Friday, October 30, 2026
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.
Cattle grazing between trees. Photo: John Haynes / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sustainable silvopasture is popular with US farmers despite waning financial supports

A national survey of American farmers finds grazing livestock among trees is widespread, even as federal and other financial supports for the practice shrink.
A female polar bear with cubs along the Beaufort Sea coast. Photo: Alaska Region U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (public domain)

Fish and Wildlife Service finalizes five-year Arctic oil rule covering polar bear and walrus...

The industry's own estimate counts 123 polar bear harassments and no deaths over the period, while the agency's rule lists how deaths could still occur.
Granite rocks on the coast of Curieuse Island, Seychelles. Photo: NorbertNagel / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

From Small Islands to Antalya: COP31 Must Move Climate Promises from Paper to People

The former president of Seychelles writes that the climate summit in Antalya, Turkey must turn promises into delivery for small island states.