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1. A Study Is Retracted, Renewing Concerns About the Weedkiller Roundup

   Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:58:43 -0000

   Problems with a 25-year-old landmark paper on the safety of Roundup’s active ingredient, glyphosate, have led to calls for the E.P.A. to reassess the widely used chemical. In 2000, a landmark study claimed to set the record straight on glyphosate, a contentious weedkiller used on hundreds of …

2. Scientists connect these six modifiable risk factors to almost half of all cancer deaths

   Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:29:32 -0000

   When I worked on the latest Global Burden of Disease cancer study, a global project that tracks cancer patterns and deaths across countries, I found …

3. 'New Year's Eve Massacre': Trump Administration Makes Deep Cuts at FEMA as Climate Crisis Accelerates | Common Dreams

   Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:36:22 -0000

   A former FEMA official said that the agency "can't do disaster response and recovery without" the employees being terminated by the Trump …

4. Home insurance costs are soaring. Here’s how to fight back

   Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:47:00 -0000

   As premiums rise sharply, financial planners say homeowners still have levers they can pull – but only if they treat insurance as an active financial …

5. Alaska Wolf Found With Record Amount of Mercury, a Sign of Growing Contamination

   Fri, 02 Jan 2026 06:00:00 -0000

   When Alaska’s wolves began eating sea otters, it looked like a story of adaptation. Then they started getting sick. In the summer of 2013, two …

6. South Africa’s Ramaphosa Names New Presidential Climate Commission

   Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:28:07 -0000

   South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed 25 people to serve as commissioners on the country’s climate body for the next five …

7. Updates: Survivors of Israel’s war on Gaza brace for harsh weather in tents

   Fri, 02 Jan 2026 07:45:48 -0000

   These were the developments in Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon on Friday, January 2, 2026.

8. University of Nebraska is eliminating a key climate research department

   Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:30:00 -0000

   As Nebraska's weather intensifies, farmers are losing a critical resource to understand it. This story is made possible through a partnership between …

9. Cut Chesapeake Bay Bridge project’s red tape

   Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:00:04 -0000

   Readers respond to Post articles and commentary. The Dec. 26 editorial “America is numb to this infrastructure problem” about the disgraceful delay until 2032 for construction to start for the replacement of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge was dead-on accurate. Instead of letting the state bureaucracy …

10. A Polar Vortex Shake-Up Is Coming: Stratospheric Warming Signals a Colder January

    Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:20:00 -0000

    A Fresh Disruption Takes Shape (Image Credits: Unsplash) High above the Arctic, a subtle shift in atmospheric patterns promises to deliver a sharper …

11. Research ties China's smog clean-up to hotter and drier conditions in Australia

    Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:59:08 -0000

    Just weeks before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Chinese authorities restricted half of all private cars from the city's roads, alternating daily bans …

12. Cuts at the U.S. Forest Service Putting Communities’ Health and Safety on the Line.

    Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:06:25 -0000

    Since January 2025, the Trump administration has systemically hollowed out the U.S. Forest Service—the federal agency on the front lines of wildfire …

13. Wildfire smoke is a national crisis, and it's worse than you think

    Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:45:00 -0000

    Greenhouse gas and particulate emissions from fires globally may be 70 percent higher than once believed. Wildfire smoke is an emerging nationwide …

14. It’s Raining Reptiles: Arctic Chill Greets Florida New Year With Frozen Iguanas

    Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:31:00 -0000

    Residents across the Sunshine State rang in 2026 bundled in parkas rather than flip-flops, as a potent Arctic front delivered historic lows and a …

15. Cheap Solar Is Changing Life in South Africa

    Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:22:50 -0000

    A few years ago, a Cape Town dentist would lose patients when the power cut out. No electricity meant no X rays and no treatment. Now he runs his …

16. Safest Global Climate Ever?

    Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:24:00 -0000

    Technology and prosperity enable defenses against harsh weather. You might never know it from standard media reporting of climate issues, but the world is enjoying a golden age of survival from extreme weather events. Roger Pielke Jr. writes at his always informative Substack site, The Honest Broker, …

