August 2025 – Climate Desk

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Guardian

When science meets music: Florida’s oyster decline is being told through jazz

A professor teamed up with student musicians to inspire interest in data about the ‘catastrophic scale’ of the crisis

Richard Luscombe · August 31, 2025
Grist

Antarctica is in extreme peril

"Abrupt changes" threaten to send the continent past the point of no return, a new study finds.

“Abrupt changes” threaten to send the continent past the point of no return. · August 30, 2025
Mother Jones

They survived Katrina and started to rebuild. Now Trump’s cuts may flood them out again.

DOGE killed off the FEMA program that Algiers has used to begin mitigating its flooding problem.

Stephanie Mencimer · August 28, 2025
Inside Climate News

Environmental laws waived to build border wall in Texas wildlife refuge

The federal government will not have to follow the Endangered Species Act and more than two dozen other federal laws to build the border wall through a national wildlife refuge.

Martha Pskowski · August 27, 2025
Grist

How Texas flood relief got caught in a high-stakes political battle

As a fight over voting districts consumes the Texas legislature, funding for flood relief remains elusive.

Naveena Sadasivam · August 26, 2025
Vox.com

Erin may be the first real test of America’s hurricane readiness under Trump

Forecasts are better than ever, and far more vulnerable than they should be.

Umair Irfan · August 18, 2025
Grist

Two years after a wildfire took everything, Maui homeowners are facing a new threat: Foreclosure

A Native Hawaiian mother’s fight to keep her family in Lāhainā despite soaring costs, mortgage limbo, and land-hungry investors eager to own a piece of Hawaiʻi.

Anita Hofschneider · August 17, 2025
Inside Climate News

Plastic pollution talks in Geneva end without treaty

The UN eyes further negotiations, but global discord on limiting an escalating crisis makes next steps unclear.

Bob Berwyn · August 16, 2025
Grist

Tribal nations scramble to save clean energy projects as federal support vanishes

As federal programs are frozen or eliminated, Indigenous communities are seeking new ways to fund and finish urgently needed renewable energy plans.

Miacel Spotted Elk · August 15, 2025
Mother Jones

Desperate towns, empty promises: the EV startup that left three communities hanging

45,000 jobs, zero progress, and many unanswered questions.

Ames Alexander · August 13, 2025
Guardian

US national parks staff in ‘survival mode’ to keep parks open amid Trump cuts

Park bosses say they’re running visitor centers and even cleaning bathrooms as remaining staff try to keep sites open

Oliver Milman · August 12, 2025
Grist

The unlikely coalition fighting to keep Energy Star labels on your appliances

The Trump administration wants to eliminate the energy-efficiency program, but bakers, builders, hot tub lobbyists, and chemical companies are trying to save it.

Sophie Hurwitz · August 10, 2025