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Climate Change Is Pushing Boreal Forests Further North
Boreal Forests
Are Heading North
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Feb 23, 2026 1:59 PM CST

Boreal Forests Are Heading North

With climate change driving the shift, northern forests have still expanded 12% since 1985

(Newser) - Forests in the far north aren't standing still. A new analysis of 36 years of satellite imagery finds that the planet's boreal forests have expanded by about 12% since 1985 and inched northward by 0.29 degrees mean latitude and 0.43 degrees median latitude, as they respond...

SCOTUS to Review Climate Lawsuits Against Big Oil

Case tests if federal law blocks local climate damage claims

(Newser) - The long-running effort by cities and counties to make Big Oil pay for climate damage is now headed to the nation's highest court. The Supreme Court said Monday that it will hear a case that could decide whether local governments can use state laws to pursue energy giants like...

For Greenland's Sled Dogs, It Was a Troubling January

Rising temps from climate change melt the Arctic nation's ice, hampering its resourceful canines

(Newser) - Growing up in a village in northern Greenland, Jorgen Kristensen's closest friends were his stepfather's sled dogs. Most of his classmates were dark-haired Inuit; he was different. He first went out to fish on the ice with them alone when he was 9 years old. They nurtured the...

EPA Relaxes Limits on Toxins From Coal-Powered Plants

Emissions of mercury, other pollutants can harm kids' brain development, critics warn

(Newser) - The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday weakened limits on mercury and other toxic emissions from coal-fired power plants, the Trump administration's latest effort to boost the fossil fuel industry by paring back clean air and water rules. Toxic emissions from coal- and oil-fired plants can harm brain development in...

Trump Scraps Landmark EPA Climate Finding

Zeldin calls it 'the single largest deregulatory action in the history of the United States'

(Newser) - President Trump has moved to erase the legal foundation of nearly every federal effort to curb climate change in the US. At the White House on Thursday, Trump announced the end of the Environmental Protection Agency's 2009 " endangerment finding ," the scientific determination that greenhouse gases pose a...

A Landmark Climate Rule Is Being Eliminated

EPA is poised to roll back key 2009 basis for tougher emissions rules

(Newser) - The EPA is expected to revoke a landmark rule on climate emissions in the coming days that would remove limits on greenhouse gases from power plants and cars. The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal report that the agency is poised to scrap a 2009 "endangerment finding"...

Future Winter Games Could Start in January

IOC to consider shifting schedule to catch more snow

(Newser) - Staging future Winter Games as early as January and the Paralympic Winter Games in February is a possibility because of the effects of warmer weather, the International Olympic Committee said Wednesday. Moving to January would likely disrupt scheduling of storied World Cup races and events, and the competitions then would...

West's Lack of Snow Signals Problems Ahead

Record-low snowpack threatens water supplies, raises risk of wildfires

(Newser) - Winter is bringing a split-screen view of the US: bitter cold and blizzards in some regions, and bare ground and springlike temperatures across much of the West. In typically snow-reliable spots like Park City, Utah; Vail, Colorado; and Oregon's Cascade Range, snowpack is at record or near-record lows, with...

Joshua Trees' Early Blooms Are a Big Problem

Scientists fear the trees won't be pollinated as yucca moths remain underground

(Newser) - Joshua trees are jumping the gun on flowering this year, and researchers say the timing glitch could ripple through the Mojave Desert ecosystem. The spiky desert icons, found across California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah, usually start blooming in late February. This season, though, many burst into flower in October and...

Doomsday Clock Now Closer Than Ever to 'Catastrophe'

Group of scientists sets it at 85 seconds before 12, the worst mark ever

(Newser) - The world's most famous metaphor for self-destruction just ticked a few seconds closer to the brink. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Tuesday set its Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds before midnight, moving it four seconds nearer to symbolic "global catastrophe" and marking the most perilous setting...

