Climate & Energy
Climate feedback loops, the energy transition, and the cascading consequences of a warming world.
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Climate & Energy
Lithium's Colonial Echo: How the Clean Energy Rush Is Repeating Old Wounds in Lakota Territory
The lithium rush beneath Lakota sacred land in South Dakota reveals how the clean energy transition risks repeating America's long history of colonial extraction.
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Climate & Energy
Zeldin's EPA Budget Cuts Would Halve the Agency That Protects American Air and Water
Senate Democrats called the EPA's proposed 50% budget cut a climate denier's manifesto. The real story is what half a budget actually dismantles.
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Climate & Energy
Ohio's Piketon Megaplant Faces the Paradox of Being Too Ambitious to Work
The Trump administration's plan to build America's largest power plant and data center on a nuclear remediation site may be undone by its own scale.
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2 May 2026
LNG Lobbying Is Quietly Reshaping the IMO's Decarbonization Talks
Inside IMO shipping talks, LNG-aligned nations are quietly working to keep fossil gas viable for decades, and the stakes could not be higher.
1 May 2026
Kenya Joins Africa's Push to Stop Exporting Raw Minerals — But Can It Hold?
Kenya's push to stop raw mineral exports is gaining regional momentum, but the gap between political ambition and industrial reality remains wide.
30 Apr 2026
Turkey's COP31 Presidency and the IEA Are Betting on Clean Energy Before the Summit
Turkey's COP31 presidency and the IEA are quietly shaping the 2026 climate summit agenda around clean cooking, waste emissions, and a new financing tool.
30 Apr 2026
A Tribal Coalition and Environmentalists Are Taking the BLM to Court Over a Copper Mine's Threat to Spotted Owls
A tribe and environmentalists are suing the BLM over a copper mine approval that they say ignored threats to a federally threatened owl species.
30 Apr 2026
AI Weather Models Stumble Where It Matters Most: At the Extremes
AI weather models excel on standard benchmarks but systematically underestimate record-breaking extremes, raising serious questions about their role in climate risk.
29 Apr 2026
The Atlantic's Hidden Engine Is Slowing, and the Consequences Could Be Irreversible
AMOC, the ocean current system regulating European climate and Atlantic weather, may be approaching a tipping point with consequences far beyond rising seas.
28 Apr 2026
The UN Indigenous Rights Declaration Turns 18, and Compliance Remains Elusive
Nearly 18 years after 144 nations adopted the UN Indigenous rights declaration, the gap between promise and practice has become a defining failure of global governance.
26 Apr 2026
Sixty Nations Converge on Colombia to Revive a Stalling Fossil Fuel Phase-Out
Sixty nations meet in Colombia to rebuild fossil fuel phase-out momentum after COP30 fell short — but history suggests coalitions are easier to form than to sustain.
25 Apr 2026
A Century of Forest Records May Vanish as USDA Restructures the Forest Service
The Forest Service's regional offices hold over a century of irreplaceable land records. Their closure could quietly erase the scientific memory America needs most.
24 Apr 2026
C40 Cities Are Betting They Can Halve Fossil Fuel Use by 2030. Here's What's at Stake
C40's pledge to halve fossil fuel use by 2030 reveals why cities, not capitals, may be the energy transition's most consequential battleground.
