In 2025, the US gave up on climate — and the world gave up on us
While the U.S. sits in self-imposed isolation, the rest of the world, led by China, raced to build renewables and commit to climate action.

Solar power accounts for two-thirds of the new projects waiting to connect to Utah’s power grid, but state Republicans’ hard turn against solar mirrors President Donald Trump’s hostile approach to the industry.
U.S. freight railroads are a major source of pollution, chuffing out more nitrogen oxide than all the nation’s coal-fired power plants combined.
The first climate migrants to leave the remote Pacific island nation of Tuvalu have arrived in Australia, hoping to preserve links to their sinking island home, foreign affairs officials said.
New evidence suggests the Alberta Energy Regulator ignored a ministerial order — and critics say that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
In Northwest Alaska, Inupiaq villagers already struggling with vanishing caribou, declining salmon and record floods are split over a 211-mile mining road that promises jobs and minerals for the energy transition, but could further damage a fragile, rapidly warming landscape.
A surge of planned data centers in western Pennsylvania is driving proposals for massive new gas-fired power plants, raising alarms among residents and scientists who warn that expanded fracking will worsen air and water pollution and threaten public health.
A sweeping new UN report says only a fundamental global shift away from fossil fuels and destructive resource use can prevent catastrophic climate impacts—while delivering trillions in economic benefits within decades.
