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A collaboration of more than a dozen news organizations dedicated to exploring the human, environmental, economic, and political impacts of our changing climate, and sharing our work with a wide audience. Find us at: ClimateDesk.org
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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 19d
This Sunday, we are launching “Climate Desk Weekly.” This free dispatch will act as Mother Jones' Sunday newsletter and share the week’s need-to-know climate news right in your inbox from our collaboration of 15 award-winning media outlets.

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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 18h
For a century unsustainable groundwater pumping has taxed aquifers and caused subsidence. A 1980s law intended to rein it in has stopped the constrction of thousands of homes near Phoenix, pitting the environment and existing water uses against new housing developments. buff.ly/Hrzh2WX
The dried-out subdivisions of Phoenix - High Country News
A groundwater crisis halted the construction of thousands of homes and pitted affordability against environmental concerns.
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 18h
Former presidential science adviser John Holdren on Trump's dramatic break from a longstanding system of government science investment, and the risks that break entails. ⬇️
Obama’s science adviser on Trump’s science cuts: "The system will starve"
Since 1945, there has been a system in place in the US of government research investment in the sciences—particularly at universities. The idea was that the new knowledge created by scientists would…
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 19h
Glacier melt will lead to ice-free peaks in California for first time in human history
Glacier melt will lead to ice-free peaks in California for first time in human history
New research shows massive glaciers in Sierra Nevada projected to melt away by the beginning of the next century
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Grist @grist.org · 19h
The people behind America’s disaster recovery.

From cleanup crews to powerline techs, these are the workers called in after catastrophe.

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#Disaster #Labor #Climate #Weather #Union #GreenSky
The people behind America's disaster recovery
From cleanup crews to powerline techs, these are the workers called in after catastrophe.
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Grist @grist.org · 20h
Small farmers are more squeezed than ever. A California grant program offers a lifeline.

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#Farms #Food #CA #California #Agriculture
Small farmers are more squeezed than ever. A California grant program offers a lifeline.
A recent report shows that the state’s farm-to-school grant program has been effective at supporting economically disadvantaged farmers in the face of mounting federal cuts.
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Kiley Bense @kiley.bsky.social · 20h
The results of a new study on how fracking can contaminate drinking water found that 71 percent of tested wells contained methane. Two registered “explosive levels of methane.” insideclimatenews.org/news/0710202...
Scientists Find Evidence that a Pennsylvania Town’s Water Was Contaminated by Fracking - Inside Climate News
Three years after noticing discoloration and odors in their wells, residents in New Freeport are still fighting for clean water.
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Patty Lane @pattylane.bsky.social · 20h
Clara Phillips is helping Nunavut return to quiet. 25-year-old engineer-in-training from Newfoundland leading installation of Nunavut’s first wind turbine and battery. @climatedesk.org @coveringclimatenow.org @katharinehayhoe.com @billmckibben.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/06/o...
An Inuit community installs Nunavut's first wind turbine
Clara Phillips is helping Nunavut return to quiet. As development project manager at Nunavut Nukkiksautiit Corporation, this 25-year-old engineer-in-training from Newfoundland is leading the installat...
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Grist @grist.org · 21h
This designer is helping Puerto Rico rebuild — by putting power back in residents’ hands.

Through her nonprofit La Maraña, Cynthia Burgos López works with communities to design and rebuild climate-resilient spaces that reflect their needs and voices.

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#PuertoRico #PR
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Grist @grist.org · 21h
Who really controls your power bill? ⚡

Charles Hua is pulling back the curtain on the 200 regulators who shape U.S. energy policy.

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#Energy #Climate #CleanEnergy #Renewables #GreenSky
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Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 21h
From the Big Beautiful Bill to state permitting challenges, community solar’s struggles are piling up.
Community solar set to struggle amid federal and state headwinds
Installations of the shared-solar arrays fell by 36% in the first half of 2025, and the longer-term outlook is sluggish, too.
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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 20h
New England’s final coal plant shuts down years ahead of schedule.

Poor economics drove the aging New Hampshire plant offline three years early, even as the Trump administration pushes to revitalize coal.

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New England’s final coal plant shuts down years ahead of schedule
Poor economics drove the aging New Hampshire plant offline three years early, even as the Trump administration pushes to revitalize coal.
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 20h
Scientists found “significant contamination” from oil and gas drilling in private wells in New Freeport, Pennsylvania.
Scientists Find Evidence that a Pennsylvania Town’s Water Was Contaminated by Fracking - Inside Climate News
Three years after noticing discoloration and odors in their wells, residents in New Freeport are still fighting for clean water.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23h
Trump’s aid package to soybean farmers is expected to be in the billions of dollars. But to some farmers, that misses the point.

