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Climate

  • An Amazon Web Services AI data center in New Carlisle, Indiana, U.S., October 3, 2025.
    Noah Berger/Amazon Web Services/Reuters
    Big tech is increasingly promising to pay for spiking power costs. But there’s not much to enforce it
  • A person walks in a snowy Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
    Erin Hooley/AP
    How this brutal winter storm is even possible with climate change – and maybe even more likely
  • The Palisades nuclear power plant on the shore of Lake Michigan.
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    New-wave reactors are the face of an American nuclear renaissance. Some experts are sounding alarms
  • This aerial photograph shows a view of Meyil sinkhole, with its pink lake, in Karapinar in the central Anatolian province of Konya, on June 24, 2024. Sinkholes have existed for centuries in Konya, a vast agricultural province known as Turkey's breadbasket but their numbers have risen in recent years due to increasing drought and a subsequent overuse of groundwater for irrigation, experts say. (Photo by Yasin AKGUL / AFP) (Photo by YASIN AKGUL/AFP via Getty Images)
    Yasin Akgul/AFP/Getty Images
    The world has entered a new era of ‘water bankruptcy’ with irreversible consequences
  • In this handout satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Hurricane Melissa churns northwest through the Caribbean Sea captured on October 27, 2025.
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    Trump wants to slash funding for federal climate and weather research. Congress is about to tell him ‘No’
  • Wind turbines stand in the water off Block Island, Rhode Island on August 15, 2016.
    Michael Dwyer/AP/File
    Why the East Coast wants more of Trump’s least-favorite energy source
  • KEYSTONE, CO - DECEMBER 16 : Snowboarders and skiers look down Lake Dillon and Silverthorne from the summit at  Keystone ski resort in Colorado on Tuesday, December 16, 2025. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
    Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post/Getty Images
    The western US is in a snow drought, raising fears for summer water supplies
  • TOPSHOT - In this aerial view taken from a helicopter, burned homes are seen from above during the Palisades fire near the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California on January 9, 2025. Terrified residents caught in blazing neighbourhoods, influencers ignoring the ban on drones and the frightening unpredictability of the wildfires are just some of what journalists covering the fires ravaging Los Angeles for AFP have had to manage.
The United States' second-largest city has never faced a blaze of this scale, driven by an extreme autumn drought and fierce Santa Ana winds -- the strongest since 2011 -- that have turned dry hills into kindling, fuelling a relentless inferno that has raged for more than a week. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)
    Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images
    Private sector revives the climate disaster database Trump tried to squash
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    A bomb cyclone is more likely to impact parts of the East Coast this weekend. Here are the updated scenarios
  • AUSTIN, TEXAS   JANUARY 25: Ice covers a South Congress neighborhood after a winter storm brought rain, sleet and freezing temperatures to Austin on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026.  (Aaron E. Martinez/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images)
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    Death toll from winter storm and cold rises to over 30 as parts of South could be without power ‘weeks, not days’

Solutions

  • A satellite image of the Al Shuaibah solar plant near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on November 8, 2025.
    European Space Agency
    This oil-rich country has stood in the way of climate action. It’s quietly building a clean energy empire
  • In this photograph taken on July 2, 2025, technicians install solar panels on the rooftop of a factory in Pakistan's port city of Karachi. Pakistanis are increasingly ditching the national grid in favour of solar power, prompting a boom in rooftop panels and spooking a government weighed down by billions of dollars of power sector debt.
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    The surprising countries pulling off stunningly fast clean energy transitions
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    They’re using the techniques honed by oil and gas to find near-limitless clean energy beneath our feet
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    These sleek, sustainable homes are breaking the stereotype for prefab construction
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  • This picture taken on December 11, 2019, shows a view of railroad tracks by a quarry site at the Jubail Industrial City, about 95 kilometres north of Dammam in Saudi Arabia's eastern province overlooking the Gulf. (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Saudi Arabia says it has $2.5 trillion in mineral reserves. That could make it a key player in the race for rare earths
    Jan 23, 2026
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    ‘Night-time solar energy’ could one day power satellites
    Jan 21, 2026
  • A rendering shows MIMiC’s terminal unit in an home setting.
    SHoP Architects/MIMiC Systems
    A cooler climate solution: Air-conditioning without the compressor
    Jan 19, 2026
  • This aerial view shows BYD electric cars stacked at the Taicang Port in Suzhou, in China's eastern Jiangsu province on April 8.
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    Trump wants to own Venezuela’s oil, but its largest oil customer is speeding toward clean energy
    Jan 8, 2026
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    Video Bearded vulture on the brink: Conservationists in South Africa and Lesotho race to save this raptor 4:00
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    Video Iceland’s big problem with Instagrammable flowers 1:31
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    Video Underwater ‘reef music’ could help in coral restoration 3:59
  • Hit play captures vital moment in climate change history
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    Video Hit play captures vital moment in climate change history 3:18
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Features

