The dominant narrative about the Democratic sweep of the midterm elections has focused on President Donald Trump’s brash ineptitude and voters fed up with the costs of living amid reports of corruption emanating from the White House. The climate crisis appeared to take a backseat to concerns about rising energy prices driven by data center build-out and inflation linked to the U.S.
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The Earth is hurtling deeper into a climate emergency, with 2026 on track to be one of the four hottest years ever recorded, ocean temperatures and sea levels hitting record highs, and glacier melt accelerating at an alarming pace, according to a report released Monday by the World Meteorological Organization as the United Nations Climate Change Conference kicked off in Türkiye.
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Climate change gets a rare day in court as 15 Canadian youth accuse the federal government of violating their constitutional rights by failing to adequately address the country’s role in global warming. Although thousands of similar cases have been filed across the globe, legal experts said this long-awaited case is arguably the most consequential to reach trial. The lawsuit is the latest in…
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Attorneys representing two Colorado local governments are set for a high-stakes legal showdown over climate change Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court, where they’ll ask justices to allow Boulder’s lawsuit seeking monetary damages from two fossil fuel companies to proceed in state court. With help from the Trump administration, the two companies, Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil…
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On August 18, Donald Trump’s United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) officially proposed eliminating the national Roadless Rule. If finalized, the repeal would strip protections from 44.7 million acres of wild intact forest. The rule, passed in 2001, protects in total 58 million acres of forest from road building, logging, fossil fuel extraction, and other development.
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A rare nor’easter storm system that ripped through the East Coast of the United States this weekend was made many times more likely to happen by the effects of the climate crisis. As of Monday morning, the nor’easter was slowing down, with forecasters stating that the worst of the storm had passed. But reports of the storm’s impact on Sunday demonstrated its severity, with coastal flooding in…
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