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A Growing Movement Looks to Decarbonize Death
Alternative end-of-life practices like water cremation and human composting produce fewer emissions and return nutrients to the Earth, but access remains limited.By Emily PayneWhen Stephanie...
Reversing Years of Dietary Advice, the Trump Administration Tells Consumers to Eat More Red Meat
The latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans, like previous editions, ignores the climate impacts of livestock and could make them worse, environmental groups worry.By Georgina GustinThe...
How Chevron played the long game in Venezuela
On Saturday, hours after U.S. forces in Caracas killed at least 80 people and kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump sounded less like a...
The Miccosukee Tribe blocked Alligator Alcatraz. Then Trump blocked a bill to return their land.
On Thursday, Republicans in the House failed to override President Donald Trump’s first two vetoes in office: a pipeline project that would bring safe drinking...
‘Profound impacts’: record ocean heat is intensifying climate disasters, data shows
Oceans absorb 90% of global heating, making them a stark indicator of the relentless march of the climate crisisThe world’s oceans absorbed colossal amounts of...
Israel’s fossil gas power play pushes climate action to the sidelines
When Israel’s prime minister approved a $35-billion deal to supply natural gas to Egypt last month, Energy Minister Eli Cohen said the benefits of increased...
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states and electro-states
Jennifer Morgan is a senior fellow with the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy and Climate Policy Lab at Tufts University and a former...
Why is Trump interested in Greenland? Look to the thawing Arctic ice | Gaby Hinsliff
Forecasts suggest that global heating could create a shortcut from Asia to North America, and new routes for trading, shipping – and attackAnother week, another...
Quantifying Suspended Sediment Dynamics Under Energetic Nonlinear Internal Waves of Depression
Abstract While nonlinear internal wave (NLIW) trains are known to influence near‐sea bed suspended sediment dynamics, the mechanisms remain a topic of debate. We present...
What Top Climate Scientists Think of Trump’s Treaty Withdrawals
Though the abandonment of international agreements is “a damn shame,” they say science will prevail.By Lee HedgepethDaniele Visioni sometimes worries he may be labelled an...
As climate crisis threatened her home, Alolita was offered a chance at a new life in Australia
Alolita Tekapu and her family among the first arrivals under a world-first agreement that allows people from Tuvalu to move to Australia On a suburban...
The Trump administration says some approved childhood vaccines need better studies. Scientists disagree
Rationale for dropping some vaccine recommendations faces skepticism
As a climate scientist, I know heatwaves in Australia will only get worse. We need to start preparing now | Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
During black summer, my daughters were too young to know what was happening. Now, amid another Australian heatwave, they deserve answersWhen the forecasts for this...
Outcry Builds Over Trump’s Withdrawal From International, Climate Treaties
Environmental advocates have blasted the administration’s unprecedented retreat as unwise—and possibly illegal.By Marianne LavelleIt landed as one fell swoop after a year of relentless cuts...
How some people get drunk from their own gut bacteria
Largest study so far of people with the rare “autobrewery syndrome” points to more culprit microbes
IPCC Statement on the US announcement to withdraw from participation in IPCC
GENEVA, Jan 8 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has taken note of the US government’s announcement about its withdrawal from more than...
Trump just took his most dramatic step yet against global climate action
President Trump’s withdrawal of the U.S. from the global fight against climate change has gone further than almost anyone expected. During the first year of...
Successes in climate action
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 08 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02546-0Climate action clearly needs greater ambition in the face of increasing physical, biological and social impacts. However,...
Irreversibility in climate action
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 08 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02526-4Although climate action is undermined by political interests and institutional inertia, multiple safeguards are in place to...
AI-driven weather forecasts for climate adaptation in India
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 08 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02521-9Advanced monsoon onset prediction with multi-week lead time via an artificial intelligence (AI) weather model helps smallholder...
Saudi Arabia issues last-minute climate plan with unclear emissions-cutting goal
On the last day of 2025, the Saudi Arabian government submitted an updated climate plan to the United Nations which contains a new but ambiguous...
How California Can Seize Momentum to Advance Carbon Dioxide Removal
As the U.S. federal government continues to roll back crucial environment and climate legislation, California’s climate leadership is more important than ever — including its...
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