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Tiny Mars’ big impact on Earth’s climate New research reveals the extent to which Mars is quietly tugging on Earth’s orbit and shaping the cycles that drive long-term climate patterns here, including ice ages. 

Studies suggest that sediment layers on the ocean floor reflect climate cycles influenced by Mars despite its distance from Earth and small size.
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A new research paper, published in the journal Energy Research and Social Science, explores projects that have caused environmental injustices such as air pollution or depriving communities of their source of income.

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DOE sees bigger role for climate contrarians, records show A small team of researchers who dispute mainstream climate science may play an outsize role in the next National Climate Assessment.

Trump administration officials have for months considered using a small group of climate contrarians to help write the nation’s preeminent report on global warming, new court records reveal.
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Red-state Republicans seek climate ‘liability shield’ for fossil fuel industry If enacted, Utah and Oklahoma measures would restrict litigation against oil companies over role in climate crisis

US lawmakers in two red states are attempting to shield the fossil fuel industry from climate liability.
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Climate change has now shrunk US salaries by 12%. And worse is to come | BBC Science Focus Magazine No matter where you live, a new study has found warmer temperatures are picking your pocket

Climate change isn’t all flooding, wildfires and melting glaciers – it comes with a price tag too. And if you assume rising temperatures haven’t hit your wallet because you haven’t lost a home to a natural disaster, the latest research suggests otherwise.
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Seven quiet wins for climate and nature in 2025 Here are the year's breakthroughs for the climate and nature you might have missed.

Globally, the rate of growth in renewable power capacity is accelerating in more than 80% of countries.
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Can a Flood-Prone Coastal City Learn to Live With Water? - Inside Climate News Instead of billion-dollar floodwalls and surge barriers, Hampton, Virginia, is relying on rain gardens, plant-lined storage basins, restored marshes and 3D-printed concrete reefs seeded with oysters.

Shelton Tucker is part of a novel plan to deal with the waters that are increasingly encroaching on his neighborhood in Hampton, Virginia.

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Health Care Providers Are Dropping a Common Anesthesia Drug That’s Also a Climate Super Pollutant - Inside Climate News Limiting use of desflurane helps hospitals reduce their greenhouse gas emissions; the European Union now prohibits its use during most procedures.

Desflurane is a common anesthetic used in hospital operating rooms worldwide. It’s also a climate super pollutant.

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A Growing Movement Looks to Decarbonize Death - Inside Climate News Alternative end-of-life practices like water cremation and human composting produce fewer emissions and return nutrients to the Earth, but access remains limited.

Cremation is the most common end-of-life choice in the United States. It is seen as a more environmentally friendly option—no toxic embalming fluids, resource-heavy caskets or land use.
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U.S. Company Releasing Unauthorized Emissions From Peru LNG Terminal - Inside Climate News Hunt Oil Co. has burned off an estimated 55.5 million cubic meters of unused gas from the export facility.

U.S.-based Hunt Oil Co. has been emitting large volumes of greenhouse gases from the major gas export terminal that it operates in Peru without authorization for at least 12 years.
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Diane Wilson Takes on Another Plastics Plant in Texas - Inside Climate News Diane Wilson, the prominent Gulf Coast environmentalist, filed a legal notice of intent on Wednesday to sue Dow for alleged large-scale discharges of plastic pellets from its 4,700-acre petrochemical complex outside Seadrift, Texas.  Wilson, a 77-year-old former shrimper from Seadrift, sued another Gulf Coast petrochemical giant, Formosa Plastics, and ultimately won a landmark settlement in …

Diane Wilson, the prominent Gulf Coast environmentalist, filed a legal notice of intent to sue Dow for alleged large-scale discharges of plastic pellets from its 4,700-acre petrochemical complex outside Seadrift, Texas.
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The Loosely Regulated Petrochemical Barge Industry Is Commandeering a Texas River - Inside Climate News People who live on the San Jacinto fear chemical releases and explosions from the vessels. It’s unclear who’s policing the buildup.

Over the past 30 years, federal and state agencies in Texas have allowed hundreds of oil and chemical barges to amass in a once-tranquil section of the San Jacinto River, just east of Houston.
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Alito’s Recusal in Oil Case Renews Questions About Justice’s Investments - Inside Climate News Nearly one-quarter of the associate justice’s $1 million in individual stock holdings are in fossil fuel companies.

Alito owns $15,000 or less in ConocoPhillips stock, part of a portfolio that includes seven fossil fuel industry equity investments he holds worth from $60,000 to $245,000, according to his most recent financial disclosure.
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States Say They Need More Help Replacing Lead Pipes. Congress May Cut the Funding Instead. - Inside Climate News The U.S. House voted to cut millions promised for the work this year. The Senate will vote this week, as advocates and some lawmakers push back.

