By Dharna Noor

Trump revoked the 2009 endangerment finding, the legal basis for nearly every federal climate rule under the Clean Air Act. The Guardian explains what gets dismantled if it holds, and the lawsuits already lining up to challenge it.

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By Dharna Noor

Environmental groups say ‘cynical and devastating’ reversal of endangerment finding has grave implications

The Trump administration has dismantled the basis for all US climate regulations, in its most confrontational anti-environment move yet.

The 2009 endangerment finding determined that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare and should therefore be controlled by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). By revoking it on Thursday, officials eliminated the legal foundation enabling the government to control planet-heating …

By Damian Carrington

Wildfires that left 23 people dead were made about three times more likely by global heating, researchers say

The climate crisis inflamed deadly wildfires that left 23 people dead in Chile and devastated forests in Argentina that host some of the world’s oldest trees, scientists have found.

The hot, dry and windy conditions that enabled the fires to blaze across huge areas in January were made about three times more likely by …

By Dharna Noor

Proposals by California, Hawaii and New York lawmakers aim to hold fossil fuel industry accountable for soaring rates

As climate disasters drive up the price of home insurance, three US states are considering empowering their state prosecutors to sue major polluters for their role in those rising costs.

Lawmakers in California, Hawaii and New York have introduced measures which would authorize their attorneys general to sue fossil fuel companies on behalf of …

By Oliver Milman and graphics by Andrew Witherspoon

Projects in development expected to grow global capacity by nearly 50% amid growing concern over impact on planet

The US is leading a huge global surge in new gas-fired power generation that will cause a major leap in planet-heating emissions, with this record boom driven by the expansion of energy-hungry datacenters to service artificial intelligence, according to a new forecast.

This year is set to shatter the …

By Michael Sainato and agencies

Snow, sleet, freezing rain and perilously cold temperatures forecast to sweep eastern two-thirds of nation

More than 700,000 households and businesses in the US are without power and more than 10,000 flights were cancelled as a monster winter storm moved into the north-eastern states bringing heavy snowfall.

Forecasters said snow, sleet, freezing rain and dangerously frigid temperatures would sweep the eastern two-thirds of the nation on Sunday and into next …

By Oliver Milman

Experts decry move to leave UNFCCC as ‘embarrassing’ as president orders withdrawal from 66 international groups

Donald Trump has sparked outrage by announcing the US will exit the foundational international agreement to address the climate crisis, cementing the US’s utter isolation from the global effort to confront dangerously escalating temperatures.

In a presidential memorandum issued on Wednesday, Trump withdrew from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), along with 65 other …

By Dharna Noor and Oliver Milman

‘Everybody loses’ if production supercharged in country with largest known oil reserves, critics say

Donald Trump, by dramatically seizing Nicolás Maduro and claiming dominion over Venezuela’s vast oil reserves, has taken his “drill, baby, drill” mantra global. Achieving the president’s dream of supercharging the country’s oil production would be financially challenging – and if fulfilled, would be “terrible for the climate”, experts say.

Trump has aggressively sought to boost …

By Steve Curwood

The activist and author of Here Comes the Sun discusses rapid advances in solar and wind power and how the US ceded leadership in the sector to its main rival

Bill McKibben’s book The End of Nature, published in 1989, warned early of the dangers of climate changes and he has been campaigning and writing ever since. His most recent book, Here Comes the Sun, takes a look at the soaring potential …

By Lisa Friedman, Brad Plumer, and Jack Healy

Russell Vought, the White House budget director, called the laboratory a source of “climate alarmism.”.

The Trump administration said it will be dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, one of the world’s leading Earth science research institutions.

The center, founded in 1960, is responsible for many of the biggest scientific advances in humanity’s understanding of weather and climate. Its research aircraft and sophisticated computer …

By Somini Sengupta

The California governor painted the president as a threat to American competitiveness by letting China dominate the renewable energy industry.

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California on Tuesday cast himself as the “stable and reliable” American partner to the world, called a reported White House proposal to open offshore drilling in the waters off California “disgraceful” and urged his fellow Democrats to recast climate change as a “cost of living issue.”

Mr. Newsom, …

France became the first country in the world to legally require supermarkets to donate unsold food to charities and food banks. According to Zero Waste Europe, stores over 400 square meters must sign agreements with food banks or charities to redistribute unsold but safe-to-eat items. This includes fresh produce, packaged goods near expiration, and other surplus stock. The law also prohibits supermarkets from intentionally spoiling food, such as pouring bleach on discarded items.

