Saturday, October 31, 2026
A corridor between rows of dark equipment cabinets inside a data center

Data Center Health Worries Animate Midterm Campaigns

Opposition to the rapid emergence of data centers in states such as Ohio and Arizona has ginned up activism and unified voters. A range of public health issues have played into the resistance.
An industrial power plant with tall stacks and pipework.

How a Secret Vote by U.N. Scientists Legitimized Carbon Capture and Skewed Decades of...

A U.N. report concluded carbon capture could offset fossil fuels’ effect on climate change. Two decades later, the process has failed to meaningfully scale up, and it’s proving hard to take the promises back.
Charred debris and a chimney where a home burned down in California.

How the Far-Right Uses Climate Disasters to Build Political Power

A Q&A with Astra Taylor, co-author with Naomi Klein of ‘End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World.
Chart of the Keeling Curve showing atmospheric carbon dioxide rising at Mauna Loa

Greenhouse gases hit record highs in 2025, WMO says

Carbon dioxide reached 426.8 parts per million, up from 377.5 when the UN weather agency began its bulletin in 2004
A pumpjack in the Glenn Pool oil field, Oklahoma. Photo: roy.luck / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

This Oil Company Is Linked to 1,000 Pollution Incidents and Other Violations. Oklahoma Never...

Staff at an Oklahoma regulatory agency spent over a year building a case against Citation Oil & Gas, a company notorious for oil field pollution. Instead of disciplining the company, agency leaders chose to let it resume operations.

The deep ocean’s protection against warming started to change in 2016. Nobody knows what...

Melting sea ice protects the deep ocean from warming – but when sea ice levels declined, the system began to break down.
A courtroom in Brampton, Ontario. Photo: Nicholas Moreau / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Climate change rarely goes on trial. This one could be a landmark.

Fifteen young Canadians say their government’s failure to curb emissions violates their constitutional right to life, liberty, and security.
An American mink. Photo: Patrick Reijnders / CC BY-SA 3.0

Bird flu keeps spreading on a Utah mink farm as officials hold off on...

Seven mink have tested positive on C&T Fenn Farms, and no federal rules cover sick mink, ProPublica reports; Utah has issued a verbal hold instead of a formal quarantine.
An electric car charging point in Cologne, Germany. Photo: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas / CC BY-SA 3.0

Hormuz Gas Crisis: 15.5 mn. EVs sold Globally this Year

Informed Comment's Juan Cole says electric vehicle sales rose despite a drop in U.S. EV sales and a fall in overall car sales in China.
A great hornbill in Goa, India. Photo: Rajan Hatiskar / CC BY-SA 4.0

Bangladesh’s hornbills face hunting risk during breeding season

Most of the 26 birds rescued from nests since 2023 were chicks, and cases cluster from May to August, when females stay in the nest.