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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 30/03/2026

Yesterday's weekly newsletter tackled the Trump administration's latest shell game about wind energy. Take a read here: link.motherjones.com/view/68c9ad0...

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 23/03/2026

"I believe in one God, and it’s not a computer." Read our latest weekly dispatch, covering AI data centers in rural PA from @rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social of @grist.org full newsletter here: link.motherjones.com/view/68c9ad0...

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 16/03/2026

The war on Iran is already an environmental nightmare. @damiengayle.bsky.social from the @environment.theguardian.com reports in our latest newsletter. Read the full recap here: link.motherjones.com/view/68c9ad0...

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 10/03/2026

Our latest newsletter explores a type of censorship that may have gone under the radar. The federal government has erased climate change from the scientific manual judges reference. From @lizagross.bsky.social at @insideclimatenews.org

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 10/02/2026

The 1.5-degree target was set to forestall severe weather impacts and potential runaway warming. But 10 years of weak action have followed. “Climate policy has failed. The 2015 landmark Paris Agreement is dead,” says atmospheric chemist Robert Watson. Read more: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 02/02/2026

Have you fallen in love with data centers yet? Likely not, but there is million-dollar PR campaign trying to get you there. Read about @hurwitz.bsky.social 's investigation into how big tech is trying to rehab data centers' image in light of their dropping favorability.

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 26/01/2026

What happens when an ecosystem on the brink receives the full weight of human ingenuity—and even then, it still might not be enough? @vox.com asks this question while investigating the largest coral restoration effort ever attempted. Read the whole dispatch: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 19/01/2026

Who gets to decide whether oil companies have to pay for their role in coastal destruction? That was the question last week in front of the Supreme Court. Read the full dispatch, covered in our weekly newsletter, by @leehedgepeth.bsky.social: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 29/12/2025

Grazing on public lands seems like a win for everyone, but is it? @highcountrynews.org and @propublica.org investigated and found that not everything is what it seems... link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 22/12/2025

Is sanitation woke? We dig in in the latest newsletter. Read the whole thing here: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

You would think things like basic sanitation—clean water, decent sewage treatment, etc.—would transcend partisan politics. But we live in Donald Trump’s America now.

Shortly after his second term began, the Trump administration reneged on federal funding to fix a failed septic system in predominantly Black Lowndes County, Alabama. County and state officials had neglected the problem for decades—even as raw sewage spewed onto people’s lawns. Under President Joe Biden, those officials were found to have violated residents’ civil rights, and the EPA launched a program to channel money into Lownes and other similarly afflicted “Black belt” communities to fix the problems.

Trump put an end to all of that.

Author and activist Catherine Coleman Flowers, who lived in Lowndes as a teenager, works on the forefront of what she calls “sanitation justice,” the notion that things like sewage treatment and clean water are universal health issues, not some "woke" DEI thing. “We have to expand the definition of environmental justice because we can’t let people think that if you are not Black and poor, you’re not going to be victimized,” she says. “We all drink the same water.”

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 15/12/2025

This week's newsletter features @fieseler.bsky.social from @canarymedia.com discussing David Stevenson—the man trying to break offshore wind.

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 08/12/2025

Our latest newsletter was guest written by @ninalakhani.bsky.social from @environment.theguardian.com about Trump's attacks on coal country. Read the whole newsletter here: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 17/11/2025

Our Sunday newsletter covered everything COP. Missed it? Read it here: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 12/11/2025

DAY 3: California Governor Gavin Newsom has arrived at the conference with some choice words for Trump. Diplomats are discussing are financing and critical minerals. Activists criticizing the PR firm Edelman for working the summit while also working for fossil fuel clients like Chevron and Shell.

Day three begins at Cop30
Dharna Noor
The second day of Cop29 ended with a bang, as dozens of Indigenous protestors forced their way into the conference center. The demonstrators, some of whom wore headdresses and carried instruments, pulled doors from their hinges, shoved through security scanners, and tussled with guards before successfully entering the venue. “Our forests are not for sale,” one protestor’s sign read.