This legislation …

By Brad Plumer and Lisa Friedman

The Trump administration had halted construction on the $6.2 billion Revolution Wind project, prompting its developer to sue.

A federal judge ruled on Monday that the Danish energy company Orsted could restart work on Revolution Wind, a large wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that is nearly complete but had been abruptly halted last month by the Trump administration.

Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court …

By Oliver Milman

Separate research found that at the current rate of global heating, more than 70,000 people will die in the US by 2050

Smoke billowing from wildfires will cause a growing number of deaths around the world in the decades ahead as the planet continues to heat up, new research has found.

Wildfire smoke is expected to kill as many as 1.4 million people globally each year by the end of the century …

By David Wallace-Wells

How do we think about the climate future, now that the era marked by the Paris Agreement has so utterly disappeared?

Ten years ago this fall, scientists and diplomats from 195 countries gathered in Le Bourget, just north of Paris, and hammered out a plan to save the world. They called it, blandly, the Paris Agreement, but it was obviously a climate-politics landmark: a nearly universal global pledge to stave off catastrophic …

By Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo

Rock structure which served as backdrop to countless proposals disappears into the Adriatic after storm

The famous arch of the sea stacks at Sant’Andrea in Melendugno, Puglia, Italy, popularly known as Lovers’ Arch, collapsed on Valentine’s Day after strong storm surges and heavy rain swept across southern Italy.

The rocky arch, one of the best-known natural landmarks on the Adriatic coast, got its name as it served as a backdrop …

Many of us sense that our electricity use and the fuel in our tanks connect us to destructive global forces.

Here's some good news for a change!

In the last several months, for the first time in human history, renewable energy has become the cheapest form of electricity on Earth!

Now that solar, battery storage and wind turbines are simply cheaper and beating dirty coal and fossil fuel energy generation around the world, we find …

MOSCOW (Dunya News) - On the night of February 1–2, 2026, residents in St. Petersburg, Russia, and surrounding areas witnessed a rare and stunning atmospheric phenomenon where the moon appeared to be accompanied by three other luminous orbs, creating a "four moons" effect.

The rare spectacle quickly caught public attention, with photos and videos spreading rapidly across social media platforms.

In the viral footage, it initially appears as if the moon has split into multiple …

By Rev. Billy

The behemoth cannot be fully taken in. New York’s latest supertall rises into the sky like a steel interstate disappearing around the curvature of the Earth. You don’t know how this building is possible, and standing on the street corner looking up, you aren’t sure you want to know. It's the ultimate gesture of USA post-war capitalism. It is Big Oil meets Infinite Credit meets Distraction meets War.

The violence of this …

By Lisa Friedman and Steven Lee Myers

Shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined international efforts to respond to the threat.

When nearly 200 nations signed the 2015 Paris Agreement, acknowledging the threat of rising global temperatures and vowing action, many hoped that the era of climate denial was finally over.

Ten years later it has roared back, arguably stronger than ever.

As delegates wrapped the annual United Nations climate talks last …

By Steve Rose

At Maple Farm, nature is returning in droves: nightingales, grass snakes, slowworms, bats and insects. All due to the vision of a group determined to accelerate its recovery

The manically melodic song of the nightingale is a rare sound in Britain these days, but not at Maple Farm. Four years ago, a single bird could be heard at this secluded spot in rural Surrey; this summer, they were everywhere. “We were hearing …

By Brad Plumer

The assessment contradicts the Trump administration’s legal arguments for relaxing pollution rules.

The nation’s leading scientific advisory body issued a major report on Wednesday detailing the strongest evidence to date that carbon dioxide, methane and other planet-warming greenhouse gases are threatening human health.

The report, published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, is significant because it could complicate the Trump administration’s efforts to revoke a landmark scientific determination, known …

By Brad Plumer

Mr. Trump is trying to revive coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel. At the White House, coal executives awarded him a trophy as the “Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal.”

President Trump on Wednesday directed the Pentagon to start buying more electricity from coal-burning power plants as part of his efforts to revive the declining coal industry.

Mr. Trump signed an executive order directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to enter into long-term contracts …

By Dharna Noor

Rollback of government’s ability to limit climate-heating pollution will make families ‘sicker and less safe’, environmental advocate says

The Trump administration has revoked the bedrock scientific determination that gives the government the ability to regulate climate-heating pollution. The move was described as a gift to “billionaire polluters” at the expense of Americans’ health.

