Climate Change

"US Oil And Gas Air Pollution Is Causing Unequal Health Impacts: Study"

"Air pollutants from U.S. oil and gas operations are causing 91,000 premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of health issues each year — with racial and ethnic minority populations bearing the biggest burden, a new study has found."

Source: The Hill, 08/26/2025

"Trump Administration Pushes Ahead With NOAA Climate And Weather Cuts"

"President Donald Trump’s administration is set to spend nearly $100 million, or 14% less, on the research arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) than the level mandated by Congress for this year, according to a budget document seen by Science."

Source: Science, 08/26/2025

FEMA Staff Warn Trump Cuts Could Expose US To Another Hurricane Katrina

"Donald Trump’s attacks on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) risk exposing the US to another Hurricane Katrina, staff at the agency have warned Congress in a withering critique that also takes aim at its current leadership."

Source: Guardian, 08/26/2025
September 3, 2025

Prep Your Climate Coverage: Autumn Extreme Weather

Join Covering Climate Now for a one-hour discussion on how to prepare yourself and your newsroom to be responsive to climate-driven extreme weather this autumn. Noon ET.

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September 4, 2025

Talking Shop: The 89 Percent Project’s Next Phase

Journalists interested in Covering Climate Now's 89 Percent Project can swap ideas with journalists from The Guardian, France Télévisions, and Agencia Pública about how to gather candid, revealing answers from the public, to present a factually grounded portrait of the global climate majority in all its diversity. Noon ET.

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"Green Spaces Are Key To Combating Record Heat In Marginalized Communities"

"Keith Lambert and his family cope with the extreme heat of summertime Chicago by going in and out of their house as quickly as possible and making sure their insulated shades are always drawn."

Source: AP, 08/25/2025

Climate Change May Spread an Asian Bat and the Deadly Disease it Carries

"A vaccine in development may slow the spread of Nipah virus, which kills up to 75 percent of the people it sickens, but reducing the environmental disruptions that bring people, livestock and bats together could be more effective." 

Source: Inside Climate News, 08/25/2025

"China's Carbon Emissions Fell In The First Half Of 2025, Study Shows"

"China's carbon dioxide emissions dropped 1% in the first half of 2025 from the same period last year, helped by growing use of renewable energy to generate power, according to a study by the Helsinki-based Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air."

Source: Reuters, 08/25/2025

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