“The American farmer, especially myself included—we don’t want any payments. We want to work."
A 90-second crash course in Trump's betrayal of American soy farmers
Here’s the geopolitical beans.
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 23h
"Economic isolation creates conditions that are conducive to nuclear weapons development," writes Sergey Shkolnikov.

So how can nations design nuclear sanctions that don't backfire?
How to design nuclear sanctions that don’t backfire
International sanctions can have a paradoxical effect, spurring some nations to push harder to obtain nuclear weapons. Here’s how sanctions can be more effective.
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 23h
Britain’s big, baffling ladybird glut: ‘My house is literally crawling with them’
Britain’s big, baffling ladybird glut: ‘My house is literally crawling with them’
These little spotted beetles are looking for a comfortable new home for the winter – and it could be yours
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Grist @grist.org · 23h
A guide to the 4 minerals shaping the world’s energy future.
To address climate change, we're going to need a whole lot of metal.

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#Mining #Mines #Climate #Lithium #CleanEnergy #Renewables #EV #Cars
A guide to the 4 minerals shaping the world's energy future
To address climate change, we're going to need a whole lot of metal.
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 23h
While Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vows to erase climate change from the military agenda, new Pentagon data show the impacts of warming are shaping the National Guard’s mission.
Natural Disasters Are a Rising Burden for the National Guard - Inside Climate News
New Pentagon data show climate impacts shaping reservists’ mission, in potential conflict with Trump’s drive to use them for law enforcement.
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Wyatt Myskow @wyattmyskow.bsky.social · 23h
On the Colorado River, there is no more water.

That's the warning from a coalition of environmental groups urging for action and transparency regarding the river's future.

My latest:

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As Colorado River Nears Collapse, It Faces Leadership, Transparency ‘Crisis,’ Environmentalists Warn - Inside Climate News
A new report from a coalition of environmental organizations offers recommendations on how to address the declining water supply in the river as negotiations over its future stall.
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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 1d
Lots of people think Dems are forcing these dirty coal plants to “retire” with policies and regs.

It’s simply not true!

Coal plants are incredibly inefficient to run compared to gas and renewables. This New England plant didn’t “retire” — the company closed it because it was too expensive!
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Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 1d
New England has said its final goodbye to coal power. Here’s how a transition to gas — and now renewables — helped shut its last plant down early.
New England’s final coal plant shuts down years ahead of schedule
Poor economics drove the aging New Hampshire plant offline three years early, even as the Trump administration pushes to revitalize coal.
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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 1d
Cold freshwater pouring off Greenland's melting ice cap and glaciers is messing with key ocean currents that help modulate the entire global climate ... Scientists say it's not a good thing.

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Aerial view of part of the coast of Greenland, showing glaciers flowing through mountains and into a blue sea flecked with big and small icebergs.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d
Outcry as Trump plots the plunder of US forests: "You can almost hear the chainsaws" [via
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Outcry as Trump plots the plunder of US forests: "You can almost hear the chainsaws"
Public comments suggest repealing the Clinton-era "roadless rule" is wildly unpopular.
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Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 1d
New England has said its final goodbye to coal power. Here’s how a transition to gas — and now renewables — helped shut its last plant down early.
New England’s final coal plant shuts down years ahead of schedule
Poor economics drove the aging New Hampshire plant offline three years early, even as the Trump administration pushes to revitalize coal.
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 1d
Media and political attacks on Australia’s emissions targets ‘straight out of the climate obstruction playbook’, expert says
Media and political attacks on Australia’s emissions targets ‘straight out of the climate obstruction playbook’, expert says
Prof Christian Downie points to the Business Council of Australia and News Corp newspapers as examples of deliberate obstruction
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 1d
Tawny frogmouths take patience to appreciate. They will reward you with insights into their remarkable lives | Stephanie Convery
Tawny frogmouths take patience to appreciate. They will reward you with insights into their remarkable lives | Stephanie Convery
Spotting tawnies is a bit like completing a crossword: it’s easier once you are familiar with the patterns, but you can always get stumped
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Yale Environment 360 @yalee360.bsky.social · 1d
For the first time, renewables are generating more power globally than coal.

But in the U.S., where the Trump administration is dismantling support for clean energy, renewables are expected to grow half as fast as previously thought.
In a Global First, Renewables Overtake Coal
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