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Nine of our best climate stories from 2025
At Climate Home News, we found this year a pretty depressing one to cover, shaped as it was by Donald Trump’s attacks on climate science...
Impacts of global warming on subnational poverty and inequality
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02516-6In addition to affecting general economic indicators, climate change could worsen poverty and inequality across and within...
Modelling the impacts of policy sequencing on energy decarbonization
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02497-6Green subsidies (carrots) are now becoming a more politically acceptable climate policy option compared with corrective regulations...
Green industrial policy is not enough for net-zero decarbonization
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02514-8Both green industrial policy (‘carrots’) and carbon pricing (‘sticks’) are seen as important instruments for decarbonization, but...
Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward
This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industryThe Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin...
Could Rescinding The Roadless Rule Make It Harder To Delist Yellowstone Grizzlies?
The rule banning new roads in some forests protects prime bear habitat and was part of the Fish and Wildlife Service’s justification for its failed...
As the Whitmer Administration Enters Its Final Year, Environmental Advocates Lament Wasted Opportunities
Climate legislation requiring Michigan to get all its electricity from renewable sources became Gretchen Whitmer’s signature environmental bill. But now, tax incentives the governor granted...
Will New Jersey’s Environmental Regulators Approve Transco’s NESE Pipeline After Rejecting it Twice?
Both New Jersey and New York rejected the pipeline in 2019 and 2020. But the regulatory climate is different during the second Trump administration, which...
What changed for deep-sea mining in 2025? Everything.
For more than a decade, The Metals Company has poured millions of dollars into researching and developing technology for mining seafloors at extreme depths, funding...
The Pentagon is hoarding critical minerals that could power the clean energy transition
Pete Hegseth, who has taken to calling himself the Secretary of War, says the Defense Department “does not do climate change crap.” Just last week,...
Georgia’s hunters take aim at rural hunger
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WABE, Atlanta’s NPR station. On the outskirts of Savannah, Georgia, a line of large...
Direct South Pacific Water Intrusion Into the Indonesian Seas
Abstract Mooring observations in the Halmahera Sea during September 2018 through October 2020 show a mean transport of 0.37–0.76 Sv through the Gebe Strait into...
Reversal Trends in Shallow‐Soil Temperature Over the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau During 1950–2014
Abstract Soil temperature changes over the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau (QTP) exert considerable influence on regional climate. Here, we identify a distinct reversal from cooling during 1950–1983...
Inhibition of Arctic Soil Dissolved Organic Carbon Export by the Retention Capacity of Thawing Permafrost
Abstract Permafrost thawing is mobilizing dissolved organic carbon (DOC) stored in Arctic frozen soils into rivers, but vertical transport mechanisms within soil columns remain unclear,...
La Niña Obscures the North Atlantic Response to Sudden Stratospheric Warmings in C3S Seasonal Forecasts
Abstract Sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) can alter the North Atlantic circulation on subseasonal‐to‐seasonal timescales, typically leading to an equatorward shift of the eddy‐driven jet. However,...
Constraining African Fire CO2 Emissions During 2015–2016 Using Satellite XCO2 Retrievals
Abstract Fire CO2 emissions are a critical component of the global carbon cycle, yet their estimates remain highly uncertain. This study introduces a satellite‐constrained inversion...
Rapid Reversal of Hemispheric Asymmetry in the Intensity of EIA Crests During the Geomagnetic Storm of 23 April 2023: A Unique Observation From GOLD
Abstract This study, using the peak electron density of Ionospheric F‐region from the Global‐scale Observations of the Limb and Disk reports, for the first time,...
A Late Pleistocene‐Holocene Record of Tropical Monsoon Climate from Groundwater Noble Gases and Isotopes in the Leizhou Peninsula, Southern China
Abstract Groundwater from the Leizhou Peninsula in tropical South China provides one of the first noble‐gas based paleoclimate reconstructions from the East Asian monsoon region....
Global warming could trigger the next ice age
Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice age. As the planet warms,...
Ford is retreating from EVs — but embracing grid batteries
Ford, a century after it launched the modern automotive era, has given up on its early ambitions to charge into the electrified future. The company announced that...
The plants that thrive in salt: could halophytes help save coastal farming?
As rising seas salinise the soils of the Venice lagoon, scientists and chefs are turning to long-forgotten wild herbsOn the scrubby banks of the rural...
The ‘Toxic Cocktail’ Brewing in Pennsylvania’s Waterways
Pennsylvania is still cleaning up decades’ worth of coal mining pollution. Now it must also contend with millions of tons of fracking waste, some of...
Countries Want Debt Relief for Conservation. Is China Ready to Play a Role?
“Debt-for-nature” swaps are helping some lower-income countries increase conservation. The world’s largest nation-state creditor has the leverage for deals—if it chooses to use it.By Katie...
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