It’s a sign that this year marks the return of major protests at UN climate talks, after several years of repression. More demonstrations are planned at the venue for the rest of the week, both on and off site.

Some 50,000 people are attending Cop30, from the civil society groups holding rallies, to the researchers poring over esoteric documents, to the politicians huddling together in brightly lit rooms. One group, however, is conspicuously absent from the climate talks: a delegation from the US, the world’s largest historical greenhouse gas polluter.

It’s the first time the US has sat out the negotiations completely, research organization Carbon Brief confirmed on Tuesday. US president Donald Trump, who calls the climate crisis a “hoax,” pulled the country from the Paris Agreement in January as part of an all-out assault on climate policy.

California governor Gavin Newsom, who arrived at the climate talks on Tuesday, strongly condemned Trump’s anti-environmental agenda: “He’s an invasive species, he’s a wrecking ball president,” he said at a press conference. “He’s trying to roll back progress of the last century, he’s trying to recreate the 19th century, he’s doubling down on stupid.”

Newsom, whose state has the world’s fourth-largest economy, is the topmost US official at Cop29. Everywhere he went on Tuesday, he was followed by hoards of spectators. In meetings and press conferences, he assured crowds that California is committed to climate action.

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 11/11/2025

Day 2: Negotiations have begun.

5h ago
07.14 EST
Negotiations begin at Cop30 after agenda agreed
Jonathan Watts
Jonathan Watts
Thunder, lightning and torrential rain tore down on the Cop30 conference centre in Belém on the opening day yesterday, but the climate gathering has so far avoided the political storms that often shake the early phases of the annual talks, writes Jonathan Watts, the Guardian’s global environment writer.

How long the calm lasts will be clearer over the next two days, when the Brazilian presidency holds consultations with key nations on the items that will be discussed over the coming two weeks.

This is a diplomatic sleight of hand that has so far enabled the host to avoid the usual wrangles over the formal agenda, which have often taken several days in past conferences, holding up all other work. Yesterday, however, the agenda breezed through.

Plus an image of chairs with rain on them.

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 10/11/2025

In our latest newsletter, @grist.org senior staff writer @zteirstein.bsky.social shares about the "Vital Signs" series about how climate change is threatening human health. Read the full newsletter here: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 03/11/2025

Missed Sunday's newsletter? It is all about the rebirth of the Klamath River. Read it here: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 27/10/2025

Missed Sunday's newsletter? It was all about @vox.com's investigation into biodiversity loss in Madagascar. Read it here: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 21/10/2025

Congress created the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) four years ago to solve a “chicken-and-egg situation” for climate solutions. So what did the Trump Administration do? Find out in our latest newsletter here: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 13/10/2025

Missed Sunday's weekly newsletter? Read it here: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 06/10/2025

The national parks are in deep shit—perhaps literally. Read our latest dispatch from Climate Desk Weekly, recapping what the shutdown means for National Parks: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 29/09/2025

Read yesterday's Climate Desk Weekly dispatch. Senior editor @michaelmechanic.bsky.social digs into the good news (and bad news) on energy, in addition to updates on the forest service and shark science. link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 24/09/2025

Did you miss our Sunday Newsletter? Read it here: link.motherjones.com/view/68cc766...

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 18/09/2025

This Sunday, we are launching “Climate Desk Weekly.” This free dispatch will act as Mother Jones' Sunday newsletter and share the week’s need-to-know climate news right in your inbox from our collaboration of 15 award-winning media outlets. Sign up at: www.motherjones.com/newsletters/

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 29/04/2025

@vox.com put together 10 charts on clean energy, which we will be highlighting over the next 10 days. Here is the first one.

A chart that says "In two decades, wind capacity has increased 23x"
"US wind net summer capacity (in gigawatts)"

In November 2024, wind capacity reached 151 GW)

The chart shows a line going from 0 in 1985 to 151 in 2024. Behind the chart is an illustration of wind turbines.

"Source: US Energy Information Administration"

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