The world may enter an El Niño phase as early as May

Airborne microplastics contribute to global warming

The Administration has effectively halted U.S. onshore wind development

Sea-level rise threatens  to submerge New Orleans

The Caspian Sea is  now dramatically receding. 

Mexico City is sinking up to 10 inches per year

The Iran war is creating potential momentum for clean energy

Canadian earthquakes were caused by oil industry wastewater injection, not natural tectonics.

 U.S. children are exposed to unhealthy air, with 33.5 million living in areas failing pollution standards. 

Trump administration will pay   energy companies to cancel two planned offshore wind farms

Gulf of Panama nutrient-packed water is declining

Butterflies in North America are rapidly declining due to pesticides, habitat loss, and climate change,

Thousands of  “by-the-wind sailors,” have washed ashore along the Bay Area

 60 nations agree to develop voluntary road maps to phase out fossil fuels

Scientists warn Venice could  be lost within centuries as sea levels rise and the city sinks.

European Commission proposed measures to cut energy bills and reduce the EU’s dependence on fossil fuels 

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), or bird flu, reached the Antarctic region for the first time

Iceland’s first recorded mosquitoes, discovered in 2025, signal rapid Arctic ecological

Uruguay is now generating over 98% of its electricity from renewable sources

Fairfield Ct’s long-running “fill pile” controversy centers on a four-acre site of contaminated soil continues

-Earthday.org notes the explosive growth of plastic.. 2 million tons produced in 1950 versus 360 million in 2024

- Colorado River's declining water caused, by a chain reaction driven by a changing climate

-Dr. Mariangela Hungria won the 2025 World Food Prize for pioneering soil microbiology

-2026 Hurricane outlook.. suggests a below-average Atlantic hurricane season

-After 35 years of business Trimble’s  Nursery of Cutchogue Long Island is closing

- EPA proposes“alternative groundwater protection standards” for contaminants such as mercury and arsenic.

-Above-normal wildfire danger is forecast across western U.S. states this summer

- Bill A.1556G, which would ban three chemicals—potassium bromate, propyl paraben, and Red Dye No. 3—from food sold in NY state

-Over 700 geese were found dead this winter along East Hampton’s Georgica Pond, likely victims of a severe H5N1 (bird flu) outbreak 

-Agrivoltaics—combining crop cultivation with solar panels—can boost land efficiency while conserving water

-Back yard  “Victory Gardens” in 1944, supplied about 40% of the nation’s fresh fruits and vegetables,

-Trump administration is now reportedly offering companies payments to abandon offshore wind projects

-Saharan dust plumes are increasingly blanketing Europe with orange skies and “blood rain

-Iowa’s cancer rates are rising faster than most states, due to exposure to pesticides, nitrate, PFAS, and radon

-A new U.S. trend; homeowners are abandoning manicured lawns in favor of “rewilding”

-Coral reef fisheries could raise sustainable yields by nearly 50% if fish populations were protected

-158 giant tortoises return to the Galápagos, after a 150–180 year absence 

-Phoenix is experiencing an, unprecedented, record-breaking early heat wave in March 

-Earth’s temperature is rising at a record pace as carbon emissions hit new highs

-Reknowned climate scientist resigns from NASA,due toTrump administration’s hostility toward climate research

-Germany has unveiled a 9 billion climate protection program with 67 measures

-Antarctica emperor penguin molting sites endangered by rapidly melting sea ice

-California condors released by the Yurok Tribe have built the first nest in the Pacific Northwest in over a century.

-President Trump order forces the production of chemicals used for glyphosate for military purposes

- Austria’s Alps are rapidly disintegrating due to climate change.

-Wild pigs in California, were found with “neon blue” flesh in 2025 due ingesting rodenticide

- pharmaceutical companies to replace horseshoe crab blood with synthetic alternatives for drug safety testing

-Two East coast wind projects  now delivering clean power to over 350,000 homes in Connecticut and Rhode Island

-Global wind and solar power hit record growth in 2025,

-Feeling emotionally and cognitively connected to nature is a strong predictor of well-being

- Global media coverage of climate change has   dropped 38% since 2021.

-Airstrikes on fuel depots near Tehran trigger severe environmental and health disaster.

-Mycorrhizal fungi are highly sensitive to imbalances of nitrogen & Potassium.

