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A
formal petition to the
U.S. government calls
for sanctions on
Chinese seafood
imports as it
highlights China’s
loophole-ridden
illegal shark fin
trade.
By
Johnny Sturgeon
For
migrant workers
trapped onboard
Chinese distant water
fishing fleets,
cutting the fins off
sharks as they writhe
violently on rusted
decks in the Indian
Ocean isn’t
accidental. It’s an
intentional and
lucrative act that
marks the start of a
bloody half-a-billion-dollar offshore supply chain,
tacitly supported by
Beijing yet covertly
concealed from port
inspectors globally.
 
The
country’s most
valuable utility
didn’t like offshore
wind. But a proposed
merger with Dominion
would include a $11.4
billion project in
Coastal Virginia.
By
Dan Gearino
A
utility megamerger
announced this week
would mean that the
largest offshore wind
project in the United
States would be owned
by the same company
that already is the
nation’s leading
developer of
renewables and battery
storage.
The
small project is
underway at Central
Campus, with room for
expansion. Its energy
usage could complicate
the university’s
climate goals.
By
Lisa Sorg
DURHAM,
N.C.—Duke University
plans to build a small
data center at Central
Campus, potentially
the first of several
similar-size projects,
which has raised
questions among some
faculty about whether
the energy- and
water-intensive
endeavors could derail
the institution’s
climate commitments.
A
controversial land
swap orchestrated by
the megarich could be
“a harbinger of what’s
to come” for public
lands under Trump.
By
Evan Simon and Ames
Alexander, Floodlight
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story is from Floodlight, and produced in partnership with High Country News. Sign up for
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The
U.S. was among eight
countries that voted
against endorsing the
nonbinding ruling that
said all nations must
take steps to limit
temperature rise to
1.5 degrees Celsius.
By
Dana Drugmand
The
United Nations General
Assembly on Wednesday
voted overwhelmingly in favor of a climate justice resolution championed by the small Pacific Island nation of
Vanuatu. The
resolution welcomes
the historic advisory opinion on climate change
issued by the
International Court of
Justice in July 2025
and calls upon U.N.
member states to act
upon the court’s
unanimous guidance,
which clarified that
addressing the climate
crisis is not optional
but rather is a legal
duty under multiple
sources of
international law.
An
alternative
emissions-calculating
methodology underpins
revised, less
ambitious
methane-reduction
targets.
By
Georgina Gustin
A
group of the world’s
leading climate
scientists are warning governments and the livestock
industry against
adopting an
“accounting trick”
that will imperil the
all-out global effort
required to control
heat-trapping
emissions.
In
April, one of the
city’s three
reservoirs received
its first inflows in
eight months. But
narrowly avoiding an
immediate disaster
doesn’t mean that
Corpus Christi has
solved its water
crisis.
By
Dylan Baddour, Emily
Salazar
This
story was produced
in partnership by
Inside Climate News
and the Texas
Newsroom, the
state’s network of
public radio
stations.
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