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This Sunday, we are launching “Climate Desk Weekly.” This free dispatch will act as Mother Jones' Sunday newsletter and share the week’s need-to-know climate news right in your inbox from our collaboration of 15 award-winning media outlets.
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This year US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed large scale changes in public health.
Bulletin biosecurity editor Matt Field highlights some our best coverage of this evolving story and other biosecurity pieces that stood out.
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Bulletin biosecurity editor Matt Field highlights some our best coverage of this evolving story and other biosecurity pieces that stood out.
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The best biosecurity coverage of 2025
What follows are one of the best Bulletin articles from the last year on Robert F. Kennedy’s changes to public health and a few other pieces that stood out in our biosecurity coverage.
thebulletin.org
December 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This year US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed large scale changes in public health.
Bulletin biosecurity editor Matt Field highlights some our best coverage of this evolving story and other biosecurity pieces that stood out.
thebulletin.org/2025/12/the-...
Bulletin biosecurity editor Matt Field highlights some our best coverage of this evolving story and other biosecurity pieces that stood out.
thebulletin.org/2025/12/the-...
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The whooping crane recovery is a miracle. Then reality hits. A drought dries their drinking ponds. Development breaks their habitat. Wind farms dot nearby areas. A conservation scientist says it plainly: "They're all human-driven. It's us."
Back from the Brink: The Whooping Crane’s Recovery on the Edge
Following the species' comeback, new pressures are converging on their wintering habitat along the Texas coast.
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December 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The whooping crane recovery is a miracle. Then reality hits. A drought dries their drinking ponds. Development breaks their habitat. Wind farms dot nearby areas. A conservation scientist says it plainly: "They're all human-driven. It's us."
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It was a rough year for clean energy, but the industry is still on its way up. Here are 10 charts that prove it.
Clean energy is still winning. These 10 charts prove it.
Solar and wind are beating new power demand, steelmaking is slowly getting off coal, and more clean energy victories are clear in these charts.
www.canarymedia.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
It was a rough year for clean energy, but the industry is still on its way up. Here are 10 charts that prove it.
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For @nationalobserver.com, I spoke with U of T’s Laura Tozer.
Last year, she was adding climate policies to her lecture slides. This year, she’s deleting them, and asking Prime Minister Mark Carney to explain the rollbacks directly to her students.
Last year, she was adding climate policies to her lecture slides. This year, she’s deleting them, and asking Prime Minister Mark Carney to explain the rollbacks directly to her students.
This University of Toronto Professor wants Carney to answer to her students
Each year, University of Toronto professor Laura Tozer updates a slide deck that she presents to her graduate students on the state of climate policy in Canada. This year, she is deleting everything.
www.nationalobserver.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
For @nationalobserver.com, I spoke with U of T’s Laura Tozer.
Last year, she was adding climate policies to her lecture slides. This year, she’s deleting them, and asking Prime Minister Mark Carney to explain the rollbacks directly to her students.
Last year, she was adding climate policies to her lecture slides. This year, she’s deleting them, and asking Prime Minister Mark Carney to explain the rollbacks directly to her students.
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There are millions of abandoned oil wells across the United States. A group of unlikely activists in Texas is making sure no one forgets they need to be cleaned up.
Meet the TikTok stars demanding oil companies clean up their mess
There are millions of abandoned oil wells across the United States. A group of unlikely activists in Texas is making sure no one forgets they need to be cleaned up.
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December 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
There are millions of abandoned oil wells across the United States. A group of unlikely activists in Texas is making sure no one forgets they need to be cleaned up.
Grazing on public lands seems like a win for everyone, but is it? @highcountrynews.org and @propublica.org investigated and found that not everything is what it seems...
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December 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Grazing on public lands seems like a win for everyone, but is it? @highcountrynews.org and @propublica.org investigated and found that not everything is what it seems...
link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...
link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...
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"No single field can accurately predict how this transformative technology will reshape society."
Decisions about AI will last decades. Researchers need better frameworks
The decisions that leaders make today about artificial intelligence governance and research priorities could create paths that last for generations. A rigorous, multi-field collaboration is critical…
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December 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"No single field can accurately predict how this transformative technology will reshape society."
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Matthew Owen warns that while organoids can mimic neural activity, they fall far short of the biological architecture required for genuine consciousness, raising big questions about how we talk about emerging brain science.
Why Lab-Grown Brain Cells Might Never Become Conscious
Philosopher Matthew Owen questions whether tiny brain cell clusters called organoids could ever be sentient.
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December 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Matthew Owen warns that while organoids can mimic neural activity, they fall far short of the biological architecture required for genuine consciousness, raising big questions about how we talk about emerging brain science.
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Queensland to continue to allow farmers to shoot flying foxes after revoking ban on controversial practice
Queensland to continue to allow farmers to shoot flying foxes after revoking ban on controversial practice
Conservationists and scientists criticise state for backtracking and say alternative non-lethal methods such as netting are more effective
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Queensland to continue to allow farmers to shoot flying foxes after revoking ban on controversial practice
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Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first
Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first
Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first
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‘It’s like you’re sitting in front of an oven’: surviving the summer in one of Australia’s hottest towns
‘It’s like you’re sitting in front of an oven’: surviving the summer in one of Australia’s hottest towns
When the hot winds hit Roebourne, as many as 16 people pile into Yindjibarndi elder Lyn Cheedy’s home – one of the few with air conditioning
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
‘It’s like you’re sitting in front of an oven’: surviving the summer in one of Australia’s hottest towns
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From ‘global cooling’ to ‘beautiful coal’: Trump’s startling climate claims of 2025
From ‘global cooling’ to ‘beautiful coal’: Trump’s startling climate claims of 2025
Trump ratcheted up his often questionable claims about the environment and how to deal, if at all, with the threats to it
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
From ‘global cooling’ to ‘beautiful coal’: Trump’s startling climate claims of 2025
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That was rough.