-Corpus Christi faces an imminent water emergency from drought and industrial stresses

-industry is unleashing a “tidal wave of hostile  PR messaging,” to demonise renewables

-Mexico’s Ecologist Green Party proposes a bill to ban factory farming of octopuses, citing animal cruelty  

-USDA restores deleted climate change webpages after losing lawsuit

-U.S. renewable energy hits record highs in 2025, supplying over 25% of U.S. electricity

- UK’s new geothermal power plant harnesses underground heat to generate electricity for 10,000 homes. 

- Arizona’s limited water supply faces pressure from both drought and industrial growth

- The colossal Antarctic iceberg A23a, once the world’s largest, meets its demise

-Coastal sea-level studies have underestimated how high the water already is—by 8 to 12 inches globally

-Veteran NBC meteorologist Chase Cain resigns after nearly eight years covering climate stories
 

 pay for the  climate change costs.

Deep-well injection from fracking  poses serious environmental and health risks

Environmental degradation is shrinking regional species pools,

The Caspian sea faces threats from climate change,

Climate change is increasing the number of days of coffee-harming temperatures

Earth’s energy imbalance is widening, accelerating ocean warming, glacier melt, and carbon sink decline

Nearly all current EV owners plan to stick with electric for their next vehicle,

-Researchers rank the top 10 U.S. fossil  fossil fuel suppliers by greenhouse gas emissions.

-Climate “superfund” bills, based on the principle that oil companies should pay costs associated with climate change

-Agricultural leaders issue a bipartisan warning to the Trump administration urging reversal of tariffs and restrictive policies that have raised costs & disrupted markets

-Washington Post cuts much of its climate team reporters marking a major retreat from environmental coverage. 

-China’s mass tree-planting efforts are turning the desert into a carbon sink

-New investment in clean energy projects last year was dwarfed by cancellations for projects already in progress

-Freezing temperatures recently experienced in the US  have devastated local wildlife

-Trump announces the removal of the federal scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment

-Trump reopens commercial fishing off Cape Cod  

-Federal judge struck down the Interior Department’s order halting construction of the Sunrise Wind project off New York’

-Trump administration has reapproved the herbicide dicamba

-If the planet is getting warmer, why is it so cold this winter?

-5,195 iguanas cold-stunned invasive reptiles euthanized in Florida

-A Texan coal mine power plant is now home to thriving community garden

-Court rules that the U.S. Department of Energy violated federal law with secret “Climate Working Group”

-Trump reopens  commercial fishing off Cape Cod  

-Federal judge struck down the Interior Dept's order halting construction of the Sunrise Wind project off New York’

-Trump administration has reapproved the herbicide dicamba

-If the planet is getting warmer, why is it so cold this winter?

-5,195 iguanas cold-stunned invasive reptiles euthanized

-A Texan coal mine power plant now home to thriving community garden

-In 2024,  50% of carbon dioxide Emissions were From Just 32 Companies 

-Meteorologists have faced an unprecedented wave of threats and harassment recently

-U.S. automakers signaled a pullback from electric vehicles,

-Chain to build massive solar and integrated fish farm

-Solar panels manufactured in the 1980s are still working at up to 80% of their original capacity.

-Kenyan woman sets Record by hugging a tree for 72 hours to protest deforestation 

-For one Californian, making the switch to solar has brought a big difference in costs.

-Congestion pricing in New York City has been quite the success so far

-World's first shopping mall dedicated to second-hand and recycled goods succeeds

-The Trump administration issues Clean air act exemptions for industry polluters

-The U.S. Dept. of the Interior is revoking seven grazing permits for bison  restoring  the prairie ecosystem in Montana

_The Trump administration is siding with corporate polluters by handing out hundreds of exemptions.

Argentina wildfires ripped through nearly 30,000 acres of forest

Phoenix has hottest December in Arizona since records began in 1896. 

California is currently classified as being in drought free

EPA tries to minimize the dumping of sewage into the Connecticut River

The EPA to impose more limitations on states’ authorities to block energy projects

world needs to feed a population expected to reach 9.8 billion by 2050 and cut green house gases at the same time

2025 was Earth’s third-hottest year on record

-Half of American homeowners are considering moving this year due to extreme weather events.

-Global terrestrial biodiversity hotspots are threatened by human expansion

-Expansion of Port Everglades may unprecedented damage to corals 

-A stand of trees 400 years old discovered in North Carolina.

-Trump announces  withdrawing the United States from the bedrock international agreement on climate change.

