22 December news
Loretta Lohman
ABC 1 News
Climate Matters: Christmas warmth would be "impossible" without climate change
American Prospect
Demands for Data Center Moratoriums Surge
AOL
Climate Change Is Making Extreme Rain Events Like Texas' More Common — And More Intense
AP
Trump administration pauses 5 offshore wind projects on the East Coast pure spite and almost certainly not legal but who cares for the law?
Bloomberg/CityLab
New York’s Congestion Pricing Is Working. Five Charts Show How
AI Data Center Gold Rush Driven by Thousands of Newcomers
Canary Media
Electrifying these factories could cut a gigaton of CO2 pollution
A path to fast, cheap home solar and batteries: go through the meter
Georgia’s lame-duck utility commission OKs massive, pricey gas buildout
The 10 biggest clean energy stories of 2025
Carbon Brief
Swiss court admits Indonesia islanders climate case against Holcim
EU plan to relax petrol car ban dismissed by Fiat maker
US: New York offers $300m to support offshore wind projects
Stormy weather gives Britain its greenest autumn
US: Threatening NCAR, Trump administration seeks to extinguish a beacon of climate science
Colorado Climate Blog
Where is the snow? A look at the warm, dry weather and what to expect for the start of 2026
Colorado Sun
Common Dreams
Trump’s Energy Emergency Orders Should Prevent Morgan Stanley’s Electricity Exports
Trump Administration Pauses Construction on All Offshore Wind Projects in US
Conversation
How your electric bill may be paying for big data centers’ energy use
Rising electricity prices and an aging grid challenge the nation as data centers demand more power
‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will have Americans paying higher prices for dirtier energy
Even with Trump’s support, coal power remains expensive – and dangerous
Trump’s offshore wind energy freeze: What states lose if the executive order remains in place
When coal smoke choked St. Louis, residents fought back − but it took time and money
The Cool Down
Coca-Cola faces backlash after report unearths concerning practices: 'This is shameful' A report has detailed that Coca-Cola used nearly 8 billion pounds of plastic in 2024, a marked increase from the 1.4 billion pounds it used in 2019.
Denver Post
Colorado’s ‘clean heat’ plan for utilities spurs concerns about costs
Earth.org
E&E News: Colorado outlines how clean energy could benefit coal communities
Environmental News Network
Earth’s Growing Heat Imbalance Driven More by Clouds Than Air Pollution, Study Finds
How Climate Policies that Incentivize and Penalize Can Drive the Clean Energy Transition
Microencapsulated B-Vitamins Help Dairy Cows Produce More Milk with Fewer Emissions
Fine Particles in Pollution are Associated with Early Signs of Autoimmune
Remote Southern Ocean Seabirds Study Highlights Reach of ‘Forever Chemicals’
Frontline Magazine
When the Global South Sues Back: Climate Justice Takes Legal Form
Grist
Trump has always hated offshore wind. Now he’s moving to kill it.
What changed for deep-sea mining in 2025? Everything.
The Pentagon is hoarding critical minerals that could power the clean energy transition
High Country News
Western Washington faces a long recovery after record-breaking flooding with NO federal help
Inside Climate News
Could Rescinding The Roadless Rule Make It Harder To Delist Yellowstone Grizzlies?
Will New Jersey’s Environmental Regulators Approve Transco’s NESE Pipeline After Rejecting it Twice?
NPR
How a power outage in Colorado caused U.S. official time to be 4.8 microseconds off
Nature
Integrative strategies for sustainable agriculture in the face of climate change
Modelling the impacts of policy sequencing on energy decarbonization
New York Times
Record-Breaking Warm Temperatures Forecast for Christmas Across the U.S.
Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast
How Trump’s First Year Reshaped U.S. Energy and Climate Policy
Washington State Faces Climate Change Reality After Storms
Phys.org
Atmospheric rivers explained: What to know about the weather phenomenon
More eyes on the skies can help planes reduce climate-warming contrails
Fossil-fuel propaganda is stalling climate action; here's what we can do about it
How greener bus stops can help people beat the heat
An ecosystem never forgets: Extreme heat and drought responses linked to hydrological memory
East Antarctic Ice Sheet's history tells a relevant story for today and beyond
Climate misinformation is becoming a national security threat. Canada isn't ready for it
How climate campaigns can cut through ad fatigue
Disaster after disaster: Do we have enough raw materials to 'build back better?'
Warming may make tropical cyclone 'seeds' riskier for Africa
How climate campaigns can cut through ad fatigue
Negotiation failure on UN environmentl assessment highlights need for reform
Urban areas insurance feasibility and structure explored in new report
CO2 soon to be buried under North Sea oil platform
Social media users in the Central Valley are freaking out about unusual fog, and what might be in it
Earthquake swarm continues to rattle Northern California city, seismologists say
Scientists and data explain why Kenya's lakes are rising as thousands face an uncertain future
PFAS concentrations can double with every step up the food chain
Semafor
Oman's United Solar to receive $30m from Waaree Solar Americas
The energy trap at the heart of Africa’s stalled industrialization
Science Daily
Global warming could trigger the next ice age This is infat what I got from reakind John McPhee’s ANNALS OF A FORMER WORLD years ago
Smart Cities World
Christchurch opens fund for climate change projects
Valley News
Fragile alpine ecosystem at risk due to Mount Washington tourism
Washington Post
Interior Dept. tries a new tactic to halt five offshore wind projects pausing the leases
The Weekly Anthropocene
Interview: Julian Gough on Cosmological Natural Selection Something completely different for The Weekly Anthropocene's holiday special: a new cosmological model trying to explain the universe!
CBC
Life on the edge: How avalanches are affecting mountain goats in southeast Alaska, Yukon
Jamaica Information Service
Jamaica Leveraging International Partnerships in Rebuilding Effort
Noticias Ambientales
A study reveals the proliferation of toxic cyanobacteria due to summer storms and climate change
The Guardian
US farmers say Trump’s $12bn package not enough to undo damage from tariffs
Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward
Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate
BBC
2025 likely to be UK's hottest on record, says Met Office
Eurasia Review
The Hindu
Heat, humidity due to climate change could increase stunting in South Asia's children by 2050: Study
Khmer Times
Cambodian, Japanese Red Cross youth hold forum on peace, climate change & disaster management
China Daily
Striking the right note to advance climate change action
Australian Broadcastig Corp
Swiss court to hear islanders' climate change case against cement giant
EnviroNews Nigeria
Okonjo-Iweala hails Abia Electric Bus Scheme as climate-friendly initiative
