Climate Change Weekly # 571—The Endangerment Finding Is Gone, but for How Long? The Heartland Institute
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New generation of climate models sheds first light on long-standing Pacific puzzle Phys.org
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Warming Antarctic waters come with a cost for the normally ‘robust’ rockcod Northeastern Global News
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There are problems with a geoengineering techno-fix for the climate crisis | Mike Hulme The Guardian
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'A vicious cycle that exhausts bodies and minds': the human cost of climate change Modern Ghana
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Senegal launches ambitious plan to cut methane and short-lived climate pollutants Stockholm Environment Institute
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Climate change is spurring Trump’s desire for the Panama canal Dialogue Earth
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Document also shows US miner had been unlawfully clearing land for 15 years despite warnings from department
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The Australian government’s decision to allow the US mining giant Alcoa to continue clearing swathes of Western Australian jarrah forest despite past illegal clearing practices was made in part due to a critical minerals deal reached between Australia and the Trump administration last year, a new document shows.
The document also reveals Alcoa was unlawfully clearing land for its bauxite mining practices in the area south of Perth for 15 years, despite warnings from the federal environment department.
Conservationists have expressed outrage that an “unprecedented” $55m penalty announced by the environment minister was only applied to a six-year period in which the illegal clearing was alleged to have occurred.
Murray Watt said on Wednesday that the penalty – known as an enforceable undertaking – was for clearing that occurred from 2019-2025 in known habitat for nationally protected species without an approval under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.
When announcing the penalty, Watt said he had granted Alcoa a national interest exemption to allow it to continue clearing in the northern jarrah forest for 18 months while the government considered a proposal for an expansion of the company’s Huntly and Willowdale mining operations to 2045.
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Coal-fired power plants are a major source of mercury contamination for people and the environment. Here's what you need to know.
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Scientists reveal the best and worst-case scenarios for a warming Antarctica Northumbria University
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Geoengineering does little to defuse most of the risks that really matter for people – and it runs the risk of making some harms worse
Planetary-scale solar geoengineering interventions involve the deliberate injection of either natural or artificial particulates into the stratosphere – stratospheric aerosol injection, or SAI – with a view to offset some of the global heating caused by greenhouse gases. If implemented, the technology would create a metaphorical thermostat for the planet. Such a thermostat is advocated on the grounds that controlling global temperature reduces the harms associated with the climate crisis.
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US ‘totally’ rejects global AI governance, White House adviser tells India summit France 24
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West Flanders sees unprecedented expansion of wine industry thanks to global warming Travel Tomorrow
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Limiting warming to 2C is ‘crucial’ to protect pristine Antarctic Peninsula Carbon Brief
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A High-Stakes Lawsuit Against a French Oil Giant Is Closely Watched in Africa Yale E360
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New Study Warns Carbon Removal Plans Could Threaten Biodiversity Hotspots AZoCleantech
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He Was a Climate Activist. One Day, the F.B.I. Came Knocking. The New York Times
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Cities may heat up disproportionately faster than rural neighbours, even at 2°C warming Mongabay-India
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Antarctica faces 'devastating changes' under high emissions future Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The highly salty Southern Indian Ocean is getting fresher due to global warming: Study Down To Earth
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Trump Climate Health Rollback Likely to Hit Poor, Minority Areas Hardest, Experts Say U.S. News & World Report
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In this week’s newsletter: The south-east of the country is suffering through the worst heatwave since 2019’s ‘black summer’, while the government continues to back fossil fuel projects
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Australians are no strangers to blistering weather – being a “sunburnt country” of “droughts and flooding rains” is baked into our national identity. But since the 2019-20 bushfires, which burned through an area almost the size of the UK, and killed or displaced 3 billion animals, the arrival of warmer weather each year is accompanied by dread. This summer has brought punishing extremes of heat and fire that are brutal even by Australian standards.
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The death of Heather Preen: how an eight-year-old lost her life amid sewage crisis
Trump lashes out at California governor’s green energy deal with UK
‘Landmark’ greenwashing case against Australian gas giant Santos dismissed by federal court
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Greta Thunberg doesn’t have a superpower but a disability (like me) The Times of Israel
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Scientists reveal our best- and worst-case scenarios for a warming Antarctica EurekAlert!
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‘Frightening prospect’: What will happen if Antarctica keeps warming? Euronews.com
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Halting irreversible changes to Antarctica depends on choices made today Science News
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Worst-Case Climate Scenario Would Irreversibly Damage Antarctica, Scientists Warn Gizmodo
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‘The ice is getting thinner’: Climate change shortens ice fishing season, threatening tradition NB Media Co-op
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How global warming impacts sporting events, such as the Winter Olympics hercampus.com
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2/19/26: Beachgoer bacterial infections rise with Climate Change on the US East Coast AGU Newsroom
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Warming Climate Can Increase Avalanche Risk, Studies Show - The New York Times The New York Times
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Forecasters predict more snow in Sierra Nevada mountains as climate crisis increases threat of dangerous conditions
Avalanche risks remain high in the Sierra Nevada mountains of northern California this week, following the deadliest snowslide the region has seen in modern times.
