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Emissions of planet-heating methane and carbon dioxide from natural sources are worsening the climate crisis, paper says

A sweeping yet vaguely worded national emergency declaration targeting Chinese grid tech could put gigawatts of grid battery projects on uncertain legal ground.

Greenland ice reveals a surprising shift in industrial pollution after 1990 that could help explain recent Arctic warming.

A coalition of state attorneys general filed a pair of lawsuits Wednesday challenging the Trump administration’s rollbacks of protections for endangered species.

Are four years of pro-environment policies about to come to an end?
Scientific evidence has never been stronger. Why aren’t more people making the link?
Europe just opened a carbon capture and storage plant billed as the continent's largest. But global climate scenarios call for far more capacity than exists anywhere on Earth.
Iowa Environmental Council’s 2026 report on Iowa’s electric generation shows a “reversal” in progress toward renewable sources. 

Brown University researchers found that a small amount of testimony from fossil fuel lobbyists opposing polluter pay laws has had greater power than massive public support.

Crop-residue burning contributes substantially to black carbon levels in North India, especially during the post-monsoon season.

Data centers have emerged as a central battleground in the 2026 midterm elections. As they have, a Columbus man has spent many months traveling the country learning what the fuss is about.

The world’s second-largest oil consumer cut its use by 9 percent as the Iran war crimped supply. The drop could accelerate China’s pivot away from the fossil fuel.

Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis.

Spanish scientists and researchers from Europe and the U.S. compiled data from 46 oceanographic campaigns carried out between 1976 and 2018 to study changes in the Mediterranean and the impact of climate change.

At issue is a Clean Water Act provision that has long given states a role in decision-making on infrastructure that would affect streams and wetlands.
A federal judge has struck down New York’s attempt to make fossil fuel-producing industries pay into a $75 billion fund to repair damage wrought by climate change.

The United Nations concedes that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming.

As governments push oil and mining expansion, thousands of Indigenous leaders and activists gathered in Ecuador to chart another path.
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