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The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

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 Climate News tracked in 2025.

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

 Demonstrators attend a Stand Up for Science rally to highlight the critical role of science in public health, environmental stewardship and education at the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on March 7. Credit: Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images
A serviceberry blooming. Credit: Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty Images

Lessons on Scaling Gift Economies—and How It Can Help the Planet

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth
Love Sanchez, founder of Indigenous People of the Coastal Bend, stands at McGee Beach near downtown Corpus Christi in 2022. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Indigenous Groups Fight to Save Rediscovered Settlement Site on an Industrial Waterfront in Texas

By Dylan Baddour
New Jersey environmental activists protest in August against Transco’s 32,000-horsepower compressor station proposed for Somerset County’s Franklin Township, New Jersey, part of the Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline. Courtesy Charlie Kratovil.

Will New Jersey’s Environmental Regulators Approve Transco’s NESE Pipeline After Rejecting it Twice?

By Raeanne Raccagno
The environmentalist is holding a sign that says, “Stop Trump’s Extinction Plan.”

How Proposed Changes to the Endangered Species Act Could Further Threaten the Country’s Imperiled Species

By Kiley Price
Disaster survivors traveled to Washington, D.C., to call for a stronger federal disaster response system, not the much-reduced agency proposed by a Trump-appointed council. Credit: Ralph Alswang

Disaster Survivors Denounce Proposed FEMA Downsizing

By Anika Jane Beamer
The sun sets behind wind turbines and rows of solar panels at a renewable energy farm in Qingyang, China. Credit: Chen Kun/VCG via Getty Images

One Big, Shining Beacon for Climate Hope

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth
A displaced Palestinian woman pushes water away from her tent after heavy rainfall at a makeshift camp inside Gaza’s port on Nov. 14. Credit: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Gaza Faces Another Catastrophic Winter as Environmental and Humanitarian Devastation Mount

By Keerti Gopal
Emergency crews respond to a pipeline fire in La Porte, Texas, on Sept. 17, 2024. Credit: Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Greenpeace Scrutinizes the Environmental Record of the Company That Sued the Group

By Martha Pskowski
The construction site of a 75 megawatt data center is seen in Denver on May 13. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Environmental Groups Demand a Nationwide Freeze on Data Center Construction

By Lauren Dalban
A man uses a wrench stuck into a pipe to turn off a burning gas line during the Eaton Fire on Jan. 8 in Altadena, Calif. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

LA Wildfire Survivors Want to Rebuild All-Electric, but a Utility Is Using Customer Funds to Incentivize Gas Appliances

By Hilary Beaumont
In 2021, Dr. Robert Bullard, from right, talks with Fifth Ward residents Water Mallett, Doris Brown, then-EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner during Regan's tour of Houston to highlight environmental justice concerns. Credit: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Petrochemical Expansion in Texas Will Fall Heavily on Communities of Color, Study Finds 

By Dylan Baddour
Tawanda Majoni, an investigative journalist and founder of Information for Development Trust, stands outside his office in Harare, Zimbabwe. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

How China Silences Environmental Reporters Beyond Its Borders

By Katie Surma
An aerial view of trucks unloading and spreading trash over a hill at the Chiquita Canyon Landfill in Castaic, Calif., in February 2024. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

California Is Finally Updating Its Methane Landfill Rule

By Liza Gross
Local resident Bobby Amerson walks past sections of steel pipe to be used for the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Callaway, Va., on Aug. 30, 2022. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Gas Pipeline Proposals in Virginia Multiply Through the South—and Worry Community Activists

By Charles Paullin
Bill McKibben speaks to the crowd at the Climate Superfund Act rally in front of the New Jersey state house on Monday. Credit: Carrie Klein/Inside Climate News

Bill McKibben on the State-Led Efforts to Make Big Oil Pay Up

By Carrie Klein
Pamela Rayane Fernandes holding a tombstone of her 5-year-old daughter Emanuelle, who died in Bento Rodriguez, Brazil, following the collapse of the Fundão mine dam in the mountains of southeast Brazil nine years ago. Credit: Douglas Magno/AFP via Getty Images

Australian Company BHP Found Liable for Damages in One of Brazil’s Worst Mining Disasters

By Blanca Begert
Security personnel clash with protesters as they storm the venue during the COP30 climate conference on Tuesday in Belém, Brazil. Credit: Olga Leiria/AFP via Getty Images

Built to Fail: Rules at UN Climate Talks Favor the Status Quo, Not Progress

By Bob Berwyn
Residents cultivate a Creole garden on land contaminated with chlordecone, a toxic pesticide, in Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe. Credit: Mathilde Augustin/Inside Climate News

Two Caribbean Islands Seek Justice From France for Pesticide Poisoning

By Mathilde Augustin

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