Politics
Solutions
Trending
Become a monthly donor to TDC
From around the web
A woman holding an inhaler up to her face.

Study finds US asthma inhalers produce same emissions as 500,000 cars

The inhalers people depend on to breathe are also warming the planet, producing annual emissions equivalent to more than half a million cars in the United States alone, researchers have said in a major new study.

Excavators at coal mining area.

Company bids less than a penny per ton in biggest US coal sale in over a decade

A Navajo tribe-owned company has bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana.
A large body of water with a refinery complex in the background.

Exxon steps back from Texas Gulf Coast plastics plant

Exxon Mobil will postpone its plans for a large new plastics production plant on the Gulf Coast of Texas, according to the company. Construction was initially planned to begin next year on the $10 billion facility in rural Calhoun County.

a blue and white fracking drilling rig next to a tree.

Scientists find evidence that a Pennsylvania town's water was contaminated by fracking

Three years after noticing discoloration and odors in their wells, residents in New Freeport are still fighting for clean water.
A view of flooded buildings in a european or UK town

Rising sea levels threaten over 100 million buildings. Where does Europe stand?

Fossil fuel emissions need to be ‘curbed quickly’ to prevent millions of buildings from becoming a regular flood risk.
an aerial view of a city with mountains in the background

The dried-out subdivisions of Phoenix

Arizona’s 2023 moratorium on new groundwater-reliant subdivisions has frozen massive master-planned projects on Phoenix’s fringes, sharpening a political fight that pits housing affordability against long-term water security.

A view of the ocean with a sunset in the background

The ocean is a carbon toilet. Marine heat waves are clogging it

Tiny poops are supposed to sink to the seafloor, locking away carbon. But scientists have found that heat waves are disrupting that flushing.
A person with a backpack is walking down a path in a tropical forest

Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024

Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost about 992,000 hectares of tree cover in 2024, with more than 30% of losses inside protected areas.

Two workers in blue hazmat suits walking towards coal-fired power plant with sign in foreground warning "toxic danger."

Republican moderates push back on White House coal strategy

The GOP has become the party of coal, but not everyone in the president's party is cheering his moves to bolster that fossil fuel.
two EVs, side by side, being recharged at charging stations

How billions of Biden’s electric car dollars survived the Trump chill

More than 40 states told POLITICO they have taken steps to unlock federal funding to build charging stations for electric vehicles.
Solar power panels on a roof with wind turbines and powerlines behind

Trump’s hatred for renewables means the US is falling behind the rest of the world

As well as embracing ‘beautiful coal’, the president has set about obliterating clean energy projects.

The Daily Climate

News for a changing planet
Free to your inbox