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Research identifies Portsmouth, Leicester, Exeter, Bristol and Nottingham as British cities most vulnerable to extreme heat by century’s end, with urban heat islands creating dangerous conditions in areas lacking green space.
The Trump administration has repealed the Biden administration’s 2024 carbon emissions rule for power plants, eliminating federal regulations requiring coal plants to either shut down or install carbon capture technology.
Gray whale populations along the U.S. West Coast have plummeted by half over the past decade, with climate change reducing their Arctic food sources and causing mass strandings. Conservation groups are preparing legal action against the Trump administration for failing to relist them as endangered.
A 68-year-old repeat offender has been fined over £4,700 for illegally gold panning in a protected Welsh river, damaging wildlife habitats.
Asian governments are preparing for an exceptionally severe El Niño weather event expected through 2027, which threatens extreme heat, flooding, and food shortages affecting hundreds of millions of people across the region.
The Trump administration has reinterpreted the Endangered Species Act to allow killing protected animals if unintentional, narrowing legal definitions of “harm” and “take” that have guided conservation for decades.
