An aggregation of recent climate news feeds:
2025-12-08 Sun-dimming risks putting the planet’s thermostat under Donald Trump’s control. Better to adopt the precautionary principle with high-stakes scienceIt is fitting that this week’s UN environment talks are in Nairobi, with Africa shaping the global …›
2025-12-08 At a time when the UK and other countries are finally taking bold steps for climate, Canada is preparing a new oil pipelineLast week, the United Kingdom did something all too rare: it chose leadership by backing science and prioritizing public safety. …›
2025-12-08 The U.S. has become a "side character" in the global story of renewable energy, experts say. China dominates the sector, with positive implications for the climate and their economy. (Image credit: Julia Simon) …›
2025-12-08 A newly analyzed set of climate data points to a major volcanic eruption that may have played a key role in the Black Death’s arrival. Cooling and crop failures across Europe pushed Italian states to bring in grain from the Black Sea. Those shipments …›
2025-12-07 A century-old North Atlantic cold patch is now linked to a long-term slowdown in the AMOC, the climate-regulating conveyor belt of ocean water. Only weakened-AMOC models match observed temperature and salinity patterns, overturning recent model trends. …›
2025-12-05 In this week’s newsletter: Coroners can’t agree on how to count heat fatalities – and the dismantling of climate investments is leaving fragile communities exposed• Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereDonald Trump’s …›
2025-12-04 A volcanic eruption may have triggered a deadly chain of events that brought the Black Plague to Europe in the 14th century. …›
2025-12-04 Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction. Ancient melt inclusions and advanced simulations point to continents forming far earlier than expected. The findings overtur …›
2025-12-04 This year’s ozone hole over Antarctica ranked among the smallest since the early 1990s, reflecting steady progress from decades of global action under the Montreal Protocol. Declining chlorine levels and warmer stratospheric temperatures helped limit …›
2025-12-04 In the wake of a disappointing COP30 in Brazil and fears that pro-climate forces are losing the information war, France Télévisions is moving in the other direction. The national public broadcaster in France, among the most-watched French-language me …›
2025-12-04 For release: December 3, 2025 Press contact: editors@coveringclimatenow.org France Télévisions contact: Claire Deshoux / claire.deshoux@francetv.fr Covering Climate Now is thrilled to announce that France Télévisions, the national public broadcaste …›
2025-12-04 America's urban search and rescue teams are facing financial and political pressure. However, their work has never been more in demand, as weather disasters become increasingly common.(Image credit: Ryan Kellman) …›
2025-12-04 The Trump administration continues to pivot away from electric vehicles and cleaner gas cars., with President Trump announcing Wednesday a plan to roll back the clock on fuel economy standards. …›
2025-12-03 At the White House this afternoon, President Trump said he was terminating "ridiculously burdensome" fuel economy rules. It's part of a series of changes relaxing or eliminating rules promoting cleaner cars.(Image credit: Mario Tama) …›
2025-12-03 Radar Clima es el boletín en español de Covering Climate Now. Cada dos semanas repasamos un tema clave para periodistas -especialistas o generalistas- desde la conexión climática y la lente de los tres pilares del periodismo climático: Humanizar, …›
2025-12-03 Researchers recreated conditions from billions of years ago and found that Earth’s young atmosphere could make key molecules linked to life. These sulfur-rich compounds, including certain amino acids, may have formed naturally in the sky. The results …›
2025-12-03 There were over 1.9 million plugin vehicles registered in October, with BEVs (+19% YoY) rising and PHEVs (-5% YoY) falling. Despite the expected hangover in the US market, down almost 50% YoY in October, global plugin vehicle registrations were up 10% …›
2025-12-02 Countries are meeting in Uzbekistan to negotiate trade protections for threatened plants and animals.By Kiley PriceWhether people realize it or not, traces of the global wildlife trade are ubiquitous, from expensive reptile-skin boots in department sto …›
2025-12-02 The floods and landslides that have killed more than 1,350 people in recent weeks are a grim reminder of the risks of a warming planet. …›
2025-12-02 As the Trump administration is expected to finalize a standard to prevent heat-related injury and illness for workers by early next year, a new study shows that clear, comprehensive rules save lives.By Liza GrossLast year was the hottest on record, but …›
