Trump’s Climate Rollbacks Will Keep US Emissions Higher for Longer September 16, 2026 By Zahra Hirji, Eric Roston and Lili Pike President Donald Trump’s broad rollbacks of federal greenhouse gas rules since January 2025 have altered the trajectory of US energy...
UN Warns Global Warming Will Exceed 1.5C and Must Be Reversed September 3, 2026 By Eric Roston Since countries signed onto the 2015 Paris Agreement, the United Nations has regularly reported on the world’s progress at limiting...
Trump Scraps Ocean Sensors Providing Crucial Data on Climate, Flooding June 4, 2026 By Leslie Kaufman and Eric Roston The Trump administration’s decision to dismantle most of a $386 million federal ocean-observing network will leave scientists without an irreplaceable...
Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Breaking Up Climate Research Center June 2, 2026 By Eric Roston A judge has temporarily blocked the National Science Foundation from dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, a...
Americans Doubt Countries Will Do Enough to Tame Climate Change May 29, 2026 By Eric Roston Climate change is in the background this US election year as high prices, conflict in the Middle East, AI and...
A Quieter Hurricane Season This Year Could Still Pummel the US Power Grid May 7, 2026 By Eric Roston Meteorologists are forecasting about 13 named Atlantic storms this season, or a little less activity than average. That sounds like...
Weather Prediction Markets Are Booming, but Can They Improve Forecasts? April 15, 2026 By Mary Hui, Eric Roston and Joe Wertz A few days before Christmas, Howard Qin was scrutinizing weather forecasts on two laptops at home in Shanghai when he...
Trump-Backed Ohio Gas Plant Could Become Biggest US Power Polluter February 23, 2026 By Aaron Clark and Eric Roston President Donald Trump’s proposal for a massive gas-fired power plant in Ohio would likely create one of the nation’s largest...
Trump’s EPA Rollbacks Will Reverberate for ‘Decades’ February 13, 2026 By Zahra Hirji and Eric Roston US President Donald Trump is shrinking the Environmental Protection Agency more quickly and aggressively than ever before, culminating in this...
Scientists Confirm 2025 Was Third-Hottest Year, Trailing 2024 and 2023 January 15, 2026 By Eric Roston Last year was the third hottest on record, according to an analysis of temperature data released Wednesday by three independent...