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Forest of Fontainbleau in France with green trees and ferns

France's Fontainebleau forest serves as ‘laboratory' for climate change adaptation

France’s historic Fontainebleau forest is confronting the realities of heatwaves, drought, and dying trees, while offering lessons in how woodlands can adapt to a warming planet.

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China’s emissions level off as renewables surge, signaling possible peak

A new analysis finds China’s carbon emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months, driven by record solar and wind expansion and the rise of electric vehicles.

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LA’s clean air future is being built by Black women

In Los Angeles, Black women organizers are driving a community-led push to shut down toxic oil wells that have long endangered their neighborhoods.

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Governments and billionaires retreat ahead of COP30 climate talks

With the U.S. under Trump reversing clean-energy efforts and Brazil allowing new oil exploration, the sense of urgency around a warming planet has given way to weary resignation.

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Inside the data-center energy race with Google and Microsoft

Hyperscalers are investing in new clean-energy tech and rethinking how they run data centers.

Offshore drilling platform off foggy California coast

Trump officials consider opening California to offshore oil drilling

A draft five-year plan for offshore oil development proposes selling leases on the West Coast, Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.
Fracking well pad in Marcellus shale formation rural Pennsylvania

Pipeline project breaks through in once-resistant Northeast

A gas pipeline championed by President Donald Trump cleared permitting hurdles in New York and New Jersey, reflecting a political shift.
Lagos Nigeria waterfront and oil storage and shipping terminal

Ogonis wary of more oil drilling in Niger Delta

Whispers of renewed oil drilling in the Niger Delta may promise prospects for much-needed infrastructure and job creation. But oil extraction is also blamed for impoverishing the area through environmental devastation.
Empty chairs in rows inside a capitol building.

Feds flustered by shutdown compromise

The deal was “a total capitulation and slap in the face to federal workers,” said one EPA employee.
A home on stilts on the edge of an encroaching ocean

Are we all living in Florida now? The rise of 'don't say climate' politics

With the return of Trump-era climate denial and Democrats avoiding the term altogether, the U.S. is quietly adapting to a warming planet without naming the cause.

Blue cranes placing coal onto large piles

Rise in Chinese off-grid coal plants in Indonesia belies pledge to end fossil fuel support

A surge in the supply of Chinese-backed coal-fired power plants built to supply electricity to Indonesia’s fast-growing nickel mining and processing sector is undermining Beijing’s efforts to dial back support for fossil fuels, a study has found.

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