The climate crisis has set the stage for more dangerous conditions, with sharper swings between dry periods and severe storms, according to experts, who have long warned that extremes will amplify as the world warms.
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Around the world, global heating is already causing more frequent heatwaves that last longer and bring more heat. Guardian Australia's Graham Readfearn has put his body to the test in an experiment see what effects the heatwaves of the future will have on humans. At the University of Sydney, he steps into a climate chamber that simulates the increased temperatures and humidity predicted in a rapidly warming climate. 'The sweat is stinging my eyes,' he says. 'It's 43C and the air is sticky and humid. It's getting hard to breath.'
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U.S. Tells International Energy Agency to Drop Its Focus on Climate Change - The New York Times The New York Times
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For almost two decades, Brazil's largest soy producers guaranteed their products did not come from land cleared in the Amazon rainforest. Now, all bets are off.
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Heat, drought and division: Climate change in the borderlands Mexico News Daily
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Global Warming’s Six Americas, Fall 2025 Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
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By reducing pollution, have we unknowingly worsened global warming? Futura, Le média qui explore le monde
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Extreme heat risks in Germany: priorities for adaptation and preparedness Climate Analytics
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Global warming must peak below 2°C to limit tipping point risks University of Exeter News
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The EPA just took a giant step backward on global warming | Douglas Rooks The Portland Press Herald
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Connecticut climate superfund bill would make fossil fuel companies pay for projects CT Insider
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Dangerous days have nearly tripled in past 45 years – and increase largely driven by human-made warming
The number of days when the weather gets hot, dry and windy – ideal to spark extreme wildfires – has nearly tripled in the past 45 years across the globe, with the trend increasing even higher in the Americas, a new study shows.
And more than half of that increase is caused by human-caused climate change, researchers calculated.
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Lawsuit from health and environmental justice groups challenges the EPA’s rollback of the ‘endangerment finding’
More than a dozen health and environmental justice non-profits have sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its revocation of the legal determination that underpins US federal climate regulations.
Filed in Washington DC circuit court, the lawsuit challenges the EPA’s rollback of the “endangerment finding”, which states that the buildup of heat-trapping pollution in the atmosphere endangers public health and welfare and has allowed the EPA to limit those emissions from vehicles, power plants and other industrial sources since 2009. The rollback was widely seen as a major setback to US efforts to combat the climate crisis.
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Feeling worse about money? Climate change may be part of the reason Phys.org
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By repealing the EPA’s determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health, the president is denying reality itself
The climate crisis is killing people. These deaths are measurable, documented and ongoing. Concluding otherwise is just playing pretend. Studies explain the mechanics, but lived experience supplies the truth. The people who suffer the consequences see the fire rising and water closing in. They need their government’s help.
Despite that, the president of the United States stood at a microphone last Thursday and abdicated his duty to them. “It has nothing to do with public health,” he claimed about the climate crisis while announcing that the federal government would repeal the Environmental Protection Agency’s “endangerment finding”, a determination that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare. “This is all a scam, a giant scam.”
Jamil Smith is a Guardian US columnist
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With Trump blocking Venezuelan oil imports and old power plants breaking down, the island – with Chinese help – is turning to solar and wind to bolster its fragile energy system
Intense heat hangs over the sugarcane fields near Cuba’s eastern coast. In the village of Herradura, a blond-maned horse rests under a palm tree after spending all Saturday in the fields with its owner, Roberto, who cultivates maize and beans.
Roberto was among those worst affected by Hurricane Melissa, which hit eastern Cuba – the country’s poorest region – late last year. The storm affected 3.5 million people, damaging or destroying 90,000 homes and 100,000 hectares of crops.
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E&E News: Start planning for catastrophic global warming, top advisers tell EU POLITICO Pro
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Olympic skiers Vonn and Shiffrin voice concerns over global warming amid glaciers crisis Yahoo News New Zealand
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Global Warming Brings Double Blow: Summer Heat and Winter Snowstorms FinancialContent
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Methane Hunters Track Swamp Gas That Is Driving Climate Warming - The New York Times The New York Times
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Global-warming-induced degradation could raise rooftop solar LCOE by up to 20% pv magazine International
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A French court has rejected a compensation claim against US multinationals by Nicaraguan farm workers poisoned by the pesticide Nemagon. Farmers worldwide still rely on noxious chemicals, often exported from the EU.
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How climate change made deadly floods in Spain even worse Scientific American
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Start planning for catastrophic global warming, top advisers tell EU politico.eu
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Widespread ‘enhanced rock weathering’ could slow global warming Cornell Chronicle
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The president’s destructive policies enrich fossil fuel billionaires, while Beijing has bet big on the green transition
Devastating wildfires, flooding and winter storms were among the 23 extreme weather and climate-related disasters in the US which cost more than a billion dollars last year – at an estimated total loss of $115bn. The last three years have shattered previous records for such events. Last Wednesday, scientists said that we are closer than ever to the point after which global heating cannot be stopped.
