Environment and climate news covering global warming, renewable energy, conservation, biodiversity, and the policies shaping our planet's future.
The municipality of Junin in Buenos Aires province is building a $20 million, 20-megawatt solar park across 50 hectares with 42,000-plus panels. The project, contracted to Genneia, will power more than 10,000 homes and prevent 17,500 tonnes of CO2 annually.
The IUCN has uplisted the emperor penguin to Endangered, projecting the global population will halve by the 2080s as Antarctic sea ice loss driven by climate change destroys critical breeding habitat.
The Trump administration has repealed the 2009 EPA endangerment finding that underpins all federal greenhouse gas regulation under the Clean Air Act. At least 24 states have filed suit, calling it the most sweeping environmental rollback in US history.
India has pulled its bid to host COP33, citing domestic energy pressures that Carbon Brief describes as potentially the worst energy crisis in the country's modern history. The retreat signals a fracturing of the developing-nation climate leadership consensus India helped build at COP26 and COP28.
The Trump administration has removed hundreds of federal climate datasets, deleted the National Climate Assessments, and shut down NOAA's climate.gov. Scientists are racing to rescue what remains.
Climate Impact Lab projects poor countries will suffer 10 times more heat-related deaths than wealthy ones by 2050, with Sahel nations facing mortality rates surpassing current malaria death tolls.
A record-breaking March heat wave brings summer-like temperatures to the US Southwest, as scientists warn climate change is pushing dangerous heat earlier into the calendar year.
The European Commission adopts new guidance to help Member States adapt the Natura 2000 network of 27,000 protected areas against accelerating climate change impacts.
The World Meteorological Organization reports the hottest 11 years on record from 2015 to 2025, with a new energy imbalance indicator showing accelerating planetary warming.
