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  1. Breakthrough Water Filter Removes 'Forever Chemicals' 100x Faster Than Carbon

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:57:39 -0000

    An international team of scientists has discovered a record-breaking method of removing a class of harmful 'forever chemicals' from contaminated …

  2. The Trump Administration exempts new nuclear reactors from environmental review

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:09:46 -0000

    The Trump Administration has created an exclusion for new experimental reactors being built at sites around the U.S. from a major environmental law. The law would have required them to disclose how their construction and operation might harm the environment, and it also typically required a …

  3. Western Ski Resorts and Their Terrible, Horrible, No Snow, Very Bad Year

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:41:08 -0000

    Little snowpack, strikes by mountain staff and Trump administration policies that are keeping international visitors away have made this a difficult season in the Rockies and beyond. Bare slopes. Closed terrain. Canceled vacations. In the Western United States, the 2026 ski season is shaping up to be …

  4. Trump’s Best Friend in Europe May Lose His Election

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:04:11 -0000

    BUDAPEST — An Arctic wave swept across Hungary in early January, dumping more snow than the country had seen in more than a decade. The temperature …

  5. Florida Freeze Map Shows Major Cities Facing Plunging Temperatures

    Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:10:03 -0000

    Florida residents face a new round of freeze warnings Monday night as temperatures could plunge below 32 degrees for at least a third consecutive …

  6. George Saunders Takes on Mortality, Morality and Climate, Comically, in New Novel ‘Vigil’

    Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:18:06 -0000

    Airdate: Tuesday, February 3 at 9 AM George Saunders is one of America’s most celebrated writers. His worlds and characters often live in a reality …

  7. Fox News Digital report spurs 22 AGs to urge expanded House probe into alleged judicial bias

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:04:57 -0000

    EXCLUSIVE: Nearly half of state attorneys general will demand the House Judiciary Committee expand its probe into climate policy-related influence on federal judges to include a gold-standard guide judges use to examine subjects they are not typically versed in. The development comes after a Fox …

  8. New Zealand Cave Unearths a Lost World Destroyed by Ancient Volcanoes and Climate Shifts

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:42:59 -0000

    Long before we stepped ashore, New Zealand was being reshaped.

  9. Stunning satellite images show the Great Lakes rapidly freezing over after brutal cold snap

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:53:35 -0000

    The record cold spell over the last two weeks is developing a lot of ice on the Great Lakes. The view from a satellite high above Earth gives us a …

  10. Vienna swaps parking for green space

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:41:37 -0000

    Conscious of reaching climate goals and strapped for space, some cities are reconsidering how much they dedicate to parking. Austria's capital, …

  11. A Truth From Iran to Minneapolis: Weak Governments Kill Protesters

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Regimes are most violent against dissenters when they know that the protests have traction. “This is not who we are,” many well-meaning public …

  12. Russia’s Extreme Winter Storms Are a Climate Wake-Up Call the Kremlin Is Ignoring

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:40:00 -0000

    The Kremlin once suggested climate change could bring Russia advantages. But the chaos from recent storms tells a very different story.

  13. What’s next for EV batteries in 2026

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Expect to see new chemistries hitting the roads, a shifting policy landscape, and a renewed focus on cost and performance. MIT Technology Review’s …

  14. Poor Nations Won’t Follow Europe, UN In Economic Suicide – OpEd

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:27:29 -0000

    Or continue letting global elites set policies that impoverish and kill their people Calling them wasteful and a threat to America’s sovereignty, …

  15. 75 Straight To The Point Posts That Call Out The World We’re Living In

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:24:02 -0000

    Lately, it feels like we’re all stuck in a permacrisis, experiencing overlapping catastrophes that seem like they’ll never end. And even though …

  16. To See the Future of EVs, Visit Costa Rica

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:07:26 -0000

    The Central American country is the now the Americas’ EV leader. The cars that sit atop the list of best-selling electric vehicles in the world …

  17. EPA: Clean Air Act supports right to repair

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:59:32 -0000

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a clarification letter Monday to manufacturers saying that the Clean Air Act does not prohibit …

  18. Drastic water shortages and air pollution are fuelling Iran’s protests

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:55:40 -0000

    This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine. “Iran is …

  19. Argentina fires ravage pristine Patagonia forests, fueling criticism of Milei’s austerity

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:26:55 -0000

    LOS ALERCES NATIONAL PARK, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s Patagonia region is battling severe wildfires, with vast areas of Los Alerces National Park …

  20. These Four States Are in Denial Over a Looming Water Crisis

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:00:05 -0000

    Lake Mead is two-thirds empty. Lake Powell is even emptier. Not for the first time, the seven Western states that rely on the Colorado River are fighting over how to keep these reservoirs from crashing — an event that could spur water shortages from Denver to Las Vegas to Los Angeles. The tens of …

  21. Electric Cars Are Quietly Cleaning City Air, And The Data Now Proves It

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:12:53 -0000

    Electric vehicles have long promised cleaner cities, but new research shows the effect is no longer theoretical. A study led by researchers at …

  22. The EPA just erased a century of public health progress

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:30:00 -0000

    What is the value of a human life? According to the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, the answer is zero dollars. Recently, in a …

  23. Australian Climate and Homelessness Alliance to help rough sleepers through extreme weather

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:28:09 -0000

    Tim knows firsthand the struggles of being homeless and navigating the sometimes unforgiving weather. The 40-year-old Aboriginal man, whose name has …

  24. Deep Inside an Antarctic Glacier, a Mission Collapses at Its Final Step

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:45:41 -0000

    Scientists lost their instruments within Antarctica’s most dangerously unstable glacier, though not before getting a glimpse at the warming waters underneath. A daring attempt to study Antarctica’s fast-melting Thwaites Glacier collapsed over the weekend after the scientists’ instruments became …

  25. 'The Congo River Basin is at a tipping point': Photojournalist Hugh Kinsella Cunningham

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:47:13 -0000

    A leading photographer has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how his exhibition is a good excuse to talk about how the jungles of the Congo and the whole ecosystem of Central Africa are about to become potentially the most important site in the fight against climate change. The water there sustains the …

  26. U.S. Cold Snap Kills Dozens and Leaves Thousands Without Power

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:15:00 -0000

    At least 60 million people under National Weather Service warnings, but temperatures forecast to warm in parts of the South Dozens of people have died and thousands of customers are still without power nearly a week after a sprawling winter storm blanketed much of the U.S. with extreme cold, ice and …

  27. Jupiter isn’t as huge as we thought it was

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:30:00 -0000

    The solar system’s most giant planet is slightly less of a giant than scientists once thought. Jupiter, a world that is so huge that it could hold …

  28. There’s a Triple Threat to the World’s Food Security

    Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:00:25 -0000

    There are five times as many people alive today as there were in 1900. Yet humanity is better fed than at almost any point in its history. That’s thanks to three major developments that have made our planet far more resilient to the risk of starvation: yield improvements, water usage and trade. …

  29. Something Strange Is Living—and Thriving—Below Fukushima’s Dead Reactors

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:00:00 -0000

    Ionizing radiation apparently didn’t prevent some types of bacteria from breeding in the water, but astonishingly, they are not the radiation-resistant types expected in an environment like this. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Since several of its reactors exploded, water that has …

  30. Turmoil at FEMA adds to the revolt against Kristi Noem

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:06:44 -0000

    The homeland security secretary has all but halted the agency’s disaster spending. This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s …