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Back to SearchWeakening Disaster Prep, Climate-Resilient Coffee, Clearing Air in Cancer Alley, and more.
Weather forecasting, climate research and climate resilience are being hit with major budget and staffing cuts by the Trump administration, impacting emergency preparedness for floods such as the one…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Congress Busts Carbon Budget, Climate Disruption Worsens Flood Risks, and America’s Rural Sanitation Crisis.
As the climate crisis brings ever more devastating floods, storms, heat waves and fires, the Republican-led Congress and President Trump have slashed around half a trillion dollars in clean energy ta…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Trump Faces Youth Climate Lawsuit, Tempered Hope for COP30, EPA Employees Speak Out and more
19-year-old Eva Lighthiser has experienced climate anxiety for most of her life, as her home state of Montana faces worsening floods, wildfires, and extreme heat. Now she and 20 other young people ar…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
EPA Ignores Climate Dangers, From Plastic Trash to Art, and Just Earth: How a Fairer World Will Save the Planet.
This June the US Environmental Protection Agency proposed eliminating regulations that limit climate changing gases from power plants, about a quarter of US emissions. Harvard Law Professor Richard L…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Juneteenth and Striving for Ecological Justice
Just as the enslavement of people was driven by commercial interests, today the enslavement of nature for profit violates a morality that sees value in all living things, according to the Rev. Mariam…
Published on 3 months ago
US Disrupts African Food Tech; Pumping the Earth Dry; Saving a Sacred Mountain in Mongolia and more.
One of the development initiatives affected by the Trump Administration’s shutdown of USAID is the Soybean Innovation Lab, which works to improve soybean yields and production in Africa to help boost…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Hurricane Forecasting in 2025, Saving Corals Amid Record Bleaching, Protecting Farmworkers from Wildfire Smoke and more.
The 2025 hurricane season is underway, and the U.S. is likely to see higher than average activity. The past couple of years, extremely warm water in the Gulf of Mexico helped storms rapidly intensify…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
CA Clean Air Tool Revoked, Cuts to Clean Energy Tax Credits, Turbulence and Climate Change and More.
California’s car culture, trucking industry, and weather contribute to chronically bad air that it’s been gradually improving with its own laws and regulations and the blessing of the EPA. But now un…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Public Lands Reprieve, Trump Ignores Social Cost of Carbon, Seagrass “Gardening” and more.
Last-minute changes in the House budget reconciliation bill included scrapping one of the more controversial amendments that would have sold off public lands in the southwest to private developers. B…
Published on 4 months ago
Pope Leo and Creation Care, Autism and Chemicals, Oystercatchers Bounce Back and more.
The new Pope, Leo XIV, has worked with interfaith environmental networks and there’s hope around the world that he may follow in the footsteps of his predecessor Pope Francis and bring issues of the …
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago