By Jonathan Watts

Despite working on polar science for the British Antarctic Survey for 20 years, Louise Sime finds the magnitude of potential sea-level rise hard to comprehend

For more than 20 years, Louise Sime has worked at the British Antarctic Survey specialising in polar climate dynamics. She uses ice cores to reconstruct past conditions and predict future changes. She now leads several international Earth modelling projects.

Why are the Arctic and Antarctic regions important …

By Michael Kimmelman, Photographs by Adali Schell

Los Angeles was built near a desert.

And it takes a colossal infrastructure to transport water to the city.

But large-scale construction isn’t the only way the city has quenched its thirst.

Years of drought forced the city to rethink its water usage and, almost under the radar, to remake its identity.

You’ve probably come across more stories about water woes in California than you can recall, so …

By Jonathan Watts

Carlos Nobre, who has fought for decades to save the rainforest, says up to 70% of it could be lost if a tipping point is reached

For more than three decades, Brazilian climate scientist Carlos Nobre has warned that deforestation of the Amazon could push this globally important ecosystem past the point of no return. Working first at Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research and more recently at the University of São …

Peter Muiruri in Nairobi

Maasai pastoralists living by the national park in Kenya’s capital are helping wildlife with a crucial migratory route through their land – at great risk to their cherished cattle

Nairobi national park in Kenya is the only large wildlife conservation area to fall within a capital city. It is hemmed in on three sides by human development, and unfenced only on its southern boundary – this gap providing a crucial wildlife …

[UPDATED 6/16] Summary & Analysis of SENR Reconciliation Bill Text

The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee budget reconciliation bill text released June 11, and updated June 14, includes a range of extraordinary giveaways aimed at privatizing public lands and advancing energy dominance at the expense of public lands and resources.

Key takeaways on the public lands sell-off title:
The bill forces the arbitrary sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and …

By Ayurella Horn-Muller

Port Heiden is facing an energy crisis.

For the fewer than a hundred people that make up the entire population of Port Heiden, Alaska, fishing provides both a paycheck and a full dinner plate. Every summer, residents of the Alutiiq village set out on commercial boats to catch salmon swimming upstream in the nearby rivers of Bristol Bay.

John Christensen, Port Heiden’s tribal president, is currently making preparations for the annual trek. …

By Phil McKenna

These projects, meanwhile, will “extend our dependency on natural gas for decades.”

More than three-quarters of new gas pipeline capacity under development in the US would feed additional liquefied natural gas exports rather than supporting domestic energy needs, a new report concludes.

More than three-quarters of new gas pipeline capacity under development in the US would feed additional liquefied natural gas exports rather than supporting domestic energy needs, a new report concludes.

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By James Temple

Tens of millions of dollars in NSF grants have been slashed, and scientists fear the US is about to lose a generation of climate researchers.

The Trump administration has terminated National Science Foundation grants for more than 100 research projects related to climate change amid a widening campaign to slash federal funding for scientists and institutions studying the rising risks of a warming world.

The move will cut off what’s likely to …

By Amazon Employees for Climate Justice

Our Research Report

In 2018, Amazon had no comprehensive plan to address the climate crisis; it didn’t even release carbon footprint data. So a group of us tech workers came together and decided to change that.

We first tried to use our power as shareholders to file a resolution as a group, asking for Amazon to release a climate plan. We wrote and circulated an open letter, gathering over …

By Jeremy Yurow

Environmentalists say gold exploration threatens Cook Inlet's last 331 beluga whales and pristine Alaskan waterways.

(CN) — Environmental groups have sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for approving a controversial gold mining project near Lake Clark National Park, aiming to protect the last few hundred beluga whales in Alaska’s Cook Inlet.

Filed in federal court in Anchorage, the lawsuit describes the project as a direct threat to the species' very existence. …

By Hiroko Tabuchi
The 36-page official national strategy document bears the presidential seal and involves 10 agencies from across the federal government.

It isn’t the government’s policy on tariffs or border security. It’s President Trump’s master plan to eradicate paper straws and bring back plastic.

“My Administration is committed,” the document declares, to “ridding us of the pulpy, soggy mess that torments too many of our citizens whenever they drink through a paper straw.”

It’s …

By Jillian Ambrose

Donald Trump’s upending of the global economy has raised fears that climate action could emerge as a casualty of the trade war.

