Location, location, location: Greenland’s position above the Arctic Circle makes the world’s largest island a key part of security strategy.Increasing international tensions, global warming and the changing world…
Read more Trump again expressed a desire for the US to control Greenland | Here’s why he wants itThis week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie are joined by reporter Reem Ibrahim to discuss America’s declining sense of patriotism and whether it’s possible to distrust the government while still…
Read more Can you hate the government and still love America?MADRID, July 1 (Reuters) – Spain recorded 1,029 excess deaths last month attributable to heat, official data showed on Wednesday, as a five-day heatwave with temperatures surpassing 40…
Read more Spain Attributes Over 1,000 Excess Deaths to Heat in Second-HottestJune EverA federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore signs related to topics such as climate change, slavery and Indigenous and LGBTQ+ history that were removed under…
Read more Judge orders Trump administration to restore national park signage on climate change, slaveryU.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins watched sterile flies being released to fight the New World screwworm on Thursday and visited the Texas ranch where one of the first…
Read more Political blame game follows as screwworm parasite threatens cattle in TexasOften called the “lungs of Africa,” the Congo Basin is the world’s largest land-based carbon sink. For thousands of years, its swamps and peatlands have played a key…
Read more Earth’s Largest Land-Based Carbon Sink Has Sprung a Disturbing LeakSam Altman challenged critics of A.I.’s water and electricity consumption. Photo by John MacDougall/AFP via Getty Images Sam Altman is pushing back on mounting criticism over the environmental…
Read more Sam Altman Defends A.I. Energy Use With Human Comparison, Sparking DebateWASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday that it will hear from oil and gas companies trying to block lawsuits seeking to hold the industry…
Read more Supreme Court agrees to hear from oil, gas companies trying to block climate lawsuitsBOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell has joined a new multistate lawsuit against the Trump administration seeking to recoup more than $7.2 billion in frozen energy and…
Read more AGs sue to claw back clean energy grantsReduced snowpack — a sign of things to come, or a temporary problem? Re: “Endangered snowpack,” Denver Post three-part series on climate and ski industry, Feb. 15-17 The…
Read more Colorado mountains’ reduced snowpack — a sign of things to come or temporary? (Letters)It fell to Doug Burgum, once the governor of North Dakota and now the Secretary of the Interior, to offer something resembling a scientific explanation for the Trump…
Read more The Trump Administration Has Toppled a Landmark E.P.A. FindingExcerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: The Washington Post on nuclear innovation in the age of AI As America’s energy demands grow exponentially, the…
Read more Editorial Roundup: United StatesPhoto: Joseph Sohm/Getty Images Sometimes the forces that lead to major social and political change take years to mature before they become public policy. The environmental movement, for…
Read more Revoking Climate-Change Regulation May Be the Worst Thing Trump Has DoneIn the Midwest, climate change is fueling extreme heat, toxic algal blooms in the Great Lakes and tornadoes across Illinois. This article is only available to subscribers Offer…
Read more Trump administration dismantles US ability to fight climate change; environmentalists vow to appealThe Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health, an idea that President Donald Trump called “a scam.” But…
Read more Scientific studies calculate climate change as health dangerDETROIT (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency announced an end Thursday to credits to automakers who install automatic start-stop ignition systems in their vehicles, a device intended to…
Read more EPA Ends Credits for Automatic Start-Stop Vehicle Ignition, a Feature Zeldin Says ‘Everyone Hates’By AYA DIAB Climate change is often viewed as an issue that’s too big for individual action to matter. But calculations show that when personal choices add up,…
Read more What if just 1 in 10 people changed how they eat, drive, heat or shop?Leaders in Chatham County on Wednesday approved a moratorium that would ban the construction of data centers and cryptocurrency mining for a year in the county. According to…
Read more Chatham County approves 12-month moratorium on data centers, crypto miningNevada fell well short of its greenhouse gas emission-cutting goals in 2025, and it’s poised to be much further behind when the bar raises again in 2030. According…
Read more Nevada Nowhere Near Meeting 2030 Greenhouse Gas Emission GoalKAPLAN, La. — Josh Courville has harvested crawfish his whole life, but these days, he’s finding a less welcome catch in some of the fields he manages in…
Read more Giant snails and tiny insects threaten the South’s rice and crawfish farms
