International: United States
More than 1,900 scientists write letter in ‘SOS’ over Trump’s attacks on science
2 Apr 2025
Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine warned Americans of ‘real danger in this moment’.
Disaster as Trump’s energy policy totally disregards climate change
2 Apr 2025
COMMENT: Energy — where we get it, how we use it and what it costs — is fundamental to the quality and stability of modern life. It influences virtually everything we do and affects everything we hope to have in the future.
Trump administration cancels clean energy grants as it prioritises fossil fuels
1 Apr 2025
President Donald Trump’s administration is terminating grants for two clean energy projects and roughly 300 others funded by the Department of Energy are in jeopardy as the president prioritises fossil fuels.
Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed
31 Mar 2025
Today, the ocean that Kahoʻohalahala and so many other Indigenous peoples crossed, cared for, and survived on is on track to be mined for polymetallic nodules.
Climate investors see opportunity in Trump’s anti-climate push
28 Mar 2025
US President Donald Trump’s pro-fossil fuel policies spell opportunity for some climate investors.
Farmers are reeling from Trump’s attacks on agricultural research
27 Mar 2025
A "rollercoaster" of funding cuts and layoffs have gutted critical agricultural research projects across the nation.
NOAA cuts more key weather data gathering after layoffs
26 Mar 2025
The National Weather Service is reducing weather balloon launches at six more locations in the U.S. and temporarily suspending them at two more places due to staffing shortages, the agency announced Thursday afternoon.
US Supreme Court will not hear novel youth-led climate change case
26 Mar 2025
The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in the long-running case, known as Juliana, which helped spawn legal strategies widely adapted to other lawsuits over climate.
Climate groups could beat Trump in fight for $20B. It may be too late.
25 Mar 2025
The Trump administration is hitting legal roadblocks in its attempt to revoke $20 billion in climate grants, but its efforts are already achieving one of the president’s key aims: throttling a crucial part of Joe Biden’s clean energy agenda.
‘One-third’ of 2012 soya crop failure in the Americas was due to climate change
25 Mar 2025
Climate change was responsible for just over one-third of the simultaneous soya bean crop failures across Argentina, Brazil and the US in 2012, according to a new attribution study.
Trump is tackling every 'emergency' except the important one: climate change
21 Mar 2025
To hear President Trump describe it, the U.S. is beset by emergencies. We allegedly have an energy emergency, a government waste emergency and a foreign trade emergency.
Trump vows to immediately ramp up US production of 'beautiful, clean coal'
20 Mar 2025
President Trump this week continued to make his environmental priorities clear by vowing to open up hundreds of coal power plants in the United States in an effort to advance competition against China.
Some US scientists stick with the IPCC despite the administration pulling out of international climate work
19 Mar 2025
A handful of U.S. researchers joined a critical meeting on climate and cities this week in Japan. "For me, this process is so important that if I had to self-fund, I would," said one.
The unexpected knock-on effect of Trump's minerals 'deal of the century'
18 Mar 2025
Donald Trump's return to the White House is a "major blow to global climate action". So said Christiana Figueres, the former UN climate chief, after he was elected in November.
The true cost of Trump's cuts to NOAA and NASA
17 Mar 2025
EDITORIAL: Not only will the cuts hinder the agencies' abilities to track and warn about upcoming severe weather events, they also hamper basic research into climate change, carried out to help humanity better prepare for the sweeping environmental upheaval already evident in a steadily warming world.
Trump officials decimate climate protections and consider axeing key greenhouse gas finding
14 Mar 2025
EPA takes aim at almost every major pollution rule in what environmentalists call act of 'malice toward the planet.'
Tech giants are complicit in an anti-climate agenda. Employees should be speaking up
14 Mar 2025
OPINION: As Big Tech bows to Donald Trump, employees should use their influence to engage coworkers and press their leaders for action.
Despite everything, US EV sales are up 28% this year
14 Mar 2025
In the US, customers are buying while there are still incentives and no extra tariffs.
US government terminates $20B in climate grants
13 Mar 2025
The move comes just one day before a federal judge will hold a hearing in a lawsuit brought by one of the grant recipients seeking access to the funds the Trump administration had frozen while it probed the program.
US Supreme Court rejects Republican-led effort to halt climate lawsuits against oil firms
12 Mar 2025
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a lawsuit from Republican attorneys general in 19 states aimed at blocking climate change suits against the oil and gas industry from Democratic-led states.
