Germany’s centrist politicians are losing votes to the far right and the far left. They are losing faith in America, their longtime friend and protector. And they are rapidly losing what could be their best chance to address both those problems at once. The German government in waiting, led by the likely next chancellor, Friedrich…
Before a packed crowd of oil and gas executives on Monday, Chris Wright, the new U.S. energy secretary, delivered a scathing critique of the Biden administration’s energy policies and efforts to fight climate change and promised a “180 degree pivot.” Mr. Wright, a former fracking executive, has emerged as the most forceful promoter of President…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s premier agency for weather and climate science, is set to lose another 1,000 workers under the Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal government. The new dismissals would come in addition to the roughly 1,300 NOAA staff members who have already resigned or been laid off in recent…
The Trump administration has moved to rewrite rules designed to prevent disasters at thousands of chemical facilities across the country. The Environmental Protection Agency filed a motion in federal court on Thursday pulling back the safety regulations, introduced last year under former president Joe Biden. The rules, which took effect in May, require sites that…
Nigel Farage’s insurgent Reform U.K. party has attracted more than a dozen donors from Britain’s once dominant Conservative Party, new data reveals, underlining the threat the Tories face from a right-wing populist party that models itself on President Trump’s MAGA movement. In total, Reform U.K. raised 4.75 million pounds ($6.1 million) last year, a sharp…
What’s the air quality in New Delhi, Jakarta or Buenos Aires? Until Tuesday, the United States Embassy in those cities could have told you. But the Trump administration has effectively shut down a global air quality monitoring program, ending more than a decade of public data-collection and reporting from 80 embassies and consulates worldwide. The…
When Jennifer Trebb first pulled into her driveway two years ago with her sleek Tesla Model Y, it was — as she put it — “kind of like a ‘Back to the Future’ moment.” She was helping the environment, she said, but driving a Tesla also had cachet. “It was definitely a little bit of…
Published on Mar. 3, 2025, 8:44 PM Updated on Mar. 3, 2025, 8:56 PM Extraordinary heat from a future supercontinent formation could lead to a mass extinction of mammals, including humans, in about 250 million years, according to a study led by the University of Bristol. Attempting to predict the end of the world is…
Humans are living in a plankton world. These minuscule organisms are spread across the oceans, covering nearly three-quarters of the planet, and are among the most abundant forms of life on Earth. But a warming world is throwing plankton into disarray and threatening the entire marine food chain that is built on them. A year…
The opening week of the landmark trial of Greenpeace in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by Energy Transfer over the Dakota Access Pipeline protests did not bode well for the defense. Lawyers for Greenpeace said so themselves in a petition filed in North Dakota’s Supreme Court. They asked the court on Thursday to move the trial out…