October 15, 2025
- Downtown Newsmagazine
- Oct 15
- 2 min read
Hundreds of citizens in August Township, Michigan are petitioning for voters to help reject rezoning for a data center being built after concerns it will increase noise, light pollution and utility bills. (Tom Perkins/Inside Climate News)
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UNESCO has designated 26 new biosphere reserves across 21 countries along with instituting a 10-year strategic action plan to study the effects of climate change. (Tammy Webber/The Associated Press)
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The Trump administration is considering up to $50 million in foreign aid to protect Greenland's polar bears, stunning officials following his recent cuts to other foreign assistance. (Adam Taylor, Noah Robertson, Hannah Natanson/The Washington Post)
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How China is building an enormous network of clean energy projects on the world’s highest plateau to create low-cost renewable energy. (Keith Bradsher/The New York Times)
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A new Pentagon report finds the US National Guard has spent 400,000 hours per year responding to natural disasters in the first public accounting of the cumulative burden on the organization. (Marianne Lavelle/Inside Climate News)
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Power bills are surging across the U.S. but could level off if the country continues to shift away from fossil fuels. (Umair Irfan/Vox)
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Fifteen kids filed a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights against the US, arguing the “government’s unrelenting perpetuation of a fossil fuel energy system was catastrophic for human rights.” (Anita Hofschneider/Grist)
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Researchers discovered methane gas is seeping out of cracks in the Antarctic seafloor as the region warms at unprecedented rates. (Julia Jacobo/ABC News)
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The Energy Department is canceling more than $7.5 billion in federal funding for unnamed clean energy projects, leaked documents showing primarily Democratic states will be affected. (Brad Plummer, Maxine Joselow/The New York Times)
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The Detroit City Council unanimously backs the repeal of Michigan law baring local regulations of plastic packaging. (Brian Allnutt/Planet Detroit)
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And then there’s this...
Energy companies are using EV car batteries to power homes during blackouts and sell energy back to the power grid. (Nicolas Rivero/The Washington Post)
