International: United States
Trump blames Canada for wildfire smoke affecting US
Tue 21 Jul 2026
A series of Republican “leaders” have started producing angry denunciations of Canada for polluting America’s air with their "thoughtless" fires.
Majority of US voters link extreme weather to climate crisis, study finds
Tue 21 Jul 2026
Amid a summer of dangerous heat, drought and floods, a majority of Americans are connecting increasingly severe weather to the climate crisis, new polling shows, despite efforts by Donald Trump to dismiss global heating as a “con job” and a “hoax”.
Peter Thiel just gave the public its closest look yet at his ‘Antichrist’ theory—and it’s a tech and climate regulator
Mon 20 Jul 2026
Peter Thiel has spent 30 years arguing, on political and economic grounds, the regulatory state is the primary obstacle to technological progress.
Over 1,600 energy department webpages on utility bill savings removed as US temperatures soar
17 Jul 2026
As millions of Americans prepare for another brutal heatwave, it’s now harder to find information about ways to stay cool while saving energy and keeping utility costs down.
National Academies finds growing evidence linking climate change to disasters
17 Jul 2026
The United States' preeminent science institution released an anticipated report Thursday indicating that research into the connections between climate change and individual weather disasters have grown stronger over the last decade.
No relief from the heat as many US cities will see record overnight temperatures
15 Jul 2026
Another week of blistering heat will bring even more health risks in the coming days, as overnight temperatures won’t provide much relief.
The rise and fall of the fracking phenomenon
15 Jul 2026
The fracking boom remade the U.S. economy and global energy markets. It also left behind a complicated legacy of winners, losers and lasting political fights.
‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies
15 Jul 2026
Dozens of projects are in development across US despite concerns over environmental and health risks.
Trump administration opens endangered species’ habitats to development, reversing 50 years of environmental law
14 Jul 2026
The Trump administration reversed decades of longstanding environmental law protecting endangered species on Friday, opening up sensitive habitats of those protected species to drilling, mining, farming and real estate development.
'Like putting a flat earther in charge of NASA': Trump appoints climate denier to key climate post
13 Jul 2026
Putting an “utterly unqualified” person like Matthew Wielicki in charge of the National Climate Assessment, said one critic, “would jeopardise the integrity of one of the nation’s most important climate science resources.”
Clean energy hurt but resilient one year after Trump winding back climate policy
8 Jul 2026
The GOP budget law that President Trump signed a year ago has darkened the outlook for several clean energy sources, but stopped far short of strangling low-carbon tech.
California's first carbon capture project is up and running. Environmentalists are still trying to stop it.
7 Jul 2026
As the state drafts pipeline rules for projects injecting CO2 underground, environmental groups are pressing for a more thorough assessment of the newly launched operation.
‘Extremely high’ rates of heat-related ER visits in US due to extreme heat
6 Jul 2026
A deadly, multiday heat wave tightened its grip on the eastern United States on Friday, breaking records, sending people to the emergency room and raising the risk for millions of people.
Gas plants for US data centers to be major source of climate change-linked emissions, report says
3 Jul 2026
Dozens of planned gas plants to directly power data centers in the United States could emit as much greenhouse gas annually as Australia or France, according to a report by an environmental group published on Wednesday.
Trump administration can remove history and climate info from US parks, court says
3 Jul 2026
The Trump administration does not have to reinstate materials related to climate change, immigration and slavery that it has removed from national parks, a US appeals court ruled on Thursday.
The weather in 1776? Mild with no chance of climate change
3 Jul 2026
The striking backdrop for the country’s milestone birthday showcases the realities of climate change as President Donald Trump, who’s presiding over the nation’s semiquincentennial, dismisses the dangers of global warming and doubles down on his vision for expanding fossil fuel production.
Tens of millions swelter as heatwave blasts US
2 Jul 2026
Tens of millions of Americans sweltered under furnace-like temperatures Tuesday as central and eastern cities hunkered down for a heat wave set to last through the July 4 holiday weekend.
US drives rise in global emissions as utilities turn back to coal, report shows
1 Jul 2026
The United States accounted for about a third of the rise in global carbon dioxide emissions in 2025, as higher gas prices pushed power producers back to coal, an Energy Institute report showed on Tuesday.
I cold-called President Trump. Here's what he told me about an oil tycoon and major donor.
29 Jun 2026
I was hoping the president would give me some color about his relationship with billionaire Jeffery Hildebrand. I walked away with a clearer picture of what matters in Washington right now.
US defence spending on critical minerals surges in the last decade
22 Jun 2026
Members of communities affected by some of these projects said that U.S. state backing has meant projects are being fast-tracked without the necessary social and environmental checks or meaningful consultation.
