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Dec 18, 2025, 9:23:33 PM (10 days ago) Dec 18
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AP

Hurricane-force wind downs power lines, fans wildfires in Colorado with more on way

Feds pave the way for Big Tech to plug data centers right into power plants in scramble for energy literally screw everyone else

Atlantic magazine

Millions of Americans May Soon Face Huge Costs The GOP is gambling on health care.

When One Honest Politician Isn’t Enough James Garfield is often portrayed as a good man in an age of bad governance, but the real story is a little more complicated.

This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House.

Bloomberg/CityLab

How a Synth-Pop Band Supercharged the World’s EV Capital

Even Oslo Has an Air Quality Problem

Canary Media

Trump admin orders Washington state coal plant to stay running

Ford is retreating from EVs — but embracing grid batteries

New Hampshire clean energy program goes national with federal funds

Carbon Brief

IEA: Declining coal demand in China set to outweigh Trump’s pro-coal policies

Hydrogen emissions are ‘supercharging’ the warming impact of methane

Cropped: ‘Deadly’ Asia floods; Boosting London’s water birds; UN headwinds

US: Scientists denounce Trump’s plan to kill crucial atmospheric science center

BP picks first outsider CEO Meg O’Neill after abrupt Auchincloss exit

EU admits carbon border tax ‘too clunky’ as it closes loopholes

Cut green spending to make UK ready for war, Conservatives say

China’s NEV sales projected to reach 20m next year

Brazil’s climate plan moves forward with concessions to agriculture

The Guardian view on another green U-turn in Brussels: going slow on car-industry targets is a road to nowhere

Common Dreams

AI chatbots share climate conspiracies, denial and disinformation

Conversation

What are gas stove manufacturers trying to hide? Warning labels

Understanding climate change in America: Skepticism, dogmatism and personal experie

The Crucial Years – Bill McKibben

A Low Point Things will get better...I think

\Denver Post [via Boulder Daily Camera[

NCAR: Boulder suffers a blow, says it will fight closure

EDF

India’s dairy industry: A market opportunity for climate adaptation to protect people and livelihoods

Environmental News Network

Researchers Find Trees Could Spruce Up Future Water Conservation Efforts

Residents in Hot, Humid Regions More Likely to Have Kidney Failure

A Delicate Antarctic Balance Crucial to Global Climate

Grist

We’re all at risk if Trump dismantles this legendary lab

Here’s the global playbook being used to crack down on climate protest

Heated

Exxon’s new greenwashing ploy The oil giant claims it can eliminate more than 90 percent of emissions from gas-powered AI facilities. Critics say that’s nonsense.

Inside Climate News

Trump’s Energy Secretary Orders a Washington State Coal Plant to Remain Open done’t the shareholders have any say? This is socialism. As an aside, Chris Wright is the Neil Gorsuch of fossil fuels, looks pretty but is ruthless. 2 awful folks from Colorado

How Do Rooftop Solar and EVs Affect Electricity Costs for Everyone Else? Here’s a New Estimate

A Long Wait for Flooding Help in Chicago May Be Nearing an End

NCAR, Major Climate Research Center, Targeted for Closure in Trump Dispute with Colorado

KDVR

Leaders worry about economic and scientific impact of potential NCAR move

Los Angeles Times

California in for wet, white, potentially wild Christmas as Pineapple Express storm looms

Federal watchdog will investigate Energy Department over selective blue state grant cancellations

Nation Magazine

The UK’s Climate National Emergency Briefing Should Be a Wake-Up Call to Everyone

The Fight for the Last Wild Salmon

AI Will Only Intensify Climate Change. The Tech Moguls Don’t Care.

Nature

A global CORDEX-based dataset delineating urban areas and their surroundings to assess climate change in megacities

New York Times

Europe gets cold feet on moving away from combustion engines

She Tracked the Health of Fish That Coastal Communities Depend On Ana Vaz monitored crucial fish stocks in the Southeast and the Gulf of Mexico until she lost her job at NOAA.

Flying Taxis? China Has Them. And Drone Lunch Deliveries, Too.

Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center Russell Vought, the White House budget director, called the laboratory a source of “climate alarmism.”

Nigeria Closes Factories Linked to U.S. Auto Industry Amid Poisoning Inquiry

BP Names New Boss After Its C.E.O. Steps Down

Oregon Public Btroadcasting

As climate changes, the PNW could experience stronger and more frequent atmospheric rivers

PBS

Trump administration moves to dismantle national climate research lab in Colorado

Phys.org

Researchers reveal how climate change is shaping decisions to move—or stay put

An integrated framework to better assess air pollution health risks

International report reveals atmospheric impact of Hunga eruption

Understanding climate change in America: Skepticism, dogmatism and personal experience

A delicate Antarctic balance with global climate implications

Earth's frozen regions are sending a clear warning about climate change—but politicians are ignoring it

Study suggests recent tundra fires 'exceed anything in past 3,000 years'

Global peatlands revealed as critical frontier in fight against climate change

UK's worst-case climate risks laid bare for lawmakers

Report challenges climate change as sole trigger of Syrian Civil War, exposing governance failures in drought response

Science Daily

The western U.S. Tried to stop wildfires and it backfired

Semafor

Ukraine’s grid confronts the possibility of total collapse

Tech giants clash over how to measure their carbon footprint

Vox

One of Trump’s grudges now threatens America’s weather forecasts

We’re passing a dangerous global warming threshold — but we’re not doomed

CBC

Wildfires, drought and storms top Canada's top weather stories of 2025

The Guardian

‘Massive disruption’: UK’s worst-case climate crisis scenarios revealed by scientists

‘We’ve future-proofed’: how UK’s biggest car factory upgraded for EV revolution

‘You learn tricks to reduce it’: the smart bins measuring food waste in South Korea

Met Office: 2026 will bring heat more than 1.4C above preindustrial levels

How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril - in maps and charts

‘It’s an open invasion’: how millions of quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva for ever

Uniquely evil’: Michigan residents fight against huge data center backed by top tycoons

BBC

Spain to open network of climate shelters

GB News

King Charles jokes about his age as he raises concerns about the impact of climate change in the Arctic

Climate Council

2025 wrapped: the best climate stories from Australia and the world

University of Reading

UK’s worst-case climate risks laid bare for lawmakers

Daily Mail

Britain's worst-case climate scenario laid bare: Terrifying study reveals how temperatures across the UK could plummet 6°C by 2100

Stockholm Environmental Institute

SEI leads project to strengthen Swedish ports’ climate and crisis preparedness

Euronews

Spain prepares for heatwaves with national network of climate shelters

RNZ

Supreme Court finds government must consider climate change when offering oil and gas tenders

News Agency of Nigeria

FG Renews Commitment To Tackle Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, Pollution






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