09 Jun 2026
Photo by NOAA The Trump administration is dismantling a decade-old network of deep-ocean instruments that scientists have relied upon to track climate change, monitor marine heatwaves and study the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). International researchers warn the decision will “severely degrade” weather forecasting and El Niño predictions, with economic consequences they argue far […]
11 Nov 2025
Photo by Chris Boland The 30th UN Climate Change Conference opened in Belém, Brazil, on Monday with urgent calls to accelerate implementation of climate commitments, as the world’s largest gathering of Indigenous leaders demanded recognition as essential actors in the global response to the climate crisis. The two-week summit, taking place in the gateway […]
28 Oct 2025
Pacific activists protest exploration vessel as geopolitical rivalry intensifies over critical mineral resources. Photo by NOAA The United States and China are engaged in an intensifying competition for access to deep-sea mineral resources in the Cook Islands’ exclusive economic zone, raising concerns amongst environmental campaigners and indigenous communities about the ecological and geopolitical implications of […]
27 May 2025
Image: The Statue of Liberty by Stephen Tafra Empire Windfarm has been given the go-ahead after a u-turn by the Trump administration. Only last month, 16th April, President Trump issued a stop-work order on Empire Wind, a USD 5 billion project to build a wind farm off the coast of New York. At the […]
29 Apr 2025
Trump’s Executive order President Trump has signed an Executive Order establishing a framework for American companies to identify and commercially extract offshore critical minerals and resources in both National and International waters. It is the latest in a series of orders issued by the US president to try to increase America’s access to minerals […]
22 Apr 2025
The Trump administration’s decision to halt construction of Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 farm off the coast of New York late on Wednesday sent shockwaves through the offshore wind industry, raising concerns that fully-permitted developments representing billions in investment are not safe. Donald Trump’s Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has ordered the Equinor project to cease […]
22 Apr 2025
President Trump has said he will allow commercial fishing in one of the world’s largest MPAs, introducing industrial operations for the first time in more than a decade to a vast area of the Pacific dotted with coral atolls and populated by endangered sea turtles and whales. As reported in the New York Times, Mr. […]
22 Jan 2025
Since entering office on Monday, Trump has already: Withdrawn from the Paris climate agreement Declared a national energy emergency, promising to “unleash” US energy production, roll back restrictions on drilling in Alaska and increase gas exports Ended the Green New Deal, a series of Biden measures that were aimed at boosting green jobs, regulating the […]