-In 2025, the US suffered a billion-dollar disaster every 10 days

-Juneau Alaska has seen a record amount of snow this past  December

-Thousands of glaciers may vanish each year in the coming decades

-China saw CO2 emissions fall this year for the first time

-Renewable energy produced a record amount of electricity in Great Britain in 2025

-NY’s expanded waste reduction laws took effect on January 1, 2026

-Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa

-The CT. Audubon Society's bird of the year is the Pileated woodpecker.

-Ohio Farmers Say Regenerative Agriculture Methods Helped Them Survive a Drought

-A new data set map captures every source of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion 

-Four biggest oil and gas companies spent the last 25 years deceptively portraying themselves 

-This High Seas Treaty pledges to put 30% of these waters into Marine Protected Areas 

-Brazil moved to protect existing forest areas called the Tropical Forests Forever Facility

-The International Court of Justice cleared the way for countries to sue each other over climate change

-Several endangered species experienced remarkable comebacks this year

-Ohio Farmers Say Regenerative Agriculture Methods Helped Them Survive a Drought

-A new data set map captures every source of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion 

-Four biggest oil and gas companies spent the last 25 years deceptively portraying themselves 

-This High Seas Treaty pledges to put 30% of these waters into Marine Protected Areas 

-Brazil moved to protect existing forest areas called the Tropical Forests Forever Facility

-The International Court of Justice cleared the way for countries to sue each other over climate change

-Several endangered species experienced remarkable comebacks this year

As we celebrate the holiday season and the end of the year, I want to take a moment to reflect on the importance of staying aware of the environmental challenges our world continues to face. At the same time, it's vital that we nurture the collective will to make meaningful changes, changes that create a positive and lasting impact on our planet.  In that spirit, I’d like to share a few of 2025’s  encouraging environmental developments this past year.

-The European Union’s Nature Restoration Law is now in force

-Europe are scaling up environmental restoration

-Biodiversity can rebound when land is managed for nature

-Colorado regulators have order a 41% reduction in emissions

-California has periods consistently generating more than 100% of its electricity demand from renewables 

-Ireland is on track to eliminate coal from its energy mix

-Sun Prairie, Wisconsin first city in the state to run all it’s city operations

-North Carolina,  planted more than 69,000 native plants, removed over 71,000 pounds of litter

-Connecticut passed a major climate bill that sets a legally grounded net‑zero emissions target for 2050

-Maine accelerates its clean‑energy timeline, for 100% clean electricity goal up to 2040 

-Ohio prioritizes clean energy over costly fossil fuels

-In New York, strengthens Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act

-New York regulators require a fossil‑fuel‑powered crypto mining plant to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 

-March 2025, renewables provided a slim majority of U.S. electricity

-Hawaii replaced its last coal plant with a giant battery

-US has introduced a new limit on toxic “forever chemicals” or PFA’s

U.S. EPA announces $3 billion in new funding for states to reduce exposure to lead in drinking water

Reaching net zero carbon emissions will not bring quick relief from extreme heat

The beautiful ponderosa pine—is disappearing.

New climate idea, to combat sea level rise, moving seawater to reflood inland depressions.

NYTS SAYS Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War.

-New Delhi air has “severe and life-threatening levels of toxic pollutants.

-Dust from the dry bed of the Great Salt Lake is creating a serious public health threat

-Zillow, removes a feature that showed the risks to homes from extreme weather

-Greenpeace exposes the plastics industry as “merchants of myth”

-Seattle biodigester reduces garbage while helping residents grow their own gardens

-Exxon petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to avoid disclosing

how much pollution they produce.

-Iran’s capital must be moved because Tehran is out of water and subsiding

America's most critical urban hubs is sinking into the sea, 

-The global ocean are simultaneously warming, becoming saltier or fresher, losing oxygen, and acidifying

-China’s effort to reduce its reliance on coal and increase its reliance on renewables is working.

-COP30 Global climate talks ended with a resolution that made NO direct mention of fossil fuels, 

-Iran is suffering from a severe drought that has depleted water sources, pushing authorities to begin cloud-seeding

-Philippines communities affected by consecutive Typhoons that caused extensive damage and tragic loss of life. 

-The H5N1 virus, or bird flu virus has struck 66 poultry flocks Killing millions of birds

-New petrochemical plants in Texas will largely be built near communities of color

-Netherlands, small biogas domes that break down organic waste to produce biogas,

-Brazilian police conduct biggest crackdown on criminal networks operating illegal gold mining across the Amazon Basin.

