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  1. New Government Plan Aims To Restore Brazil’s Drought‑Stricken Caatinga

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:42:38 -0000

    An important carbon sink with an enormous capacity to infiltrate water into the soil and ensure the replenishment of aquifers in Brazil’s semi-arid …
  2. Trump move to dismantle climate agency blows up Senate funding deal

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:04:51 -0000

    A potential deal to fund large swaths of the federal government, including the Departments of Defense and Health and Human Services, collapsed on …
  3. Scientists push back on Trump plan to break up a critical climate and weather center

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:25:37 -0000

    The White House plans to break up a key weather and climate research center in Colorado, a move experts say could jeopardize the accuracy of forecasting and prediction systems. It's the latest climate-related move by President Trump, who has called climate change a hoax, cut funding for climate …
  4. Why Trump’s Energy Secretary Wants Data Centers to Cover the U.S.

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:03:54 -0000

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  5. Trump’s Media Company Strikes ‘Flabbergasting’ Fusion Deal

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:44:32 -0000

    On permitting reform passing, Oklo’s Swedish bet, and GM’s heir apparent Current conditions: New Orleans is expecting light rain with temperatures …
  6. The Radioactive Reindeer Problem

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:19:19 -0000

    Cold War nuclear testing left troubling levels of Cesium-137 in caribou, prompting years of research into Arctic fallout and its risks to human …
  7. Trump dogged by cost of living crisis and Republican revolt

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:11:35 -0000

    Political communication experts have long observed this: Trumpism is a stripped-down and disjointed language, whose power lies in repetition. One of …
  8. China figured out how to sell EVs. Now it has to deal with their aging batteries.

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:24:58 -0000

    As early electric cars age out, hundreds of thousands of used batteries are flooding the market, fueling a gray recycling economy even as Beijing and …
  9. This Might Have Been The Worst Nuclear Disaster In American History

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:48:18 -0000

    When you picture nuclear disasters, you probably envision Chernobyl and Fukushima, but the worst nuclear accident in American history actually …
  10. The coldest body temperatures humans have survived

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:00:00 -0000

    In some remarkable cases, people have survived after their core temperature has plummeted into the 50s. Whether you prefer sweltering summers or frigid winters, significant temperature changes mean only one thing to your body: bad news. Humans are homeotherms, meaning that our core body temperature …
  11. The Plastic Crisis Is Accelerating, and This Company Is Turning It Into a $125B Opportunity

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:00:00 -0000

    With 400 million tons of plastic produced annually, landfills are overflowing. Oceans are choking on microplastics. And global plastic production is on pace to triple by 2060. But a new wave of innovation is shifting how the world thinks about plastic, and it’s creating a $125B opportunity for one …
  12. My home was at ground zero of a natural disaster: Here's What I Wish I Knew

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:18:50 -0000

    Don't count on flushing the toilet, hurricane insurance doesn't cover water damage and other lessons learned from a calamity. In 2017, Hurricane Irma …
  13. Colorado senators block budget to defend Boulder climate lab

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:27:18 -0000

    Colorado's U.S. senators are blocking a government spending bill, demanding the Trump administration reverse plans to dismantle the National Center …
  14. After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:31:17 -0000

    “The government blames the current crisis on changing climate [but] the dramatic water security issues of Iran are rooted in decades of disintegrated …
  15. We're all at risk if Trump dismantles this legendary lab

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:56:04 -0000

    Breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research would be a "genuinely shocking self-inflicted wound." You may not know it, but you’ve …
  16. 10 Mysterious Disappearances in History That Remain Unexplained

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:40:00 -0000

    Some stories never stop tugging at our imagination, no matter how many decades or even centuries pass. Disappearances sit right at that intersection …
  17. Letters to the Editor: The Trump administration is dismantling systems critical to our survival

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:30:00 -0000

    To the editor: I read with dismay of the Trump administration’s moves to dismantle Colorado’s National Center for Atmospheric Research (“Trump administration moves to dismantle leading climate and weather research center,” Dec. 17). It isn’t only NCAR scientists who are alarmed, but atmospheric and …
  18. Scientists Shocked to Discover Microbes 'Colonizing' Lava Within Hours of Solidifying

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:50:41 -0000

    Not even the strongest microbes can survive volcanic eruptions, but they are capable of returning surprisingly quickly, according to a new …
  19. Don’t expect Trump Media’s nuclear fusion power plant to generate electricity soon

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:04:52 -0000

    Trump Media — yup, the parent company of Truth Social — is the latest entrant in the near century-long race to develop a nuclear fusion power plant. It announced a merger agreement with fusion company TAE Technologies on Thursday and a bold plan to break ground on the first utility-scale fusion …
  20. More Affordable EVs Are Coming in the Nick of Time

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:01:03 -0000

    Just as Americans have started to revolt against expensive cars. The car bubble couldn’t last forever. For years now, the steadily rising cost of new …
  21. Wildlife Encounter Turns Dangerous After Tourist Ignores Park Warnings

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:09:21 -0000

    A recent viral video shows how quickly a harmless looking moment with wildlife can turn dangerous. In the clip, a woman leans out of her car window …
  22. Crest falling: Mount Rainier and 4 other mountains are losing height

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 07:00:00 -0000

    The top of the mountain is coming down. Five different U.S. mountains, including Mount Rainier, are experiencing ice loss at their peaks, bringing …
  23. New York realizes it cannot afford its green promises

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:30:54 -0000

    Up for reelection, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) distance herself from climate catastrophists. New York’s crusade against gas stoves is being placed on the back burner: Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) recently delayed the implementation of a 2023 ban on running gas in new buildings before it took effect in …
  24. We need to grow the economy. We need to stop torching the planet. Here’s how we do both.

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:00:00 -0000

    Let’s fix the two massive efficiency sinks in American life. The first thing that struck me about this year’s most talked-about policy book, Abundance (perhaps you’ve heard of it?), is a detail almost no one talks about. The book’s cover art sketches a future where half of our planet is densely woven …
  25. Switzerland: Severe winter weather exacerbates humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, says Red Cross

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:51:48 -0000

    SHOTLIST GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (DEC. 18, 2025) (ANADOLU – ACCESS ALL) 1. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SPOKESPERSON OF INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT SOCIETIES (IFRC), TOMMASO DELLA LONGA, SAYING: “The situation is still very very complicated, I mean the heavy raining trigger floods and then of course the temperature that the cold temperature that is going down the Gaza Strip. It's adding suffering on thousands I would say millions of of people. We, I've just seen some footage coming from Palestine Recreation colleagues where the wind and the rain is basically been destroyed completely flooded tens of thousands of people and of course it's an unbearable situation. But then is this enough? No, it's not enough. Needs are immense so we really call for the opening of every possible entry point for aid inside the Gaza Strip, and of course to bring more aid and different type of aid inside the Gaza Strip. Shelter, clearly it's a top priority together with all the basics. We need really to think about that here we're looking at more than 1.5 million people who lost everything, who have been displaced several times and still are in need of basically every single basic need. And again, I want to underline, rain, wind, cold, it's just really again and again make the suffering of people in Gaza, absolutely unbearable.” 2. WHITE FLASH 3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SPOKESPERSON OF INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT SOCIETIES (IFRC), TOMMASO DELLA LONGA, SAYING: “We need more aid, we need more entrance of aid, and we need a humanitarian operation at scale. And again, this is not something that will change overnight, it's not something that will change in weeks or months. The international community needs to continue giving support and solidarity to the people of Gaza for the years to come.” 4. WHITE FLASH 7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SPOKESPERSON OF INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT SOCIETIES (IFRC), TOMMASO DELLA LONGA, SAYING: “ If it's true again that access is better, this doesn't mean that water is enough for everyone, food is enough for everyone, health support is enough for everyone, and every single part of the normal life, education, schools, and that basically livelihoods that are basically not anymore there. So the situation is not good enough. And even if maybe Gaza is not anymore in the headlines anymore, this doesn't mean that the people in Gaza don't need help. And again, our call is to have sustainable and …
  26. Major Sports Events That Could Be Ruined By Global Warming

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:12:44 -0000

    Global warming has helped drive up temperatures and create dangerous snowstorms. Both have triggered professional sports events and will do so again. …
  27. How Did a City of 10 Million People Nearly Run Out of Water?

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:00:04 -0000

    Earlier this month Tehran, a city of 10 million people, was questioning its viability. After six years of drought and the driest autumn in over 50 years, the reservoirs that supply the city fell to around 10 percent of capacity, and in some cases lower still. In late November and early December …
  28. ‘Highly speculative’ that Trump’s new fuel rules will help drivers: Experts

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:02:16 -0000

    Proposed changes weaken climate rules and waste years of investments by car makers in EVs. San Francisco, United States – Earlier this month, United States President Donald Trump announced plans to lower fuel efficiency standards for cars, a move that, he said, would make cars more affordable for …
  29. Threatening NCAR, Trump administration seeks to extinguish a beacon of climate science

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:37:32 -0000

    Published December 19, 2025 The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, sits atop Table Mesa, near the eastern edge of the …
  30. Five Takeaways From the World’s Biggest Earth Science Meeting

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:31:11 -0000

    The world’s biggest Earth science conference had a shocking backdrop this year, with the Trump administration announcing that it plans to close an …