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E.P.A. plans to loosen mercury rules for coal plants, documents show

Senior officials at the Environmental Protection Agency are expected to announce the move on Friday, according to people briefed on the matter.
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Trump dispatches EPA boss in Newsom brawl

The president called Lee Zeldin his “secret weapon” as the Environmental Protection Agency boss's profile rises in Trump world.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum U.S. Secretary of the Interior  speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)

US Interior secretary ‘takes jurisdiction’ over case that reversed 3,500-well Wyoming gas field

State attorneys have also petitioned the administrative court, asking that federal land managers be given the chance to fix a "discrete error" in planning documents.
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Trump administration keeping power plants open in effort to befriend coal industry

President Trump signed an executive order last week, requiring military installations to purchase electricity from coal-fired power plants – some of which were slated to be retired.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)

US pressures global energy body to drop net zero modeling

Donald Trump’s energy chief Chris Wright told other ministers in Paris that a net zero world was fantasy, officials familiar with the discussions told POLITICO.
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Coral bleaching: How warming seas are transforming the world’s reefs

Mass coral bleaching occurs when unusually warm ocean temperatures disrupt the partnership between corals and the microscopic algae that supply most of their energy.

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Climate change threatens coffee-growing regions

Human-caused climate change is adding weeks of extreme heat to major coffee-producing countries, damaging crops and reducing yields, according to new research.

Barge transporting timber on the Congo River

Floating cities of logs: can the ‘lungs of Africa’ survive its exploitation?

The Congo River basin is one of the planet’s most biodiverse ecosystems. But it is also home to a growing population and relentless trade in timber and charcoal.

Spotty, patchy, diminished, mountain snow-pack

The West’s winter has been a slow-moving catastrophe

Without snow in the mountains, the places that depend on the West’s rivers will hurt for water.
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Documenting a ‘drastically changing’ scientific landscape

In the Lost Science series, scientists whose jobs or funding have been cut by the Trump administration tell their stories.
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Iceland saw record temperatures last year. So why are scientists predicting a ‘deep freeze’?

Scientists have expressed growing concern over a major Atlantic current that could collapse and send northern Europe into the next Ice Age.

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