Trump administration rolls back environmental protections while climate resilience efforts advance, as major infrastructure projects raise sustainability concerns

Trump administration cancels conservation rule on public lands, allowing increased drilling, logging, mining, and cattle grazing on federal property, with legal challenges mounted against plans to open 24 million acres to grazing.

EPA toxic gas protections weakened as Trump rollback limits authority to regulate ethylene oxide (EtO), a carcinogen found to be 60 times more potent than previously assessed in 2006 research.

Utah approves massive datacenter project twice the size of Manhattan that would require more power than the entire state consumes and deplete water resources in drought-stricken area, sparking environmental backlash.

Trump administration promotes 'chickenification' of fish farming despite new undercover video documenting animal cruelty at Cooke salmon hatchery operations.

Scientists work to strengthen apple resilience against climate impacts including wild temperature fluctuations and drought, part of broader agricultural adaptation efforts.

Laser-equipped aerial missions track critically low snowpack across western US mountains, raising alarm among experts about water availability and climate change impacts.

Brazil's Atlantic forest achieves lowest deforestation in 40 years, though environmentalists warn weakened environmental laws could reverse conservation gains.

Private company Stardust Solutions proposes using tiny reflective particles to cool planet through geoengineering, but critics argue corporations should not alter Earth's atmosphere without oversight.

Scientists pressure Congress over National Science Foundation board dismissals and delayed research funding, warning slowdown could disadvantage US against China in scientific competition.

Forecasters predict incoming El Niño conditions will trigger wildfires, floods, and severe heatwaves across affected regions.