The Senate is taking up a spending package passed by the House of Representatives that would cut $125 million in funding promised this year to replace toxic lead pipes.
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Are Declining Stocking Rates Underexplored By Scientists? - Inside Climate News A new study says researchers could be missing important climate and environmental changes associated with reduced livestock grazing.

If you stood in front of a map of the world, subtracted its oceans and threw a dart, you would have about a one-in-four chance of hitting land humans use for grazing livestock.
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After Losing a Climate Case in a Louisiana Courtroom, Chevron Wants a Change of Venue - Inside Climate News A jury in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, thought it had put the issue to rest. In April 2025, after an 18-day trial, the group of south Louisianans awarded two coastal parish governments $744.6 million in damages, finding that Chevron had contributed to the decline of the state’s shoreline and wetlands.  In the face of that landmark …

Lawyers for Chevron argued that the company should be permitted to remove lawsuits against it from state to federal court because its actions.

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Coal Communities Accuse Congress of Breaking Its Promise to Clean Up Abandoned Mine Lands - Inside Climate News The House passed a bill last week that would “repurpose” $500 million meant for cleaning up environmental and safety hazards caused by decades of coal mining.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed an appropriations bill that would withdraw $500 million of the money allocated in 2021 for abandoned mine cleanup projects.

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Fight Over Venezuelan Oil Highlights Shadowy International Legal System - Inside Climate News Trump said the socialist government “stole” from American oil companies. Those firms have been seeking billions in compensation through a controversial arbitration system.

American oil companies say they are owed billions of dollars by Venezuela, and the way they have pursued some of those claims offers a glimpse into a complex, arcane legal system that often avoids public scrutiny.

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The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice The treasures beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But as Donald Trump becomes the latest to eye this wealth, accessing them remains a challenge.

Detailed mapping collaborations and explorations carried out over more than a century have uncovered evidence of important mineral resources in Greenland.
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Himalayan winters are seeing less snowfall as more ice melts Experts say dwindling snowfall during winter will impact the lives and livelihoods of millions.

Much less winter snow is falling on the Himalayas, leaving the mountains bare and rocky in many parts of the region in a season when they should be snow-clad, meteorologists have said.
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Dill is one of hundreds of fans who have fallen ill from extreme heat in recent years at college games in powerhouse stadiums in the Southeastern Conference.
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Rising heat, failing kidneys: Climate’s hidden toll on migrant workers Millions of migrants toil in grueling conditions in the Middle East, where brutal heat contributes to an alarming increase in kidney failure.

The disparity in health care budgets between the nations welcoming these laborers and the countries that end up treating them is staggering.

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Much of the western U.S. has been unusually warm for this time of year, leading to low levels of snowpack in mountain ranges from British Columbia to California.

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What a crumbling power grid means for disabled Americans Angela Frederick’s new book calls to put disability at the center of disaster planning.

Most people with disabilities and chronic health conditions could be categorized as power-vulnerable. These groups can experience heightened pain, illness, or limited mobility during long-term power outages.
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What happens when disaster recovery becomes a luxury good As federal services deteriorate, a patchwork of private companies is taking their place — for better or for worse.

FEMA money is funneled to disaster relief nonprofits that then hire case managers to guide victims through the recovery process.

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New England kicks off $450M plan to supercharge heat pump adoption The program aims to use federal funds awarded under the Biden administration to deploy more than 500,000 heat pumps in the chilly region over the next few years.

The largest portion of money, some $270 million, will go to the ​“market hub.” Distributors will receive incentives for selling heat pumps.
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How a species of bamboo could help protect the South from future floods In the face of mounting climate disasters, tribes, scientists, and Southern communities are rallying around a nearly forgotten native plant.

Rivercane used to line the streams, rivers, and bogs of the Southeast from the Blue Ridge Mountains down to the Mississippi Delta.

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New Jersey Has A New Map For Its Energy Future. The Ground Under It Is Already Shifting. - Inside Climate News New Jersey has a renewed plan for a cleaner, cheaper grid. The catch: it relies on a regional market in turmoil, offshore wind on life support and climate policies Washington is now trying to unravel.

In the waning days of Governor Phil Murphy’s tenure, state officials unveiled an updated Energy Master Plan that calls for 100 percent clean electricity by 2035 and steep reductions in climate pollution by midcentury.
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Utility Asks New Mexico for ‘Zero Emission’ Status for Gas-Fired Power Plant - Inside Climate News Plan puts costs of new solar farms on New Mexicans and extends lives of coal-fired plants. Critics call it “profound greenwashing.”

The Southwestern Public Service Company has asked the state of New Mexico to grant exceptions to the state’s Energy Transition Act for two proposed gas-fired power plants.
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ERCOT’s Market is Transitioning Toward Storage and Solar - Inside Climate News Capacity additions to the Texas grid continue to be led by renewables.

Battery storage facilities and solar farms powered virtually all capacity growth in Texas’ electric grid throughout 2025.
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