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Boosted By Trump, Banks Resume Their Love Affair With Fossil Fuels

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For the first time since 2021—the start of the Biden administration—banks have ramped up their financing of fossil fuel projects, a changing tide that reflects the Trump White House’s close ties to and energetic support for Big Oil. That’s based on the annual Banking on Climate Chaos report, which analyzes the lending patterns of the […]

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Boosted by Trump, Banks Resume Their Love Affair With Fossil Fuels

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For the first time since 2021—the start of the Biden administration—banks have ramped up their financing of fossil fuel projects, a changing tide that reflects the Trump White House’s close ties to and energetic support for Big Oil. That’s based on the annual Banking on Climate Chaos report, which analyzes the lending patterns of the […]

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How El Salvador’s Government Impeded a Probe of MS-13

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This story was published first by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive our biggest stories as soon as they are published. In mid-April, President Donald Trump sat down in the Oval Office with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador to celebrate a new partnership. They had recently negotiated […]

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State Department Cables Reveal the Harrowing Consequences of Elon Musk’s USAID Demolition

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Elon Musk is trying to rewrite the history of his four-month tenure in Washington. As the billionaire founder of Tesla and Space X returns to the private sector after four months as a “special government employee,” he has put aside the celebratory chainsaw and cast himself as a misunderstood outsider whose dreams of efficiency were […]

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Study Finds High Levels of Roundup-Type Weedkiller in Tampons in the UK

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Toxic pesticide levels have been found in tampons at levels 40 times higher than the legal limit for drinking water. Traces of glyphosate, a pesticide linked to cancer, has been found at very high levels in […]

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The World’s Largest Emitter Just Delivered Some Good Climate News—for Now

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This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. China is the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter, spewing more than double the amount of heat-trapping chemicals as the next biggest climate polluter, the United States. For decades, China’s emissions soared ever higher as its economy grew, burning extraordinary volumes of coal, […]

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Can Bacteria Serve as ‘Microscopic Miners’ of the Metals We Need?

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“This story was originally published on the author’s substack, Field Notes with Alexander C Kaufman, to which you can subscribe here.” Five years after President Donald Trump signaled his support for extracting metals from the moon, his new administration is seeking to satisfy the United States’ hunger for critical minerals by encouraging mining under the polar ice caps, amid warzones, and at […]

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What’s One Way to Help Preserve the Antarctic Climate? Penguin Poop.

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New research shows that penguin guano in Antarctica is an important source of ammonia aerosol particles that help drive the formation and persistence of low clouds, which cool the climate by reflecting some incoming sunlight back to space. The findings reinforce the growing awareness that Earth’s intricate web of life plays a significant role in […]

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IDF Deliberately Targeting Children in Gaza, US Doctors Allege

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When Dr. Mimi Syed returned from her first volunteer trip to Gaza in the summer of 2024, she started flipping through her notes—and came to a shocking conclusion. In one month, the ER physician had treated at least 18 children with gunshots to the head or chest. And that’s only the patients she had time […]

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Sea Level Rise Will Cause “Catastrophic Inland Migration”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Sea level rise will become unmanageable at just 1.5C of global heating and lead to “catastrophic inland migration”, the scientists behind a new study have warned. This scenario may unfold even if the average level of heating over the last decade of […]

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Trump Admin Forges Ahead With Taking Luxury Jet From Qatar

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So much for the Constitution. The Trump administration has accepted the offer of a free jet from Qatar despite ample concerns from both Democrats and Republicans that the gift would potentially violate the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which prohibits any person holding elected office from accepting gifts “from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”  Sean Parnell, […]

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How Pope Leo Will Approach Climate Change Is Unclear, but the Vibe Is Positive

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a sweltering January day in 2018, Pope Francis addressed 100,000 of the faithful in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, not far from where gold mining had ravaged an expanse of Amazon rainforest about the size of Colorado. “The native Amazonian peoples have probably never […]

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