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Don’t Tell Donald Trump, but Texas Is Deep Into Wind and Solar Power

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Texas’ independent grid is meeting a large portion of the state’s rising electricity demand through its growing fleet of solar facilities, wind power generators and batteries, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).  In the first nine […]

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How to Make People Want to Read About Climate Change

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On a reporting trip in July 2023, science journalist Elizabeth Kolbert had an “amazing” stroke of luck. It was her last day in Dominica, in the Caribbean, where she’d been shadowing a group of scientists attempting to translate sperm whale vocalizations with the help of artificial intelligence. While out at sea, she and the research […]

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For at Least One Small Iowa Rancher, This Shutdown May Prove the Final Straw

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last June, record flooding swept through the rural town of Rock Valley, Iowa. As the wall of water began to overtake Chelsie Ver Mulm’s 10-acre plot of land, she rushed into action, rapidly evacuating her family’s gaggle of cows, sheep, […]

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Halloween Shocker: Trump Axes Work to Learn Whether Offshore Wind Farms Harm Bats

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This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s a known problem that onshore wind turbines kill bats. But it’s unclear whether the same issue applies to offshore wind installations—and the Trump administration just canceled groundbreaking research into the question. Earlier this month, the nonprofit Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) […]

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Halloween Shocker: Trump Axes Work to Learn Whether Offshore Wind Farms Harm Bats

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This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s a known problem that onshore wind turbines kill bats. But it’s unclear whether the same issue applies to offshore wind installations—and the Trump administration just canceled groundbreaking research into the question. Earlier this month, the nonprofit Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) […]

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These Native Kids Were First to Witness the Mighty Klamath River’s Rebirth

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ruby Williams’s pink kayak pierced the fog shrouding the mouth of the Klamath River, and she paddled harder. She was flanked on both sides by fellow Indigenous youth from across the basin, and their line of brightly colored boats […]

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Trump Has Abandoned Global Climate Efforts, so US Groups Are Stepping Up

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Despite historic environmental rollbacks under a president who pulled the United States from a key international climate treaty—and recently called global warming “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”—US civil society groups say they are gearing up to push for bold […]

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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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