News about renewable energy in the United States had been rather discouraging for its supporters in recent months, but a recent report on solar energy production shows how it’s continuing to grow.

President Donald Trump’s administration has been working against renewables such as wind and solar, which do not emit greenhouse gases, while promoting the development of coal, oil, and natural gas. Burning these fossil fuels produces greenhouse gases, the primary causes of climate change.

Trump's latest boost to fossil fuels came earlier this month, when he announced that his government would invest $700 million to support the country's coal plants.

Climate scientists warn of unprecedented Antarctic heatwave, with temperatures 20C above normal. Loss of sea ice threatens marine life and penguins.

Permanently installing a heat pump system in a building is expensive. But new window units can deliver many of the benefits with far less cost and go with renters when they move.

Settlements between the government and industry can be a useful tool for implementing industrial policy and avoiding litigation. "But past government buyouts were undertaken with public debate, transparency and congressional authorization," writes Frederick Hewett. "The administration's ocean lease buyouts share none of those attributes."

Sweeping aside more than a decade of diligent legislative and administrative efforts by coastal states to establish offshore wind markets, the Department of the Interior (DOI), through closed-door negotiations, canceled the leases for four large wind farms this spring. The Trump administration agreed to reimburse the developers billions in taxpayer money and represented the deals as reinvestments in fossil fuels.

Photosynthesis does not always result in wood growth, a key factor in carbon dioxide sequestration.

Trees may not be able to store as much planet-heating carbon as hoped, a study suggests, with researchers finding photosynthesis does not always lead to wood growth.

Scientists studied 137 sites across the US and found trees stopped growing months before the point in the year at which photosynthesis stopped.

Forests are a vital defence against climate breakdown but their power depends in part on how much carbon dioxide they can convert into wood, which keeps the planet-heating molecule out of the atmosphere for decades and centuries. Other uses of carbon are typically shorter lasting.

After you’ve worked on rockets that find their way to outer space, it can be hard to come up with a second act. For SpaceX alumni Andrew Redd, it meant looking deep in the ocean. Redd is betting the ocean has vast amounts of untapped geothermal energy.

Redd, who grew up in the Pacific Northwest, a region affected by uncharacteristic heat waves and catastrophic fires in recent years, knew he wanted to tackle something in renewable energy.

“But the experience at a very hardcore company like SpaceX made me realize that I can’t just come up with an incremental solution. It actually has to be brand new and it has to be approached from first principles,” according to Redd, who was an engineer on Dragon and Starship at SpaceX.

Redd left SpaceX and founded Endurance Energy, a startup that has raised a $54 million Series A to eventually harness terawatts of geothermal energy deep in the ocean, TechCrunch has learned.

Himalayan slopes are turning greener as vegetation climbs higher, raising concerns about water, snow, and ecosystems.

For years, the biggest climate warning from the Himalaya was easy to picture because glaciers were shrinking on the roof of Asia. Now, researchers are pointing to a quieter signal, one that can look almost harmless from a distance. The mountains are getting greener.

New research led by the University of Exeter shows alpine vegetation moving higher across six Himalayan regions from 1999 to 2022, pushed in part by warming and reduced snow depth. That might sound like nature recovering, but in this fragile landscape, more plant cover at extreme heights may change how snow is stored, how water runs downhill, and how rivers behave for communities far below.

Climate Commitment Act funding supports more than 750 new charging ports statewide OLYMPIA, Washington — The Washington State Department of Commerce today announced $37.3 million in grants to support 104 electric vehicle (EV) charging projects across the state.

Bats move through desert night skies with a purpose that is easy to overlook and difficult to replace. As they travel from plant to plant, feeding on nectar, they are also performing one of the most important ecological services in arid landscapes: pollination. For agave plants—long-lived, slow-growing succulents that define much of Mexico’s desert ecology—bats are not just occasional visitors. They are essential partners in reproduction.

This relationship is a classic example of mutualism, in which two species depend on each other for survival. 

Conservationists say cherished creatures such as whales, dolphins and seabirds are being killed in large numbers by fishing tackle.

Thousands of Britain’s most charismatic and protected marine wildlife, including whales, porpoises, dolphins, seals and seabirds are being killed as “collateral damage” by fishing vessels every year, according to the first-ever analysis of bycatch data.

The analysis, by the Wildlife and Countryside Link, a coalition of voluntary conservation groups, reveals the devastating toll bycatch, the accidental capture and killing of non-target species by fishing vessels, is having on marine species.

The “shocking” scale of annual deaths in the report, Hidden in the haul: The true scale of bycatch is likely to be “the tip of the iceberg”, it said, as only a fraction of the UK fishing fleet monitor bycatch

"There’s a thing out there called 'climate hushing' -- people arguing that Democrats should stop talking about climate change if they want to win elections," writes Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. "Whatever their motives, the climate hushers are wrong about pretty much everything."

