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Experts: Trump Plan to Exploit Venezuela’s Oil Would Be “Terrible for the Climate”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump, by dramatically seizing Nicolás Maduro and claiming dominion over Venezuela’s vast oil reserves, has taken his “drill, baby, drill” mantra global. Achieving the president’s dream of supercharging the country’s oil production would be financially challenging—and if fulfilled, would be “terrible for the […]

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Wildfire Smoke is Killing Tens of Thousands of Americans Every Year

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Wildfire smoke is an emerging nationwide crisis for the United States. Supercharged by climate change, blazes are swelling into monsters that consume vast landscapes and entire towns. A growing body of evidence reveals that these conflagrations are killing far more people […]

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Trump Wants Venezuela’s Oil. Getting It Won’t Be So Simple.

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This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President Donald Trump has made it clear: His vision for Venezuela’s future involves the US profiting from its oil. “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies—the biggest anywhere in the world—go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly […]

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We Know What’s Killing Loons and How to Stop It. So Why Are They Still Dying?

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This story was originally published by bioGraphic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 1987, wildlife veterinarian Mark Pokras was in his office at Tufts University in Massachusetts when a colleague from New Hampshire called. “I’ve got a dead loon here,” she said. “If I bring it down to you, can you tell me […]

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The Five Most Unhinged Climate Lies Trump Told in 2025

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This story was originally published by Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the past decade at the forefront of US politics, Donald Trump has unleashed a barrage of unusual, misleading, or dubious assertions about the climate crisis, which he most famously called a “hoax”. This year has seen Trump ratchet up his […]

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The Five Most Unhinged Climate Lies Trump Told in 2025

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This story was originally published by Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the past decade at the forefront of US politics, Donald Trump has unleashed a barrage of unusual, misleading, or dubious assertions about the climate crisis, which he most famously called a “hoax”. This year has seen Trump ratchet up his […]

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First, the Heat Killed Maine’s Kelp. Then an Invasive Algae Sealed Its Fate.

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Shane Farrell has spent the better part of the last three years underwater, diving off the coast of Maine. The University of Maine Ph.D. student and his team at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences are surveying the rapid […]

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The Pentagon is Hoarding Critical Minerals That Could Power the Clean Energy Transition

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Pete Hegseth, who has taken to calling himself the Secretary of War, says the Defense Department “does not do climate change crap.” Just last week, he asserted that the agency  “will not be distracted” by climate change or “woke moralizing.” […]

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Trump’s Latest Climate Attack: Offshore Wind Farms

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration has said it is immediately pausing all leases for offshore wind farms already under construction, in the heaviest blow yet to an industry that the administration has relentlessly targeted throughout the year. Trump’s Department of the Interior said […]

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Climate Change Is Coming for Christmas

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As snowflakes fall lazily from the sky, you cozy up by the fireplace and take a sip from a steaming cup of hot chocolate, humming the jaunty songs you can’t seem to get out of your head the […]

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Climate Change Is Coming for Christmas

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As snowflakes fall lazily from the sky, you cozy up by the fireplace and take a sip from a steaming cup of hot chocolate, humming the jaunty songs you can’t seem to get out of your head the […]

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A Flood-Prone City Gets Creative in Its Effort to Tame the Water Gods

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Shelton Tucker is part of a novel plan to deal with the waters that are increasingly encroaching on his neighborhood in Hampton, Virginia. Situated at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and afflicted by one of the […]

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