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OCTOBER 29. 2025

Scientists have a dire new warning about the state of the planet

Recent climatic developments "mark the beginning of a grim new chapter for life on Earth, " but it's not too late for radical action.

Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground. Oklahoma regulators failed to stop it.

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from Oklahoma oil wells.

Trump killed a crucial disaster database. This nonprofit just saved it.

Climate Central revived the federal list of billion-dollar disasters, another example of nonprofits providing data the government deletes.

OCTOBER 28. 2025

The West’s new gold rush is the data center boom

The tech industry’s soaring electricity and water demands are raising consumer rates and threatening sustainability goals.

In New York, a pipeline proposal that just won’t die

Why some think a “lurid political shakedown” by President Trump will get a pipeline built off Rockaway Beach.

What we lost when cars won

Americans once feared cars. Now we can’t imagine life without them.

OCTOBER 27. 2025

How Hurricane Melissa got so dangerous so fast

As the storm threatens Jamaica, "the role climate change has played in making Hurricane Melissa incredibly dangerous is undeniable. "

Drought is quietly pushing American cities toward a fiscal cliff

Drought is set to pose a greater risk to the $4 trillion municipal bond market than floods, hurricanes, and wildfires combined.

OCTOBER 26. 2025

Trump targets federal employees working on conservation and environmental protection

A new round of furlough notices were issued to EPA employees last week, while the Interior Department disclosed plans to cut positions affecting national parks, endangered species, and toxic contamination research.

OCTOBER 25. 2025

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country

Three specimens were discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects.

OCTOBER 24. 2025

Where the Appalachian brook trout vanish, something human goes missing, too

As climate change reshapes the Blue Ridge, Appalachia’s native trout are losing ground - but anglers and scientists are racing to save them.

Fossil fuel companies say they support the energy transition. New numbers suggest otherwise.

A new study shows that fossil fuel companies own less than 2 percent of renewable energy projects worldwide.

OCTOBER 23. 2025

Why one of the world’s greenest countries is betting its future on oil

Suriname says it can build an oil industry without harming the planet. Is it climate pragmatism — or wishful thinking?

The entire world was ready to reduce shipping emissions. Then Trump stepped in.

After Trump threatened countries with tariffs and visa restrictions, a first-ever global carbon tax is left to an uncertain future.