17. Negative prices for electricity are getting more common in Europe and consumer costs have dipped—while Americans face rising energy bills

    Thu, 01 Jan 2026 08:57:57 -0000

    Electricity supply is increasingly outpacing demand in Europe as renewable energy capacity grows, making negative prices a more frequent …

18. Nearly every corn seed planted in Colorado is covered in insecticide. Lawmakers may restrict the chemical

    Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:12:39 -0000

    DENVER - Colorado farmers plant tens of millions of corn seeds every year, nearly every one of them covered in a thin layer of insecticide. The …

19. Why plastic bans aren't working and what needs to change

    Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:56:06 -0000

    Four years after Germany phased out light plastic bags, how has the EU addressed plastic waste — and why do single-use items still pile up in …

20. Beyond the Vintage: Why Some of the Most Compelling Wines Aren’t Tied to a Year

    Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:00:00 -0000

    As climate volatility reshapes vineyards worldwide, winemakers are increasingly blending across harvests — not to blur terroir, but to express it more fully. “What’s the vintage?” It’s common to inquire about the year that the grapes were harvested for a particular wine. It’s a reflection of the sun, …

21. Physicists Finally Solved One Of The Biggest Mysteries About Fusion Energy

    Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:25:29 -0000

    Nuclear fusion is deemed the next big thing in the field of energy harvesting for humanity, but creating a reactor that can achieve continuous …

22. Wind is now one of the world’s biggest electricity sources. So why are we switching turbines off?

    Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:49:55 -0000

    Wind power has surged across Europe, sparking concern that billions are being wasted due to "insufficient" grid investment. Last year was a huge …

23. EU’s controversial carbon border tax takes hold

    Fri, 02 Jan 2026 10:55:23 -0000

    The EU began implementing its carbon border tax, a landmark climate policy that has drawn the ire of trading partners. The Carbon Border Adjustment …

24. This Species of Pine Tree is Working to Save Itself From Blister Rust

    Fri, 02 Jan 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In 2008, forest pathologist Michael Murray climbed the Kootenay Mountains. He was searching the treeline for a particular pine, its needles growing …

25. Taiwan hits fine particle goal, turns focus to ozone and ultrafine pollution

    Fri, 02 Jan 2026 04:07:00 -0000

    Officials warn climate change is complicating ozone control as government moves to regulate VOCs and launch PM0.1 monitoring. Taiwan said it met its …

26. Boston shivers through second-coldest December in 25 years

    Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:36:11 -0000

    Boston shivered through its second-coldest December in 25 years, with an average high temperature below freezing — and the arctic air could keep …

27. Hawaii's 'climate' cash grab hits wall as court blocks hefty new tourist tax

    Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:46:58 -0000

    Hawaii’s "Green Fee" bill was set to raise tourist taxes quite substantially to help fund "climate change" mitigation this year — but now a judge has halted the provision. The Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), along with a cruise ship supplier, filed a lawsuit in early September …

28. This Beetle Is in a Toxic Relationship With a Tree. Luckily, They Know a Fungi

    Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:05:06 -0000

    Three's a crowd: Tree, beetle, and fungus don't get along, but they're surviving together. Nature gives rise to fascinating adaptations, which can …

29. Think You're Cold? Alaska's Minus 50s Would Like A Word

    Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:50:38 -0000

    Do you think that Alaska is cold during winter? Think again, it's beyond cold there. How about having consecutive days of temperatures colder than 40 degrees below zero! This is true for much of the Alaskan interior, particularly near Fairbanks and in between the Alaska and Brooks mountain …

30. GOP lawmakers’ power transfers are reshaping North Carolina

    Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:00:09 -0000

    North Carolina voters have chosen Democrats in three straight elections for governor; the state’s Republican-led legislature has countered by siphoning off some of the powers that traditionally came with the job. These power grabs have had a profound effect on both democracy in the state and on the …