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Damn the torpedoes! Trump ditches a crucial climate treaty as he moves to dismantle America’s climate protections

On Jan. 7, 2026, President Donald Trump declared that he would officially pull the United States out of the world’s most important global treaty for combating climate change. He said it was because the treaty ran “contrary to the interests of the United States.” His order didn’t say which U.S. interests he had in mind. […]

This Researcher Studied How Climate Change Hurts Children — Trump Shut Her Down

Truthful, paywall-free information is unusual. Please help our boldly distant journalism with a donation of any measurement. This tale used to be firstly printed through The 19th. Jane Clougherty has devoted nearly all of her skilled lifestyles to researching the condition results of wind air pollution and, extra lately, terminating warmth. However in Would possibly, […]

US media refuses to connect LA fires to climate chaos—or the billionaires responsible for it

In his 2009 paper Worst-Case Scenarios, Harvard professor Cass Sunstein coined the term the “Goldstein Effect” to describe a government’s “ability to intensify public concern, by giving a definite face to the adversary, specifying a human source of the underlying threat.” His basic argument was that in the instance of the “War on Terror,” the […]

How the oil industry and growing political divides turned climate change into a partisan issue

After four years of U.S. progress on efforts to deal with climate change under Joe Biden, Donald Trump’s return to the White House is swiftly swinging the pendulum in the opposite direction. On his first day back, Trump declared a national energy emergency, directing agencies to use any emergency powers available to boost oil and […]

Misinformation spreads like wildfire online while LA neighborhoods burn

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Fish and wildfires don’t tend to go together. But as a series of blazes driven by 100-mile-per-hour winds burned throughout Los Angeles, the country’s incoming president centered blame on a three-inch […]