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    ‘Save the Whales’ was a shining success. Now can humpbacks save us from ourselves?
  • A turtle swims in a shallow lagoon at Lady Elliot Island, off the Queensland Coast.
    CNN
    ‘Like wildfires underwater’: Worst summer on record for Great Barrier Reef as coral die-off sweeps planet
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    illustration by leah abucayan/cnn
    Wellness influencers fueled pandemic misinformation. Now they’re targeting another crisis
  • BOULDER, CO - MARCH 26: A firefighter watches as the NCAR Fire burns on March 26, 2022 in Boulder, Colorado. The wildfire, which has forced almost 20,000 people to evacuate their homes, started just a few miles away from where the Marshall Fire destroyed more than 1,000 homes in December, 2021. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)
    Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images
    A plant that’s everywhere is fueling a growing risk of wildfire disaster

EXTREMES

  • A pond where neighbors say three young boys died after falling into the water is seen Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026, in Bonham, Texas.
    Julio Cortez/AP
    ‘They were just screaming.’ Mom unable to save 3 sons who fell through icy pond in Texas
    Jan 28, 2026
  • Passengers look at flight delays on a departure board at Orlando International Airport on November 09, in Orlando, Florida.
    Andrew Wevers/Getty Images
    Tracking US flight delays and cancellations in charts
    Jan 26, 2026
  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 25:  People move through the snow in Brooklyn as a major winter storm moves through the area on January 25, 2026 in New York City. A massive winter storm is expected to bring frigid temperatures, ice, and snow to millions of Americans across the nation.  (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
    Spencer Platt/Getty Images
    How to stay safe in cold weather, according to a doctor
    Jan 26, 2026

WATER

  • Children play next to floating houses on the dry banks of Lake Tefe during what the National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (Cemaden) says is the most intense and widespread drought Brazil has experienced since records began in 1950, near Tefe, Amazonas state, Brazil September 17, 2024.
    Jorge Silva/Reuters
    Amazon lakes became ‘simmering basins’ as temperatures spiked to 105 degrees — above recommended limits for hot tubs
    Nov 6, 2025
  • Local farmer Adam Mudenda walks through his field of drought-affected maize in Heany Junction outside Bulawayo, Zimbabwe March 7, 2024.
    KB Mpofu/Reuters
    African maize is facing a drought crisis, but new ideas are taking root
    Oct 24, 2025
  • Lake Mead upstream from the Hoover Dam in April 2023.
    Will Lanzoni/CNN
    Where ‘day-zero droughts’ could happen as soon as this decade
    Sep 23, 2025

COST OF LIVING

  • DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA - AUGUST 15: Vegetables on display in a grocery store on August 15, 2025 in Delray Beach, Florida. Wholesale prices for fresh vegetables soared by 38.9 % a record amount, last month, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
    Joe Raedle/Getty Images
    Trump’s tariffs, deportations and climate change are making groceries more expensive
    Sep 20, 2025
  • A person buys fruits inside a market in Kolkata, India, on May 25, 2025. (Photo by Sudipta Das/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
    Sudipta Das/NurPhoto/Getty Images
    Extreme weather caused by climate change is raising food prices worldwide, study says
    Jul 22, 2025
  • President Donald Trump signs his tax and budget bill from the South Lawn of the White House on July 4, in Washington, DC.
    Tom Brenner/The Washington Post/Getty Images
    How Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ frames the defining debate for 2026
    Jul 13, 2025

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