US withdraws from UN climate damage fund
11 Mar 2025
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from the United Nations climate damage fund that was established in 2023 to help developing countries most vulnerable to climate change when natural disasters strike.
US withdrawing from plan to help major polluters move from coal
7 Mar 2025
The United States is withdrawing from the Just Energy Transition Partnership, a collaboration between richer nations to help developing countries transition from coal to cleaner energy.
The fact that humans can only survive on Earth doesn't bother Trump - and I know why
7 Mar 2025
By George Monbiot | OPINION: He is surrounded by people who have grandiose plans and dreams beyond our planet. Vengeful nihilism is a big part of the Maga project.
Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber
6 Mar 2025
President's move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species.
US: EPA calls for watchdog to probe $20 billion climate fund
5 Mar 2025
The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund is at the center of a fight between the Trump administration and environmental groups seeking access to the funds that Congress approved under its massive climate legislation.
Trump's firings at US weather agency will put lives at risk, scientists say
4 Mar 2025
"There will be people who die in extreme weather events and related disasters who would not have otherwise."
Trump's war on climate science is pushing us into a dystopian future
3 Mar 2025
US President Donald Trump's latest war on the climate includes withdrawing support for any research that mentions the word.
US officials absent from global climate forums during Trump 2.0
28 Feb 2025
US officials have missed recent international climate forums sparking concerns about a potentially significant shift from Donald Trump's first term.
America's "first car-free neighborhood" is going pretty good, actually?
28 Feb 2025
Since breaking ground in 2021, Culdesac Tempe has had its share of detractors and skeptics. But none of them live there.
RFK Jr., onetime environmentalist, kills climate change programs
27 Feb 2025
In 1999, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then an environmental lawyer, was named by Time magazine as a "hero of the planet" for his pioneering work to clean up America's waterways. On February 14 of this year, his second day as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, he ended HHS funding for climate change and health programs at the National Institutes of Health, a move that will likely terminate this work.
Greenpeace risks bankruptcy at US pipeline trial
26 Feb 2025
Greenpeace has said that a lawsuit brought by an energy company over the Dakota Access Pipeline could wipe it out.
How Trump gutted climate policy in 30 days
25 Feb 2025
President Donald Trump's promised assault on federal climate policies is sweeping across Washington, state capitals and private industry with a speed that's surprising even some of his supporters and critics -- and could leave an impact on the planet's future well after his presidency.
US to pull delegation from UN climate science meeting
24 Feb 2025
State Department officials won't participate in next week's meeting of the top UN climate science panel, sources familiar with the matter told Axios.
US: Senior Department of Justice prosecutor quit after being told to investigate Biden climate spending
20 Feb 2025
The top criminal prosecutor in the Washington, DC, US Attorney's Office, Denise Cheung, resigned Tuesday after declining a request from her Trump-appointed superiors to open a grand jury investigation she viewed as premature.
There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here's how to survive if that happens
20 Feb 2025
OPINION: It could be wildfires, a pandemic or a financial crisis. The super-rich will flee to their bunkers - the rest of us will have to fend for ourselves.
US Energy Secretary backs coal and attacks 'sinister' climate targets
19 Feb 2025
The Trump appointee and fossil fuel executive called the transition to renewable energy "lunacy" at an event packed with climate science deniers.
US: Former EPA officials blast effort to rescind climate funds
18 Feb 2025
Former EPA officials are condemning the agency's new leadership for trying to claw back billions from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, calling waste claims from current administrator, Lee Zeldin, a 'smokescreen' to justify dismantling climate programs the Trump administration opposes.
'Life-threatening cold' expected as polar vortex stretches across US after deadly weekend flooding
18 Feb 2025
Harsh weather moved west on Monday as a polar vortex was expected to grip the Rockies and the northern Plains after winter storms pummeled the eastern U.S. over the weekend, killing at least 10 people, including nine victims in Kentucky who died during flooding from heavy rains.
As Trump administration purges climate data and web pages, research groups scramble to save information
13 Feb 2025
The Trump administration has directed federal agency staff to remove climate references and scientific data from many web pages. Researchers are rushing to archive it.
Falling costs drive US toward green energy - even as political tides shift
12 Feb 2025
The U.S. is barreling toward an energy transition as renewables - especially solar - become ever-cheaper sources of energy.
Trump administration moves to suspend national EV charger rollout
11 Feb 2025
The bid to freeze the money upends how the federal government delivers funding to states and may violate court orders issued this week.
