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News Articles: climate

Pope Francis greets Swedish teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg, right, during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 17, 2019.

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  • Climate

Pope Francis focused on climate change as the planet continued to get hotter

Pope Francis called on the world and 1.4 billion Catholics to confront climate change. He brought attention to the issue but it's not clear he changed many minds.

April 21, 2025
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By:
  • Jeff Brady
The Trump administration is halting an offshore wind project in New York. Energy experts worry that the U.S. will fall behind other countries with booming offshore wind, like the United Kingdom.

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  • Climate

A wind project is stalled in New York. Experts worry about impacts across the U.S.

The Trump administration halted the construction of a New York offshore wind project. Legal analysts say it has implications far beyond the wind industry.

April 18, 2025
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By:
  • Julia Simon and
  • Jeongyoon Han
Homes in the Yupik Eskimo Village of Quinhagak on the Yukon Delta in Alaska are threatened by shoreline erosion as climate change makes the planet warmer. More than 22 tribes and nonprofits in the U.S., including Alaska, have had millions of dollars in federal funds for infrastructure projects frozen. Some of those projects were meant to help address the impacts of climate change.

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  • Climate

Federal funding freeze halts key infrastructure projects in tribal communities

Riverbank stabilization, lead and asbestos contamination are just some of the projects tribes planned to address before the Trump administration froze funds.

April 15, 2025
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By:
  • Nate Perez
Climate change activists carry signs as they march during a protest in Philadelphia in 2016. Earlier that year, U.S. prosecutors allege hackers began targeting prominent American climate activists in an effort to gather information to foil lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over damage communities have faced from global warming.<br><br>

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  • Climate

Exclusive: Climate activists were hacked. There was a link between victims and an alleged attacker

Prosecutors say the operation was aimed at gathering information to foil lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over damage communities have faced from climate change.

April 15, 2025
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By:
  • Michael Copley
NOAA satellites captured an image of 2022's Hurricane Ian. Data from those satellites and other NOAA efforts feeds into hurricane forecasts, as well as efforts to understand weather, climate, and fisheries changes. A proposed budget for the agency would slash more than 25% of its funding.

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  • Climate

Major budget cuts proposed for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The agency forecasts weather, manages fisheries, and researches the world's oceans, atmosphere, and climate. The proposed budget cuts would slash the climate work entirely.

April 11, 2025
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By:
  • Alejandra Borunda
A crane stacks turbine components at the New London State Pier Terminal. The offshore wind industry has generated millions of dollars for the city and local economy in recent years.

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  • Climate

The Northeast bet big on offshore wind. Trump wants to halt the industry entirely

Northeast states have bet big on offshore wind to meet spiking power demand and drive economic growth. But the industry's future is much more uncertain under President Trump.

April 10, 2025
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By:
  • Miriam Wasser
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in March to protest Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts to the agency. The Trump administration continues to make major staffing and programming changes at the agency.

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  • Climate

NOAA contracts are being reviewed one by one. It's throwing the agency into chaos

NOAA relies on hundreds of contracts to keep the agency running. The new commerce secretary is reviewing many of them individually, causing disruptions to many normal operations within the agency.

April 09, 2025
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By:
  • Alejandra Borunda
Suzie Hicks the Climate Chick and co-host Sprout are on a mission to inspire young children to learn about and take action on climate change.

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  • Arts & Life

This YouTube show explains climate change to the kids who have to live with it

Suzie Hicks the Climate Chick is an up-and-coming educator and TV host with a YouTube series tailored to kids ages 4 through 8.

April 08, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
An activist protests against the Trump administration's plan to stop some federal grants and loans during a rally near the White House on January 28 in Washington, DC.

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  • Climate

Rural leaders push Congress to unfreeze climate and environmental funds

Leaders from rural communities in eight states travelled to Washington, D.C., last week to urge lawmakers to preserve federal funding that's threatened by the Trump administration.

April 02, 2025
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  • Michael Copley
A map from the science nonprofit Climate Central shows the state-by-state risk for severe flood vulnerability by population along the East, Gulf, and West Coasts.

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  • Science

Study: 1,000 square miles of Coastal Georgia land at risk of '100-year' flood by 2050

New research quantifies the threat posed by catastrophic flooding along Georgia's Atlantic coast, driven in part by rising sea levels.

April 02, 2025
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  • Benjamin Payne
A Boston Dynamics robot "dog" inspects a vehicle body as part of quality control during a media tour at the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America in Ellabell, Ga., on March 26. During the grand opening ceremony for the plant, which actually produced its first vehicle in October, company executives and Georgia politicians did not emphasize — or even mention — that the plant produces electric vehicles.

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  • Business

Hyundai's plans for its new Georgia plant reveal an industry hedging its bets on EVs

Hyundai just opened a high-tech auto plant in Georgia. Originally meant to just build EVs, it's expanding toward plug-in hybrids — a sign of bigger shifts in the auto industry.

March 31, 2025
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
Negotiators are hammering out rules to govern mining on the ocean floor, where critical metals are found in deposits called polymetallic nodules. Here, ferromanganese nodules in the North Atlantic.

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  • Climate

There's no rulebook for deep-sea mining. One company wants to push forward anyway

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a Canadian startup says it will move ahead, whether or not rules are in place.

March 28, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Ackerman
Volunteers Olly De Almeida (left), Jordan Bordenave (right) and Rosemary White (far right) plant a tree in front of Tribble Condor's (center) house in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward. The project was funded by a federal grant terminated in February.

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  • Climate

Is planting trees 'DEI'? Trump administration cuts nationwide tree-planting effort

The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.

March 22, 2025
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By:
  • Eva Tesfaye
Responding to disasters like Hurricane Helene in North Carolina takes thousands government workers and millions of dollars, something states rely on the federal government for.

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  • Climate

Trump wants states to handle disasters. States aren't prepared

President Trump says he's thinking of getting rid of the country's disaster response agency, FEMA. States say they can't replicate what FEMA does on their own.

March 21, 2025
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer
Native American protestors and their supporters are confronted by security during a demonstration against work being done for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in North Dakota in 2016. Greenpeace, one of the groups protesting DAPL, was sued by the company building the pipeline. A jury has ordered Greenpeace to pay millions of dollars.

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  • Climate

Jury says Greenpeace owes hundreds of millions of dollars for Dakota pipeline protest

Experts say the verdict has relevance for free speech issues nationwide.

March 19, 2025
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  • Jeff Brady and
  • Alejandra Borunda
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