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UK banks are Europe’s biggest coal financiers, report finds
Study says UK-based banks provided $8.3bn in coal financing in four year, with Barclays and HSBC leading riseUK banks are Europe’s biggest financial backers of the global coal ind…
Mass Heat Wave Deaths in Europe Show Climate Extremes Are Outpacing Adaptation Efforts
A series of deadly heat waves from May to August overwhelmed Germany’s healthcare and emergency response systems and led to an estimated 16,000 heat-related deaths during the summ…
Study of Groundwater Near Fracking Sites Finds Low Radium Levels, but Raises Concerns About Increased Salinity
Testing in a limited number of shallow aquifers near fracking sites in southwestern Pennsylvania found low levels of radium overall, but there aren’t yet enough samples to draw fi…
Half a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says government
Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weatherHalf a million trees will be planted across England in the next t…
World’s seas heated by a record 23 zettajoules last year
The injection of thermal energy, 40 times that used by humanity in total, comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidificationA record-breaking 23 zettajoules …
Country diary: The land here is scarred from a year of hard weather – now what will winter hold? | Alexandra Pearce-Broomhead
Camborne, Cornwall: There will be more storms like Goretti and more fires next summer, but we can make the landscape more resilientA grey wagtail flits at the stream’s edge, its f…
Antarctic winter sea ice falls to third-lowest level on record as scientists warn of ‘now problem’
Coverage levels fall a million square kilometres short of the long-term average, with global heating likely driving lossesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet…
Environmentalists Sue Federal Agencies Over Nation’s First Fast-Tracked Critical Minerals Mine
In the foothills of southern Arizona’s Patagonia Mountains, atop so-called critical minerals such as zinc, is South32’s Hermosa project. The first mine added to a federal program …
The race to protect Santa Rosa Island's rare, damaged Torrey pines
In May, a fire damaged 80% of the trees one of the only two naturally-occurring groves of Torrey Pines in the world. The National Park Service is trying to help them recover.
Long After Wildfire Smoke Is Gone, Heavy Metals Could Still Be Harming Survivors’ Lungs
After three years helping Maui wildfire survivors track their health progress, Dr. Martina L. Kamaka is used to seeing high levels of heavy metals in their bodies. A family medici…
Incoming El Niño Is so Extreme It Doesn’t Have a Scientific Name
Daniel Swain has made a name for himself studying the extremes of a warming planet. Fires, floods, droughts, heat, storms: if it’s a record breaker, Swain has probably studied it.…
Drones Are Already on the Front Lines of Wildfire Response. Robots and AI Could Be Next.
During the Sand Creek Fire, which has burned since the start of August in southwestern Montana, difficult terrain and fire-weakened trees posed hazards to crews searching for area…
Alito’s Recusal From Climate Case: Too Little, Too Late?
Justice Samuel Alito decided Monday to sit out one of the most consequential climate change cases to reach the Supreme Court, but legal experts expected continuing ramifications d…
Trump Slashes Fuel-Economy Standards in Blow to Climate, Health, EV Market
The Trump administration Monday finalized the rollback of a major fuel economy standard for cars and trucks, a move critics say will cause more climate-warming pollution, human he…
Samuel Alito steps aside in a major climate case amid scrutiny over oil stock holdings
Decision from conservative justice comes before court hears case on whether fossil-fuel firms deceived US publicSupreme court justice Samuel Alito recused himself Monday from a ma…
New tool directly links carbon emissions to amount of environmental and economic damage caused
Carbon Impacts Tracer can be used to estimate climate impact from emissions across eight different factors, including lost food productionThe biggest coal project before authoriti…
Trump administration to slash clean car rules aimed at cutting climate emissions
Environmentalists decry move that relaxes requirements on automakers to control pollution from gas-powered carsThe Trump administration on Monday announced it was slashing clean c…
Decades of fossil fuel influence paved way for Trump’s assault on university research, study says
Fossil fuel firms have spent years trying to regulate climate research by donating to US universities, study authors argueRecent attacks on US universities by the Trump administra…
How to Protect Yourself From Disaster Scams
This story is a collaboration between Inside Climate News and Honolulu Civil Beat. All over Hawaiʻi, property owners are hoping to rebuild homes and businesses destroyed by recent…
Planet China
Welcome to Inside Climate, a podcast from the staff of Inside Climate News. In this episode, we discuss China’s burgeoning electric-vehicle exports—now entering a key market for U…
Revealing the Invisible Injustice of Extreme Heat
The extreme heat scientists have warned about for decades came to Europe again this summer, killing at least 30,000 people like a silent, invisible plague. It came for poor people…
Smoke ecology studies what can be done to prevent harms from wildfire smoke
A new field of study called "smoke ecology" strives to understand the smoke blowing off wildfires, and whether anything can be done to protect the environment's inhabitants from i…
Mexico's Baja California braces for Hurricane Polo as Hurricane Nolo threatens Hawaii
Hurricane Nolo edged further away from the Hawaiian Islands on Sunday as major Hurricane Polo bore down on Mexico's Baja California peninsula with a threat of storm surge, high wi…
Anatomy of an inferno: inside the push to map, predict and prevent spread of increasing UK wildfires
Scientists are racing to understand how fires behave as hotter summers turn green landscapes into tinderboxesFrom the scorched heathlands of the New Forest to the smouldering vall…