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Climate Change’s Toll in Europe This Summer: Thousands of Extra Deaths

17 septembre 2025 à 00:01
Three times as many people in cities and towns died from severe heat as would have done in a world without human-caused warming, scientists said.

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A tourist outside the Acropolis in Athens in July.
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Europe’s Extreme Summer Weather Could Cost It Billions

16 septembre 2025 à 14:13
Heat waves and flooding could cost the European Union $50 billion in damage to buildings and crops as well as a loss of productivity, a new study found.

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A wildfire in a village in northwestern Spain in August. Extreme weather hit many parts of Europe this summer.

California’s Environmental Past Confronts Economic Worries of the Present

16 septembre 2025 à 08:00
Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic state lawmakers have focused on pocketbook concerns this year, seeing their party’s national losses as a reckoning.

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California Democrats relaxed a landmark environmental law this year, hoping to spur more housing construction. Cities like San Francisco are struggling to build enough units.

New Research Helps Explain Gas Craters in Siberia

16 septembre 2025 à 05:02
Spontaneous gas explosions appear to be increasing in northern Russia because of climate change and some specific local conditions.

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A gas crater on the Yamal Peninsula in northern Russia in August 2014.
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Young People Suing Trump Over Climate Have Their Day in Federal Court

15 septembre 2025 à 15:54
They claim Trump’s executive orders are unconstitutional. The government says their lawsuit should be thrown out. The two sides are set to clash this week in Montana.

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The Russell Smith Federal Courthouse in Missoula, Mont., where arguments will be made.

Zinc Roofs Give Paris Its Signature Look. But They Are a Nightmare in Heat.

13 septembre 2025 à 06:20
As climate change helps fuel more severe heat waves, the city is struggling between maintaining its architectural heritage and keeping apartments livable.

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Extreme Heat Spurs New Laws Aimed at Protecting Workers Worldwide

13 septembre 2025 à 05:02
Governments around the world are enacting measures to try to protect workers from the dangers of heat stress. They’re barely keeping up with the risks.

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A construction worker in Boston in July, when temperatures were in the 90s. Boston passed a law this summer requiring city projects to have a “heat illness prevention plan.”

Zinc Roofs Give Paris Its Signature Look. But They Are a Nightmare in Heat.

13 septembre 2025 à 00:01
As climate change helps fuel more severe heat waves, the city is struggling between maintaining its architectural heritage and keeping apartments livable.

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Unusual Climate Case Accusing Oil Giants of Racketeering Is Dismissed

12 septembre 2025 à 15:45
Citing laws more commonly used against organized crime, the lawsuit argued that fossil fuel companies were responsible for devastating hurricane damage in Puerto Rico.

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Damage from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017.

In the Pacific, Unkept U.S. Promises on Climate Cut Deep

12 septembre 2025 à 00:01
Pacific island nations have seen American pledges and attention come and go with geopolitical winds. Recent U.S. pullbacks are met with disappointment but not surprise.

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Rising waters during a heavy storm and high tide on Fanalei Island, in the Solomon Islands, in January. With each tide creeping higher, villagers fear their island may soon become uninhabitable.

In the Pacific, Unkept U.S. Promises on Climate Cut Deep

12 septembre 2025 à 00:01
Pacific island nations have seen American pledges and attention come and go with geopolitical winds. Recent U.S. pullbacks are met with disappointment but not surprise.

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Rising waters during a heavy storm and high tide on Fanalei Island, in the Solomon Islands, in January. With each tide creeping higher, villagers fear their island may soon become uninhabitable.

Carney Unveils Major Projects for Canada to Offset Damage of Trump’s Tariffs

11 septembre 2025 à 15:39
Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled big infrastructure plans. But they are likely to meet resistance from Indigenous and environmental groups.

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A liquefied natural gas facility in Kitimat, British Columbia, in 2024. Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said on Thursday that the facility would double in size.

Brazil Invited the World to the Amazon. It’s Become a Big Headache.

10 septembre 2025 à 12:51
This year’s U.N. climate conference, on the edge of the rainforest, is fueling criticism of the host nation and the entire process of global diplomacy on climate change.

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A hotel in Belém, Brazil, that was renamed for the COP30 global climate conference.

Climate ‘Ideology’ Hurts Prosperity, Top U.S. Officials Tell Europeans

10 septembre 2025 à 12:30
Chris Wright, the energy secretary, said he would push Europe to loosen environmental rules and buy more gas. Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, tied fossil fuels to a need to win the A.I. race.

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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, left, and Energy Secretary Chris Wright at the White House in March. They are currently in Europe to press U.S. energy interests.

Trump Moves to Scrap Biden Rule That Protected Public Lands

10 septembre 2025 à 12:10
The proposal from the Bureau of Land Management would prioritize the use of public lands for oil and gas drilling, coal mining and other industrial activities.

