Tag: Climate Change
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Trump repeals Obama-era climate rule
WASHINGTON • The Trump administration on Thursday announced the repeal of an Obama-era finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and eliminated federal tailpipe emissions standards for cars and trucks. It is the most sweeping climate related policy rollback by the administration to date. “Under the process just completed by the EPA, we are…
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Trump admin. to revoke climate change regulations
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday will revoke a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the White House announced. The Environmental Protection Agency will issue a final rule rescinding a 2009 government declaration known as the endangerment finding. That Obama-era policy determined…
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New study from CU Boulder finds troubling signs for this iconic Rocky Mountain animal
Researchers study pikas because they are an indicator of changes affecting the health of mountain ecosystems that humans depend on A new study led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder carries a warning for one of the Rocky Mountains’ most iconic animals: the American pika, a small and fuzzy lagomorph often greeting hikers…
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Marchers gather in worldwide protest of financial institutions ‘profiting off the climate crisis’
On the eve of New York Climate Week, activists and members of the public have gathered to protest the financial institutions that are “making our lives more expensive while profiting off the climate crisis, war and genocide,” the organizers say
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom extends signature program aimed at curbing carbon emissions
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill extending the state’s cap-and-trade program through 2045
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One of the rarest birds in the world finds a city sanctuary in Hong Kong
Yellow-crested cockatoos have found a sanctuary in Hong Kong’s urban parks, but they face housing troubles similar to their human neighbors
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Australia targets at least 62% emissions cut in the next decade
Australia has set a new target of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by between 62% and 70% below 2005 levels by 2035
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Move over, green lawns. Drier, warmer climate boosts interest in low-water landscaping
America loves its green lawns
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National Academy of Sciences rebuffs Trump EPA’s effort to undo regulations fighting climate change
The National Academy of Sciences says evidence supporting a 2009 U.S. government finding that climate change threatens public health is “beyond scientific dispute” and that evidence supporting that finding has only grown stronger
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Snow melts earlier in burned forests, new Science Advances study finds
GOLDEN, Colo., Sept. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Wildfires are causing earlier snowmelt across the western U.S., and this effect would only be exacerbated by projected warmer winters. This is according to a new study led by Colorado School of Mines researchers published today in the journal Science Advances. The paper, “Impact of current and…