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1. FEMA to Relaunch Climate Resiliency Grants, Complying With Court Order

   Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:17:38 -0000

   A judge ruled in December that the agency could not cancel a program that had helped states invest billions of dollars in disaster readiness. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Wednesday it would relaunch a canceled grant program that had helped states invest billions of dollars in …

2. Beavers can turn streams into carbon stores – we measured how much

   Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:10:30 -0000

   Across Europe, beaver numbers are increasing after a long period of decline. As these aquatic mammals recolonise rivers, they are gradually …

3. How moss could help roads cope with heavy rain and reduce air pollution

   Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:53:43 -0000

   Across Europe, many banks alongside motorways are planted with grass to stabilise soil and keep roadside landscapes tidy. But there may be a better …

4. 'There is so much potential risk in the Persian Gulf for environmental damage'

   Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:01:35 -0000

   Doug Weir, director of the Conflict and Environment Observatory, outlines the risks facing populations and ecosystems as a result of the conflict …

5. Candela raises more cash scaling their flying electric ferries as global demand surges

   Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:00:00 -0000

   Electric hydrofoiling boat maker Candela just pulled off something that’s getting harder to do in today’s climate tech landscape: raise a significant new round of funding – and do it while the rest of the sector is cooling off. The Swedish company announced a €30 million raise, bringing its total …

6. The world’s EVs were already replacing 70% of Iran’s oil exports. The war just made that matter

   Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:37:41 -0000

   The war in Iran has already transformed the world’s energy map. It might yet redraw America’s auto market. Now in its third week, the U.S. and Israeli …

7. Exclusive: Climate-friendly concrete startup nabs $15M

   Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:30:05 -0000

   Cocoon Carbon, a startup developing climate-friendly building materials, just closed a $15 million Series A round to support a large planned U.S. …

8. A concerto played with trash: Barbican offers a masterclass in thought-provoking classical programming

   Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:10:59 -0000

   The Barbican Centre’s 2025-26 concert season, Fragile Earth: Sounds of a Living Planet, brings the connection between music and nature, and its …

9. It’s so hot in the West that temperatures may even break April records soon

   Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:15:24 -0000

   100-degree temperatures are hitting the West in late winter. How long will it last? It’s been the warmest March on record so far across the United States, in terms of daytime high temperatures. And now, unprecedented heat for this time of year is expanding and intensifying across the West. Not only …

10. What a recent court win reveals about the Trump administration’s unlawful attacks on climate science

    Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:00:34 -0000

    Published March 18, 2026 The second Trump administration is taking its hostility to climate science to new levels. In addition to its rhetoric …

11. Lawsuit aims to stop Trump administration from dissolving largest climate and weather research lab in the US

    Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:12:07 -0000

    The consortium of universities that leads the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is suing the Trump administration over the move to …

12. What disaster preparedness experts have packed in their go bags

    Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Climate change is making extreme weather events and natural hazards more frequent and intense. Here’s how to prepare before they hit. Hurricanes, floods, heat waves, and wildfires have become more frequent and severe as the planet warms. The world is seeing unprecedented destruction from this type …

13. Maps show forecast for extreme heat wave scorching the West

    Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:24:25 -0000

    A long-duration heat wave is taking shape over the western half of the U.S. and is forecast to stick around in the days ahead. A high-pressure system …

14. Big Oil has moved on from 'greenwashing.' Here's the new playbook.

    Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:30:00 -0000

    Over a few years, oil giants went from trumpeting climate pledges to saying fossil fuels are here to stay. Remember when the fossil fuel industry …

15. Indigenous-led renewable energy projects offer benefits that reach far beyond reducing carbon emissions

    Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:18:42 -0000

    The number of renewable energy projects that are fully or partly Indigenous-owned is growing quickly in Canada, and our new research suggests that …

16. Will war in the Middle East accelerate the clean energy transition?

    Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:28:28 -0000

    Despite Donald Trump’s relentless attacks on climate action, the “drill, baby, drill” president has given the green revolution a huge boost by …

17. Ice core reveals low CO2 during warm spell 3 million years ago

    Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:00:12 -0000

    Bubbles in a 3-million-year-old ice core have allowed researchers to measure gases in the atmosphere during the late Pliocene for the first time. This …

18. US Home Insurance Costs Are Rising Faster Than Inflation

    Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:13:28 -0000

    Inflation worries, meet home insurance worries. Policy costs are on the rise across the US, with particularly extreme increases in hurricane- and …

19. The US-Israel war on Iran and how war and conflict are destroying the environment

    Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:07:09 -0000

    The world has poured a record US$ 2.7 trillion into military spending in 2024, with global spending rising every year for the past decade. From …

20. NASA wants your hail photos

    Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:57:00 -0000

    After grapefruit-sized hail hit Missouri, more images may help improve severe storm forecasting. Tuesday March 10th was a particularly punishing day of bad weather for the residents of Kansas City, Missouri. That evening, hailstones as large as grapefruits bombarded homes, businesses, and vehicles …

21. Uh-Oh—Global Warming Is Actually Speeding Up, Scientists Say

    Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:22:20 -0000

    In recent years, Earth's average temperature has been rising faster than scientists previously thought. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In humanity’s ambitious quest to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels, scientists have relied on an …

22. Washington’s Sewage Apocalypse

    Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:36:12 -0000

    This is not a metaphor. On January 19, a six-foot-wide sewer pipe broke beneath the land alongside the Potomac River, nine miles northwest of the Lincoln Memorial. A landslide of dirt and rocks dammed the flow, and the products of a million toilets, showers, sinks, and washing machines in the …

23. India Renewable Energy Boom Still Runs Into a Coal Reality

    Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:43:33 -0000

    India is building renewable power at a pace that deserves global attention. Solar in particular has surged, and that growth matters for the planet …

24. Scientists finally have something hopeful to tell us about monarch butterflies

    Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:29:49 -0000

    A first look at new research from the forests of central Mexico. For the past quarter century, the future of monarch butterflies has looked dire, with these iconic American insects flitting toward extinction. Now, however, there is at least a small reason for hope: New data from WWF Mexico, a large …

25. Meteorologist warns of 'otherworldly' temperatures spreading across US: 'Like nothing we've seen before'

    Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:00:00 -0000

    Several U.S. states across the West and Southwest are set to experience an unprecedented spring heat wave this week, with temperatures soaring to …

26. Africa Isn’t the World’s “Climate Solution”

    Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:05:40 -0000

    Africa is increasingly portrayed as a global leader on climate solutions. But this narrative presents climate justice as a technical financing …

27. Google rerouted hundreds of flights to cut climate-warming contrails

    Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:41:51 -0000

    A trial involving thousands of flights between the US and Europe has found that planes produce fewer contrails if they follow flight paths …

28. What do new nuclear reactors mean for waste?

    Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    New designs mean new strategies for managing spent fuel. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of …

29. Op-ed: The Persian Gulf Oil Crisis Is a Food Crisis

    Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:00:29 -0000

    American farmers are in trouble. Spring planting is here, and the inputs they need—urea, phosphate, the nitrogen for corn, wheat, and soy—are mostly …

30. Brazil's new climate plan prioritizes stopping all deforestation

    Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:51:55 -0000

    President Lula is pledging to reduce deforestation to zero by 2030 and is calling for a reduction of greenhouse gases by 67% compared with 2005 …