Climate

A new report suggests that some governments have ignored legal obligations to prevent climate harm for decades.

Record-breaking dust storms sent pollution levels soaring in China and the US-Mexico border region in 2025, disrupting transport, shutting schools and airports, and sending thousands to emergency rooms, according to a new World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report.

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Oil giant has denied involvement, but climate activists are closely watching court case against Israeli private investigator for answers

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Worsening climate impacts, corporate greenwashing, and slow government action have driven communities across Asia to the courts.

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Under Joe Biden, green capitalists primarily sold commodities to help wealthier homeowners decarbonize. Real climate action will require a much more robust public-oriented politics of public investment, public goods, and public ownership.

Estonia, Luxembourg and UK are the top three in biennial Yale University index in tackling pollution and other issues

At the same time, as the AC became ubiquitous in America, “many architects stopped designing buildings for their specific context,” said Sonia Chao, associate dean of architecture at the University of Miami and author of Calibrating Coastal Resilience. “What we have today are buildings in South Florida that look a lot like the buildings being built in California or Arizona,” or more temperate climates, when in fact “we really shouldn’t be building in the same ways.”

This might suggest that the ‘human-caused’ framing is more complete as it accounts for a range of human activities which have altered our climate over this particular time period.

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After the rule was proposed last year, it triggered roughly 220,000 public comments. About 99 percent were against the change, according to an analysis by The New York Times that used artificial intelligence.

Permits reviewed by Floodlight show that nine of them combined could emit more than 130 million tons of greenhouse gases every year. That’s equivalent to the annual emissions of 35 coal-fired power plants, according to an Environmental Protection Agency calculator.

Computer simulations are vital to the work scientists and insurers do. The resulting studies may also be used to hold companies and governments liable for damage caused by climate change.

An Inside Climate News series that showed the often-hidden environmental impacts of China’s trillion-dollar global development push is a finalist for the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism.

Composition diagram showing the evolution/cycles of various elements in Earth’s atmosphere. Original subscript: Schematic of chemical and transport processes related to atmospheric composition. These processes link the atmosphere with other components of the Earth system, including the oceans, land, and terrestrial and marine plants and animals.

The diagram shows the storage and exchange of nitrogen between the atmosphere and the biosphere, highlighting the role of bacteria. The atmosphere is about 78% nitrogen.

This figure is a simplified, schematic representation of the flows of energy between space, the atmosphere, and the Earth’s surface, and shows how these flows combine to trap heat near the surface and create the greenhouse effect. Energy exchanges are expressed in watts per square meter (W/m2).

The diagram shows the storage and exchange of water between the atmosphere, the geosphere (land) and the oceans. Transformations of water between ice, liquid and vapour are shown, as is the terminology for these transformations.

This carbon cycle diagram shows the storage and annual exchange of carbon between the atmosphere, hydrosphere (oceans) and geosphere (land) in gigatons - or billions of tons - of Carbon (GtC). Burning fossil fuels by people adds about 5.5 GtC of carbon per year into the atmosphere.

Only coverage so far I think.

Extreme weather is already fueling higher insurance premiums and grocery prices. A new study based on Santa Cruz, California suggests water rates are also at risk.

Hotter temperatures and harsher droughts could cause Indigenous societies to lose many of the species they have used for medicine, rituals and more, scientists found.

The $5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), which will transport crude from Uganda’s Albertine Graben to Tanzania’s Tanga port, is nearly completed, after years of delays and controversies surrounding the project. The development of EACOP is being led by French supermajor TotalEnergies along with the Chinese state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC).

For decades, investment models at the largest private equity funds relied on assumptions of relatively stable weather patterns. Now frequent extreme events are creating new threats for their portfolio companies.

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