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The earth's climate is accumulating 4 Hiroshima atomic bombs worth of heat every second.

El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers

An initiative of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. The new “U.S. Climate Collection” will host research and analysis, including work that would have contributed to large-scale…

Twenty years after An Inconvenient Truth , emissions are still rising. To arrest global warming we must harness the only motive that works.

The debate is louder than usual as climate voices gather.

"It’s time to stop making taxpayers subsidize luxury private jet travel and use our resources to green other industries," said one of the report's authors.

The negative climate news is piling up, but there are some bright spots of progress if you know where to look.

Plus: OpenAI has scrapped a new AI model over safety concerns.

A conversation with Dr. Gavin A. Schmidt, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, on paleoclimate, resilience, and the climate futures being shaped today.

As the organisation meets this week, it remains the best hope for restoring order. But it relies on goodwill from the US president – and that is lacking, says former Observer international editor Steve Bloomfield

As Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change - but only if it inflicts "an enormous amount of pain and suffering" first. The Nvidia CEO discussed the future of energy and AI's impact on our planet in the latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show . But his comments boil down to the same accelerationist spin we've seen from a variety of tech leaders as well as President Donald Trump. They promise that AI will be such a gift to humanity that it's worth the damage caused by data centers currently running on dirty energy. Huang's extreme level of privilege is glaring Huang's extreme level of privilege is glaring in the interview. He … Read the full story at The Verge.

Last year, the Trump administration did what it could to shut down work on the next US National Climate Assessment, eliminating funding for the US Global Change Research Program and booting hundreds of contributing authors. The administration even took past reports offline, forcing others to host copies so the information would still be accessible. And this all comes despite the fact that these reports are legally required. Later in the year, the American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society announced an effort to give researchers a central place to compile the kind of work that would have fed the next US report, as well as potential regional and local reports. This “ US Climate Collection ” works differently from the US Global Change Research Program or the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Rather than facilitating the writing of a giant, coordinated report, the groups are inviting teams of researchers to publish peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals, which will then be added to a centralized resource for future report-writers. The first paper has now been added to that collection. It’s the work of 149 authors (many of whom had been working on the US report), and it is actually being published in two journals—one operated by the American Geophysical Union and one by the American Meteorological Society. That’s because this paper is intended to provide a roadmap to prioritize future contributions. Read full article Comments

Rivian always planned for its all-important R2 vehicle to be less expensive than its pricey R1 predecessors, but also less polluting. The production process for the R2 would rely on more renewable energy, and the vehicle itself would feature more recycled and biodegradable materials than the models that came before it. With this and a few other tricks, Rivian set the target to achieve a 50 percent lifetime carbon reduction for the R2 by 2030. Today, the company released its 2025 impact report outlining its sustainability progress for the year. The main takeaway is that over the entire lifespan - everything from production, driving, and eve … Read the full story at The Verge.

Days after finalizing a rule that would eliminate climate rules for power plants , the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was sued by groups who say the EPA’s repeal was shockingly short-sighted and risked leaving the country’s single largest source of industrial climate pollution unchecked. On Thursday, the American Lung Association, the American Public Health Association (APHA), the Clean Air Council, Clean Wisconsin, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed a petition requesting that the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit review if the EPA’s action conflicts with the Clean Air Act. “Clean air is a basic human right,” APHA CEO Georges C. Benjamin said. Read full article Comments