Climate
Federal Plan to Elevate Miami Homes Meets Skepticism
Just in time for Halloween, floodwaters washed into South Florida businesses and submerged roads, forcing residents to drive and walk through shin-high water in what officials cal…
How penguin poo is making Antarctic snow melt faster
Researchers find the birds’ guano feeds algal blooms that absorb significantly more solar energyPenguin poo is making the Antarctic snow melt faster, a study shows. As temperature…
Democrats Seize Congress, Statehouses in Referendum on the Economy
Democrats on Tuesday won control of both houses of Congress and a decisive mandate to put a check on Donald Trump’s tumultuous presidency, a victory propelled by voter anger over …
Kashmir’s potato pits are vanishing – and generations of knowledge could be buried for ever
Farmers in Gurez store their harvests underground to last the Himalayan winter. As the practice fades, local varieties and handed-down skills are disappearing tooHajra Begum rolls…
US Loses a Football Field of Forest Every 2 Minutes
A new satellite tracking system finds that the United States has lost 350,000 acres of forest land per year—a rate of approximately one football field every two minutes—which is t…
Few Repercussions for Oil Firm’s Continued Leaks After Couple’s Death From Toxic Gas
This article was first reported by The Examination, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates global health threats. When Rachel Curtis visited her 86-year-old grandmother in Odessa,…
UK makes huge aid cuts to Commonwealth nations despite warm words at Chogm summit
Nations in the group fare worse than others, with funding for nature projects especially hard hit even as climate crisis intensifies global needThe UK government has slashed overs…
Is It Better to Speak, or to ‘Hush’?
Hi, I’m Kate Waxman, and this is my first edition of Today’s Climate. I’m taking this newsletter over from my colleague Kiley Price, who I admire for her sharp coverage. I’m a Flo…
Great Britain’s worst-ever bluetongue season ‘a major animal welfare crisis’
British Veterinary Association president tells MPs surge in cases putting farmers under severe pressure and stressThe worst bluetongue season on record has been a major animal wel…
New tool will help gardeners move away from thirsty English classics to drought-resistant plants
Exclusive: Garden Climate Assessment Tool will allow users to predict a plant’s response to the projected climate in a given location“In the 20th century, we could pretty much gro…
US Buildings Lost to Wildfires Could Triple By 2060
The number of buildings across the contiguous United States threatened by wildfires could almost triple by 2060, according to a new study, if the country continues to ignore the p…
EPA Pulls the Plug on Regulating Air Pollution From Giant Livestock and Poultry Operations
The Environmental Protection Agency late last week announced it would end a 20-plus-year effort to develop methods to monitor air pollution from factory farms, effectively shutter…
‘Bookkeeping Trick’ and Fuzzy Math Conceal the Climate Impacts of Beef, Researchers Say
Climate negotiators head to Turkey next month for the United Nations annual climate summit, just two months after an alarming U.N. report said the world has a vanishing chance of …
ICE, inflation and Trump: gen Z readers share their concerns heading into the voting both
Young voters have many of the same concerns as the larger voting cohort, even if many are not registered to voteThe 2026 US midterms are approaching against a backdrop of growing …
A lackluster response to North Carolina flooding disasters is eroding Republican support in one county
At more than $52m, the race has become the most expensive in US history, but residents are fed up with floodingAida Havel mulled her fate over coffee after working the early votin…
Hurricane Damage to a Florida Domestic Violence Shelter Shows Climate’s Stress on Vulnerable Groups
The call came late on a Wednesday afternoon in October, when the forecast cone stopped wobbling and started pointing steadily toward the Florida Panhandle. Tracie Hodson, who runs…
China Bets on Renewable Energy to Gain an AI Edge
As demand for artificial intelligence surges worldwide, China is looking to its renewable energy sector for an advantage in the race to build the data centers that fuel the techno…
Conservatives like me embrace conservation. Why the Coalition’s chainsaw approach to climate?
The radical assault on longstanding measures to drive down Australia’s emissions and facilitate decarbonisation seems almost pathologicalSign up for climate and environment editor…
Cryosphere faces permanent damage when world overshoots 1.5C, scientists warn
UN-backed report finds even temporary rises above Paris agreement target could cause harm to glaciers and polar ice sheetsEarth’s icy regions face such dangerous melting that glob…
The Amazonian Community That Beat Big Oil Is Sharing Its Secrets
SARAYAKU, Ecuador—The canoe motor rattled against the current as Guisel Marworno and Wagner Karipuna traveled down the Bobonaza River. The Brazilian Indigenous leaders had come se…
Rural Charms Drew Residents to Taylor, Texas. Then Came the Data Centers.
TAYLOR, Texas—A red thresher cuts across the countryside off County Road 401 in Taylor, leaving behind tufts of discarded stalks as farmers prepare to plant seeds for the next yea…
Will Josh Shapiro’s Data Center Past Haunt his Political Future?
Perhaps no issue has tested the political agility of Pennsylvania’s popular Gov. Josh Shapiro over the past two years more than data centers. In about 20 months, Shapiro went fro…
Colorado River Basin Candidates Wade Into Water Politics, but Winners Are Unlikely to Make Big Changes
In Nevada, Attorney General and Democratic candidate for governor Aaron Ford’s campaign has said Gov. Joe Lombardo, a Republican, “botched negotiations” over the future of the Col…
A Year After Floodwaters Swept Away an Alaskan Native Village, Residents Remain in Limbo
KWIGILLINGOK, Alaska—Lucy Martin’s family was among the last to be evacuated from Kwigillingok, a Yup’ik village a quarter mile from the Bering Sea that was devastated by Typhoon …