-US plans to kill nearly half a million Barred owls in the Pacific Northwest to protect  the Northern spotted owls

-Indian state of Kerala has record landslides, due to Deforestation and unregulated urban expansion

-Panama looks to relocate indigenous families on islands to the mainland due to rising sea levels

-Micro plastic pollution is spreading throughout Idaho fish

-Wind and solar generating electricity since 2021 is between 30% and 50% effective

- Iranian President issues a dire warning,  the Iranian capital could soon face catastrophic 
   water shortages

- Bill Gates pushes back against what he calls a “doomsday outlook” on climate change.

 - Elkhorn and staghorn corals off Florida’s southern coast declared functionally extinct. 

- The EPA is promising to erase a scientific finding that underpins climate regulations nationwide

- Warming waters and heat waves causing greater stress for California's coastal kelp forests. 

- California Governor Gavin Newsom travels Brazil for the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30)

Lake Michigan's water temperatures were the highest they'd ever been on that date since modern tracking started.

 Switzerland's glaciers lost 3% of their total volume this year.

The waters of the north Pacific have had their warmest summer on record

US state negotiators are battling over how to manage dwindling water resources in the Colorado River Basin

climate  report says that   humanity is hurtling toward climate chaos

India said it is planning to reach net zero by 2070

Torrential rains deadly floods and landslides across Mexico

A severe storm microburst confirmed to have hit Tempe Arizona 

Typhoon Halong tore through remote, coastal communities of Alaska

380 homes in northern Vallecito Colorado evacuated  after floodwaters breached the levees 

Lake Corpus Christi Texas in the midst of an Abnormally Dry drought. 

78% of Earth’s land has recorded its hottest month on record in the 21st century 

Boston's Long Wharf saw higher than average tides known as King tides.

Spain's olive, citrus, and avocado crops sustain major hail damage

European wild bee species, risk becoming extinct

The Amazon Rainforest underwent its most devastating forest fire season in 2024

Humanity has pushed seven of nine critical planetary boundaries past their safe limits

France using moss-tile systems to combat air pollution.

Eastern Australian humpback whale numbers bounce back

-Tampa faces $117 billion in property risk from flooding

-18 houses, 6 last week, collapsed on the coast of North Carolina in just over five years, due to Beach erosion 

-West Antarctic Ice Sheet is at an increased risk of completely collapsing due to global warming

-Karachi, with a population of 18 million, suffers from acute water shortages.

-The extraction of water from aquifers in Iran is causing an area the size of Maryland to sink  

-Energy Department adds “climate change,” “green” and “decarbonization”, “ to list of words to avoid”

-Antarctica has climbed to more than 86  degrees fahrenheit in the past week. 

-Big Tech   follows of Big Oil, as they build data centers in the South

-China is all in on becoming an ​“electrostate”.

-First hybrid offspring between a green jay and a blue jay the grujay.

-Exposure to wildfire smoke will kill an estimated 70,000 Americans each year by 2050

-Sea ice in the Arctic shrank to its annual minimum on Sept. 10

-Court rules anti-climate group not exempt from Federal Advisory Committee Act

-Panama’s seasonal upwelling collapsed in 2025

-A new top tomato, the ‘Scarlet Sunrise” ripens in New Jersey.

-Spain recently has been battered by torrential rain

-September Drought continues to worsen in several parts of the U S.

-The rapid rise and explosive spread of pelagic sargassum causing environmental concerns

-Millions of brown tree snakes fundamentally altering the balance of Guam’s ecosystem 

-China suggests that oysters can be good at removing carbon dioxide from oceans

-Fossil Fuel and Cement Producers account for About Half the Intensity of Recent Heat Waves 

-The world’s methane emissions continue to rise steadily 

-Alaskan rivers can be seen from space as the permafrost melts, turning them orange

-Pennsylvania towns are seeking government funding to replace wells contaminated by fracking

-Pakistan’s Punjab flooding displaced  1.8 million people last month

-China’s green energy efforts are on course to bring the fossil fuel era to an end.

-Utility-scale solar and wind projects account for 90% of all new builds

-Trump Administration’s actions to cripple commercial use of wind energy 

-This summer, the U.S. and the world have been pummeled by floods, fires and heat waves.

