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As seas rise, where will Louisiana’s fishers go? A new paper says New Orleans must relocate inland. But that’s a lot harder when your economy revolves around seafood.
grist.orgu/The_Weekend_Baker — 16 hours ago
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World burned less coal in 2025, but built more plants over energy uncertainty. The U.S. was a major outlier, with policy interventions leading to a 13% increase in coal electricity generation.
news.mongabay.comu/The_Weekend_Baker — 16 hours ago
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England must harvest rainfall and take action on water usage, Lords warn, as climate change-induced weather patterns, population growth and the expansion of industries such as water-intensive datacentres put excessive demand on supplies and endanger life.
theguardian.comu/The_Weekend_Baker — 16 hours ago
How big can solar go? These 3 projects show us the gigascale future. A handful of sensationally large developments are underway around the world, testing just how big solar can get.
canarymedia.comu/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago
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Dominion just can’t kick its fossil fuel addiction. The 3,000 MW facility slated for Cumberland County, VA, would be Dominion’s biggest fossil fuel plant ever, the size of three nuclear reactors.
virginiamercury.comu/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago
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Air-conditioning cools homes but may weaken climate action. Private cooling may protect people from heat while reducing the perceived urgency of broader urban climate solutions—a pattern the researchers call "behavioral insulation."
phys.orgu/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago
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Defense Department delays 54 wind projects in Texas, citing national security concerns. After years of trying to stop offshore wind projects, the Trump administration is now pausing routine federal permits for 165 land-based projects.
texastribune.orgu/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago
Prescribed burns and forest thinning averted millions of tons of emissions and billions in damages. In addition to preventing an estimated 2.7 million tons of carbon emissions and $2.8 billion in damages, UC Davis researchers determined that fuel treatments prevented nearly 60 premature deaths.
insideclimatenews.orgu/OnlyACsNoFans — 1 day ago
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Data shows solar development on farmland avoids driving up food prices. A county-level agricultural economic model demonstrates that utility-scale solar expansion has a negligible impact on national commodity markets.
pv-magazine-usa.comu/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago
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Widespread peat carbon losses driven by the 2025 Scottish megafire. Drier and warmer climates have allowed fires to increasingly burn carbon-dense peatland ecosystems.
nature.comu/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago
China installs world's largest floating wind turbine in deep water test — it generates enough energy to power 4,200 homes annually. Three Gorges Pilot, a 16-megawatt floating offshore wind turbine, marks a major step for deep-water renewable energy and the future of floating wind farms.
livescience.comu/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago
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Climate catch-22: Cleaning up air pollution could speed key Atlantic current decline. That decline could be accelerated by reducing air pollution, specifically pollutants such as sulfur dioxide and black carbon, that float over Europe and North America.
phys.orgu/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago
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'Disease-carrying mosquitoes and heat deaths if temperatures soar'. The threat of deadly heatwaves, droughts and flooding must be tackled by Wales' new government, warn the UK's advisers on climate change.
bbc.comu/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago
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Climate change is a public health crisis, and pandemic preparedness is failing, experts say. “Far from being a fading priority or fake news, climate change poses an immediate and long-term threat to health, economic, food, water, environmental, personal, community, and national security.”
theenergymix.comu/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago
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Major new gas deal promises ‘flexible’ power – but is it locking Europe into more fossil fuels? Campaigners are questioning whether French TotalEnergies and Czech EPH’s partnership will really improve Europe’s energy security.
euronews.comu/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago
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'Be a PleniDude’: How an Italian oil giant conquered TikTok. Aspiring influencers share pro-industry climate messaging after attending six-week content creation bootcamp.
desmog.comu/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago
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Antarctic plants may face a growing fungal threat from warming soils. Under high-emissions scenarios, the fungi could roughly double in the region by 2100.
sciencenews.orgu/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago
Ticks are 'spreading like wildfire'—and more of them are carrying Lyme. Climate change is a big factor, with shorter winters and longer warm seasons leading to increased populations of animals that carry black-legged ticks, such as white-tailed deer and white-footed mice.
medicalxpress.comu/The_Weekend_Baker — 2 days ago
Global warming is accelerating 5,000 times faster than rice can evolve. Although people can breed more heat-resistant strains or move rice cultivation into new regions, future warming is likely to cause serious disruption for the billion people who depend on rice cultivation for their livelihoods.
livescience.comu/JollyGreenJarju — 1 day ago
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Antarctic glacier collapses at record speed as Hektoria retreats 15 miles in just 15 months. Scientists say warming conditions and ocean-driven instability turned the glacier from seemingly stable to rapidly unraveling almost overnight.
sciencedaily.comu/The_Weekend_Baker — 2 days ago