2025-12-02 Regardless of this year’s sharp turn against wind and solar power by the White House, the US renewable energy transition is unstoppable. The killer combo of solar plus storage has been outpacing all other utility-scale forms of domestic energy pr …›
2025-12-02 Much improved response systems are struggling to cope with ever more powerful and destructive stormsDeath toll from Indonesia floods passes 700 as 1 million evacuatedFamilies stranded on their rooftops. Homes buried by fast-flowing mud. Jagged brown cr …›
2025-12-02 It’s Giving Tuesday, and we have a great opportunity for giving that any cleantech fan could be happy to support. But, furthermore, while happily giving to a good cause, you could also be ordering yourself the best Christmas present you’ve …›
2025-12-02 Data centers need huge quantities of water to cool their servers, but if that water contains pollutants, more pollution may result. The post Massive Data Centers May Make Groundwater Pollution Worse appeared first on CleanTechnica. …›
2025-12-02 With an assist from energy storage, concentrating solar power gets a reboot for commercial and industrial applications. The post Energy Storage Exists, & It’s Coming For Your Fossil Fuels appeared first on CleanTechnica. …›
2025-12-02 Over 9,200 solar panels have been installed at VWGA to date, generating 7,125 MWh annually. The impressive technological progress in the solar industry over the past decade has resulted in a drastic reduction in prices of solar panels. This has acceler …›
2025-12-02 BYD’s having mixed results with plugin passenger vehicle sales lately, with plugin hybrids dropping while full electrics (BEVs) continue to rise. In the commercial vehicle sector, there’s a little bit of an up-and-down matter in one segment …›
2025-12-02 A key driver of U.S. renewable energy research is now called the National Laboratory of the Rockies.By Dan GearinoThe Trump administration has renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, now calling it the National Laboratory of the Rockies, mark …›
2025-12-02 Monitoring by the Heriot-Watt scientific dive team as part of the Restoration Forth project has shown an average survival rate of around 88%. …›
2025-12-02 As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that helped release long-stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Deep-sea sediments show that ancient Antarctic waters once trapped va …›
2025-12-02 Sri Lankan leader says island battling ‘largest and most challenging natural disaster in our history’ …›
2025-12-02 Dolichospermum, a type of cyanobacteria thriving in Lake Erie’s warming waters, has been identified as the surprising culprit behind the lake’s dangerous saxitoxins—some of the most potent natural neurotoxins known. Using advanced genome sequenci …›
2025-12-02 The slaty-masked tinamou, found in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry. …›
2025-12-02 The erasure of the word “Renewable” from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory marks the end—or hopefully just an interruption—of a long and consequential chapter in energy history. Renaming it as the National Laboratory of the Rockies doesn …›
2025-12-02 BYD had another mixed result in November 2025 compared to November 2024. Full electric vehicles were up solidly (+19.9%), but plugin hybrids were down slightly more (-22.4%). Overall, that meant BYD’s plugin vehicle sales were down slightly (-5.8 …›
2025-12-02 U.S. electricity customers experienced an average of 11 hours of electricity interruptions in 2024, or nearly twice as many as the annual average experienced in the decade before, according to our Electric Power Annual 2024 report. Major events such a …›
2025-12-02 How Europe should finance transition mineral projects effectively and responsibly. As Europe accelerates its efforts to secure the supply of critical raw materials vital for clean energy technologies, including batteries, ensuring diverse supply chains …›
2025-12-02 NIO has been on a hot streak the past few months. November sales didn’t continue the trend of setting a new monthly sales record month after month, but it was NIO’s second highest selling month on record. With 36,275 NIO vehicles delivered …›
2025-12-02 XPENG didn’t have a blockbuster growth months for once in November, but its sales did rise 19% year over year. It was actually November of last year that XPENG’s sales first jumped up a lot year over year. So, it’s going to be a bit h …›
2025-12-01 In a recent roundup of Tesla “Full Self Driving” (FSD) news, I mentioned Elon Musk tweeting that the number of Tesla Robotaxis on the road in Austin would “roughly double” in December. First of all, it’s important to note these ar …›