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1. Firewood Banks Aren’t Inspiring. They’re a Sign of Collapse.

   Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

   Rural communities are banding together to chop firewood so that people in need can heat their homes. This shouldn’t be necessary. Rural America knows …

2. MacKenzie Scott Announces $7 Billion of Giving This Year

   Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:00:07 -0000

   The philanthropist known for giving to historically Black colleges and nonprofits working on climate change offered the news by updating an October blog post. The philanthropist MacKenzie Scott announced on Tuesday that she had made donations in the past year totaling nearly $7.2 billion, vaulting …

3. Retracted: The Monsanto-Backed Paper That Told Us Roundup Was Safe

   Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:00:17 -0000

   A controversial scientific paper that claimed the weed killer glyphosate (brand name Roundup) "does not pose a health risk to humans" has been …

4. Uncommon Knowledge: Trump Hits Troubled Waters in Mexico Tariff Fight

   Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

   Santa Rosa, Texas, suffered an unfortunate landmark last year: its last sugar mill shut down after half a century, the victim of an ongoing and …

5. Experts stunned after discovering 'luxury effect' in neighborhoods: 'Humans control everything'

   Tue, 09 Dec 2025 04:00:00 -0000

   A surprising new finding is reshaping researchers' understanding of city life and exposing structural inequities of urban design.What's …

6. US oil industry doesn’t see profit in Trump’s ‘pro-petroleum’ moves

   Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:36:05 -0000

   As the Trump administration makes announcement after announcement about its efforts to promote the U.S. fossil fuel industry, the industry isn’t …

7. UN environment report 'hijacked' by US and others over fossil fuels, top scientist says

   Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:00:09 -0000

   A key UN report on the state of the global environment has been "hijacked" by the United States and other countries who were unwilling to go along with the scientific findings, the co-chair has told the BBC. The Global Environment Outlook, the result of six years' work, connects climate change, …

8. E.P.A. Erases Mention of Humans Causing Climate Change From Some Web Pages

   Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:50:54 -0000

   An E.P.A. site listing the causes of climate change no longer includes the main one: human activity. The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly removed the fact that human activity is driving climate change from a handful of pages on its website. The information was deleted from one webpage …

9. Swedish Court Acquits Climate Activists Who Smeared Paint on Monet Painting

   Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:26:14 -0000

   A Stockholm court on Monday acquitted six activists who smeared red paint on the display cade protecting a Claude Monet painting, ruling that they …

10. Compute Is the New Oil

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:00:00 -0000

    America and the Gulf must work together on artificial intelligence.

11. A Radical Climate Proposal Aims to Channel Seawater Into a Giant Egyptian Desert to Fight Sea Level Rise

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:09:39 -0000

    Flooding Egypt’s vast Qattara Depression with seawater could slightly lower global sea levels and reshape climate adaptation.

12. Tiny Robot Lost Under Antarctic Ice for 8 Months Comes Back With Rare Data

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:20:59 -0000

    “Against the enormity of such a wild region, this is an amazing story of the little float that could.” A tiny robot explorer traversed the vast, …

13. Rising temperatures could have a chilling impact on young children

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:41:06 -0000

    Young children really struggle in the heat. Their bodies are too small to cool down by sweating, like adults. And they're wholly reliant on grown-ups …

14. UN says world must jointly tackle issues of climate change, pollution, biodiversity and land loss

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:51:36 -0000

    “It is not about saving the planet….The question is, will there be a healthy, thriving human society on that planet? And the answer to that question …

15. US backs Bayer–Monsanto with glyphosate decision

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:14:00 -0000

    The US solicitor general, who represents the federal government before the US Supreme Court, has weighed in on the side of Bayer subsidiary Monsanto …

16. Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:00:00 -0000

    Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that …

17. What lies beneath Greenland could change what we know about rising seas

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:42:20 -0000

    A new study led by researchers at the University of Ottawa provides a series of highly detailed 3D models of the Earth's temperature beneath …

18. Earth's crust hides enough 'gold' hydrogen to power the world for tens of thousands of years, emerging research suggests

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:01:33 -0000

    Reservoirs of hydrogen gas that form naturally in Earth's crust could help humans decarbonize. The challenge now is finding these accumulations and …

19. Architects are embracing this ancient building technique to combat climate change—and soulless design

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:18:21 -0000

    Rammed earth buildings have been around for thousands of years. Now, they’re having a modern moment. In the English countryside, a new project has emerged from the landscape—quite literally. Rammed Earth House, a residential estate by London-based Tuckey Design Studio, combines renovated brick …

20. Water across the West at risk as Trump targets national monuments

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:00:00 -0000

    This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is republished here through a partnership with Climate Desk. The 31 national monuments …

21. Small plug-in solar panels gain traction as an affordable way to cut electricity bills

    Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:40:34 -0000

    For years, solar power at home was mostly limited to people who owned their rooftops and could afford the steep upfront costs. But now, a new …

22. Climate complacency is a worry, says UN environment head

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:00:06 -0000

    Trillions of dollars could be gained every year and millions of lives saved from protecting the climate and environment, according to the UN. DW …

23. Record-breaking heatwaves will persist for 1,000 years, study finds

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 19:07:00 -0000

    Reaching net zero carbon emissions will not bring quick relief from extreme heat. New research shows that once the world stops adding carbon dioxide, …

24. Three things that might trigger massive ice sheet collapse

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:21:49 -0000

    The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are highly vulnerable to global warming and scientists are being increasingly worried about the possibility of …

25. Archibald: Trump’s environmental triple whammy threatens lifeblood of Alabama

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:45:00 -0000

    This is an opinion column. I find myself thinking of water often. Of the glistening creek that ran beside the cabin my family visited for five …

26. Archaeologists finally know what wiped out Indonesia’s ‘hobbit’ humans

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 04:54:05 -0000

    Archaeologists have found compelling evidence that the early humans who inhabited the Indonesian island of Flores were wiped out by climate …

27. FIFA Peace Prize For Trump Draws Wide Criticism

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:54:30 -0000

    President Donald Trump received the first FIFA Peace Prize during the World Cup draw in Washington, a moment that quickly stirred global reactions. …

28. Ms. Global: 300 Schoolchildren Kidnapped in Nigeria, Italian Parliament Recognizes Femicide and More

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:58:38 -0000

    The U.S. ranks as the 19th most dangerous country for women, 11th in maternal mortality, 30th in closing the gender pay gap, 75th in women’s …

29. How China, not the U.S., became the main climate solution story in 2025

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:30:00 -0000

    EUREKA, Calif., and ZHANGBEI COUNTY, China– Twenty miles off the misty northern coast of California, off of Humboldt Bay, there's a plan to build offshore wind turbines to power more than two million American homes. The marine terminal that will assemble the turbines was supposed to be shovel-ready …

30. 9 Amazing Facts About Coral Reefs: The Ocean’s Vibrant Cities

    Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:15:00 -0000

    They look like underwater gardens, but coral reefs are far closer to bustling cities than quiet flower beds. Every crevice hides a drama: a shrimp …