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  1. How safe is glyphosate chemical backed by Trump? What the science says

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:15:01 -0000

    On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would push for a greater supply of glyphosate-based herbicides, leaving …

  2. Heaviest outback rain in decades forecast to reach SA, NSW and Victorian farmers

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:49:08 -0000

    The driest belt of Australia is in the middle of its wettest month in decades, and weather modelling is tipping the outback rain will reach southern …

  3. America is at risk of becoming an automotive backwater

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:52:37 -0000

    Detroit badly bungled the EV transition. Then Trump wiped out emission rules. For decades, America’s auto industry was the envy of the world, driven by mass production, the rise of Detroit’s Big Three automakers, and the iconic stylings of the 1950s and ’60s. Then, through a series of blunders and …

  4. ‘Clean power everywhere’: How space-based solar could help us go beyond net zero targets

    Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:00:36 -0000

    Once considered a dystopian fantasy, space-based solar could soon transform the renewable energy sector. In 1941, two astronauts began the seemingly …

  5. He Was a Climate Activist. One Day, the F.B.I. Came Knocking.

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:00:06 -0000

    As the Trump administration cracks down on climate change activism, members of environmental groups like Extinction Rebellion fear they are being targeted. On a recent frosty February morning, 200 miles north of New York City, a middle-aged man had just had his tea and toast and opened his laptop. …

  6. Why the western US is running out of water, in one chart

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:27:26 -0000

    Cows are draining the Colorado River. More than one in 10 Americans rely on the Colorado River to take showers and drink clean water. But with no end in sight to the decades-long drought in the western US and rapidly decreasing river levels, this essential resource is fueling bitter disputes over …

  7. Trump administration eases limits on coal plants for emitting mercury, other toxins

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:30:16 -0000

    LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday weakened limits on mercury and other toxic emissions from coal-fired power plants, the Trump administration’s latest effort to boost the fossil fuel industry by paring back clean air and water rules. Toxic emissions from coal- and …

  8. Trump’s rollback of this key EPA finding will hit poor and minority Americans the hardest

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:49:08 -0000

    The Environmental Protection Agency recently revoked the ‘endangerment finding,’ which is key in protecting the public from pollutants. In a stretch of Louisiana with about 170 fossil fuel and petrochemical plants, premature death is a fact of life for people living nearby. The air is so polluted …

  9. Does the US risk being left behind by abandoning green energy?

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:54:45 -0000

    Are wind and solar farms a rural windfall or a blight on the landscape? Communities are grappling with questions of land use.

  10. ‘Zero percent chance’: Energy Sec. Wright unloads on European climate alarmists in fiery Paris speech

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:58:33 -0000

    Energy Secretary Chris Wright blasted European leaders in Paris on Tuesday, accusing the International Energy Agency of pushing "net zero" policies divorced from reality and warning the continent to abandon its green agenda or face economic catastrophe. Wright’s comments before the 31-member global …

  11. Here’s what a 372 MPH tire does to a parked car

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:29:22 -0000

    And more incredible car visuals caught on camera.

  12. China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine — it generated enough energy to power a house for 2 weeks

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:13:54 -0000

    A pioneering energy-generating device utilizes reliable wind speeds at an altitude of 6,500 feet (2,000 meters). A Chinese energy firm has …

  13. 'Direct Attack on the Health of Americans': Trump EPA Greenlights More Mercury Pollution | Common Dreams

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:00:10 -0000

    Sierra Club said the rollback "puts the public at greater risk of heart and lung disease, cancer, and even premature death, as well as causing severe …

  14. Scientists worry about lasting damage from Potomac sewage spill

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:16:00 -0000

    In January, part of a decades-old sewer line in Maryland collapsed by the Potomac River. Over the following days, the broken pipe dumped more than 200 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac near Washington, D.C. Since then, the utility that manages the line, DC Water, has been setting up a …

  15. China Just Launched a Massive Floating Wind Turbine That Floats 6,000 Feet in the Air

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:14:51 -0000

    A massive helium blimp generates megawatt-scale power from high-altitude winds above the clouds.

