February 2025 – Climate Desk

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Vox.com

This animal is on the edge of extinction. Trump just fired the people trying to save it.

Job cuts and frozen funding could inch one of the world’s rarest species even closer to extinction.

Benji Jones · February 28, 2025
Mother Jones

Perhaps the biggest winner in Germany’s election: nuclear power

The victorious conservatives and the surging far-right both are big fans.

Alexander C. Kaufman · February 27, 2025
Wired

USDA layoffs derail projects benefiting American farmers

The blanket firing of Department of Agriculture scientists has thrown a host of climate science and crop projects into chaos.

Matt Reynolds · February 26, 2025
Guardian

Outcry as Trump withdraws support for research that mentions ‘climate’

US government stripping funds from domestic and overseas research amid warnings for health and public safety

Oliver Milman · February 24, 2025
Canada's National Observer

North America’s largest urban solar power plant takes shape – in Canada’s ‘Gas City’

Built on otherwise useless land, it may eventually power a city of 65,000 residents.

Darius Snieckus · February 23, 2025
Grist

Republicans once embraced ‘green banks.’ Trump is trying to raid them.

EPA chief Lee Zeldin has launched an attack on the agency’s $20 billion clean energy loan program.

Jake Bittle · February 22, 2025
Guardian

Climate advocacy groups file two lawsuits against Trump administration

Groups from Sierra Club to Greenpeace take aim at Trump’s drilling orders in term’s first environmental legal battles

Dharna Noor · February 21, 2025
Mother Jones

RFK Jr., Onetime Environmentalist, Kills NIH Climate Change Programs

He pulled HHS support from projects that aim to protect Americans’ health.

David Corn · February 21, 2025
Vox.com

Leaked emails show the nation’s leading wildlife agency has halted critical funding for conservation

Exclusive: The US Fish and Wildlife Service has frozen millions of dollars, imperiling animals abroad.

Benji Jones · February 19, 2025
Guardian

Outrage as Trump cites ‘emergency’ to fast-track fossil fuel projects

Activists warn new designation for projects such as pipelines threatens US wetlands and waters

Dharna Noor · February 19, 2025
High Country News

People brace for impacts on land, water and wildlife after feds fire thousands over holiday weekend

Career employees told HCN they were unsettled by the termination email sent by HR, which cited ‘performance issues.’

Christine Peterson · February 18, 2025
Vox.com

The tiny lizard that will test Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” agenda

In the oil-rich Permian Basin, the dunes sagebrush lizard faces extinction. Will Trump do it in?

Benji Jones · February 16, 2025