-Heavy monsoon rains and flash floods continue to pound Pakistan

-Kuwait adapts extreme heat, with summer temperatures reaching 120°F 

-Temperatures made El Paso the deadliest sector of the U.S.-Mexico border in 2024

-3.5 million New Yorkers have  water systems that have so-called forever chemicals

-Record-breaking quantities of the seaweed set to hit Mexico’s beaches

-Techniques known as “eco-driving” could cut carbon emissions 

-Shifting climate patterns  exposing banana crops around the world to diseases and other pressures.

- New biodegradable film keeps buildings cool without electricity

- US economists urge the world to push back against Donald Trump’s attack on environmental laws.

-Heavy rain and flash flooding lashed Chattanooga, Tennessee, last week. 

-U.S. rejected the "Net-Zero Framework" proposal by the International Maritime Organization

-Trump administration officials instructed NASA to terminate and destroy the U S Orbiting Carbon Observatories tools, 

-Europe’s glaciers are shrinking faster, than anywhere else on Earth.

-A woman wins $10,000 by removing 60 invasive pythons from South Florida in just 10 days.

-Mediterranean countries are fighting invasive species by turning them into food. 

First-of-a-kind US class-action lawsuit would force the EPA to reinstate its  $3b climate program

Three chemical producers reach a historic 2 Billion dollar settlement with the state of New Jersey

Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered the largest annual decline in coral in nearly 40 years 

Phoenix Arizona has heat that is one for the history books.  The mercury went up to 118 degrees

Extreme heat episode will continue for Spain and Europe more than a week

Study shows Agrivoltaics can help improve crop yields and food security in dry regions.

The world's nations are determined to finalize the treaty on plastic pollution

Much of the U S sweated under a brutal heatwave last week

Bridgeport Ct.  reached 95 degrees last week, tying a 1949 record  .

Nordic countries are experiencing “truly unprecedented” heat

Greenland ice sheet temperatures approaching the melting point in mid-July. 

Tick infestation closes Bridgeport’s Pleasure beach for the season

Utah's has a state of emergency due to surging wildfires

West Virginia embraces wind driven green energy 

The International Court of Justice ruled that countries have obligations to protect the environment

-US threatens tariffs and sanctions against Mexico “stealing” water from Texas farmers

-The Mississippi River, North America's largest river system, is under threat

-Kabul Afghanistan the first modern capital city on the verge of running dry.

-Greece faces a growing water scarcity crisis

-The Environmental Protection Agency announces eliminating its scientific division

-The global switch to renewable energy has passed a “positive tipping point”,

-2,300 people died of heat-related causes during European   severe heatwave 

-PFAS now contaminate the bodies of nearly all Europeans

-The Great Green Wall of the Sahara is a modern ecological wonder

-The Golden Plains wind farm in Australia is now its biggest wind farm  

-Pope Leo XIV is  committed to emphasizing the dangers posed to humanity by climate change. 

Trump “ends taxpayer support for unaffordable and unreliable ‘green’ energy sources”

State of the Climate in Asia report, 2024 was ranked as the hottest  year 

New York City has a new elevated waterfront park just opened 

A growing number of American cities using “cool roofs. 

India also struggling with heat waves

Majority of  Britain’s want the most polluting companies to face tax hikes 

The Caspian Sea level is likely to decline by up to 59 feet 

 Proposal to sell off millions of acres of public lands across Western states halted

E.P.A. Workers Warn Trump Is Politicizing Their Work 

Texas has lowest chance of power supply emergencies in years

Solar is now California’s #1 electricity source 

-The global food system faces growing risks from climate change

-EPA’s termination of $600 million in environmental justice grants ruled illegal.

-The Earth could be doomed to breach the symbolic 1.5C warming limit in as little as three years at current levels of carbon dioxide emissions. 

-Southern France is choking under an intense bout of air pollution 

-Just 4. companies are top four companies contributing the most to plastic pollution. 

-Indiana is stepping up its solar game with a massive solar farm. 

Global EV sales surged in May 2025

Pennsylvania to protect farmland from residential and commercial development

Fairbanks, Alaska, issued a first ever heat advisory 

World Meteorological Organization state of the climate report released, 

Scientists detect a unique kind of toxic organic pollutant in the Western Hemisphere.

