New coal mine openings slow as East Asian demand plateaus
The world saw the lowest amount of new coal mine capacity brought online for at least 10 years in 2025, according to a new report,...
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The Data Center Industry's PR Blitz Is Backfiring
Front group lauds purported benefits of data centers without disclosing its backer.By Lisa SorgHENDERSON, N.C.—On a recent summer evening Mitzi Parrott, who lives in Vance...
Florida Makes It Harder for Residents Living on Radioactive Soil From Former Phosphate Mines to Sue
A new law gives companies a simple way to raise the bar for lawsuits. A phosphate mining company lobbied for it.By Lisa Spear’What happens when...
Microplastics Found in Mexican Howler Monkeys Living in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve
Households near the reserve burn plastic waste, releasing pollutants that travel by air and settle on the leaves the monkeys eat.By Andrés MuedanoFor thousands of...
The EPA's data on cancer risk from air pollution has gone dark
Darya Minovi was mapping pollution from medical sterilization plants across the country when many of the communities she was speaking to began asking the same...
Congress may kill the federal heat rule before OSHA can
July was the hottest month on record in the United States, with three heat domes — slow-moving, high-pressure systems that trap heat and humidity in...
Three firefighters and a child hospitalised in England as fires blaze in UK, Greece, France and Croatia – Europe live
Four people taken to hospital in Stourbridge, West Midlands with 500 people evacuated in southwest FranceFour taken to hospital and homes damaged in West Midlands...
Weather forecasts once gave Britons something safe to chat about. Not any more | Andy Beckett
Our once-mild climate is increasingly extreme – and how we talk about it is now another front in the culture warsIn this fragmented but supposedly...
Una investigación de <em>Science</em> arroja dudas sobre genes prometedores para prevenir la enfermedad de Alzheimer
Mutaciones encontradas en familias colombianas dieron esperanza para el desarrollo de tratamientos. Datos alterados e imágenes sospechosas ponen en cuestión los beneficios
<em>Science</em> investigation casts doubt on genes hailed for warding off Alzheimer's disease
Mutations found in Colombian families raised hopes for treatments. Altered patient data and suspect images call their benefits into question
A new explanation of why the universe's supply of nuclear matter is fixed?
Experiments point to an alternative origin of a particle accounting tool called the baryon number
'We feared we'd all be drowned': the Indian floods that killed more than 100 and left thousands homeless
More than 2,600 villages have been flooded in Assam this year, in a climate disaster made worse by uncontrolled deforestation and mining in the regionIt...
Builders, bakers and cheeseburger-makers: the UK workers struggling in extreme heat
From chefs to paramedics, workers tell the Guardian how they are coping and unions outline the changes needed in the workplaceIn the sweltering kitchen of...
A Sunflower's View of Totality
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Maryland Breaks Heat-Related Death Record With Weeks of Summer to Go
Prolonged heatwaves are turning summers into deadly heat traps, with the very young and the elderly hit the hardest.By Aman AzharProlonged heatwaves pushed death tolls...
New Research Finds Building Homes Near Jobs and Transit Could Save Millions in Public Dollars
February 5, 2026 – The United States is facing a housing crisis. Many policymakers are seeking solutions.New research by The Pew Charitable Trusts, led by...
Montana's Sand Creek Fire Burns Through Into Beloved Ski Area
The 27,736-acre Sand Creek Fire has burned through parts of Maverick Mountain Ski Area, forced evacuations and threatened Elkhorn Hot Springs, though major buildings at...
Failure to track a stable AMOC state under rapid climate change
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 13 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02730-wClimate change is expected to alter oceanic circulation, with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) at risk...
Fossils show huge carbon emissions harm forests, not 'green the planet'
Study of 56m-year-old leaves counters claims from Trump administration members of ‘benefits’ of fossil fuel pollutionAdding huge quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is...
Columbia Climate School Welcomes Environmental Social Scientist Garrett Albistegui Adler
Albistegui Adler is an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist whose research examines the political and social impacts of climate change and climate variability.
UK records hottest day of the year as fifth summer heatwave reaches peak
Kew Gardens in London hits 38.1C and 40C-plus expected in parts of Europe with continent trapped under heat domeEurope heatwave – latest updatesThe UK has...
Will the world's drying lands get relief from COP17 in Mongolia?
Starting on Monday, about 10,000 government negotiators, scientists, journalists and campaigners will gather at a purpose-built venue in a national park in Mongolia’s capital Ulaanbaatar...
When Knowledge Travels: Translating Climate Awareness Into Action
A global partnership between the Columbia Climate School and UNICEF leaders is building climate knowledge and capacity to protect more than a billion children worldwide....
So Much Solar: Digging Into the List of Every US Power Plant That Went Online This Year
Utility-scale solar leads by a mile, followed by batteries. Fossil fuels, not so much.By Dan GearinoIt’s been a wild first half of the year in...
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