In the week that has followed “liberation day”, economic experts have warned that the swathe of tariffs could trigger a global economic recession, with far-reaching consequences for investors – including those behind the green energy projects needed to meet climate goals.

Fears of a prolonged global recession have also tanked …

By Katharine Gammon

Above the whirring of 300,000 cars each day on Los Angeles’s 101 freeway, an ambitious project is taking shape. The Wallis Annenberg wildlife crossing is the largest wildlife bridge in the world at 210ft long and 174ft wide, and this week it’s had help taking shape: soil.

“This is the soul of the project,” says Beth Pratt, regional executive director, California, at the National Wildlife Federation, who has worked on making the …

By Joe Fassler

Study shows firms in Colorado, including Chevron, have pumped 30m lbs of chemicals in 18 months without meeting all disclosure rules

Colorado oil and gas companies have pumped at least 30m lbs of secret chemicals into the ground over the past 18 months without making legally required disclosures, according to a new analysis.

That’s in spite of first-in-the-nation rules requiring operators and their suppliers to list all chemicals used in drilling and …

Associated Press

US agency will no longer update major weather database in latest showing of Trump’s influence on climate resources

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) will no longer track the cost of climate crisis-fueled weather disasters, including floods, heatwaves, wildfires and more. It is the latest example of changes to the agency and the Trump administration limiting federal government resources on climate change.

Noaa falls under the US Department of Commerce and is …

By Gabrielle Canon, Nina Lakhani, Oliver Milman and Dharna Noor

Donald Trump has never been mistaken for an environmentalist, having long called the climate crisis a “giant hoax” and repeatedly lauding the supposed virtues of fossil fuels.

But the US president’s onslaught upon the natural world in this administration’s first 100 days has surprised even those who closely charted his first term, in which he rolled back environmental rules and tore the US from the …

Martin Pengelly in Washington

David A Graham doesn’t say he read Project 2025 so you don’t have to, but it might be inferred.

The Atlantic staff writer’s new book, The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America, is a swift but thorough overview of the vast far-right plan for a second Trump administration that achieved notoriety last year. Over just 138 pages, a passing dream next to the Heritage Foundation’s 922-page doorstop, Graham considers the …

We’re in shock, PLEASE read this >>Alarming things have happened that we all need to know about. Read ALL the pics. Trump has manufactured a crisis in our National Forests so logging can begin immediately BUT the forests are just the tip of the iceberg.

We did some digging on Brooke Rollins (USDA head) & uncovered something scary AF. Ever heard of AFPI? Brooke is a Founder & their agenda is as terrifying as Project …

By Fiona Harvey Environment editor

Poor countries have accused the rich world of “backsliding” and betrayal of their climate commitments, as they desperately tried to keep alive a long-awaited deal to cut carbon from shipping.

Nations from 175 countries have gathered in London this week at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to hammer out the final details of a deal, more than a decade in the making, that could finally deliver a plan to decarbonise …

By William J. Broad

The National Hurricane Center will experiment with the company’s DeepMind program to enhance the work of its expert meteorologists.

For the first time, the National Hurricane Center in Miami is working with an artificial intelligence company to improve its forecasts of the powerful storms that kill thousands of people globally every year. The Atlantic season has just begun and runs through November.

DeepMind, a Google company based in London, announced on …

By Andrew Gregory Health editor

Exclusive: Doctors say clean air zones need expanding, after 45,458 visits in first half of this year – up from 31,376 last year

The number of patients being treated by GPs for asthma attacks has increased by 45% in a year, prompting calls for urgent action to tackle toxic levels of air pollution.

There were 45,458 presentations to family doctors in England between January and June this year, according to …

By Maxine Joselow

They love hunting, fishing and conservatism. And they hate a plan by a conservative senator to sell millions of acres of public lands.

Cameron Hanes is not a typical environmental advocate. An avid hunter and MAGA influencer, he recently boasted to his 1.7 million Instagram followers about killing a brown bear and turning its claw into a necklace.

But in recent weeks, Mr. Hanes has used his platform to denounce a plan …

By Cecilia Nowell

Agriculture secretary to scrap ‘roadless rule’ that protects lands including largest old growth forest in country

The Trump administration will rescind protections that prevent logging on nearly a third of national forest lands, including the largest old growth forest in the country, the agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, announced on Monday.