The endangerment finding, which states that the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere endangers public health and welfare, …

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By Holly Young

Major emitter the US has officially left the Paris Agreement and global emissions keep rising a decade on from the deal. Yet renewables' growth shows climate action can work. Here's what's been done and what's missing.

As the gavel came down to seal the Paris Agreement in 2015, tears fell, world leaders joined hands and attendees of the UN COP21 climate summit erupted in a standing ovation.

Just over a decade later …

By Miacel Spotted Elk

The agency’s plan would narrow water quality reviews and make it harder for tribes to enforce treaty rights.

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal to revise the Clean Water Act, specifically a section of the law that regulates water quality and limits states’ and tribes’ authority over federal projects, as well as how tribes can gain the authority to conduct those reviews. Experts say the move would …

By Isaaq Tomkins and Darragh Peter Murphy

Trust had $254m invested in companies such as Chevron, BP and Shell in 2024, a nine-year record, analysis shows

The Gates Foundation Trust holds hundreds of millions of dollars in fossil fuel extractors despite Bill Gates’ claims of divestment made in 2019.

End-of-year filings reveal that in 2024 the trust invested $254m in companies that extract fossil fuels such as Chevron, BP and Shell. This was a nine-year …

By Damian Carrington Environment editor

Exclusive: Getting rid of premium seats, ensuring flights are near full and using efficient aircraft could slash CO2, analysis suggests

Climate-heating emissions from aviation could be slashed in half – without reducing passenger journeys – by getting rid of premium seats, ensuring flights are near full and using the most efficient aircraft, according to analysis.

These efficiency measures could be far more effective in tackling the fast-growing carbon footprint of …

CHRIS MELORE, US ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITOR

Mark Zuckerberg has found himself at the center of an embarrassing climate change flip-flop, thanks to his $300 million mega yacht.

The 41-year-old Meta boss, worth roughly $230 billion, has reportedly been burning hundreds of thousands of gallons of diesel fuel since launching his personal, 387-foot vessel last year.

The yacht, dubbed Launchpad, runs on four diesel engines that use about 291 gallons of fuel every hour, which allegedly …

By Jonathan Watts

Day three at the Belem summit is expected to see more protests as crucial climate negotiations begin in earnest

A fluvial adrenalin rush flooded into the COP30 host city of Belém on Wednesday morning with the arrival of a flotilla of more than 100 boats, carrying indigenous activists, forest defenders and other civil society campaigners.

Singing, chanting and waving flags and banners declaring “Fight for the Right to Life” and “No to …

By Sara Schonhardt

Ten years after nations adopted the Paris Agreement, its objectives are in jeopardy amid rising climate pollution and a political backlash against clean energy.

It’s been a decade since the U.S. and Europe pushed the world to embrace a historic agreement to stop the planet’s runaway warming.

The deal among nearly 200 nations offered a potential “turning point for the world,” then-U.S. President Barack Obama said. Eventually, almost every country on Earth …

By Catrin Einhorn

Offshore turbines let Block Island shut down soot-spewing, earsplitting diesel generators. There were other benefits, too.

Block Island, a beloved summer destination off the coast of Rhode Island that’s home to about a thousand year-round residents, is known for unspoiled beaches, dramatic bluffs and charming Victorian inns.

And, more recently, for the nation’s first commercial offshore wind farm.

The turbines started delivering electricity in 2016, the year Donald J. Trump was first …

By David Gelles

International collaboration on climate change is fraying. The Trump administration withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement, the 2015 treaty aiming to limit global warming, and has penalized the renewable-energy business and promoted fossil fuels. Ten years after Paris, a vast majority of countries are not on pace to meet their climate targets. With the United States sidelined and China ascendant as a clean-energy superpower, the global map of alliances on …

By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey

Fifty-five years after the first Earth Day, climate activists are organizing a nationwide celebration of solar power on Sunday.

On Friday morning, Susan Millar was readying her home in Madison, Wis., for an open house. But she wasn’t trying to sell it. Instead, Ms. Millar opened her doors to a dozen strangers curious to see her heat pump, solar panels, battery storage and electric induction stove.

It was an early peek …

By Brooke Jarvis

Many of Southern California’s plants and animals evolved with fire as part of their life cycles. Can they weather the worsening fires to come?

Severe heat this summer killed three times as many people in European cities as would have died had humans not warmed the planet by burning fossil fuels, scientists said Wednesday.

The new analysis was based on historical mortality trends, not actual death records, which are not yet widely …