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NASA satellite view of smoke from Canadian wildfires drifting south into the United States

Wildfires Have Erased Four Years of America’s Clean-Air Progress, and the Trend Is Still Climbing

A University of Iowa study in Science finds wildfire smoke has reversed about four years of US ozone-pollution gains, with surface smog rising 4 percent since 2015 after an 11 percent decline

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

Michael Buble, who performed with a choir at the Canada World Cup opening ceremony at BMO Field in Toronto

Bublé, Morissette and a Choir: Canada Threw a Very Canadian Party to Open Its World Cup

Before Canada played a minute of its home World Cup, it sang. Michael Bublé fronted a gospel choir, Alanis Morissette delivered 'O Canada' in a red jacket, and a lineup of Canadian

June 13, 2026

News·Sports

NASA Landsat satellite view of Acadia National Park in Maine, where climate-change signage was removed under a Trump executive order and ordered restored

A Federal Judge Just Ordered Trump’s National Parks to Put the Climate Signs Back

US District Judge Angel Kelley ordered Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to restore the climate-change and slavery exhibits the Trump administration removed from national parks, calling the censorship a dangerous precedent that has

June 13, 2026

Climate·Government and Politics·News

Tulsi Gabbard, the outgoing Director of National Intelligence who released the biolab files, speaking at the White House

On Her Way Out, Gabbard Confirms the US Biolabs Washington Spent Years Calling Russian Propaganda

Days before leaving office, DNI Tulsi Gabbard released declassified files on US funding of 120-plus biolabs in over 30 countries, 40 in Ukraine. The existence of the threat-reduction programs is decades-documented; what

June 16, 2026

Government and Politics·News

Clint Dempsey, the USMNT legend who ripped Canada coach Jesse Marsch over his national anthem comments

Dempsey to Marsch: Take the Anthem Lecture and the ‘Moped’ Somewhere Else

Jesse Marsch, an American now coaching Canada, said the US used to have to beg its players to sing the national anthem. Clint Dempsey, the USMNT legend, told him to take advice

June 13, 2026

News·Sports

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin listening during the annual Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference, the official whose office issued the termination memo a federal judge has now ruled unlawful

A Federal Judge Just Voided Trump’s Termination of $2.8 Billion in Environmental Justice Grants

US District Judge Richard Mark Gergel ruled Thursday that the EPA's termination of $2.8 billion in environmental and climate justice grants was arbitrary, capricious and unlawful. He vacated the agency's termination guidance,

June 13, 2026

Climate·Government and Politics·News

Lumen Field in Seattle, a 2026 World Cup venue, the kind of stadium the returned round-of-16 tickets were for

A Seattle Kids’ Soccer Club Gave Back 20 World Cup Tickets for a Referee It Never Met

A Seattle youth-soccer academy of mostly low-income immigrant kids was handed 20 free World Cup tickets worth around $1,000 each. It gave them all back, in protest of the US barring Somali

June 13, 2026

Government and Politics·News·Sports

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signs HB 804, the Louisiana Energy Protection Act, into law barring new climate-change civil lawsuits in state court

Louisiana Closes Its Courts to Climate Lawsuits, Then Carves Out Its Own Parishes

Governor Jeff Landry signed HB 804 into law on Thursday, barring climate-change civil suits in Louisiana state court. A late Senate amendment grandfathered the parish suits the oil industry actually feared, leaving

June 13, 2026

Climate·Government and Politics·News

Cyle Larin of Canada, whose substitute goal earned the co-hosts their first ever World Cup point against Bosnia

121 Seconds: Cyle Larin’s Cameo Earns Canada Its First Ever World Cup Point

Canada had played six World Cup matches across forty years and never taken a single point from any of them. Cyle Larin changed that in 121 seconds, coming off the bench to

June 13, 2026

News·Sports

A wildfire burns through forest in New Mexico, the kind of dry, beetle-stressed landscape that increasingly turns into catastrophic fire

New Mexico’s Trees Are Dying Three Times Faster, and the Beetles Are Doing the Work the Climate Started

A new state and federal survey of 14 million acres of New Mexico forest found tree mortality tripled in 2025, with beetle-killed conifers up 211 percent. The pinon-juniper system that defines the

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

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Wildfires Have Erased Four Years of America’s Clean-Air Progress, and the Trend Is Still Climbing

Bublé, Morissette and a Choir: Canada Threw a Very Canadian Party to Open Its World Cup

A Federal Judge Just Ordered Trump’s National Parks to Put the Climate Signs Back

On Her Way Out, Gabbard Confirms the US Biolabs Washington Spent Years Calling Russian Propaganda

Dempsey to Marsch: Take the Anthem Lecture and the ‘Moped’ Somewhere Else

A Federal Judge Just Voided Trump’s Termination of $2.8 Billion in Environmental Justice Grants

A Seattle Kids’ Soccer Club Gave Back 20 World Cup Tickets for a Referee It Never Met

Louisiana Closes Its Courts to Climate Lawsuits, Then Carves Out Its Own Parishes

121 Seconds: Cyle Larin’s Cameo Earns Canada Its First Ever World Cup Point

New Mexico’s Trees Are Dying Three Times Faster, and the Beetles Are Doing the Work the Climate Started

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Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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