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Peak glacier extinction in the mid-twenty-first century
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 15 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02513-9Many mountain glaciers will disappear with warming. Here the authors assess how many glaciers will disappear per...
Morrisons becomes first UK supermarket to delay net zero targets
Britain’s fifth-biggest grocers postpones goal by 15 years, to 2050, saying new ambitions cover whole supply chainMorrisons has become the first UK supermarket chain to...
Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2025
Greenland is closing in on three decades of continuous annual ice loss, with 1995-96 being the last year in which the giant ice sheet grew...
Glaciers to reach peak rate of extinction in the Alps in eight years
Climate crisis forecast to wipe out thousands of glaciers a year globally, threatening water supplies and cultural heritageEurope live – latest updatesGlaciers in the European...
How Green Jobs in Dire Dawa Benefit Women and the Environment
An ambitious reforestation program in Dire Dawa’s watershed is helping to restore hundreds of hectares of farmland and reduce flood risk, while providing 7,000 new...
Guest post: Why cities need more than just air conditioning for extreme heat
Cities around the world are facing more frequent and intense bouts of extreme heat, leading to an increasing focus on the use of air conditioning...
Virginia Regulators Weigh Expanded Use of Data Center’s Polluting Generators
The state’s Department of Environmental Quality would expand permissible uses during emergencies to include “planned outages” by grid operators, presumably for power line upgrades. Environmentalists...
One Big, Shining Beacon for Climate Hope
“Here Comes the Sun” author and activist Bill McKibben on his newfound optimism, harnessing energy from heaven vs. energy from hell and how there are...
What your cheap clothes cost the planet
The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the most beautiful and forbidding places on Earth, so dry that it’s sometimes used by scientists to...
How the planet fared in 2025 — the good, the bad, and the ugly
If we’re being honest, 2025 did not start out great. For basically the whole month of January, a series of wildfires raged across Los Angeles,...
Under Trump, the National Renewable Energy Lab is losing ‘renewable’ from its name
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado is getting a name change. The groundbreaking research institute will no longer have the word “renewable” in its...
The ocean, our planet’s forgotten hero, deserves a formal place in UN climate talks
Tiago Pitta e Cunha is chief executive of the Oceano Azul Foundation. The recent COP30 in Belém, Brazil, brought nations together to confront the escalating...
Tabletop tomatoes and drought-resistant roses tipped as 2026’s top garden trends
RHS predicts big shift in gardening habits as green-fingered Britons adapt to climate breakdownBouquets of cut flowers will be swapped for tabletop vegetable plants next...
Farmers’ willingness to pay for weather and climate information services in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review with meta-analysis
Access to Weather and Climate Information Services (WCIS) is critical for strengthening farmers’ resilience to climate risks. Yet, understanding farmers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for...
Enhancing public health through ocean research—a model for global partnership
Understanding the connection between ocean health and human health is currently limited and fragmented, calling for transdisciplinary research and strategic action. The contribution of public...
Anti-racist reorientations to land through gardening with newcomer youth of color
Our paper seeks to dis/orient normative scholarship on climate migration and climate refugees that reify misleading claims about the relationship between mass migration and climate...
The EPA was considering a massive lead cleanup in Omaha. Then Trump shifted guidance.
The county health worker scanned the Omaha home with an X-ray gun, searching for the poison. It was 2022, and doctors had recently found high...
Wyoming Ranchers Hoping Solar Can Lower Costs Say Utilities and the State Stand in Their Way
Lower electricity bills could help two Cokeville cattlemen compete and pass their businesses on to their kids, they say, but lawmakers won’t let ranch-scale solar...
How a Nation Famous for Conservation Is Fueling Its Own Destruction
Costa Rica’s fuel subsidies are funding widespread poaching and overfishing in supposedly protected waters.By Johnny SturgeonIn April 2022, a blue and white fishing boat sliced...
Where Does 110 Billion Pounds of Manure Go?
Go behind the scenes with managing editor Jamie Smith Hopkins and reporter Anika Jane Beamer as they explain why no one knows what happens to...
Carbon capture was spruiked as a way of limiting our emissions – but has Australia been greenwashed?
Despite billions in investment and backing from the federal government, carbon capture and storage technology ‘should be in no way treated as a climate solution’,...
Top Interior Department official has ties to Thacker Pass lithium mine
Karen Budd-Falen, a top official at the Department of Interior, has financial ties to the controversial Thacker Pass lithium mine in northern Nevada — a...
Hundreds of Sea Turtles Are Freezing in Cape Cod
After being lured to the Gulf of Maine’s warming waters to feed, young sea turtles are trapped and cold-stunned as temperatures drop. A major rescue...
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