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  1. 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 …

  2. China figured out how to sell EVs. Now it has to bury their 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 …

  3. This Untapped Source of Electricity Could Provide Endless Energy—And Scientists May Know How to Unlock It

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:45:00 -0000

    The process takes advantage of a tiny, repetitive mechanical motion. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers found a way to harness the fundamental properties of triboelectrification, which most people think of it as static electricity, to capture energy. • By using pressure to …

  4. Complex life started with fungi, not plants or animals

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:00:00 -0000

    12.5 to 12.6 billion years after the beginning of the Universe.On Earth, biological organisms are getting more and more interesting as the years tick …

  5. 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 …

  6. Trump aims to take down ‘global mothership’ of climate science

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:02:37 -0000

    For more than half a century, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, has been a premier hub for climate and …

  7. Rare sight of mother polar bear adopting a cub captured by camera

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:51:22 -0000

    A polar bear mother was seen with one cub in the spring — but by fall she had adopted a second, according to Canadian researchers. When scientists in Canada came across a female polar bear with two cubs in the fall, they made an unusual discovery: One of the young was not her own offspring but …

  8. Only one country in the world produces all the food it needs. Here's why | BBC Science Focus Magazine

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:00:00 -0000

    While hundreds of millions around the world face food insecurity, a tiny South American nation has managed to become the only country that can …

  9. Trump Seems to Be Trying His Best to Give Us All Cancer

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 01:56:57 -0000

    The administration’s commitment to spreading the fatal disease is impressive. Opposition to cancer is an easy sell for most people. Sort of like being …

  10. Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:01:47 -0000

    To check President Trump’s growing grip on the judiciary in the midterms or to advance a legislative agenda in 2029, Democrats need to answer a very difficult question: How can the party keep winning in states like North Carolina, become competitive again in Ohio and expand the electoral map to …

  11. How Europe’s new carbon tax on imported goods will change global trade – and our shopping habits

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:01:23 -0000

    For people living in the EU, the price of their next car, home renovation and even local produce may soon reflect a climate policy that many have …

  12. The U.S. Is on the Verge of Meteorological Malpractice

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:25:36 -0000

    The Trump administration says it will dismantle a premier climate center, while somehow keeping weather forecasting intact. On Tuesday afternoon, the risk of wildfire in northeastern Colorado had risen high enough that Xcel Energy, the state’s largest utility company, announced that it would shut …

  13. Trump move to dismantle climate agency blows up Senate funding deal

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 03:00:39 -0000

    A potential deal to fund large swaths of the federal government, including the Departments of Defense and Health and Human Services, collapsed on …

  14. Phoenix could have its hottest Christmas Day on record

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:25:07 -0000

    Saint Nick may have to peel off a layer or two as he flies through Phoenix’s skies on Christmas. After a cold start to December, temperatures have …

  15. Why this Tennant Creek home could change the future of remote housing

    Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:02:07 -0000

    A single house nearing completion in Tennant Creek is drawing national attention - not because it is expensive or experimental, but because it was …

  16. Trump administration moves to dismantle national climate research lab in Colorado

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:21:39 -0000

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, moving to dissolve a research lab …

  17. They quit government to protest Trump. Now they are running for Congress to stop him

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:03:02 -0000

    CAPE MAY, New Jersey, Dec 18 (Reuters) - It was Megan O’Rourke’s dream job. As a top climate scientist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, she …

  18. New York’s Dairy Farms Are Secretly Leading a Climate Revolution

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:31:33 -0000

    New research highlights how New York dairy farms are achieving lower greenhouse gas emissions through sustainable practices. By growing their own …

  19. Trump’s dismantling of climate research center is a ‘destruction of knowledge,’ critics say

    Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:32:41 -0000

    The White House’s planned elimination of a major scientific research center is the latest step in the Trump administration’s quest to obliterate federal climate change programs. The National Science Foundation will be “breaking up” the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, …

  20. A New Plastic Is Here, and It Biodegrades In Salt Water in Just a Few Hours

    Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:39:55 -0000

    Researchers in Japan have made an extraordinary leap in the fight against plastic pollution. A new study published in the Journal of the American …

  21. The Caribbean Islands With The Mildest Weather You Can Visit Any Time Of Year

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:45:00 -0000

    The handful of destinations that offer a reliably comfortable temperature range year-round are a godsend for trip planning. In these places, there's …

  22. Feds to dismantle National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado

    Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:14:17 -0000

    Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The President Donald Trump administration announced it will dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, …

  23. Vought says National Center for Atmospheric Research will be dismantled

    Wed, 17 Dec 2025 04:44:21 -0000

    The National Science Foundation will dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought announced Tuesday night, the latest salvo in the Trump administration’s push to gut federally funded climate research. “This facility is one of the …

  24. How man-made snow is ensuring a future for Scotland’s ski resorts

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:27:00 -0000

    Scotland's ski resorts are relying on innovative ways to create their own snow as climate change threatens the snow sports industry. STV News …

  25. Saving the Amazon’s stingless bees

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:18:43 -0000

    Peruvian scientist Rosa Vásquez Espinoza joins forces with indigenous communities to protect a disappearing species that is crucial to the health of the rainforest.

  26. Marine heat waves and raw sewage combine to put human health at risk

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:26:40 -0000

    Earlier this year, a spate of deaths in Florida caused by Vibrio vulnificus, known as the flesh-eating bacteria, made headlines. Infections of this …

  27. California’s AI Data Centers Taking Growing Environmental Toll

    Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:55:53 -0000

    Airdate: Thursday, December 18 at 10 AM Data centers are the server farms that power the internet. California has the third-most data centers of any …

  28. Winter Storm Warning Issued in Multiple States as 100 mph Winds Approach

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:50:14 -0000

    Dangerous weather doesn't take a break for the holidays, and in that spirit, on Thursday, Dec. 18, the National Weather Service (NWS) announced …

  29. One of Trump’s grudges now threatens America’s weather forecasts

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:30:57 -0000

    What happens when you kill the country’s climate science “mothership”? This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One of the world’s leading climate, weather, and wildfire science research institutions is being targeted …

  30. How the global food system is impacting obesity and climate change: Study

    Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:48:58 -0000

    Both crises share common roots and solutions, researchers say. The same global food system that is fueling rising obesity rates is also accelerating …