  16. Companies Are Choosing Efficiency Over Bold Climate Goals

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:52:09 -0000

    It was hard to go even a few minutes at this year’s GreenBiz conference without hearing about the business case for sustainability. Over and over, executives repeated that efforts to cut emissions were also reducing waste, cutting costs, and delivering durable efficiency gains. It’s a perfectly …

  17. Breath deeply, America, while you still can | Editorial

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:09:38 -0000

    Thirteen people were killed and nearly 6,000 injured when a doomsday cult, Aum Shinrikyo, sabotaged the Tokyo subway with the nerve gas Sarin in …

  18. US ‘totally’ rejects global AI governance, White House adviser tells India summit

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:14:33 -0000

    The US "totally" rejects global governance of AI, White House technology adviser Michael Kratsios said Friday, noting that "risk-focused obsessions" inhibit a "competitive ecosystem". Kratsios addressed an AI summit in New Delhi a day after French President Emmanuel Macron told the gathering that …

  19. SpaceX rocket fireball linked to plume of polluting lithium

    Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:00:42 -0000

    When a SpaceX rocket failure set the skies aflame over western Europe last February, no-one was sure if the debris was also polluting our atmosphere. Now scientists are directly linking the uncontrolled rocket re-entry to a plume of lithium measured less than 100km above Earth. It is the first time …

  20. This staggering move just made Trump a global supervillain

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:30:02 -0000

    Last week, President Donald Trump cemented his standing as the greatest environmental criminal among world leaders, a mantle of which he couldn’t be …

  21. California Pays Farms to Make Biogas from Hog Waste in North Carolina, Where Locals Say It’s Fueling Pollution

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:00:00 -0000

    “Some of this is happening under the radar.” This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that …

  22. The world's largest lithium metal maker is now producing semi-solid-state EV batteries

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:34:17 -0000

    The world’s largest producer of lithium metal, Ganfeng Lithium, has reportedly begun mass-producing semi-solid-state batteries with an impressive energy density of 650 Wh/kg. The lithium giant has supply deals with Tesla, Volkswagen, Hyundai, and several other major OEMs for key EV battery …

  23. Crocuses are blooming early – here’s what this means for nature

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:57:33 -0000

    Amid the wet and grey gloom of February, gardeners across the UK are reporting that crocuses are pushing through their lawns and borders weeks ahead …

  24. Forget solid-state batteries – researchers have made a lithium-ion breakthrough that could boost range and drastically lower costs

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:00:00 -0000

    Researchers at the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science claim to have developed a new gel electrolyte that will help …

  25. Oil Prices Jump as Trump Threatens to Attack Iran

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:46:05 -0000

    On geothermal’s heat, Exxon Mobil’s CCS push, and Maine’s solar Current conditions: More than a foot of snow is blanketing the California mountains • …

  26. Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machines: Clouds

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:45:17 -0000

    The planet is getting hotter, but one factor in particular makes it hard to tell just how hot it will get. Physicists and computer scientists are …

  27. Did climate change factor into the Lake Tahoe avalanche? Turns out it's complicated

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:54:02 -0000

    As the climate warms, scientists are trying to better understand avalanche risks. The say risks for major avalanches at high elevation could be growing while the risk is decreasing at low elevations.

  28. ‘Irreversible on any human timescale’: Scientist reveals best and worst-case scenario for Antarctica

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:00:54 -0000

    Despite being far away from civilisation, a melting Antarctic’s "disastrous" consequences will ripple across the world, researchers warn. Scientists …

  29. Trump administration slashes mercury regulations from coal plants

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:30:00 -0000

    On Friday the Trump administration officially rolled back a series of Biden-era environmental regulations on coal plants, including some intended to …

  30. 'Freak of Nature': Scientists Think Greenland's Ice Is Churning Like Molten Rock

    Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:00:30 -0000

    Deep inside the Greenland ice sheet, radar images have revealed strange, plume-like structures distorting the layering deposited over eons. Now, more …