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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration has said it is immediately pausing all leases for offshore wind farms already under construction, in the heaviest blow yet to an industry that the administration has relentlessly targeted throughout the year. Trump’s Department of the Interior said […]

The government is building a facility on Japan’s easternmost island that can tap resources 6,000 meters below the ocean’s surface.

Officials cited classified national security risks, though Trump has also long held personal disdain for wind power.

A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s future as the climate warms.

Climate scientists and meteorologists are sounding the alarm after White House budget director Russell Vought announced the Trump administration will break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, known as NCAR. “He is executing the playbook of Project 2025,” says Michael Mann, scientist and co-author of Science Under Siege. Without NCAR, “we will not have the sorts of observational data and climate models that we need to inform climate policy.”

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa was one of 54 reactors shuttered after the 2011 earthquake that triggered the Fukushima nuclear meltdown.

In ways subtle and extreme, the warming climate is hitting those with the least the hardest.

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As snowflakes fall lazily from the sky, you cozy up by the fireplace and take a sip from a steaming cup of hot chocolate, humming the jaunty songs you can’t seem to get out of your head the […]