Trump administration ditches plan to close a critical ocean monitoring system after furious bipartisan backlash
22 Jun 2026
The Trump administration is U-turning on its controversial decision to dismantle a critical ocean monitoring system that provides vital information on the health of the world’s oceans, after a bipartisan backlash in Congress.
Microsoft's clean energy reversal collides with Virginia's climate goals
19 Jun 2026
Amid a data center boom in the state, the tech giant backpedals on a key climate promise.
Trump wants to put a $75m coal terminal in this liberal California city. Residents aren’t having it
17 Jun 2026
Residents of West Oakland, which suffers from toxic waste and high pollution rates, is rallying against a coal export facility.
US judge orders halt to Trump administration's 'censorship' of park exhibits
16 Jun 2026
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to reinstall exhibits and signs on topics like slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide because they "do not align with its preferred narrative."
Inside the campaign to discredit a key climate science report
12 Jun 2026
An emerging field of research that can measure how much climate change has worsened individual disasters is under attack by friends of the fossil fuel industry.
Former ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond: 311 ppm – 421 ppm
12 Jun 2026
Lee Raymond, the former ExxonMobil chief executive who became one of the country’s most important and influential climate science deniers, died in Dallas on Saturday.
Solar power hits new milestones in the US even as Trump boosts coal over clean energy
11 Jun 2026
Even as President Donald Trump boosts coal over clean energy, solar power is hitting new milestones in the U.S. and remains the leading source of new power.
Alaskans reel from the loss of National Science Foundation ocean-monitoring instruments
11 Jun 2026
With its multi-billion-dollar fishing industry and vulnerable coastal communities, scientists say the federal government’s decision leaves Alaska flying blind.
Increase in wildfire-driven ozone linked to premature deaths across the U.S.
10 Jun 2026
Smog linked to wildfires is getting worse across much of the U.S., playing a role in more than 300 additional premature deaths every year since 2013, researchers say.
Trump administration in 'active dialogue' on strategic petroleum reserve in California
9 Jun 2026
The Trump administration is in “active dialogue” on creating a petroleum reserve in California, a move that would boost oil infrastructure in the state and undermine Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s bid to shrink the state’s fossil fuel footprint.
Researchers say this new Trump rule could destroy American science as we know it. They’re fighting back
8 Jun 2026
Scientists across multiple disciplines are sounding the alarm after the White House proposed taking greater control over how scientific research gets funded and allowing political appointees to decide whether to approve scientific grants.
Appeals Court affirms dismissal of youth climate case against Trump
5 Jun 2026
The lead attorney for the 22 plaintiffs said the court has “slammed the courthouse doors on children fighting for their lives.”
AI boom means US is now ‘investing more’ in fossil-fuel power than China
2 Jun 2026
The “data-centre boom” is driving a surge in gas investment in the US, pushing its fossil-power spending ahead of China, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
US to ‘kill’ climate disclosure rule
2 Jun 2026
In the latest action to undo Biden-era regulations on climate change, the Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed repealing a rule that requires some public companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions and the risks they face from global warming.
Revealed: huge climate cost of harmful emissions from US immigration flights
28 May 2026
US immigration enforcement flights are producing hundreds of thousands of metric tonnes of climate-damaging carbon emissions as officials shuttle unprecedented numbers of people to detention centers far from home and deport them to countries across the world.
Climate change alarms are flashing. Washington isn’t paying attention
27 May 2026
The Trump administration has swept away climate change policies, Democrats are focused on energy costs, and environmental groups have gone quiet.
Trump officials, billionaires and the quiet reshaping of America’s public lands
26 May 2026
A controversial land swap orchestrated by the megarich could be “a harbinger of what’s to come” for public lands under Trump.
Sorry, climate change is still dangerous, no matter what nonsense Trump emits
25 May 2026
As the climate-change landscape evolves, new forms of scientific disinformation emerge.
Trump distorts recent revisions of scientific projections of global warming
21 May 2026
President Donald Trump recently blasted the accuracy of global warming projections in a Truth Social post that itself painted a distorted view of the science, projections and how the international community discusses climate policy.
How the environmental movement lost its power – and how to get back
19 May 2026
COMMENT: How did the movement lose its vibrancy? More screen time, less wild habitat available to visit, and a shift to urban living have made Americans less viscerally connected to the splendor of planet Earth.
Trump has hindered offshore wind while China and other countries invest heavily
18 May 2026
President Donald Trump is stopping offshore wind projects in the United States, just as the industry was poised to grow significantly.
