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1. Hoover Dam Running Out Of Water

   Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:04:00 -0000

   The Hoover Dam is one of the largest in the world. Its turbines provide electricity to millions of Americans. Drought has lowered the Colorado River …

2. Judge orders Trump administration to restore national park signage on climate change, slavery

   Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:57:46 -0000

   A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore signs related to topics such as climate change, slavery and Indigenous and LGBTQ+ history that were removed under an executive order to purge language at national parks that allegedly cast America in a negative light. The order has …

3. ‘This Is Absolutely Crazy’: Antarctic Temperatures Hit a Record High This Month

   Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:30:52 -0000

   Climate scientists are sounding the alarm after a stubborn Antarctic heat wave shattered the region's winter heat record. It’s the dead of winter in …

4. Heat-Proof Flowering Shrubs For Hotter Summers – 6 Of The Best That Will Flourish in Drought and Heat Without Fuss

   Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:00:00 -0000

   Vibrant heat-proof flowering shrubs are the backbone of any summer garden design even in the hottest climate. The trick to successful planting is …

5. New Method Turns Ocean Water into Drinking Water, without Waste

   Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:54:21 -0000

   The energy-efficient desalination system produces fresh water without chemical additives and transforms leftover salts into useful materials. Big …

6. 'Super El Niño' will have an alarming financial impact, experts fear

   Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:02:34 -0000

   El Niño, a natural warming of Pacific Ocean water, can have a big impact on the world economy, costing trillions of dollars around the globe. The start of the El Niño climate pattern has officially been declared by federal forecasters, and signs are that it could be a "very strong" and very costly …

7. Trump is taking aim at forest and wildfire research just as the West is poised to burn

   Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:01:00 -0000

   SEATTLE — Few public universities get more federal research funding than the University of Washington. So, as President Trump has already canceled or suspended about a quarter of all funding for the National Science Foundation and National Institutes for Health, the atmosphere on this leafy Seattle …

8. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Wants Us to Think He’s Building a God

   Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:58:34 -0000

   He acts like he has special knowledge about how best to regulate his company. But he’s a CEO like any CEO, and he wants what all CEOs want: to write …

9. America just committed $1.2 trillion to fix its infrastructure. We’re still flying blind

   Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:30:00 -0000

   The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act authorized $1.2 trillion in total spending. It is the largest infrastructure commitment in modern U.S. …

10. The UN needs an extreme makeover

    Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:00:00 -0000

    Rarely has an institution founded on such noble ideals plunged to such lows. The United Nations, headquartered by Manhattan’s East River, was …

11. Judge orders Trump administration to restore National Park changes

    Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:07:18 -0000

    The order comes in response to a lawsuit over National Park Service policies that forced staff to remove or censor exhibits about slavery and climate …

12. Trump Concedes a Battle in His War Against Wind Energy

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:54:59 -0000

    The administration filed to dismiss an appeal of a December ruling that overturned its wind permitting freeze. Trump’s Department of Justice is giving …

13. I spent 8 years flood-proofing a city. Capital markets are running out of time to take El Niño seriously

    Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:15:00 -0000

    Federal forecasters put the odds of a strong El Niño this winter at roughly two in three, and the odds of one matching or exceeding the record 2015 …

14. Trump Just Gutted A Major Line of Oceanic Defense

    Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:45:21 -0000

    Just in time for hurricane season, the Trump administration is defunding its global ocean-monitoring system. Buxton, North Carolina IF YOU’VE WATCHED …

15. Judge blocks Trump national parks order, calling it ‘censorship’

    Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:55:04 -0000

    Federal judge gives the Trump administration three weeks to restore materials that were altered as part of an executive order aimed at scrubbing sites of “partisan ideology.” A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from continuing to remove information about slavery, civil rights, …

16. ‘A huge anomaly’: Antarctica records winter temperatures 20C warmer than normal

    Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:00:27 -0000

    The new heat record comes amid a prolonged heatwave that has seen maximum daily temperatures above zero degrees for three consecutive weeks. The …

17. 8 captivating photos of Delaware Bay’s annual horseshoe crab spawn

    Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0000

    The ancient relationship between the ancient arthropods and shorebirds drives a 9,000-mile journey. Few creatures wear the mantle of deep time as visibly as Limulus polyphemus, better known as the Atlantic horseshoe crab. To walk through the gravelly shores of the Delaware Bay or the back-bay …

18. Call for legislated renewable energy target as community batteries announced for Perth, Bunbury

    Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:55:40 -0000

    A climate advocate has called for a legislated target for renewable energy uptake as construction begins on 18 community batteries in Perth and …

19. ‘This is not normal’: Trump leans on MAGA organizer to revive coal

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:55:58 -0000

    A man the Trump administration picked to be a key player at the fore of a U.S. coal renaissance is likely more familiar to QAnon circles than energy ones. TerraSpark’s project carries big promises. The proposed 1.6 gigawatt facility — touted by the Trump administration last week — would be the first …

20. El Niño has been officially declared but what does it mean for UK weather?

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:01:23 -0000

    El Niño has been formally declared by the US weather agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and it's forecast to be …

21. The mystery of how China is keeping down the world’s oil prices

    Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Your gas could be a lot more expensive right now. Thank Xi Jinping. Gas prices are high right now — an average of roughly a dollar more than they were last year for Americans. But considering that we’re not more than 100 days into the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which the International Energy …

22. The Climate Change Culprits Not Addressed by Global Policy

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:58:18 -0000

    A new paper suggests that 15 percent of global warming comes from overlooked pollutants.Record-high global temperatures aren’t driven only by …

23. Trump’s EPA Unlawfully Cancelled Environmental Justice Grants, Judge Rules

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:42:33 -0000

    The decision voided the EPA guidance to terminate the $2.8 billion grant program. But it stopped short of requiring the agency to resume …

24. UK Power Prices Turn Negative as Renewables Set to Flood Grid

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:39:07 -0000

    UK power prices turned negative for the first time since late April as strong wind and solar generation are set to flood the grid. Power prices for …

25. The “clean energy” mine that could put one of America’s most pristine wilderness areas at risk

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:15:00 -0000

    The climate transition needs more mining. But does it need this mine? There’s no such thing as a truly pristine landscape — humans have, over millennia, shaped every environment on Earth — but the Boundary Waters wilderness of northeastern Minnesota comes pretty darn close. Stretching across more …

26. A SpaceX Engineer Is Looking to the Ocean Floor to Power Our Future

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:48:42 -0000

    What if the answer to the world’s growing energy crisis had been hiding beneath the waves all along? One former rocket engineer believes it has, and …

27. The Boreal Forest in Northern Canada Is Migrating Northward at a Rate That Has No Parallel in Any Climate Record

    Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:15:00 -0000

    If you picture the Canadian North, you probably see an endless carpet of dark green spruce and pine stretching to the horizon. It feels timeless, …

28. Patagonia is suing Pattie Gonia, a drag queen performer with an environmental message

    Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:01:50 -0000

    DENVER (AP) — Days before the beginning of Pride Month in June, a glamorous drag queen with long, wavy red hair, a matching mustache and carabiner earrings stared into a camera and levied a strong accusation against a famous sustainable outdoors apparel brand: “This is a corporation trying to erase …

29. Scientists could dim the Sun as a quick fix for the climate crisis. Here's why it could cause global chaos

    Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:26:00 -0000

    We now have the ability to dim the Sun to change the climate, but should we? In Danny Boyle’s 2007 film Sunshine, a desperate crew flies towards our …

30. The El Niño Situation Is Looking Absolutely Brutal

    Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:00:00 -0000

    It is upon us. Last week, the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization issued a confident prediction that El Niño will form at some point …