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TOPSHOT - A police officer speaks to Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg moments before she was arrested outside the InterContinental London Park Lane during the "Oily Money Out" demonstration organised by Fossil Free London and Greenpeace on the sidelines of the opening day of the Energy Intelligence Forum 2023 in London on October 17, 2023. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP) (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images)

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Greta Thunberg Fast Facts

U.S. President Donald Trump as he welcomes the 2025 College Football National Champions from Ohio State University to the White House during a ceremony on the south lawn on April 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. Ohio State won the national championship by defeating Notre Dame in the National Championship game by a score of 34-23.

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Judge rules against Trump admin after it couldn’t find evidence of fraud in clean energy program

Satellite imagery captured Hurricane Helene a few hours before it made landfall in Florida on September 26, 2024. Clouds and moisture from the storm stretched from the Caribbean nearly to Canada.

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Trump’s budget plan eviscerates weather and climate research, and it could be enacted immediately

The Ford Motor Co. and SK Innovation Co. electric vehicle and battery manufacturing complex under construction near Stanton, Tennessee, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. The Ford Motor Co. and SK Innovation Co. $5.6 billion manufacturing complex, known as BlueOval City, is due to begin building electric F-Series pickup trucks and the batteries that power them in three years. Photographer: Houston Cofield/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Republicans may be poised to kill tens of thousands of jobs in districts that voted for Trump

Cleveland-Cliffs Middletown Works in Middletown, Ohio, on Wednesday, September 25, 2024. (Photo by Madeleine Hordinski for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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Major steel project in JD Vance’s hometown on a list of Trump cuts to manufacturing industry

<p>A research team in British Columbia, Canada, is using artificial intelligence to track orca populations and help shape strategies to protect their habitat.</p>

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Monitoring killer whales with AI 3:57

OXNARD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 27: A stranded California sea lion suffering from suspected domoic acid poisoning cranes its head on the beach, before being rescued by CIMWI (Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute) volunteers, on March 27, 2025 in Oxnard, California. Domoic acid poisoning sometimes causes sea lions to crane their heads in an upward “stargazing” motion. Hundreds of sea lions and over 100 dolphins, along with birds, are suspected to have been poisoned from eating fish which ingested toxic algae along the Southern California coastline in recent weeks. This is the fourth consecutive year of a domoic acid harmful algal bloom event along the coast of Southern California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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Sea lions are attacking people in the waters off California’s coast. Here’s why

Swedish Photographer Christian Aslund visited Svalbard, in the Arctic Circle, to document the retreat of glaciers. He found that they look very different from archival images taken up to a century ago.

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Stunning images show Arctic glaciers’ dramatic retreat

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Floodwater inundates an entire neighborhood in Frankfort, Kentucky, on April 6, 2025.

This notorious West Coast phenomenon fueled historic floods in the East. Another one is on the way

Jesse Furman is handed one of her belongings by Brayden McLemore near her destroyed trailer in Selmer, Tennessee, U.S., after a suspected tornado tore through the town, April 3, 2025. Chris Day/The Commercial Appeal/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES MANDATORY CREDIT

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The reason for an outburst of deadly storms early in the year could be lurking in the ocean

Solutions

This photograph taken on September 2, 2018 shows a beach view in Ewa on the Pacific island of Nauru. - A cluster of corrugated iron huts resembling military barracks jut out of Nauru's sweltering rocky landscape to reveal refugee settlement camp number five, a place defined by desperation and rarely visited by outsiders. (Photo by Mike LEYRAL / AFP) (Photo credit should read MIKE LEYRAL/AFP via Getty Images)

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A tiny island country is selling citizenship for $105,000 to save itself from rising seas

A forest the size of Mexico could store twice as much carbon as was thought. That makes its conservation even more valuable

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‘Fishing boat for energy’ will make hydrogen as it sails

Panorama view of the Swiss Alps - Canton of Grisons in Eastern Switzerland, a potential natural H2 exploration area.

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Vast reserves of game-changing clean fuel may be hidden under mountain ranges, scientists find

SWEETWATER, TEXAS - OCTOBER 04: In an aerial view, discarded wind turbine blades are seen in a field next to the Sweetwater Cemetery on, October 04, 2023 in Sweetwater, Texas. General Electric filed a lawsuit against Global Fiberglass, claiming that the company has failed to recycle thousands of turbine blades discarded in a field on the west side of town. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

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Wind turbine parts may be giant technofossils that puzzle future scientists

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New design revealed for Airbus hydrogen plane

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin attends the first Cabinet meeting of President Donald Trump's second term, at the White House on February 26.

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The Trump admin accuses EPA of squirreling away $20 billion in ‘gold bars.’ Here’s what’s really going on.

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Chinese EV titan BYD annual sales hit $100 billion eclipsing rival Tesla

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Video These videos potentially show the start of two LA wildfires. CNN spoke to the witnesses 1:44

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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.

‘Like wildfires underwater’: Worst summer on record for Great Barrier Reef as coral die-off sweeps planet

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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)

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A plant that’s everywhere is fueling a growing risk of wildfire disaster

EXTREMES

WHITLEY BAY, ENGLAND - MAY 10: People visit St Mary's lighthouse in Whitley Bay to see the aurora borealis, commonly known as the northern lights, on May 10, 2024 in Whitley Bay, England. The UK met office said a strong solar storm may allow northern parts of the UK the chance to see displays of aurora. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

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Solar storm could bring auroras farther south over the US than they typically appear

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Colossal squid resembles a ‘glass sculpture’ in first footage taken from the deep sea

When the drug clobazam accumulates in Atlantic salmon's brains, migrating juvenile fish reach the ocean sooner, a new study found. A juvenile salmon is shown in May 2019.

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Salmon migration affected by drug pollution in water from antianxiety medication

WATER

Fake snow, made of cotton, is seen at a village in Chengdu, China.

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Snow joke: Chinese attraction apologizes for winter wonderland made of cotton and bedsheets

SANTA ANA, CA - APRIL 26: Pouring a glass of water from a kitchen faucet in Santa Ana on Friday, April 26, 2024. According to a study by the US Geological Survey, 45% of the tap water in the United States is contaminated with "forever chemicals" that are considered dangerous to human health. In recent years, studies have found that humans exposed to some PFAS chemicals are more prone to everything from high cholesterol and hypertension to testicular cancer, breast cancer and, for girls, early-onset puberty. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

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Scientists discover concerning new source of ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water

An aerial view of colorful fall foliage in Vermont and New Hampshire on October 13, 2024.

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It’s not just you. Fall hasn’t really felt like fall this year and it’s a sign of things to come

COST OF LIVING

Donald Trump highlighted rising costs during his campaign to return to the White House.

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High grocery prices got droves of Americans to vote for Trump but they shouldn’t expect to pay less over the next four years

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance attend a debate hosted by CBS News in New York on Tuesday.

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Fact-checking the CBS News vice presidential debate between Vance and Walz

Harris’ Georgia challenge: reassembling Biden’s diverse 2020 coalition