Among other things, the move would undo the legal basis of the fight against global warming.
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This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President Donald Trump has been voicing interest in exploiting Greenland’s mineral wealth since his first term in office, when he started talking about possibly seizing the autonomous territory. His threats of a hostile takeover have eased, but amid the focus on […]
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Trump’s Lust for Greenland’s Rare Earth Minerals Faces Harsh Arctic Realities Read Post »
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For more than a decade, the clean energy economy has been on a steep growth trajectory. Companies have poured billions of dollars into battery manufacturing, solar and wind generation, and electric vehicle plants in the US, as solar costs fell sharply and […]
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The United States Sacrificed $35 Billion in Clean Energy Projects Last Year Read Post »
This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world is poised to overshoot the goal of limiting average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as for the first time, a three-year period, ending in 2025, has breached the threshold. And climate scientists are predicting devastating consequences, just as […]
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There May Be No Turning Back This Climate Crisis Read Post »
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The year 2010 was a reckoning for Japan’s economic security. On September 7, the Chinese fishing trawler Minjinyu 5179 refused an order by Japan’s coast guard to leave disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands, which are known in China as Diaoyu. The […]
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Japan Embarks on a Deep-Sea Mining Experiment With Unknown Consequences Read Post »
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Amid rising concern about global heating and soaring energy costs, Michigan has sued big oil for allegedly fueling both crises—a move experts have hailed as groundbreaking. In a first-of-its-kind complaint, the state’s attorney general, Dana Nessel, accused four fossil fuel majors and the […]
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Michigan Lawsuit Calls Big Oil a “Cartel” That’s Driving High Energy Bills Read Post »
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Kristi Noem faces intensifying public scrutiny over her leadership of the Department of Homeland Security. Criticism of the former South Dakota governor has focused on her handling of the killing of Alex Pretti by a federal immigration agent and her oversight of […]
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Kristi Noem’s Throttling of FEMA Funds Constitutes a Preventable Disaster Read Post »
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Can a lump of coal ever be…cute? It’s a question no one was thinking about until last Thursday, when Interior Secretary Doug Burgum posted a cartoon of himself on X kneeling next to “Coalie”—a combustible lump with giant eyes, an open-mouthed grin, […]
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The US Government Is Trying To Make Coal Cute. It Isn’t. Read Post »
This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Polar bears became the poster child for the peril of climate change for obvious reasons: They hunt seals from the ice, and as fossil fuels warm the planet, the ice where these bears live is melting. For more than three decades, scientists have been […]
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Something Unexpected Is Happening With Norway’s Polar Bears Read Post »
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With an icy white sheet still blanketing much of the Eastern United States after an intense storm this week, it’s hard to imagine a future with less snow at this time of year. But over time, climate change has decreased snowpack by as […]
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In a Warming World, Winter Olympics Organizers Will Have to Adapt Read Post »
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Oregon’s short legislative session convenes in early February, conservation advocates will once again try to convince lawmakers to pass a major funding bill that could provide nearly $30 million annually to protect the state’s biodiversity. The 1% for […]
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Oregon Bill Would Tax Tourists to Protect Animals and Their Habitats Read Post »
Donica Brady lost her job after the Trump administration cut grant funding to bring solar power across the country, including to tribal nations. She picked up multiple jobs to make ends meet. That, in addition to caring for children, whittled down Brady’s free time. So she invited reporter Ilana Newman over when she found a […]
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