Some inconvenient truths in bringing climate science to the judiciary
14 May 2026
OPINION: Climate science had been knocking on the courthouse doors for quite some time when the Supreme Court of the United States finally invited it into the realm of legal action in 2007.
US EPA moves to speed clean air permits for power plants, industry
13 May 2026
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it would speed up the process for large polluters to obtain clean air permits, the latest move by the Trump administration to ease regulatory burdens on American power plants and industry.
Trump’s Iran war may stymie climate gains with boost to big oil, experts say
11 May 2026
Windfall profits could lock in Trump-era political wins for the industry and slow clean-energy transition.
‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds
8 May 2026
The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded.
California’s battery array is as powerful as 12 nuclear power plants. Here’s what’s on the horizon
8 May 2026
An expert in the state’s energy grid explains how the state is faring amid federal cuts.
Alaskan megatsunami triggered by climate change
7 May 2026
The wave at the Tracy Arm Fjord in the Tongass National Forest last year was triggered by a rock landslide which was driven by climate change.
Trump takes a ‘wrecking ball’ to independent scientific advisory board
30 Apr 2026
Without the impartial oversight of its board, the National Science Foundation is now “fully at the behest of the White House,” experts warn.
Trump administration to pay two more companies to walk away from US offshore wind leases
29 Apr 2026
Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind have agreed to end their offshore wind leases in exchange for reimbursements totaling nearly $900 million. Both companies have decided not to pursue any new offshore wind projects in the United States.
US official: No hope for global carbon tax
28 Apr 2026
A U.S. negotiator warned other countries in a closed-door meeting that efforts to rein in climate pollution from ships has "no prospect" of success.
Climate and rock art advocates take on ‘carbon bomb’ gas project in Aus federal court
Wed 22 Jul 2026
The Albanese government’s decision to approve one of the world’s largest gas projects in Western Australia is being challenged in the federal court, setting up a significant test of how Australia’s environment law deals with the climate crisis.
China solar exports to South, Southeast Asia and Africa rise despite post-rebate slump
Wed 22 Jul 2026
China's solar exports to Southeast and South Asia as well as Africa rose year-over-year in June, customs data showed on Monday, though overall solar exports slipped for a second month after China removed an export tax rebate.
Norway’s national oil company’s profits double to $11.5bn amid war on Iran
Today 12:00pm
Profits at Norway’s state oil company nearly doubled to $11.5bn (£8.6bn) in the three months to the end of June as the jump in oil and gas prices caused by the war against Iran boosted earnings.
Millions face long-term coastal flooding risk in UK without climate action, scientists warn
Thu 23 Jul 2026
Up to 13 million people in the UK face the long-term risk of coastal flooding due to the climate crisis, scientists have warned, with a “reasonable worst-case scenario” suggesting the need for the large-scale movement of populations away from a dramatically reshaped coast.
Ontario seeks federal support for evacuations as wildfires devastate remote Canadian towns
Mon 20 Jul 2026
Ontario requested federal assistance to evacuate people from remote northern Canadian communities ravaged by wildfires on Thursday, as smoke brought poor air quality to Toronto and much of the Northeastern U.S.
Extreme heat costing India’s poorest workers 2% of GDP, survey finds
Thu 23 Jul 2026
India’s informal workers are estimated to be losing $78 billion in wages per year because of productivity declines and illness caused by intensifying heat.
French Polynesia objects to an American seabed mining plan made without its input
Today 12:00pm
The government of French Polynesia plans to challenge an American startup’s proposal to explore the waters just beyond its maritime borders for seabed mining.
‘I can’t work in the farce of climate change cruise tourism anymore’: why Antarctic guides quit their dream jobs
Wed 22 Jul 2026
“You’d see massive glacier calvings, and you’d just want to cry. But all the guests would be cheering. And you’d be like … ‘can you not put two and two together?’”
West Africa signs off $25bn mega gas-pipeline plan
Wed 22 Jul 2026
One of Africa's most ambitious energy infrastructure projects has finally been signed off at the highest level, with West African leaders formally endorsing the long-awaited Nigeria-Morocco Atlantic Gas Pipeline.
Panama Canal braces for El Niño, announcing first transit restrictions
Today 12:00pm
The probability of a severe El Nino has risen from 25% to 81% and the Panama Canal is preparing to restrict transits.
COP31 president says electrification is ‘surest way to protect citizens’
14 Jul 2026
Last month, COP31 president-designate Murat Kurum launched a target for 35% of the world’s final energy to come from electricity by 2035. In an interview with Carbon Brief, Kurum says that the target was not a political choice, but instead reflects the latest evidence on “what is needed to keep 1.5C within reach”.
