15 January news
Loretta Lohman
AP
Climate change is fueling a desalination boom. Can new technology make it sustainable?
Canary Media
Want to plug more EVs into the grid? Don’t charge them all at once.
Why is Duke Energy retreating from a major pumped hydro expansion?
Carbon Brief
Prof Ben Santer: Trump administration is ‘embracing ignorance’ on climate science
State of the climate: 2025 in top-three hottest years on record as ocean heat surges
NASA acknowledges record heat but avoids referencing climate change
UK: New offshore wind farm projects may miss 2030 clean-power target
China’s vehicle sales, exports set to cool in 2026
BP takes $4bn-5bn hit on green energy business
A novel sanctuary in Antarctica is preserving ice samples from rapidly melting glaciers
Fires in Argentina’s Patagonia ravage more than 21,000 hectares and destroy homes
Will Great Britain’s offshore wind subsidy auction mean lower energy bills?
Crucial Years – Bill McKibben
Deseret News
Grist
This tech could keep EVs from stressing the grid — and save everyone money
High Country News
Congress passes environmental funding without Trump’s deep cuts
Inside Climate News
Ocean Damage Nearly Doubles the Cost of Climate Change
New York Offshore Wind Project Allowed to Restart Construction—for Now
Talking About Energy Dominance? Solar Would Like to Have a Word.
In Hurricane-Prone Florida, Legislators Reconsider New Growth and Development Law
The Intercept
Why Is Everyone Suddenly Talking About Putting Data Centers in Space
Los Angeles Times
Trump administration sues California over law keeping oil wells from homes, schools
The Earth keeps getting hotter, and Americans' trust in science is on a down trend
Nation Magazine
Want to Understand California’s Water Crisis? Look to the Pistachio.
Climate Hushers Need to Get Real political realism doesn’t outweigh scientific realism.
The US Needs India to Buy Coal. Who Pays the Cost?
Nature
Climate adaptation and resilience must account for context and culture
Accounting for ocean impacts nearly doubles the social cost of carbon
Phys.org
Learning about public consensus on climate change does little to boost people's support for action, study shows
Rethinking climate impacts through human well-being
The hidden risk of combined stressors for soils
Crowd sensing for the environment: Citizen science and plant apps map how urbanization alters city soils and climate
Construction emissions are higher than thought—but the solution isn't building less, new study finds
Earth system models overestimate river flow increases, research reveals
Disinfecting drinking water produces potentially toxic byproducts—new AI model is helping to identify them
Collapse of the Tang dynasty: Climate change likely played a role
Ocean impacts nearly double economic cost of climate change, study finds
Large parts of the tropics overlooked in environmental research, study says
Historic ocean treaty to safeguard and sustainably use the high seas to take effect on Jan. 17
Science Daily
Air Safety Already Had Gaps. Then the Shutdown Came.
A 3,000-year high: Alaska’s Arctic is entering a dangerous new fire era
Semafor
UK secures support for offshore wind in record auction
US clean energy investors see bull case for renewables
Energy dominance goes to Davos
Source New Mexico
Report says New Mexico faces ‘looming groundwater crisis’ from climate change, overuse
WRAL
Study: Climate change is shrinking U.S. incomes
Yale Climate Change Comunication
Who is most Worried about Heat and Air Pollution in India?
Noticias Ambientales
North Pacific storms, Alaska glaciers, and California drought: a direct link to climate change
The Guardian
Spain’s meteorologists subjected to ‘alarming’ rise in hate speech, minister warns
Greenland: new shipping routes, hidden minerals – and a frontline between the US and Russia?
Traces of cancer-linked pesticide found in tests at UK playgrounds
The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age
Pesticides may drastically shorten fish lifespans, study finds
Why big oil giants may not rush to buy into Donald Trump’s Venezuelan vision
Offshore windfarm contracts to fuel 12m homes in Great Britain after record auction ‘
Business Green
Climate change, nature loss, and inactivity could cut sports industry revenues 14 per cent by 2030
Climate Home News
Ahead of Davos, climate drops down global elite’s list of pressing concerns
Global News
Climate Science: How methane emissions are driving climate change
Down to Earth
No snow, no rain: Uttarakhand’s worst climate crisis unfolds
The Star
Climate Change Bill set to be tabled in Parliament in March
Asia Times
Greenland is about climate change, strategy and rare earths
The Sydney Morning Herald
Climate whiplash: We can no longer pretend this isn’t a crisis
Durban University of Technology
