April 2025 – Climate Desk

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In his first 100 days, Trump launched an ‘all-out assault’ on the environment

Compared to his first term, the threat posed by Trump’s second administration is on a “new level,” environmental groups and legal experts say.

Kiley Bense, Bob Berwyn, Dennis Pillion, Georgina Gustin, Jake Bolster, Marianne Lavelle, and Wyatt Myskow · April 30, 2025
Vox.com

These 10 charts prove clean energy is winning despite Donald Trump’s efforts

It turns out climate progress is actually good business.

Umair Irfan, Benji Jones, Adam Clark Estes, and Sam Delgado · April 29, 2025
Grist

Despite global opposition, Trump just fast-tracked deep-sea mining

The move opens the door for companies tired of waiting for permission to scrape the ocean floor.

Anita Hofschneider · April 27, 2025
Vox.com

Meet the Trump supporters who love wind energy

In this conservative state, the wind is too strong for politics to slow it down.

Benji Jones · April 25, 2025
Mother Jones

Climate groups get a reprieve from Trump’s rumored Earth Day massacre

But the threat that he might go after their tax-exempt status has shaken the nonprofit world.

Henry Carnell Artis Curiskis · April 24, 2025
Mother Jones

“Americans will be less safe”: An author of the country’s biggest climate report reflects on its gutting

“The climate assessment is required by law and it appears that the Trump administration is trying to break that law.”

Jackie Flynn Mogensen · April 23, 2025
Guardian

Wave of Earth Day protests as Americans mobilize against Trump

Organizers team up with pro-democracy groups for flurry of actions to demand right to free, healthy lives

Nina Lakhani · April 22, 2025
Mother Jones

Anatomy of an Extinction

How climate disasters, human sprawl—and now Trump—are coming for America’s largest salamander.

Jackie Flynn Mogensen · April 21, 2025
Grist

In Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ Black communities get all of the pollution, few of the jobs

A new study confirms what many have long suspected.

Tristan Baurick · April 20, 2025
Grist

Why Trump’s executive order targeting state climate laws is probably illegal

President Trump continues dismantling climate policy with a move of questionable legality that benefits fossil fuels. States are sure to sue.

Lois Parshley · April 19, 2025
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Dire wolf, or Colossal misrepresentation?

The resulting media frenzy provides a fascinating case study of science journalism.

Jessica McKenzie · April 15, 2025
Guardian

Pet dogs have ‘extensive and multifarious’ impact on environment, new research finds

Scale of environmental damage attributed to huge number of dogs globally as well as ‘lax or uninformed behaviour of dog owners’

Donna Lu · April 13, 2025