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"Jane Clougherty has dedicated the majority of her professional life to researching the health effects of air pollution and, more recently, extreme heat. But in May, she got an email from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that ground her potentially life-saving work to a halt."

https://19thnews.org/2025/09/epa-ends-research-climate-childrens-health/

A mermaid trapped in 10,000 plastic bottles - a symbol of an ocean suffocating in waste

A mermaid trapped in 10,000 plastic bottles - a symbol of an ocean suffocating in waste

A giant levitating plastic tap, unveiled during the UN negotiations in Nairobi, from which rubbish is constantly "flowing out".

A multi-storey Jenga tower, built at COP16 in Colombia, showing the fragility of biodiversity. These are just some of the artist's projects

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/09/11/meet-benjamin-von-wong-the-artist-who-wants-to-compel-the-world-to-action-on-climate-chang

A mermaid trapped in 10,000 plastic bottles - a symbol of an ocean suffocating in waste
A mermaid trapped in 10,000 plastic bottles - a symbol of an ocean suffocating in waste
A giant levitating plastic tap, unveiled during the UN negotiations in Nairobi, from which rubbish is constantly "flowing out".
A multi-storey Jenga tower, built at COP16 in Colombia, showing the fragility of biodiversity. These are just some of the artist's projects

Climate takes another hit as Carney delays EV sales mandate
Natasha Bulowski
9–11 minutes

Climate experts warn the federal government is taking another step backward on climate policy by removing the 2026 electric vehicle sales target

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/05/news/climate-hit-carney-delays-ev-sales-mandate

Heat-Warmed Pages: How Japan’s Novelists Are Writing the Climate Crisis

As Japan swelters through record summers, its novelists are turning the climate crisis into story. Hiromi Kawakami, Yōko Tawada, and Sayaka Murata explore how heat, loss and dislocation reshape daily life. Their fiction offers not warnings, but windows into how humanity might adapt as the planet warms, writes Robert Bociaga
https://www.asiamediacentre.org.nz/heat-warmed-pages-how-japan-s-novelists-are-writing-the-climate-crisis

Germany’s low water crisis shows how climate shocks reshape supply chains

During a severe low water period, firms’ exports on inland waterways in Germany fell by nearly 20 %. Firms permanently shifted to alternative transport modes even after water levels recovered, highlighting the need to secure transport systems against climate-induced vulnerabilities

https://www.ifw-kiel.de/publications/news/germanys-low-water-crisis-shows-how-climate-shocks-reshape-supply-chains/

62 milliards de tonnes de glaces en moins en Norvège: ce nouveau record inquiétant

Dans l’archipel de Svalbard, situé au niveau de l’océan Arctique, des dizaines de milliards de tonnes de glace ont fondu l’été dernier. Un événement qui a conduit à une élévation du niveau de l’eau mondiale, rendant la situation préoccupante
https://www.science-et-vie.com/nature-et-environnement/62-milliards-de-tonnes-de-glaces-en-moins-en-norvege-ce-nouveau-record-inquietant-pour-le-climat-mondial-209383.html

Twenty Years After Hurricane Katrina, Experts Fear Trump’s Cuts Will End in a Repeat Catastrophe

2 decades after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the Trump administration is on a mission to defund the agency dedicated to disaster response and recovery

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26082025/todays-climate-hurricane-katrina-aftermath-legacy-trump-fema-cuts/

The Best Climate-Focused Speculative Fiction

These must-read works of climate fiction grapple with humanity’s resilience, how communities band together in dark times and what it takes to preserve hope when all hope is seemingly lost

https://observer.com/2025/08/books-best-climate-fiction-best-speculative-fiction/