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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

NASA SWOT satellite data showing monsoon flooding in the Bay of Bengal region

Monsoon Enters South Bengal Earliest in Five Years as the Arabian Sea Branch Stalls

The monsoon entered South Bengal on June 12, the earliest in five years, as the Bay of Bengal branch outpaced the stalled Arabian Sea arm. With El Niño strengthening and IMD forecasting

June 13, 2026

Climate·News

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

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

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

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

NASA satellite data showing warm Kelvin wave in the Pacific Ocean signaling El Nino 2026

India’s Monsoon Season Opens Under an El Niño That IMD Says Will Only Strengthen

IMD confirmed El Niño onset and forecast monsoon rainfall at 90 percent of the long-period average, the lowest projection since 2015. With Mumbai's reservoirs at 12 percent and the Indian Ocean Dipole

June 13, 2026

Climate·News

A water aqueduct under drought conditions, illustrating the kind of supply stress now reaching the East Coast as Virginia, North Carolina and Connecticut tighten restrictions

The East Coast Drought That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen Here Triggers Mandatory Cuts in Three States

Virginia hit 38 percent extreme drought this week, Durham is enforcing mandatory cuts from Monday, and Connecticut's governor has declared a Stage 2 advisory for three counties. The Mid-Atlantic is starting to

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

California Governor Gavin Newsom attends a news conference during the UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Brazil, after Trump-era rollbacks of state emissions rules

EPA Sends Four More California Emissions Rules to a Congress Already in the Repealing Mood

The EPA transmitted four California air-pollution waivers to Congress on Thursday, opening them to Congressional Review Act repeal. The first three the agency sent in 2025 were nullified within months, every one

June 13, 2026

Climate·Government and Politics·News

Wind turbines silhouetted at sunset in a field near Cimarron, Kansas, where Pentagon reviews have stalled new wind projects

Wind Industry Sues the Pentagon, Saying Quiet Reviews Have Frozen $47 Billion in Projects

Nine renewable groups sued the Defense Department in Oregon, saying Pentagon national security reviews have effectively frozen wind permits across 21 states, jeopardizing 106 projects worth $47 billion. The lawsuit calls a

June 13, 2026

Climate·Government and Politics·News

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

Monsoon Enters South Bengal Earliest in Five Years as the Arabian Sea Branch Stalls

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

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

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

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

India’s Monsoon Season Opens Under an El Niño That IMD Says Will Only Strengthen

The East Coast Drought That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen Here Triggers Mandatory Cuts in Three States

EPA Sends Four More California Emissions Rules to a Congress Already in the Repealing Mood

Wind Industry Sues the Pentagon, Saying Quiet Reviews Have Frozen $47 Billion in Projects

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Bangladesh; India’s Biggest Ally or China’s Dragon Nest?

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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