The courts will decide if the first “climate superfund” law in the nation survives, a likely years-long battle. Vermont towns, meanwhile, must figure out how to pay for infrastructure that extreme weather won’t destroy.
Emerging pathogens and a warming Arctic are driving steep declines in muskox populations across parts of northern Canada, raising concerns for ecosystems and Inuit food security.
For 26 days, oil shipments out of the Persian Gulf have stopped. But ships that made it out before the war started have been at sea delivering energy products to markets that ordered them. The last of those ships should dock in the next week setting off a whole new crisis in global energy markets.
Advocates warn that what’s left of the industry could be lost if companies choose to invest in dirty blast furnaces instead of modernizing with cleaner steelmaking.
The Trump administration says moving the Forest Service headquarters to Utah and shutting down 31 research stations will streamline operations and bring leaders west, where the forests are.