Japanese scientists have created a new family of recyclable plastics 

-Ocean acidification entered a "danger zone" in 2020

-EPS may repeal rules limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants 

- coastal flooding is happening much more often previously known

-Trump administration has fired all of its content production staff of Climate.gov

-Climate change will “quadruple” the likelihood of conflict over scarce resources

-Donald Trump to pave over the grass in the Rose Garden and install flagpoles 

-Nigerian Flooding finds 500 missing and presumed dead and thousands displaced  

-Trump administration has terminated National Science Foundation grants

-More than 6,400 attacks against human rights defenders worldwide

-Widespread use of drifting net devices harm ocean life and coastal communities

-World’s largest producer of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, in China, explodes

-Building collisions, responsible for between 100 million and 1 billion birds killed annually 

-Groundwater pumping in Colorado River Basin far exceeds losses from the river’s reservoirs.

-County in West Virginia known for having the most public drinking water violations

-In Indiana, putting Up Solar Panels Is doing God’s Work 

-All 1,200 scientists and staff at the U.S. Geological Survey’s biological research arm may lose jobs

-Colorado oil and gas companies have pumped at least 30m lbs of secret chemicals illegally

-Certain detergent additives can be transformed into glyphosate

-Agricultural soils now hold around 23 times more microplastics than oceans.

-Harpy eagles reappear in southern Mexico’s Lacandon Jungle 

-China’s clean power generation causes nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall 

-At least 32 people killed in Kentucky, Missouri and Virginia tornadoes

- Intense heat wave that swept through many areas of Texas

-NOAA will no longer update its widely cited list of weather and climate disasters 

-Cheetahs are the fastest mammals on Earth are in a race against extinction.

-Seventeen Hoboken youth receive this year’s Youth Climate Action Fund grant

-Extreme weather is affecting homeowner's insurance market

-Nearly half of Americans are exposed to potentially dangerous levels of air pollution

-Cairo’s skies turned a dusty yellow from powerful khamsin sandstorm

-New Orleans is sinking at the rate of one to two inches per year

- Brazil  to seize private lands where forests have been illegally razed

-Gray whales along the West Coast are dying at alarming rates

-Gutting of USAID cuts off data used to warn people of weather disasters and food shortages

-China has led an environmental campaign of historic proportions 

-14 Good climate news Stories

EPA looks to overturn the federal government’s core scientific finding about the dangers of greenhouse gases.

EPA hides data that ON locations of thousands of dangerous chemical facilities across the US.

Broadcast news coverage of climate change fell by 25 % last year 

Eight of the top 10 online shows are spreading climate misinformation 

Extremely low sea ice levels in the Arctic and Antarctica signal a "new normal"

-More than 80,000 homes in the tri-state area could be lost to floods over the next 15 years

-Trump administration aims to increase timber production by 25 percent on federal lands

-Interior secretary Doug Burgum says endangered species list, needs “cleaning out”.

-Paris air pollution is down 50% after its radical bike-friendly transformation

-Ann Arbor, Mich., has an aggressive goal of net-zero emissions by 2030

-Different types of extreme weather have been affecting several regions of the U.S.

-NOAA has halted upkeep of critical Joint Polar Satellite System weather satellites  

-Ecosystems in the water surrounding Antarctica, are under threat from climate change

-Indonesia is planning to clear 20 million hectares of forest to make way for agriculture

-India is taking bold steps to reduce plastic waste

-Rising temperatures are threatening Canadian winter ice road 

-Wall Street institutions preparing for a severe future of global warming

-A top insurer has warned, The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism

-India is taking bold steps to reduce plastic waste

-Rising temperatures are threatening Canadian winter ice road 

-Wall Street institutions preparing for a severe future of global warming

-A top insurer has warned, The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism

-NASA analysis, shows that sea levels rose more than  expected in 2024. 

- 2025 may usher in an era of record-breaking hurricanes

-prediction more intense hurricanes in 2025 due to increase in ocean temperatures.

-U.S. Energy Secretary “global warming is a side effect of building the modern world”

-China, the world’s largest importer of crude oil, reported Slower oil demand growth 2024- 
-If the world covered every suitable roof with solar panels, it could supply 2/3 of humanity’s electricity
- the first glacier to be officially declared dead as a result of human-caused climate change

-US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it is discontinuing its regular updates 

-50 percent all carbon emissions can be attributed to just 36 high-emitting companies

-Pakistan has the worst winter smog season in  several years

-Less sea ice covering the oceans in February of this year than any other on record

-Pacific island nation of Nauru selling citizenships to fund its retreat from rising seas

-The US installed largest single year of new solar capacity in 2024

-The abundance of butterflies in the US slumped 22% between 2000 and 2020

New Executive order  by President Donald Trump  expands tree felling for timber on 280 million acres of U S forests.

Researchers protecting crucial climate data on government websites from DOGE.