"No future": Climate projects face existential threat after Trump's aid shutdown
7 Feb 2025
The Trump administration's attack on USAID puts at risk close to $500 million a year in grant-based climate funding for developing countries.
Trump's reversal of climate policies risks undermining U.S. manufacturing -- and could cost people jobs
7 Feb 2025
United States President Donald Trump's early executive actions have set American manufacturing on a collision course with his administration's fossil-fuel-driven agenda. It's clear that climate change policies run counter to his vision of American primacy.
US: More than 1000 Environmental Protection workers could be dismissed immediately
5 Feb 2025
The Trump administration has notified more than 1,000 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency that they could be dismissed immediately.
Living near active oil and gas wells may have increased risk of dying from COVID-19
5 Feb 2025
Californians who lived near the highest-producing wells were more likely to die of COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic, recent research shows.
USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites
4 Feb 2025
Agriculture Department employees have been ordered to delete landing pages discussing climate change across agency websites and document climate change references for further review, according to an internal email obtained by POLITICO.
US Treasury withdraws from global climate-related financial oversight initiative
3 Feb 2025
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Federal Insurance Office (FIO) has withdrawn from the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS).
California considers letting victims of natural disasters sue oil companies for damages
3 Feb 2025
Oil and gas companies would be liable for damages caused by climate change-related disasters in California under legislation introduced Monday by two Democratic lawmakers.
Yes, you can blame climate change for the LA wildfires
31 Jan 2025
Los Angeles wildfire season now lasts roughly 23 days longer than in preindustrial times.
Trump freezes $50 billion in funding, including for clean energy innovation
30 Jan 2025
The Trump administration has halted spending from the United States Department of Energy (DOE)'s approximately $50 billion budget while a 'comprehensive review' is conducted to ensure its spending and other actions - which include funding for new energy technologies - are in alignment with the priorities of President Donald Trump, according to an agency memo seen by Bloomberg.
Australian opposition poised for protracted brawl over climate targets
Today 10:45am
The financial cost to reach net zero by 2050 may shape the Coalition’s decision on whether to retain or abandon the target, the new shadow minister, Dan Tehan, says, as he prepares to lead a heavily contested internal review of the policy.
China's approvals of coal power plants grow after 2024 decline
Wed 11 Jun 2025
China approved 11.29 gigawatts of new coal power plants in the first three months of 2025, already exceeding the 10.34 GW approved in the first half of 2024.
Why the EU is about to cripple its next climate target
Today 10:45am
The European Commission is about to release a controversial new climate milestone, setting the bloc’s economic course for the next 15 years. Most EU governments, however, would prefer Brussels drop the issue.
Oil giant funds computer game that promotes fossil fuels to schoolchildren
9 Jun 2025
Equinor, the company looking to develop the Rosebank oil field in the North Sea, has funded a computer game aimed at UK school children, promoting the idea that fossil fuels are part of a green energy mix.
'This is classic climate change': Canada's Saskatchewan faces worst wildfire season in decades
4 Jun 2025
There have been 207 wildfires this year as of Friday – 40 more than in the same period last year.
Carbon capture projects promise a climate fix – and a fossil fuel lifeline
Wed 11 Jun 2025
Governments across Southeast Asia are looking at carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) as a way to meet climate targets.
Vanuatu criticises Australia for extending gas project while making COP31 bid
4 Jun 2025
Vanuatu’s climate minister has expressed disappointment over Australia’s decision to extend one of the world’s biggest liquefied natural gas projects and said it raises questions over its bid to co-host the COP31 summit with Pacific nations.
I just returned from Antarctica: climate change isn’t some far-off problem – it’s here and hitting hard
13 May 2025
Antarctica is often viewed as the last truly remote place on Earth – frozen, wild and untouched. But is it really as untouched as it seems?
Death toll from Nigeria flash floods rises to 151
3 Jun 2025
At least 151 people in central Nigeria are now known to have died following flash floods that destroyed homes and displaced thousands of residents earlier this week.
Pará’s Amazon forest carbon deal in doubt as prosecutors move to block it
Fri 13 Jun 2025
The Brazilian state’s contract with foreign governments and companies has run into trouble over concerns it was premature and agreed without consulting Indigenous communities.
UN University report warns against carbon credits from REDD, tree planting, and improved forest management
Fri 13 Jun 2025
But the report stops short of recommending banning the trade in carbon temporarily stored in trees.
