes have been hampered by spatial and temporal limitations and the heterogeneity of existing data series14–16. Here we show in an intercomparison exercise that glaciers worldwide lost 273 ± 16 gigatonnes in mass annually from 2000 to 2023, with an increase of 36 ± 10% from the first (2000–2011) to the second (2012–2023) half of the period. Since 2000, glaciers have lost between 2% and 39% of their ice regionally and about 5% globally. Glacier mass loss is about 18% larger than the loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet and more than twice that from the Antarctic Ice Sheet17. Our results arise from a scientific community effort to collect, homogenize, combine and analyse glacier mass changes from in situ and remote-sensing observations. Although our estimates are in agreement with findings from previous assessments14–16 at a global scale, we found some large regional deviations owing to systematic differences among observation methods. Our results provide a refined baseline for better understanding observational differences and for calibrating model ensembles12,16,18, which will help to narrow projection uncertainty for the twenty-first century11,12,18. An intercomparison exercise reassesses mass loss from glaciers worldwide based on the main in situ and satellite methods from 2000 to 2023; the results are consistent with previous assessments and provide a refined and comprehensive observational baseline for future impact and modelling studies.
nature.com
February 19, 2025
The GlaMBIE Team
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Pollution of the potent warming gas methane soars and people are mostly to blame
The amount and proportion of the powerful heat-trapping gas methane that humans spew into the atmosphere is rising, helping to turbocharge climate change, a new study finds.
apnews.com
September 10, 2024
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‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair
Exclusive: Survey of hundreds of experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn climate fight must not be abandoned
theguardian.com
May 08, 2024
Climate & Environment
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Earth thundering toward planet unfit for humans, report finds
The Earth is barreling toward “uncharted climate territory” and on track to become uninhabitable for three and six billion people by the end of the century, a new report found.
The research, led by Oregon State University scientists, casts dire warnings, saying big changes are needed now.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
October 27, 2023
Grant Stringer
Climate & Environment
