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Climate change is messing with global wind speeds, impacting planetary health
Climate change is affecting global wind patterns in multiple ways, many of which have direct implications for human health. Worsening sand and dust storms, wildfires intensified by record-setting winds, and increasingly severe hurricanes,...


Environmental Security Weekly Watch: September 29 – October 3, 2025
A window into what we’re reading at the Stimson Center’s Environmental Security Program Nickel Mining Threat to New Raja Ampat UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (Mongabay) When Indonesia’s Raja Ampat archipelago received a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve...

BlueAware by Zero Waste Foundation: Türkiye’s Global Marine Awareness Campaign at Climate Week NYC
Hosted under the honorary leadership of H.E. Mrs. Emine Erdoğan, First Lady of Türkiye, and presented by the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change of the Republic of Türkiye and the Zero Waste Foundation, the launch featured...

As Trump works to crush climate efforts, San Antonio projects persevere at the grassroots
Community advocates pushing to end policies of electric and gas disconnections in San Antonio, Texas. Efforts across the climate movement are increasingly leaning into principles of mutual aid and self-reliance, even when they partner with local...

California’s road to climate progress, Part 1
Toggle section navigation Sections Print As far back as the 1940s, California’s leaders knew they had a climate problem. Back then and during the decades that followed, Angelenos barely had to look up to see the smog filling the Los Angeles Basin,...

What to know about the federal freeze on environmental grants in Mass.
As a new administration attempts to redirect federal agencies to match President Trump’s priorities, a wide array of environmental initiatives in Massachusetts have stalled because of ongoing uncertainty around federal funding. Grants that...

BCEQ Panel Pushes Nature-Based Climate Solutions for NYC
Michelle Mullen As extreme weather events become increasingly relentless, the Bronx Council for Environmental Quality, BCEQ, marked Climate Week NYC 2025 with a panel focused on reshaping how the city prepares for the future. On Sept 26.,...

Local Climate Projects Persevere Despite Trump’s Effort to Crush Movement
Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. Standing before the United Nations last week, U.S. President Donald Trump unleashed long-held...

Pope Bob From Chicago Says Death Penalty Bad, Immigrants Human, Climate Change Real. Wingnuts Outraged!
Pope Bob, aka Leo XIV, blesses ice from a glacier in Greenland, outraging dozens. Photo: Vatican Media. Pope Bob from Chicago upset a bunch of people who are always upset anyway this week. On Tuesday, Pope Bob said that being against abortion but...

NJDEP commissioner talks environmental policy at TCNJ
By Haley Mejias Correspondant Shawn LaTourette, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s commissioner, spoke to students, faculty and staff about current environmental issues at the College’s R. Barbara Gitenstein Library Auditorium...

Diverse Environments Rules: A card game about diversity in environmentally-themed board games
This is the third article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, which explores the ways that board games, video games, and other types of indoor play impact and guide out understanding of the environment. This...

Why Environmental Consulting Is Becoming a Business Imperative?
Environmental responsibility has definitely changed over the last couple of years. Many people in businesses now have to put it as a central point of their strategies, including in decision-making and more. What used to be a matter of just ticking...

International climate banking alliance calls it quits after defections
One of the largest international green banking alliances has moved to cease operations months after shedding many of its major members in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The Net-Zero Banking Alliance, established in April 2021,...

The climate movement’s biggest weakness
Here’s a sobering fact: Even if the entire world transitions away from fossil fuels, the way we farm and eat will cause global temperatures to rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels — the critical threshold set in the Paris Climate...

Oman strengthens global environmental ties ahead of landmark climate summits
Lima: On the sidelines of the Ministerial Forum of Environment Ministers of Latin America and the Caribbean, Dr. Al Amri met with His Excellency Matthew Samuda, Minister of Water, Environment and Climate Change of Jamaica, to exchange expertise...

West Lothian environment network with grassroots success praised for its efforts by councillors
A group set up to develop grass roots environmental improvement projects has been praised for its work across communities rich and poor. The nationally funded West Lothian Climate Action Network (WLCAN) has helped a variety of community led...

Sanwo-Olu leverages E1 Lagos GP to drive climate action, blue economy growth
By Lukman Olabiyi Lagos State Government has reaffirmed its commitment to using the E1 Lagos GP Series One race as a catalyst to build a robust climate change ecosystem, while positioning the state at the forefront of Africa’s blue economy....

They moved to escape climate disaster. It might happen again.
They moved to escape climate disaster. It might happen again. Leaving the tight-knit community his family had called home for five generations along the Louisiana coast was one of the hardest things Chris Brunet has had to do. But three years ago,...

AU-AIP GCF Readiness Initiative Accelerates Climate-Resilient Water Investments Across 15 African Countries, Advancing Global Transformation Agenda
These achievements align directly with GWPO’s Global Transformation Agenda (GTA) launched in February, which seeks to mobilise USD 15 billion in climate-resilient water investments by 2030, including USD 500 million to be leveraged for GWP...