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  1. Live Updates: Officials Warn of ‘Devastating Loss’ as Southern California Wildfires Burn Out of Control

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:47:20 -0000

    Parts of Santa Monica were ordered to be evacuated as fast-moving flames destroyed homes along the coast in Los Angeles. Officials warned that winds would pick up overnight, fueling the fire.

  2. As tetanus vaccination rates decline, doctors worry about rising case numbers

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 10:30:00 -0000

    The harrowing, deadly infection could make a comeback, especially in states vulnerable to climate-linked natural disasters, like Florida and Texas, an NBC News investigation finds. Every doctor wants to see a smile on a patient’s face, but there is one that no doctor ever wants to see: risus …

  3. Chocolate could disappear by 2050. Could this climate-resistant alternative take its place?

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 10:44:40 -0000

    As cocoa production plunges, scientists have turned to a climate-resilient plant to save the chocolate industry. Chocolate is facing a “climate …

  4. Common Whitefly Varieties (& The Plants They Love To Target)

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:10:00 -0000

    Whiteflies are one of the most destructive pests of vegetable crops and ornamental plants in the world. If you have a garden, chances are, you have …

  5. 2025: An explosive year in politics

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:45:09 -0000

    2025 was a busy year in Washington politics as President Donald Trump returned to the White House and swiftly pushed his agenda through executive actions on immigration, trade and climate po…

  6. Woman Says This Gauge Reveals Whether Your Car Is Warmed Up. It’s Not the Thermostat: ‘I Never Even Looked at That’

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0000

    How important is it to warm your car up? A woman says she just learned a rule of thumb that many longtime drivers swear by: don’t put your car in gear …

  7. Agriculturally speaking, 2025 has been one huge food fight

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:00:00 -0000

    Longtime readers of this column know at year’s end I pick what I believe is the top agricultural story. But 2025 is different. The top ag story isn’t …

  8. Trump Tosses Lifelines to the Struggling Coal Industry

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 20:37:52 -0000

    The Energy Department ordered two coal-burning power plants to remain open, and the Environmental Protection Agency gave utilities more time to tackle toxic coal ash. A day after the Trump administration acted to throttle offshore wind farms, it tossed two lifelines to coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel …

  9. The average life of a hybrid car's battery, revealed

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:33:11 -0000

    How much life can you expect out of a hybrid battery pack? Plus, more electric auto trends.

  10. What does climate change look like? This year's hurricane season is one example

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 10:30:00 -0000

    The 2025 hurricane season was a study in contrasts. In one way, it felt very quiet in the United States. No storms made landfall in the U.S. for the first time since 2015. And, for about three weeks in the middle of the hurricane season, no storms formed at all in the Atlantic. And yet, the storms …

  11. America’s Billion Dollar Climate Disasters

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:51:41 -0000

    There have been 14 climate disasters this year that have cost over $1 billion each. The range of causes is unusually wide. Douglas A. McIntyre, …

  12. More Eyes On The Skies Will Help Planes Reduce Climate-Warming Contrails

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 23:07:05 -0000

    Aviation’s climate impact is partly due to contrails — condensation that a plane streaks across the sky when it flies through icy and humid layers of …

  13. A Robot Vanished, Then Mysteriously Reappeared Near Antarctica—Now Researchers Reveal What It Discovered While It Was Missing

    Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:31:08 -0000

    A rogue robotic oceanographic instrument that drifted away from the Totten Glacier accidentally collected data on one of Antarctica’s most …

  14. Two-way electric vehicle charging at scale could stop renewable energy being wasted – here’s how it works

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:40:51 -0000

    The amount of renewable energy produced around the world is increasingly exceeding demand – particularly from wind and solar sources. This presents a …

  15. France’s largest rewilding project

    Thu, 25 Dec 2025 04:10:58 -0000

    Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. He has spent much …

  16. Major flooding, mudslide risk in parts of Southern California

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 10:36:55 -0000

    Potentially catastrophic rain is heading toward Los Angeles -- a region already scarred by recent extreme weather and climate events, making it more …

  17. ‘They invite us to speak, but not to decide’

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:46:00 -0000

    There was no shortage of Indigenous representatives at COP30, but the conference did not always seem to be listening, writes Dunio Chiriap …

  18. What Went Right in 2025: Top 25 Good News Stories of the Year

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:30:29 -0000

    What Went Right in 2025: Top 25 Good News Stories of the Year (Maria)The author writes, “Scientists treated the ‘untreatable,’ species came back from …

  19. Researchers issue warning after making alarming discovery off US coast: 'Direct bearing on how we live'

    Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:15:00 -0000

    Fresh research indicates sea-level rise is accelerating faster than previously anticipated, according to WBUR.What's happening?The Woods Hole …

  20. Judge upholds Hawaii's new climate change tax on cruise passengers

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:18:55 -0000

    A federal judge's ruling allows Hawaii's new tourist tax, which includes a levy on cruise ship passengers, to take effect in 2026 HONOLULU -- A …

  21. Environmentalist hugs tree for 72 hours for Kenya’s native forests

    Thu, 25 Dec 2025 04:04:51 -0000

    A Kenyan environmentalist hugged a palm tree for 72 straight hours in Nyeri county to draw attention to the rapid loss of the country’s native …

  22. Pressure builds on Milano Cortina organisers amid climate concerns and funding issues

    Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:30:27 -0000

    Pressure is mounting on Italian authorities to accelerate preparations for the Milano Cortina Olympics amid funding gaps and unusually warm …

  23. Four bright spots in climate news in 2025

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Things aren’t great, but there are a few positive signs, we promise. Climate news hasn’t been great in 2025. Global greenhouse-gas emissions hit …

  24. California Records One of Its Single Largest Drops in Climate Pollution on Record

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 04:57:45 -0000

    Renewables peak as fossil fuel power generation reaches historic low, while transportation emissions also plummet While not on target to reach 2030 …

  25. Huge ‘blue carbon’ offsetting project takes root in the mangroves of Sierra Leone

    Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:15:00 -0000

    BONTHE, Sierra Leone — On the island of Sherbro in Sierra Leone, as in much of the country, there’s limited access to vital services needed to make …

  26. The GOP is taking away your health care. Here's how it's also working to make you sicker

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:14:14 -0000

    Given how the Republicans who run Congress let health insurance premiums for over 24 million Americans explode by not acting last week before going …

  27. Watch Scientific American's Favorite Science Videos of 2025

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:30:00 -0000

    From mind-bending discoveries to playful explainers, these are some of our favorite—and most popular—science videos of 2025. For breaking science …

  28. Seven books to help you work through the climate anxiety you developed in 2025

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    With the holiday travel season ramping up, a good book is a must-have for airport delays or to give as the perfect gift. Journalists from Bloomberg Green picked seven climate and environmental books they loved despite their weighty content. A few were positively uplifting. Here are our …

  29. Top ocean news stories of 2025 (commentary)

    Wed, 24 Dec 2025 20:39:43 -0000

    2025 was a key year for ocean policymaking, marking the midway point in the U.N. Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The past 12 …

  30. Polar Bears Are on The Brink of Extinction, But Their DNA May Be Fighting Back

    Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:36:49 -0000

    Climate Change is forcing polar bears to rewire parts of their DNA in surprising ways.