Just one day later, Donald Trump and Lee Zeldin, the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, announced the elimination of the Obama-era endangerment finding which underpins federal climate regulations. Scrapping it is just one part of Mr Trump’s assault on environmental controls and promotion of fossil fuels. But it may be his most consequential. Any fragment of hope may lie in the fact that a president who has called global heating a “hoax” framed this primarily as about deregulation – perhaps because the science is now so widely accepted even in the US.
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Scientists report a rise in nature anxiety, or biophobia, warning that humans are losing touch with the natural world. Here's how to reconnect.
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Some districts are adding programs in clean energy and sustainability, while one state is infusing environmental lessons into culinary education and construction
On one end of the classroom, high school juniors examined little green sprouts – future baby carrots, sprigs of romaine lettuce – poking out of the soil of a drip irrigation system they built a few weeks prior.
On the opposite end of the room, a model of a hydropower plant showed students how the movement of water can stimulate electrical currents. In this class in South Carolina’s Greenville county school district, students primarily learn about one topic: renewable energy.
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The trees morph into sand dunes to protect homes on the seafront against rising sea levels and serve as habitat for rare species
Britain’s fight against climate breakdown may usually look like windfarms or solar energy. But on miles of Lancashire coast the frontline is rather more festive.
Tens of thousands of discarded Christmas trees have been partially buried on beaches south of Blackpool as a frontier against rising sea levels.
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The US has revoked what's known as the endangerment finding, a scientific finding central to US climate actions, to boost cheaper, gas-powered cars. Experts say the shift comes at a fragile point for the warming planet.
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The government has not made enough of a dent in emissions, but global trends and a shambolic opposition offer a rare opportunity to act
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There is good news out there, even if it feels like scraps in a world on the brink. Some came last week – with plenty of caveats – when analysts at the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) found coal-fired power generation decreased in both China and India last year.
This is a potentially big shift. Among other things, it exposes the hollowness of arguments in Australia that there is no point doing anything about the climate crisis because the big Asian economies are building endless new coal plants.
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Scientists thought they understood global warming. Then the past three years happened. The Washington Post
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Accelerated Global Warming Could Lock Earth Into a Hothouse Future Inside Climate News
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New global research exposes the business–nature link we can’t afford to ignore — plus the playbook for fixing it.
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As the climate crisis intensifies, interest in solar engineering is increasing, including among private companies and investors. But the technique is controversial and lacks regulation.
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Critics say a new UK plan to tackle forever chemicals does not match proposed measures in the EU. As European governments try to deal with the growing PFAS pollution, cleaning it up could cost up to €1.7 trillion.
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Global warming is speeding breakdown of major greenhouse gas, research shows Phys.org
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Conscious of reaching climate goals and strapped for space, some cities are reconsidering how much they dedicate to parking. Austria's capital, Vienna, is streets ahead.
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A DW investigation traces the hidden financial web behind deep-sea mining — an industry scientists say remains poorly understood, yet capable of causing irreversible harm to oceans worldwide.
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U.S. Snow Storms and Australia's Heat Wave, Is This Climate Change? Time Magazine
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Polar vortex disruption helps explain this weekend's extreme cold weather, despite climate misinformation Fast Company
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From Japan to China and the US to Scandinavia, heating with air conditioning has long been standard practice. But now warming homes with AC is catching on in other parts of the world.
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Widespread discontent in Iran has sent millions of protesters into the streets. Poor environmental planning embodies one of the government's most existential vulnerabilities.
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Plastic pollution could double its harm to human health in the coming decades if current production trends continue, according to a new study that links rising risks directly to the manufacture of new plastics.
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Major emitter the US has officially left the Paris Agreement and global emissions keep rising a decade on from the deal. Yet renewables' growth shows climate action can work. Here's what's been done and what's missing.
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The surprising tie between global warming and heavy snow The Allegheny Front
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Global financing is heavily skewed to industries that harm rather than preserve nature, according to a new report that calls for an urgent scale-up of nature-positive spending.
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For decades, researchers in northern Norway had tried to bring back vital kelp forests after overfishing damaged marine ecosystems. Now a simple solution is proving successful.
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11-year streak of record global warming continues, UN weather agency warns UN News
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DW's Stuart Braun had a dangerously near miss during Australia's 2009 "Black Saturday" inferno. As this month's fires burned near his rural home, he wasn't taking any chances.
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The US has pledged to pull out of dozens of international organizations and treaties established to advance the protection of the planet. But it doesn't spell the end of environmental action.
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What past global warming reveals about future rainfall The University of Utah
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As clean energy prices fall, a fast transition to renewable energy is the cheapest option on the table. Experts say it could save us trillions in energy costs alone.
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Rich nations built their wealth on coal, oil and gas. Now the world is asking poorer countries like Mozambique to chart a different course.
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The world is likely to exceed a key global warming target soon. Now what? UNEP - UN Environment Programme
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Our planet is warming. Here’s what’s at stake if we don’t act now. World Wildlife Fund
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The Effects of Climate Change on Wildlife, Habitats, People World Wildlife Fund
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Global warming amplifies wildfire health burden and reshapes inequality Nature
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