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ENVIRONMENT

Climate change

Climate change
Energy
Sustainability
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Earth science
U.S. government scientists participating in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were issued a stop-work order from the Trump administration, according to media reports.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Trump creates uncertainty for world’s most cited climate report
The U.S. absence comes amid broader cuts to research funding and a retreat from climate diplomacy under the Trump administration.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nations at odds over major U.N. climate science report
Many countries support an an aggressive approach to climate change, but face objections by some oil producers and major polluters.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
NOAA told to make list of climate-related grants, setting off fears
Staff members were given a list and told to identify which could be "potentially impacted” by one of U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive orders.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters in Washington in 2023. Groups with EPA grants say they have been unable to access funds from the agency.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Feb 5, 2025
Trump’s freeze on climate money sows fear and confusion
By Zahra Hirji and Danielle Bochove
A federal judge temporarily blocked the spending pause days later but uncertainty persists, with the full impact of the disruption still coming into view.
A climate change demonstrator takes part in a protest to denounce the impact of U.S. politics on climate change, outside the U.S. Embassy in London on Jan. 11.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Feb 5, 2025
Top climate scientist declares 2 degrees Celsius climate goal 'dead'
A stark new analysis concludes that Earth's climate is more sensitive to rising greenhouse gas emissions than previously thought.
Highway One after a portion of the road collapsed into the Pacific Ocean in Monterey County, California, in March 2024
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Feb 4, 2025
These roads aren’t built for wilder weather driven by climate change
By Kendra Pierre-Louis
Worldwide warming temperatures are hammering roads that were built for a different climate and ballooning repair budgets.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a letter to the U.N. stating the U.S.' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena, in Washington, on Jan. 20.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jan 31, 2025
The global climate order teeters under a second assault from Trump
By Akshat Rathi, Ewa Krukowska and Alfred Cang
Inflation and threats to energy security have eroded the political strength of climate-forward leaders and emboldened Trumpian populists around the world.
The findings on the alarming acceleration of warming have enormous ramifications for ocean health, as rising temperatures impact everything from coral reefs to fisheries.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jan 28, 2025
Oceans are warming faster and faster as the Earth traps more energy
By Danielle Bochove
The alarming acceleration helps explain why 2023 and 2024 saw unprecedented ocean temperatures — and more extreme storms.
Solar panels near the cooling towers of the retired coal-fired Komati Power Station in South Africa's Mpumalanga province on May 9
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jan 27, 2025
South Africa's patchwork climate plans risk widening inequality
By Kim Harrisberg
Poorer regions may be left behind in the transition away from polluting industries to green jobs.
U.S. President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jan 21, 2025
Trump withdraws from Paris climate agreement — again
The newly minted president removed the world's biggest historic emitter from global efforts to fight climate change for the second time in a decade.

Japan struggles to fend off a world without enough matcha
Once a boon to tea farmers' bottom lines, the global matcha craze is now pushing producers and distributors to their limits with few options to adequately meet demand.
Yen volatility nears six-week high as Tokyo inflation gauge eyed
Samples of newly-designed Japanese yen banknotes at the National Printing Bureau Tokyo plant in June 2024.
SoftBank among eFishery investors facing near wipeout
In all, global investors plowed around $315 million into eFishery’s preferred shares over five funding rounds.
Men, media and MAGA deepen South Korea’s split
A rally in support of South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Jan. 18. Young men have emerged as a key demographic that has come out in support of Yoon, in contrast to the many young women participating in protests opposing him.
Japan’s ‘hidden gems’ overwhelmed as social media drives influx of tourists
Visitors line up to take photos in front of a convenience store with Mount Fuji in the background at the town of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Jan. 29.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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The building of new high-rise residential buildings has some alarmed that they could empty and fall into disrepair as Japan's population shrinks.
The high cost of letting Japan's condos crumble
By Tomoko Otake

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