145 USDA who protect U S from  tiny invasive pests at our ports, Terminated.

NOAA employees are speaking out about the chaotic DOGE firings. 

Glaciers worldwide have lost a staggering 6,542 billion tonnes of ice 

California suing fossil fuel giants pay billions of dollars for climate damage 

The transition to cleaner vehicles in Europe, increased over 2024 to 49%

EPA to reverse its 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare

GSA plans to shut down all 8,000 of its EV chargers.

Climate defenders and farmers sued the Trump administration over purge of climate-related policies datasets, and resources from its websites

California to protect consumers from electricity rate hikes that subsidize data centers

Svalbard Global Seed Vault preserves more than 1.3 million seed samples and welcomes over 14,000 new specimens

China no longer increasing its fossil fuel consumption due to renewables commitment

Cleaning of the Yamuna river, one of the most polluted rivers in India,begins

World's oceans hit their highest temperatures ever recorded in 2024 affecting weather

US Fish and Wildlife Service, froze its vast portfolio of international conservation grants

The world's farmland is getting drier and saltie

NOAA avoided making any link between January’s record high global temperatures and climate change

The new US Energy Secretary says "there’s pluses to global warming as well as negatives". 

Six largest banks in the U.S.leave Net Zero Banking Alliance

U.S. Federal Reserve withdraws from Network Greening Financial System 

Big oil spent $445m throughout the last election cycle

Billionaire  Bloomberg to fund U.N. Climate organization

Spains flooding in October severely impacted the nation's orange crop yields, 

Las Vegas, Nevada pulls up grass due to lack of water

Black Sea has"worst ecological disaster of the 21st century." 

Californians faces back-to-back earthquakes  

California is sinking in some areas

 Earth is crossing the threshold of 1.5°Celsius of global warming

 Honolulu officials to proceed with a lawsuit against the Oil industry

Approximately 27,000 farmed salmon escaped from a farm off the Norwegian coast

Colombia’s cancels a joint venture between state energy company and Occidental Petroleum

South Florida’s wealthiest  communities elevating streets above flood water levels.

The Greenland ice sheet  is cracking more rapidly

The Aral Sea now forms the Aralkum desert.

U.S. real estate market could a trillion dollars in value due to Climate change

Department of Agriculture bold new stance on climate change: out of sight, out of mind.

Swiss Farmers suing their government for failing to act on climate change

Researchers propose method making ammonia without emissions.

15-year-old from N C  designs a home that withstands category-four hurricane-force winds

China broke its own records for renewable energy installation in 2024, 

Wind and Solar Generated More US Energy Than Coal in 2024

Six largest banks in the U.S.leave Net Zero Banking Alliance

U.S. Federal Reserve withdraws from Network Greening Financial System 

Big oil spent $445m throughout the last election cycle

Billionaire  Bloomberg to fund U.N. Climate organization
 
Spain's flooding in October severely impacted the nation's orange crop yields, 

Las Vegas, Nevada pulls up grass due to lack of water

Black Sea has"worst ecological disaster of the 21st century." 

100,000 Ducks to Be Killed After Bird Flu Strikes Long Island Farm.

Six largest banks in the U.S. leave Net Zero Banking Alliance

U.S. Federal Reserve withdraws from Network Greening Financial System 

Big oil spent $445m throughout the last election cycle

Billionaire  Bloomberg to fund U.N. Climate organization

Spains flooding in October severely impacted the natorangeion's crop yields, 

Las Vegas, Nevada pulls up grass due to lack of water

Black Sea has"worst ecological disaster of the 21st century." 

100,000 Ducks to Be Killed After Bird Flu Strikes Long Island Farm.

Montana Supreme Court upholds a landmark victory for youth climate activists

Portugal  is now home to Europe's largest Marine Protected Area network

China’s emissions have started to fall due to changes in how it creates its own energy.

The UK to stop producing electricity from burning coal - ending its 142-year reliance  on coal

California banned the use of most expanded plastic foam food containers on January 1,

The world's renewable energy capacity has also grown by 50%.

Climate change is making Earth wobble and spin more slowly

Earth consistently surpassed 1.5 C of warming.

Global carbon emissions reached all-time highs.

 Atlantic Ocean currents known as  the  (AMOC), could collapse 

 Cuts in emissions from shipping have accidentally accelerated global warming

 Oklahoma’s needs to ban the use of chicken poop as fertilizer

The koala bear is at the real risk of extinction

Deforestation  Policy changes in Brazil credited with reducing hospitalizations and deaths

Floods are Forcing Towns Around The World To Evacuate Permanently.