RFK Jr.'s Food Pyramid Could Mean Trouble for Environment

Experts warn push for protein-heavy meat, dairy would drive emissions, require much more farmland

(Newser) - Nutrition advice from the Trump administration is colliding head-on with climate concerns. The Guardian reports that guidelines rolled out by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. push Americans toward a meat- and dairy-heavy diet that would nearly double current protein intake, featuring an "inverted" food pyramid loaded with steak,...

How the Warming Arctic Can Cause Brutal Cold Snaps

Scientists link polar vortex shifts to warming climate

(Newser) - As he has done many times before, President Trump scoffed at climate change Friday because of cold weather. "Record Cold Wave expected to hit 40 States," he said in a Truth Social post. "Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain — WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???" Scientists say,...

It's One of the Fastest Shifts Ever in Breeding Time

Antarctic penguins transition to earlier breeding, with potentially fatal consequences

(Newser) - Antarctica's penguins are speeding up their family planning—and scientists say that's not good news. A 10-year study of three penguin species found their breeding seasons have shifted earlier at what researchers describe as record rates, likely driven by rapid climate change. Using 77 time-lapse cameras across 37...

Ancient Wolf Pup's Meal Shows How Woolly Rhinos Vanished

Genome indicates no major threats 400 years before extinction, suggesting climate-related decline

(Newser) - Scientists learned a lot about one of the last generations of woolly rhinocheros—from a chunk of meat swallowed by a wolf pup some 14,400 years ago. The mummified body of a 2-month-old female wolf, discovered in 2011 in the Siberian permafrost near the village of Tumat, had her...

2025 Was Earth's 3rd-Hottest Year on Record

Global temperatures now average 1.47 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels

(Newser) - If 2025 felt unusually hot, that's because it was—again. New data from the European Union's Copernicus climate change monitoring service shows last year ranked as the third-warmest on record, with global temperatures continuing a streak that's starting to look less like an anomaly and more like...

Surprise: Trump Wins Praise for Environmental 'Moon Shot'

Op-ed calls push for nuclear energy a game-changer, even if climate change isn't the reason

(Newser) - President Trump is "skeptical of climate change and shows little concern for the environment," writes Ted Nordhaus in a Washington Post op-ed. But if it sounds like the heart of a piece slamming Trump policies, think again. Instead, the founder of the nonprofit Breakthrough Institute—which seeks technological...

'Little Angels' Are First Insects to Win Legal Rights

New ordinances in Peru protect stingless bees, key pollinators in the Amazon rainforest

(Newser) - Stingless bees in Peru's Amazon are now more than just pollinators—they're legal subjects with rights, in what advocates say is the first such protection for insects anywhere. Two municipalities, Satipo in the Junin region and Nauta in Loreto, have passed ordinances recognizing native stingless bees' rights "...

Warming Shuts Ski Resorts, Turning Lifts Into Junk
Rising Snow Lines Turn
Ski Resorts Into Debris Fields
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Jan 4, 2026 2:10 PM CST

Rising Snow Lines Turn Ski Resorts Into Debris Fields

Decaying machinery pollutes fragile mountain ecosystems in French Alps

(Newser) - Ski maps are still stacked at Céüze 2000—but nobody's coming to use them. The small resort in France's southern Alps, a fixture for 85 years, is now part of a growing archipelago of "ghost" ski areas across the mountains. As winters warm and the...

GOP Megadonor Teams With Environmentalist for $1B Deal

Their 2021 spat on Twitter led to friendship, and a deal to form Texas' second-largest state park

(Newser) - A long-ago spat on Twitter over dead birds has Texas on track to add one of the biggest state parks in its history. Back in 2021, Dallas Republican megadonor Doug Deason posted about wind turbines killing raptors, per the New York Times . Environmental advocate Luke Metzger jumped in to argue...

2025 Was One of Three Hottest Years on Record

According to World Weather Attribution scientists

(Newser) - Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the three hottest years on record, scientists said. It was also the first time that the three-year temperature average broke through the threshold set in the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius...

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