The announcement will be followed by a formal notice rescinding the “roadless rule”, a nickname for the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, …

By Lesley Clark, Niina H. Farah

The Supreme Court cleared the way for fuel producers to pursue their lawsuit over California’s vehicle emission rules in a lower court.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a group of fuel producers, allowing a lawsuit that seeks to block California’s ability to set tighter vehicle emissions standards to move forward.

The justices Friday ruled in a 7-2 decision that the fossil fuel and biofuel companies had shown …

By Mickal Aranha in Catacocha, Ecuador

When historian Galo Ramón uncovered a long-forgotten pre-Incan water system in Ecuador, he set about restoring it, and helped transform the landscape and livelihoods

One day in 1983, while studying a hand-drawn map from 1792 of his home town in Ecuador, Galo Ramón, a historian, came across a dispute between a landowner and two local Indigenous communities, the Coyana and the Catacocha. The boundary conflict involved an ancient lagoon, …

By Molly Taft

Here’s how to find reliable information and keep safe during the summer heat and hurricane season following the unprecedented cuts at federal agencies.

Forecasters within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predict this summer’s hurricane season, which started June 1, will be “above average” in terms of activity. NOAA’s temperature outlook, meanwhile, also forecasts hotter-than-usual temperatures across the whole US this summer.

But as climate change juices up severe storms and …

LOVE EARTH

Protect her ecosystems.
Make sure Earth is safe from fossil fuel use, which should stop today.
Fossil Fuels are the biggest threat to the Climate, and the Climate changing the way it is has become the biggest threat to our own well being.

Countries need leaders brave enough to take this on.

The US is going in the wrong direction, virtually denying Climate Change exists - even banning use of the words 'Climate …

Emily Jones

Critics argue the projects losing funding aren’t "woke," they’re essential.

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WABE, Atlanta’s NPR station.

Thomasville, Georgia, has a water problem. Its treatment system is far out of date, posing serious health and environmental risks.

“We have wastewater infrastructure that is old,” said Sheryl Sealy, the assistant city manager for this city of 18,881 near the Florida border, about 45 minutes from Tallahassee. …

By Manasee Wagh

If the U.S. could tap into just 2 percent of the geothermal power beneath Earth’s crust, it could supply more than 2,000 times our total annual energy consumption.

Anew type of geothermal power plant has sprung up in the Nevada desert. It started with the drilling of two deep bore holes to a depth of about 1.5 miles through rocky sediment and sandtone, where temperatures were up to 380 degrees Fahrenheit. Then …

By Carrie Klein

Satellite imagery shows the worst sites worldwide for oil slicks and methane emissions. Report authors expect pollution will only increase as the Trump administration opens more waters to drilling.

April 20 marked 15 years since BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, releasing 134 million gallons of oil off the coast of Louisiana in the country’s largest oil spill.

Oil gushed for nearly three months, covering an area on the surface of the water …

The Hawaiian hawksbill is one of the rarest sea turtles on Earth—fewer than 100 adult females are known to nest across the islands. Each year, they return to the same fragile beaches on the southern coast to lay their eggs. If those nesting grounds are lost, so is the species.

Now, Trump is launching a brutal attack that could seal their fate—gutting one of the world’s strongest wildlife laws to make way for corporate destruction.

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Associated Press

The US justice department on Wednesday filed lawsuits against Hawaii and Michigan over their planned legal action against fossil fuel companies for harms caused by the climate crisis, claiming the state actions conflict with federal government authority and Donald Trump’s energy dominance agenda.

The suits, which legal experts say are unprecedented, mark the latest of the Trump administration’s attacks on environmental work and raise concern over states’ abilities to retain the power to …

By Damian Carrington

A huge 89% majority of the world’s people want stronger action to fight the climate crisis but feel they are trapped in a self-fulfilling “spiral of silence” because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research suggests.

Making people aware that their pro-climate view is, in fact, by far the majority could unlock a social tipping point and push leaders into the climate action so urgently needed, experts say.

The data …

Gabrielle Canon, with graphics by Andrew Witherspoon

Communities across the US that were once considered beyond the reach of wildfires are now vulnerable to disaster. As fires increasingly spread deep into neighborhoods, researchers estimate roughly 115 million people – more than a third of the US population – live in areas that could host the next fire catastrophe.

The understanding that many more Americans are at risk of losing their homes to wildfires comes as …