I wrote about the year in climate, drawing on my colleagues' work throughout 2025. My colleagues are some of the very best, and this year was one of the very worst.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2812202...
I wrote about the year in climate, drawing on my colleagues' work throughout 2025. My colleagues are some of the very best, and this year was one of the very worst.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2812202...
The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty - Inside Climate News
Global inaction on fossil fuel and plastic treaties, the dismantling of federal agencies and regulations and the rapid rise of data centers were just a few of the consequential stories that Inside Cli...
insideclimatenews.org
December 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
That was rough.
I wrote about the year in climate, drawing on my colleagues' work throughout 2025. My colleagues are some of the very best, and this year was one of the very worst.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2812202...
I wrote about the year in climate, drawing on my colleagues' work throughout 2025. My colleagues are some of the very best, and this year was one of the very worst.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2812202...
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‘Cities need nature to be happy’: David Attenborough seeks out London’s hidden wildlife
‘Cities need nature to be happy’: David Attenborough seeks out London’s hidden wildlife
Attenborough, 99, enthuses about Tube-riding pigeons, foxes, parakeets and others in Wild London for the BBC
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
‘Cities need nature to be happy’: David Attenborough seeks out London’s hidden wildlife
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Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist, write @michaelemann.bsky.social & Bob Ward
- It is latest move in relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by fossil fuel industry
@ncar-ucar.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- It is latest move in relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by fossil fuel industry
@ncar-ucar.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward
This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist, write @michaelemann.bsky.social & Bob Ward
- It is latest move in relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by fossil fuel industry
@ncar-ucar.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- It is latest move in relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by fossil fuel industry
@ncar-ucar.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Today’s global coral bleaching events are the worst kind of climate warning. www.wired.com/story/the-ea...
The Earth Is Nearing an Environmental Tipping Point
Today’s global coral bleaching events are the worst kind of climate warning.
www.wired.com
December 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Today’s global coral bleaching events are the worst kind of climate warning. www.wired.com/story/the-ea...
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Country diary 1926: Every leaf in the garden is straining at its leash
Country diary 1926: Every leaf in the garden is straining at its leash
2 January 1926: The year is going out dying on a gale but there are flowers opening even now
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Country diary 1926: Every leaf in the garden is straining at its leash
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Country diary: A rare giant in the quiet of the wood | Sarah Lambert
Country diary: A rare giant in the quiet of the wood | Sarah Lambert
Old Sulehay Forest, Northamptonshire: Distant church bells are about all I can hear as I stand below a 500-year-old small-leaved lime – a tree that may be making an unlikely comeback
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Country diary: A rare giant in the quiet of the wood | Sarah Lambert
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Heat, drought and fire: how extreme weather pushed nature to its limits in 2025
Heat, drought and fire: how extreme weather pushed nature to its limits in 2025
National Trust says these are ‘alarm signals we cannot ignore’ as climate breakdown puts pressure on wildlife
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Heat, drought and fire: how extreme weather pushed nature to its limits in 2025
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Rain, fire risk and a cyclone: flood alerts in Queensland’s north as wild weather forecast across Australia
Rain, fire risk and a cyclone: flood alerts in Queensland’s north as wild weather forecast across Australia
Warnings of extreme fire danger in SA regions, while Tropical Cyclone Hayley tracks towards WA
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Rain, fire risk and a cyclone: flood alerts in Queensland’s north as wild weather forecast across Australia
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January 15th 11:15 am CT we're hosting a grammy award winning musician, best selling fiction writer, and nuclear expert/artist for a discussion of the intersection of art and science.
Join us!
pages.thebulletin.org/art-science
Join us!
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Art + Science: Harnessing the Power of Art and Storytelling
On Jan 15, join the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists for a discussion on how to harness the power of art in drawing attention to the most pressing global threats associated with science and…
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December 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
January 15th 11:15 am CT we're hosting a grammy award winning musician, best selling fiction writer, and nuclear expert/artist for a discussion of the intersection of art and science.
Join us!
pages.thebulletin.org/art-science
Join us!
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“Health is wealth” is a popular saying among crunchy MAHA influencers.
But the reality in the US, especially when the Trump policies and budget cuts begin to hit, is the inverse: wealth is health.
But the reality in the US, especially when the Trump policies and budget cuts begin to hit, is the inverse: wealth is health.
Unpacking the MAHA mirage: Trump guts healthcare while preaching wellness
"They're moving us back almost into the Dark Ages."
www.motherjones.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“Health is wealth” is a popular saying among crunchy MAHA influencers.
But the reality in the US, especially when the Trump policies and budget cuts begin to hit, is the inverse: wealth is health.
But the reality in the US, especially when the Trump policies and budget cuts begin to hit, is the inverse: wealth is health.
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RFK Jr. promised to take on plastic. Now he’s part of an administration embracing it.
RFK Jr. promised to take on plastic. Now he's part of an administration embracing it.
Plastic is everywhere—including in us.
www.motherjones.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
RFK Jr. promised to take on plastic. Now he’s part of an administration embracing it.
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Healthy wetlands can save money, homes, and lives—if Donald Trump leaves them intact.
The economic case for preserving America's wetlands
Healthy wetlands can save money, homes, and lives—if Donald Trump leaves them intact.
www.motherjones.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Healthy wetlands can save money, homes, and lives—if Donald Trump leaves them intact.