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  1. Federal judge orders FEMA to restore billions in canceled disaster mitigation funding

    Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:35:02 -0000

    A federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to restore billions of dollars in canceled FEMA disaster mitigation funding, siding with 22 states and the District of Columbia that sued over the canceled grants this summer. President Donald Trump’s administration said …

  2. Pacific Northwest faces "catastrophic" flood threats

    Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:03:11 -0000

    Residents in the Pacific Northwest face "catastrophic" and potentially life-threatening flood threats after days of heavy rains, the National Weather …

  3. Judge rules Trump unlawfully ended FEMA disaster prevention programme

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 23:33:11 -0000

    Twenty states had challenged the end of the programme, meant to make localities more resilient to natural disasters. A federal judge has said the administration of United States President Donald Trump acted unlawfully in ending a programme aimed at helping communities become more resilient to …

  4. Are rainforests now a cause of, rather than the answer to, climate change?

    Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:12:10 -0000

    A new study finds that Africa’s forests, responsible for one-fifth of global carbon removal, are beginning to generate carbon as the result of human activity. Human activity has caused some rainforests to switch from being a solution for climate change, to a source of it, a new study has found. The …

  5. Students challenge auto industry with modular EV you can fix yourself

    Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:03:00 -0000

    A team of students from the Netherlands has demonstrated that it is possible to produce an affordable electric vehicle (EV) that owners can maintain …

  6. U.S. Helped to Weaken Report at U.N. Environment Talks, Participants Say

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:54:16 -0000

    American officials joined Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran in objecting to language on fossils fuels, biodiversity and plastics in a report that was three years in the making. The Trump administration sided with officials from Saudi Arabia, Russia and Iran in a successful effort to block part of a …

  7. The EPA website got the basics of climate science right. Until last week.

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:30:00 -0000

    The Trump administration purged 80 pages of facts about climate change — including that it's caused by humans. If you want to know what’s causing …

  8. The deep ocean is fixing carbon in ways no one expected

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:23:29 -0000

    A new study reveals that unexpected microbes are quietly fixing carbon in the dark depths of the ocean. Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence …

  9. Trump Plans To Drive Down Car Prices

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:48:00 -0000

    Trump has gone a long way to kill the EV business. Now, he is going to help gas-powered car buyers. There will be an incentive, probably on the car …

  10. ‘We look ridiculous’: US government website removes fossil fuels as cause of global warming

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:54:10 -0000

    'It's like pretending cigarettes don’t cause lung cancer,' says one climate expert. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has removed any …

  11. How the Next Big Thing in Carbon Removal Sank Without a Trace

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 02:00:00 -0000

    With support from Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify, Running Tide billed itself as on the cutting edge of carbon removal. In the end, it resorted to …

  12. African environment programs still try to fill funding gap since USAID freeze

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:30:40 -0000

    Nearly a year after U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze U.S. development aid, USAID has permanently closed its offices in several …

  13. Invasive pest invades US for the first time — and Texas is ground zero

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:38:05 -0000

    The small, fuzzy white insect is known to wreak havoc First it was water scarcity, then it was the looming threat of the New World screwworm. Now …

  14. UN Report Shows Current Food Production Is Pushing The Planet Toward Crisis

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:35:49 -0000

    The latest Global Environment Outlook reveals a staggering truth about how our choices shape the future of our planet. According to The Guardian, the …

  15. Historic Santorini vineyards struggle against climate change and tourism

    Fri, 12 Dec 2025 05:00:39 -0000

    Between climate and tourism trends, Santorini’s wine industry could be decimated within a decade without drastic intervention, say local …

  16. Countries gather in Nairobi and Doha to confront environmental and development crises

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:52:16 -0000

    Delegates from more than 170 countries are meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, for the seventh session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7), at …

  17. Global mean temperature 1850-2024

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:24:59 -0000

    World Meteorological Organization A specialized agency of the United Nations whose mandate covers weather, climate and water resources. The UN’s …

  18. Lawsuit challenges the approval of an exploratory drilling program in Alaska petroleum reserve

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:28:33 -0000

    JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Conservation groups and an Iñupiat-aligned group sued Thursday to overturn the recent approval of an exploratory drilling program in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, saying it was improperly analyzed by the federal government and could harm caribou and important habitat …

  19. Introduction: Climate Change

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:33:59 -0000

    Published December 11, 2025 For over a century, humanity has rampantly burned fossil fuels to power the machinery of modern life, inexorably …

  20. 13 Countries at Serious Risk of Disappearing if Sea Levels Rise

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:20:32 -0000

    Sea levels are rising faster than many expected, and these 13 countries that could disappear if sea levels rise are especially vulnerable. Even small …

  21. This 400,000-Year-Old Campfire Could Rewrite Human History

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:00:57 -0000

    Humans likely harvested their first flames from wildfire. When they learned to make it themselves, it changed everything. While few of us today know …

  22. La Niña is here for the rest of winter, federal forecasters announce

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:01:26 -0000

    La Niña has a major influence on winter weather in the U.S., but its effects vary drastically by region. With the polar vortex catching all the buzz in recent weeks, federal forecasters say our old friend La Niña is still a major force shaping winter weather for the United States. Federal …

  23. Thousands ready to evacuate as flooding hits Pacific Northwest

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:53:15 -0000

    Residents in the Pacific Northwest of the US and western Canada are bracing for potentially life-threatening floods as several days of heavy rain have swollen a number of rivers and tributaries. On Thursday, the National Water Center reported heavy flooding along the Skagit and Snohomish rivers in …

  24. The Single Worst Time Period In Human History

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:25:43 -0000

    Millennia of human history have seen many years of scarcity, famine, plague, and war. A new wave of research by historians and scientists singles out …

  25. Volcanic eruptions sparked grim chain of events that brought the Black Death

    Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:32:00 -0000

    Hidden inside the narrow growth rings of Pyrenees trees lies the strongest evidence yet for what set the Black Death in motion. For the first time, …

  26. We know which Kaiser is the idiot

    Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:38:27 -0000

    PRESENTED BY SUBSCRIBERS LIKE YOUOn a Berlin streetcorner during World War I, a man is arrested for treason and sedition for shouting “the Kaiser is …

  27. Scientists make stunning discovery while studying nuclear reactor waste: 'A novel method'

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:30:00 -0000

    A study published in the journal Nuclear Engineering and Design has revealed that atomic reactor waste could actually be used to boost hydrogen …

  28. Baby dies of exposure in flooded tent as Storm Byron batters Gaza

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:53:23 -0000

    Displaced Palestinians in dire need of tents, blankets, warm clothing in harsh winter climate. A baby girl whose family was displaced by Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza has died of exposure to the winter cold as Storm Byron lashed the enclave amid Israel’s continued …

  29. Even with Trump’s support, coal power remains expensive – and dangerous

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:36:17 -0000

    As projections of U.S. electricity demand rise sharply, President Donald Trump is looking to coal – historically a dominant force in the U.S. energy …

  30. The Trump Administration Ramps Up Its War On Coal Miners

    Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:00:00 -0000

    A planned rule to set new silica exposure limits—and address Appalachia’s ongoing black lung crisis—has been under continued assault. Now, it looks …