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“I Was Contaminated”: New Study Reveals Widespread Pesticide Exposure

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For decades, Khoji Wesselius has noticed the oily scent of pesticides during spraying periods when the wind has blown through his tiny farming village in a rural corner of the Netherlands. Now, after volunteering in an experiment to count […]

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A Hostile Trump Administration Has Put Offshore Wind Into Reverse

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This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Each year, the Sweeney Center for Public Policy at Rowan University in New Jersey hosts a conference on the state’s current and future energy landscape. In 2023 and 2024, the gatherings focused heavily on the rapidly accelerating development of […]

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Jamaica Cowers as Category 5 Melissa Bears Down, Supercharged by Warming Seas

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. History is unfolding in the Atlantic Ocean right now. Hurricane Melissa has spun up into an extraordinarily dangerous Category 5 storm with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph, and is set to strike Jamaica Monday night before marching toward Cuba. This […]

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Want Fluoride in Your Water? Too Bad.

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This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On the evening of June 2, 2025, the city council meeting in Pasco, Washington, was winding down when Councilor Leo Perales piped up from his seat on the wood-trimmed dais. “I know we’ve talked about fluoride a few times,” […]

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To Save Madagascar’s One-of-a-Kind Ecosystems, You Have to Feed the People First

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This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.  The coral reef itself was exquisite. Growing about 3 miles offshore in 50 feet of water, it was a rugged terrain of pinks, blues, and oranges, set against a backdrop of deep blue. The coral pieces, each a colony of […]

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As Winter Knocks, and the Shutdown Drags on, Poor Families May Have to Ration Heat

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Millions of Americans face having to ration heating this winter as the US federal government shutdown and mass layoffs by the Trump administration cause unprecedented delays in getting energy assistance aid to low-income households, a group that helps people pay energy bills has […]

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Trump Claimed ​Wind Farms Kill Whales—and Then Quietly Axed Research Into the Issue

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This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration has repeatedly blamed offshore wind farms for whale deaths, contrary to scientific evidence. Now the administration is quietly abandoning key research programs meant to protect marine mammals living in an increasingly busy ocean. The New England Aquarium […]

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Democratic Politicians Have Largely Abandoned Climate Talk

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Nearly a year after the 2024 election, Democrats are still trying to figure out what went wrong. In the midst of this soul-searching, a new piece of advice has appeared: “Don’t say climate change.”  That’s the takeaway from a recent poll by the […]

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Trump’s Minions Aim to Cut More Than 2,000 Interior Jobs During the Shutdown

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This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More than 2,000 employees could be cut from the Department of Interior during the ongoing federal government shutdown if the Trump administration gets its way.  In a court filing on Monday, the administration listed plans that would […]

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Devastated by Israel, Gaza Faces an Environmental Crisis “Above Imagination”

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Over two years of nearly incessant bombardment, Israeli forces have killed more than 60,000 Palestinians, at least a third of whom are children. The human toll has been called genocide by human rights organizations around the world and by a UN commission, but a new […]

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Black Lung Keeps Killing America’s Coal Miners. Does Donald Trump Even Care?

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Coal miners, their family members, and union representatives rallied outside of the US Department of Labor’s headquarters in Washington one morning early last week, urging the Trump administration to enforce a rule that was meant to protect miners […]

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This Data Scientist Sees Progress in the Climate Change Fight

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This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It has been 10 years since countries signed on to the Paris Agreement, and emissions and temperatures continue to reach new highs, fueling unprecedented weather disasters around the globe. Meanwhile, the shift to clean energy is facing powerful […]

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