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The Thompson Divide in Colorado. The Bureau of Land Management has for decades offered leases for the development of public lands.

How a Group of Students in the Pacific Islands Reshaped Global Climate Law

10 septembre 2025 à 05:02
They watched climate change ravage their home countries as rich, polluting nations did nothing. Then they had an idea.

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Madeleine Lavemai, left, and Sulia Makasini were students from Tonga attending the University of the South Pacific when, in 2019, an environmental-law professor encouraged his class to draft a letter.

China’s Renewable Energy Investment Helping Stem Fossil Fuel Growth, Report Says

8 septembre 2025 à 20:00
Its vast investment in solar, wind and batteries is on track to end an era of global growth in the use of coal, oil and gas, the researchers said.

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Solar panels and wind turbines in Shandong Province, China, in June.

Energy Secretary Attacks Offshore Wind and Dismisses Climate Change

5 septembre 2025 à 21:01
Chris Wright, who travels to Europe next week to promote American gas, called climate change “not incredibly important.”

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Chris Wright, the energy secretary, also said, “We don’t want to be in the race for the most expensive electricity in the world.”

Orsted Sues Trump Administration in Fight to Restart Its Blocked Wind Farm

4 septembre 2025 à 12:08
The Danish company behind Revolution Wind, a $6 billion project off Rhode Island, said the federal government had unlawfully halted work on the wind farm.

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A tour of an Orsted-operated wind farm off the coast of Block Island, R.I., in 2022.

Watchdog Warns Trump’s Cuts at FEMA Pose a ‘Major Challenge’

3 septembre 2025 à 15:52
The country lacks the ability to address multiple disasters happening at once, the Government Accountability Office said.

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Workers with the Federal Emergency Management Agency in October looking through the wreckage after Hurricane Helene in Swannanoa, N.C.

Poor Amazon Rains Linked to Brazil Deforestation

2 septembre 2025 à 11:00
Deforestation is playing a greater role than researchers expected, according to a new study.

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A deforested area in Acre State, in western Brazil, in April. For the first half of 2025, officials reported a 27 percent increase in tree loss nationwide compared with the same period last year.

Scientists Denounce Trump Administration’s Climate Report

2 septembre 2025 à 09:00
Scores of researchers reviewed the Energy Department’s argument about greenhouse gases and found serious deficiencies.

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A heat relief station at the Salvation Army Phoenix Citadel Corps.

Exxon and California Spar in Dueling Lawsuits Over Plastics

1 septembre 2025 à 11:39
The oil giant accused the state’s attorney general and four nonprofit groups of defamation after they sued over recycling claims.

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An Exxon Mobil’s chemical recycling unit in Baytown, Texas.

In the Remains of Canada’s Jasper Wildfire, Clues to Tame Future Blazes

1 septembre 2025 à 05:02
A giant fire last year consumed much of Canada’s Jasper National Park. Canadian scientists leading research into wildfires are using the blaze to learn lessons for the future.

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Recreational vehicles in the fire-affected Jasper National Park last month in Alberta, Canada.

Transportation Dept. Cancels $679 Million for Offshore Wind Projects

29 août 2025 à 15:37
The Trump administration’s campaign against wind power continued as it targeted funding for marine terminals and ports to support development of the industry.

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Friday’s move is the latest in a series of escalating attacks by the Trump administration against the wind industry.

20 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Is ‘at a Tipping Point’

29 août 2025 à 05:02
The city has taken pride in its ability to endure. But many residents, fed up with dysfunction and soaring costs, want it to strive for more.

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Charity Hospital, which permanently closed after Hurricane Katrina, sits in the Central Business District of New Orleans.

‘We Are All Shocked’: Warming Waters Bring a Stinging Sea Slug to Spain’s Coasts

29 août 2025 à 01:41
The blue dragons, which pack a ferocious sting, have led to several beach closures. Experts say it’s a worrying sign of the warming of the Mediterranean.

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A photograph of blue dragon was posted on the Facebook page of the Guardamar del Segura police department.

A Casualty of Trump’s Tariffs: India’s Nascent Solar Industry

27 août 2025 à 20:18
The full weight of a 50 percent tariff on Indian goods took effect this week, undercutting one of the country’s most promising markets for solar exports.

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A solar manufacturing plant in Gangaikondan, India.

Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals

27 août 2025 à 12:43
The president has made no secret of his distaste for wind and solar in America. Now he’s taking his fossil fuel agenda overseas.

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President Trump met with Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, in Scotland last month. He denounced wind power as a “con job.”

UK Summers, and Houses, Are Getting Hotter

27 août 2025 à 05:02
Built for a cooler climate, many homes need to be retrofitted for warming temperatures. It won’t be as simple as installing air-conditioning.

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Caz Facey this month under the awning that she installed to cool her London home.
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