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America Magazine

Zambia’s farmers face an uncertain future with climate change

American Prospect

BlackRock Just Bought a Minnesota Utility On Friday, state regulators voted unanimously in favor of allowing private equity to take a Duluth-based utility holding company private. The Prospect takes you inside the room where it all went down.

Big Pivots

Can these coal-fired units be relied upon for power? The Trump administration maintains we need fossil fuels for reliable electricity. But records tell a story of frequent unplanned outages at Colorado’s largest coal plant.

Bloomberg/CityLab

Boston Public Housing Upgrades Units With Window Heat Pumps

Insurance Business America

Climate change prompts new El Niño-Southern Oscillation tracking in NZ

Canary Media

Why did Newsom veto California’s virtual power plant bills?

Solar is crushing gas power in California this year

Carbon Brief

Q&A: How countries are using biofuels to meet their climate targets

Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit

Overshoot: Exploring the implications of meeting 1.5C climate goal ‘from above’

Factcheck: What the Climate Change Act does – and does not – mean for the UK

Caribbean island residents ask court to order Dutch state to take climate action

US: Energy department to slash nearly $24bn in green project funding

Poll suggests most Reform UK voters back investment in renewable energy

China accelerates oil reserve site build amid stockpiling drive

India to become second-largest renewable market as global growth doubles: IEA

Pakistan's catastrophic floods show why we need just and effective climate finance

CBS News

Renewable energy exceeds global coal power generation for the first time ever, analysis finds

Chicago Sun-Times

Climate change wins another one over Illinois' fall trout stockings

Christian Science Monitor

What China’s landmark climate pledge means for the fight against global warming

Common Dreams

As Feds Move to Charge Uber Driver for Some LA Fires, Prosecutors Fail to Hold Fossil Fuel Companies Accountabile

EWG analysis finds farm emissions from fertilizing ‘continuous corn’ crops fueling climate crisis

Trump Administration Doubles Down on Safety of Cancer-Linked Atrazine

Sierra Club Blasts Report of "Concierge, White Glove Service” for Fossil Fuel Companies

Conversation

Geothermal energy has huge potential to generate clean power – including from used oil and gas wells

The Crucial Years – Bill McKibben

Something extraordinary just happened But of course there's a but. Or two. Another way of saying this is: the damage from the carbon and methane trapping heat in our atmosphere has now reached the most critical systems for supporting life on our planet. We have very little time, if any.

Emagazine.com

Real Estate Values Going Down Due To Global Warming

Environmental News Network

Tree-ring Data Sheds Light on Past and Present Summer Climate Extremes

Concrete “Battery” Developed at MIT Now Packs 10 Times the Power

New Space Weather Modelling Suite Enables Upper Atmosphere Forecasting

How to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Ammonia Production

Solar Energy Is Now the World’s Cheapest Source of Power, a Surrey Study Finds

Farms.com

Illinois Engineers Show Impact of Severe Weather on Climate Change Mitigation

Georgia Tech Center

Storms Are Changing — Should the Hurricane Scale Change Too?

Grist

Inside the Indonesian boomtowns powering the world’s electric vehicles

Harvard T.H. Chan School for Public Health

Bridging the partisan divide on climate change

Honolulu Civil Beat

Kids Who Sued America Over Climate Change Aren’t Done Yet

Inside Climate News

Growing ‘Continuous Corn’ Drives Emissions of a Powerful Greenhouse Gas. It Doesn’t Have To.

Arizona Rural Grassroots Organizers Take on Industrial Developers, Aided by Urban Allies When residents of Benson, Arizona, began organizing against an aluminum recycling plant, a Tucson group offered to help.

Los Alamos and University of Michigan Want to Build a National Security ‘Data Center’ in Ypsilanti. Residents and Local Officials See Few Benefits. Local officials allege the University of Michigan is being “deceptive” over its plans for the $1.2 billion “computation center,” which could bring few benefits and many costs to Ypsilanti Township.

Global Renewable Power Capacity Expected to More than Double by 2030

The Invading Sea

Natural disasters are a rising burden for the National Guard

Miami Herald

King tides in South Florida: Getting worse and a sign of sea level rise to come

NewsBreak

Trump just banned a new set of words and of course, 'Climate change' is one of them

New York Times

How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

Senate Confirms Neil Jacobs, ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist, to Lead NOAA

Phys.org

An unexpected reaction to climate change: Daubenton's bats are hibernating for longer

Antarctic Ocean of the last ice age reveals how a critical process of CO₂ storage may slow again

Understanding the climate cost of cleaning our water

The alleged British links to mass deforestation and displacement in a conflict few have even heard of

Assessing whether high-tide marker definition protects public beach access amid rising seas

First system to track near-real time changes to global land cover created

Regional ocean dynamics can be better emulated with AI models

Satellites record 20-meter high wave, showing the power of ocean swell

Four things to know about climate change and human migration

Deforestation can cause eight-fold increase in flood event risk

Every third school in Vilnius lies in a high air pollution zone, Lithuanian study reveals

EPA reverses stance on coke oven rules that U.S. Steel called unachievable

Thousands stranded as record floods submerge Vietnam streets

New Zealand's seas warming faster than global average: Report

Record-breaking 2024 Amazon fires drive unprecedented carbon emissions and ecosystem degradation

Politico Pro

E&E News: Fact-checking Chris Wright on energy

E&E News: EPA steps into voluntary carbon market to block a climate project

E&E News: Bonaire residents sue the Netherlands over climate inaction

Popular Information

Trump approves mining road, delivers $70 million windfall to MAGA billionaire

Resources Magazine

A Conversation on Climate Week

Reuters

Sustainable Switch: India and Nepal face fatal floods

Salt Lake Tribune

A glorious place for music: Carved by nature, threatened by climate change

Science Daily

Record Amazon fires release more carbon than an entire country

The Red Sea that vanished and the catastrophic flood that brought it back

Semafor

Slashing aviation's climate impact could be 'cheap'

Source New Mexico

Climate groups unfurl anti-Exxon banners at Roundhouse

TIME

How A Marine Heat Wave Is Helping Drive Warm Fall Weather

Volts

Pay attention to the most important political race of 2025 A conversation with Peter Hubbard, candidate for the Georgia Public Service Commission, and Brionté McCorkle of Georgia Conservation Voters.

Washington Post

White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.

Scientists seek to turbocharge a natural process that cools the Earth Terradot, a carbon removal company, is using “enhanced rock weathering” to sequester carbon by spreading crushed volcanic rock over farmland.