Pacific Northwest and Northern California hit by  atmospheric rivers,

E.P.A. Bans Cancer-Causing Chemicals Used in Dry Cleaning

Cutting-edge onshore wave energy technology comes to the United States

The world’s largest and oldest iceberg A23a is on the move

New research shows unprecedented human-caused warming

Climate blamed catastrophic rainfall and droughts in Mediterranean area

microplastics might be affecting planet's weather and climate. 

Enacting 4 policies could eliminate 91 percent of world’s plastic waste 

Southeast Louisiana is losing 100 yards of land every 100 minutes

Europe’s native oyster reefs have collapsed

Texas faces rising sea levels and increased flooding due to climate change  

Portugal has Europe's largest Marine Protected Area (MPA) network

Animal populations are dwindling at an alarming rate.

Lower Basin states California, Nevada and Arizona to slash  Colorado River water use  

Extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans.

Pesticides aren't always necessary.

Human activity is behind a decline in soil quality 

COP29 is now over with modest deal 

COP29 makes international carbon market a reality

Brazilian cattle industry contributing to illegal deforestation of Amazon.

Wildfires  burned across the Northeast, due to unseasonably warm and dry weather. 

Washington State, voters upheld one of the most ambitious climate laws in US.

-Storm Bert wreaks havoc on Ireland with flooding, downed trees and power outages nationwide.

-U S Northwest battered by storms

-Mexico’s Vanilla producers estimate they lost about 80 percent of this year's crop.

-Greece, expecting 90% reduction in Chestnut crop yield

-10 billion snow crabs disappeared from the eastern Bering Sea

-Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, works against climate agreement

-Chinese city sets record for consecutive summer days

-House lawmaker Lee Zeldin of New York to run the EPA

-Exxon Mobil, cautions President-elect not to leave Paris Agreement

-Saudi Arabia's sun-baked deserts get first snow

-African small-scale fisheries declining

-Salmon are once more returning to spawn in Oregon  creeks

-No sign the lobster population of Ct. will recover

-A Sixth home on the North Carolina Outer Banks to falls into the sea 

-10 deadliest weather disasters since 2004 caused by the burning fossil Fuels

-The world headed for a destructive 3 degrees Celsius of warming

- Florida homeowners are selling their flood-damaged properties using words like "as is,

-Multiple bodies of water" in Long Island have seen algae blooms forming
-Tornado warnings in the Midwest, typically unheard of this late in the year
-New turbine in China is set to power 160,000 households annually

-Cyclone pounds Chinese province of Hainan with flooding

-Fed’s give 3 Billion for infrastructure  and reduce diesel air pollution.

-Atlantic cod quickly eat over 10 million capelin fish at one time

-Calif. Republicans want delay in carbon reduction policies
 

-137 organizations that are actively involved in promoting climate disinformation

California files first-of-its-kind lawsuit against ExxonMobil over plastic

Once thought extinct in the Atlantic Ocean Gray whale makes comeback

Positive news for endangered North Atlantic right whale

Clean energy jobs grew more than twice the rate of the overall economy 

Homeowners happy with rooftop solar

- Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time

-Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from forest fires have surged by 60%

-Nature is disappearing repoetedfrom the Living Planet Report 2024

-PestiSCAND device checks for pesticide residues on produce at home

-New  self-regulating water desalination syste runs on solar power

“2024 State of the Climate Report warns of Climate emergency

Antarctica's glaciers are in serious trouble

Pesticides aren't always necessary

United States continues to emit more planet-warming methane 

Utah’s Great Salt Lake days may be numbered.

India unhappy with EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism tariffs

12% of Rep’s, and 59% of Dem’s, say we must address climate change 

-The inevitability of rising temperatures due to climate change
-Farmer-first’ successful agrivoltaics projects

-Inflation Reduction Act has sparked a manufacturing boom

-New solar utility-scale operations are largest source electricity

-Electric car sales growing fastest 

-Americans want to prioritize developing alternative energy 

North Carolina beachfront falls into the Atlantic Ocean

Mediterranean Sea reaches highest recorded temperature

 Phoenix has been over 100 degrees F for 77 straight days

Current and future human health and wellbeing are at serious risk

Greece is facing a severe water shortage problem

IRS is offering rebates up to a 30% on clean energy products

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