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DECEMBER 22. 2025

The Pentagon is hoarding critical minerals that could power the clean energy transition

The Department of Defense is stockpiling cobalt, lithium, and other minerals at the expense of climate action, a new report warns.

Georgia’s hunters take aim at rural hunger

With rural food programs stretched especially thin and climate change driving up prices, meat donations and local initiatives are trying to fill the gap.

DECEMBER 21. 2025

Ford is retreating from EVs — but embracing grid batteries

Amid its $20B EV failure, the storied automaker will retool a Kentucky plant to try and break into the booming energy storage sector.

DECEMBER 20. 2025

What a crumbling power grid means for disabled Americans

Angela Frederick’s new book calls to put disability at the center of disaster planning.

DECEMBER 19. 2025

Alaska’s $44 billion bet on natural gas

No-bid deals, undisclosed contracts, and millions already spent: Inside the wild story of the Alaska gas pipeline that will not die.

One word sums up climate politics in 2025: Greenlash

The years leading up to 2025 were marked by a rare optimism that the United States would finally do something about climate change. Former president Joe Biden called the crisis an “enormous opportunity, ” and during his term, Congress passed the biggest climate law in the country’s history. It felt like the U. S.

DECEMBER 18. 2025

We’re all at risk if Trump dismantles this legendary lab

Breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research would be a "genuinely shocking self-inflicted wound. "

Here’s the global playbook being used to crack down on climate protest

A new study finds that repression of environmental protest is rising worldwide and Indigenous land defenders face the greatest risk.