Much ink has been spilled over the DNC’s autopsy of what went wrong in 2024.

I can tell you what I’ve observed: voters, dogged by cost pressures and fuming about a perpetually out-of-reach American Dream and an increasingly billionaire-centric system, needed a fighter at the top of the ticket.

The first question voters asked themselves in November 2024 was, “Is this person a fighter?”  If the answer was yes, the second question was, “Will this person fight for me?”

Democrats never made it through the first gate.

Buxton, North Carolina

IF YOU’VE WATCHED ANY hurricane coverage on TV in the past few years, there’s a good chance you’ve seen a house here fall into the ocean.

It’s happened thirty-two times in this wispy strip of barrier islands, known as the Outer Banks, since 2020. And not just during hurricanes! The most recent house collapse happened just last week, amid a relatively minor coastal storm. That little blue Buxton house was devoured by the sea in less than half an hour. Once-pristine “oceanfront” property is now just ocean.

Just in time for hurricane season, the Trump administration is defunding its global ocean-monitoring system.

America has never been so dry, so thirsty, yet so committed to fossil fuels and CO2-engineered heat as in the years 2025-2026. “Co2 Levels Hit Highest Ever Recorded, WMO Says, Warning of More Extreme Weather,” Reuters, Oct. 15, 2025. This has all the earmarks of a bad ending.

Moreover, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), effective May 28, 2026: “The world is already smashing heat records. It’s expected to get hotter.”

Our anthropogenic planet has become a virtual “heat machine.”

PROVINCETOWN, MA - As the Center for Coastal Studies kicks off its 50th anniversary year, it reflects on how much our knowledge of whale dynamics and the Cape Cod cod coastal ecosystem has grown.

How did Center for Coastal Studies start its anniversary year?

Whipping winds and rain didn’t keep hearty Cape Codders away from the May 30 open house at Provincetown’s CCS. The event kicks off a year of celebration of the research organization’s 50th anniversary.

Who started the Center for Coastal Studies?

With an initial capacity of 24 megawatts, the innovative data center uses seawater as a natural cooling system.

China has become the first country in the world to operate an underwater data center, or UDC, powered by wind. Located off the coast of Shanghai, the complex represents a significant advance in the country's strategy to secure energy supplies in the face of the accelerated growth of artificial intelligence, reduce dependence on fossil fuels, and reduce the environmental impact of its technology infrastructure.

• Arizona's San Carlos Lake is closed indefinitely after a major fish kill wiped out nearly all its fish population

• Officials attribute the fish kill to drought conditions and dam water releases that may lead to public health and safety concerns

• The closure impacts one of Arizona's largest lakes, a popular recreation spot with over 150 miles of shoreline

A massive number of fish deaths, or fish kills, in San Carlos Lake in Arizona have forced officials to close the popular recreation destination indefinitely amid growing public health and safety concerns tied to ongoing drought.

In a public notice shared on Facebook on Friday, June 5, the San Carlos Recreation and Wildlife Department announced that San Carlos Lake would remain closed "until further notice" after what officials described as a "significant fish kill event" affecting nearly the entire fish population within the lake.

“It is a death sentence for us if larger nations continue to open new fossil fuel projects,” Feleti Teo, the prime minister of Tuvalu, said in 2024. Located roughly halfway between Australia and Hawaii, Tuvalu is a nation of extremely low-lying reef islands and atolls. Sea level rise—driven primarily by burning fossil fuels, which boosts global temperatures and melts polar ice sheets—threatens to put those islands and atolls underwater within the lifetimes of Tuvalu’s current inhabitants.

No wonder Tuvalu, along with other Pacific island nations, will co-host a follow-up meeting to the landmark First Conference on Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels held six weeks ago in Santa Marta, Colombia.

So it comes as a shock to learn that Tuvalu’s government is heavily invested in fossil fuels, as revealed by an investigation published on May 28 by the global news agency Agence France-Presse. The Tuvalu Trust Fund, the nation’s largest financial asset, according to AFP, “has invested in coal mining, gas exploration and the world’s largest crude oil refinery,” reported correspondent Steven Trask, referring to the Jamnagar petrochemical complex in India.  

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a June 2 ruling rejected a youth-led constitutional climate lawsuit seeking to overturn three of President Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at supporting the fossil fuel industry, curbing renewable energy and suppressing climate science. 

A three-judge panel agreed with a Montana District Court judge who dismissed the lawsuit last fall, saying the plaintiffs did not create a plausible link between alleged injuries and the three Executive Orders. They also said the requested injunction was unlikely to address their concerns, and was overly broad and complicated.