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Ars Technica

In Myanmar, illicit rare-earth mining is taking a heavy toll

Aspen Times

Climate change puts iconic rocky mountain species at risk of vanishing, Colorado researchers warn

Canary Media

Climate expect warns of energy catastrophe

Can the war on coal still be won?

Hundreds of low-income Illinois families are going electric — for free

Carbon Brief

Guest post: Why carbon emissions from fires are significantly higher than thought

Revealed: Leak casts doubt on COP30’s ‘informal list’ of fossil-fuel roadmap opponents

DeBriefed: COP30’s ‘frustrating’ end; Asia floods; UK ‘emergency’ climate event

More than 900 dead in Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka floods

Germany to urge EU to soften 2035 ban on sale of new petrol and diesel cars

Canada PM under fire for alleged climate U-turn

Australia: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle

Water shortages could derail UK’s net-zero plans, study finds

Communities must be at the heart of Scotland’s renewable future

Common Dreams

Flooding Kills 1,000+ Across South Asia as Climate Crisis Fuels More Extreme Rain

Conversation

When the world’s largest battery power plant caught fire, toxic metals rained down – wetlands captured the fallout

Iran’s president calls for moving its drought-stricken capital amid a worsening water crisis – how Tehran got into water bankruptcy

Denver Post

Trump administration renames Colorado’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory The decades-old energy research hub is now called the National Laboratory of the Rockies,  Department of Energy officials said in a news release.

Earth.org

‘Global Accountability System’: Climate Litigation Is Forcing Governments to Act on Climate, Says Report

Environental News Network

Sunlight-Powered Breakthrough Turns Methane into Valuable Ethylene

Australians are Drinking Plastic Particles in Their Tea, UQ Research Finds

Where do Microplastics Go Once They Sink into the Ocean?

New Data Reveals How Australia’s Threatened Reptiles and Frogs are Disappearing – and What We Have to do

3-D Printing Researchers Develop Fast-Curing, Environmentally Friendly Concrete Substitute

The July 4 Floods in Texas Weren’t a One-Off. They Were a Warning

McGill Researchers Develop Stretchable, Biodegradable Battery Using Eco-Friendly Acids

Scientists Develop Plastics That Can Break Down, Tackling Pollution

Ancient Rocks Reveal Themselves as ‘Carbon Sponges’

EOS

How Can We Tell If Climate-Smart Agriculture Stores Carbon?

Grist

A drying Great Salt Lake is spewing toxic dust. It could cost Utah billions.

Hurricane season is over. Here’s why the US never got hit.

Heatmap News

Climate Change Is Already Costing U.S. Households Up to $900 Per Year

Inside Climate News

A Massive, Chinese-Backed Port in Peru Could Push the Amazon Rainforest Over the Edge

When a Road Goes Wrong

ICE Raids in Chicago Spotlight the Link Between Immigrant Rights and Environmental Justice

Peeling Back the Curtain on Big Plastic’s False Solutions 

Live Science

Once-in-a-century floods set to become annual events in northeastern US in the next 75 years, study finds

New York Times

Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War

Phys.org

Death and devastation: Why a rare equatorial cyclone and other storms have hit southern Asia so hard The mystery of the missing deep ocean carbon fixers

Survey: Hurricane season ends, but weather woes push Floridians to move

Flood size and frequency found to shape river migration worldwide

Coral reefs have stabilized Earth's carbon cycle for the past 250 million years, research reveals

Investigation shows large support for core ideas of degrowth—but not the label

Wetlands trap toxic metals after battery plant fire scatters debris

How clean is the air we breathe?

A tale of two ponds sheds light on high emissions

The inequalities of laundry: Research reveals overlooked source of microplastic pollution

Expansion of Antarctic bottom water contributed to end of last Ice Age, study finds

Are UN climate summits a waste of time? No, but they are in dire need of reform

Experts work on UN climate report amid US pushback

Sierra Club

Colorado Springs Utilities Won’t Quit Coal. Ratepayers and Our Planet Will Pay for It.

Weekly Anthropocene

Anthropocene Australia is making a lot of smart choices

CBC

Canada committed to 2030 climate target, says environment minister

Business in Vancouver

Slowdown in global standards puts spotlight on B.C.’s low-carbon marine fuels

The Guardian

‘The current could kill an elephant’: Asia flood survivors describe escaping with their lives

Hole in Antarctic ozone layer shrinks to smallest since 2019, scientists say

UK pulls $1.15bn loan to Mozambique gas project after climate and terror concerns

How cyclones and monsoon rains combined to devastate parts of Asia – visual guide

Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions Shodowy offshore courts

Death toll passes 1,100 in devastating floods across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand – as it happened

Who are the Australians trying to shut down the world’s biggest coal port?

Wood-burning stoves could face partial ban in Labour’s updated environment plan

How cyclones and monsoon rains combined to devastate parts of Asia

BBC

The five things that set the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season apart

I have high levels of forever chemicals in my blood - what can I do about it?

Irish Times

‘Too small to matter’ is the laziest-possible excuse in climate debate

RNZ

Relying on forestry for carbon removal is placing 'eggs in one basket', MPs warned

AFR

Data centres put brakes on Labor’s emissions goals

The New Nation

COP30: World headed to fail to keep global warming below 1.5c?

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