The US Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt “was personally involved in the purging of information from the agency’s website” during the first few months of Trump’s administration, Think Progress reports. Documents obtained by the Environmental Defence Fund from a Freedom of Information Act request, include emails from Pruitt’s associate administrator writing to colleagues that “We would like the content at the links below removed and archived as soon as possible.” The webpage titles included “Climate Change, “Climate Change Science,” “Climate Change Impacts,” and “Student’s Guide to Global Climate Change.” “Obscuring information thwarts meaningful public participation in EPA’s work to protect Americans’ health and safety. It reinforces serious concerns that Pruitt has predetermined that he will repeal the Clean Power Plan, and that the current rulemaking process is a sham,” EDF attorney Ben Levitan said in a statement. Inside Climate News and the Hill also have the story.

The US state of New Jersey will soon rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, after the state’s new governor Phil Murphy decides to overturn the policy of his predecessor, Chris Christie, who pulled the state out of the initiative in 2011. Under the multistate cap and trade agreement, power plants have to buy carbon credits at auction in order to offset their emissions. The profits are then used to fund renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. The New York Times, Bloomberg and Carbon Pulse also have the story.

The operators of Britain’s gas power plants will “scoop millions of pounds in state subsidies”, during the auctions of contracts in the capacity market, that begin today. The capacity market helps the UK government ensure a reliable electricity supply by paying plants to go on standby during the winter months. But energy imports could change British energy provision, and make the future for new gas plants unclear, the Guardian reports. “It’s uncertain, when you look across 15 years. You’ve got to look at how interconnectors [power cables to other countries], how new nuclear, renewables will develop. It’s very uncertain”, says Tom Glover, the UK chair of German energy group RWE.

Analysis of how nearly 11,5000 [sic] species fared over 270 million years of hot and cold climate fluctuations found that warm-blooded creature like mammals and birds cope better with change then reptiles and amphibians. “We see that mammals and birds are better able to stretch out and extend their habitats…This could have a deep impact on extinction rates and what our world looks like in the future”, said lead author Jonathan Rolland, a researcher at the University of British Columbia. The Telegraph also covered the story in its print edition.

The world’s first biofuel flight between Australia and the US has touched down in Melbourne today. The 15-hour flight was powered by a blended fuel that was 10% derived from an industrial type of mustard seed that functions as a fallow crop. The fuel change reduced carbon emissions by 7% compared with the airline’s usual flight over the same route, and compared pound for pound with jet fuel, the brassica carinata biofuel reduces emissions by 80% over the fuel’s life cycle, the Guardian reports. Ars Technica also has the story.

Given the US president’s “indifference to climate change”, it is “greatly encouraging that New Jersey, under its new governor, Phil Murphy, a Democrat, will join — more precisely, rejoin — the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative”, says an editorial in the New York Times. This consortium of nine states “has achieved substantial emissions reductions from large power plants since its start in 2009”, the Times notes. The editorial suggest that Murphy should “chart a sensible way forward for two New Jersey nuclear plants that keeps them alive for now but provides for the day when they become too old or costly.” The piece continues: “Nuclear power is carbon-free, and thus vital to the fight against climate change. But simply throwing money at them is shortsighted.”

Science writer John Schwartz has factchecked some of the the claims made by US president Donald Trump, during an interview with Piers Morgan broadcast on Sunday evening. “The entire exchange was fewer than 350 words, but those 350 words were rich in misinformation”, Schwartz writes. Trump alleges that the Paris Agreement is unfair, “yet the Paris agreement treated the United States no differently than other nations, and imposed no obligations on the United States to reduce greenhouse gases or to fund efforts by other nations to do the same; the pledges were voluntary and nonbinding”, Schwartz says. Regarding climate change, Trump commented that “there is a cooling and there is a heating”, but, Schwartz contends that “the current, much faster warming trend, which has been well established, is inextricably linked to greenhouse gases”. Climate Denial Crock of the Week has also factchecked the interview.

Analysis in the Times argues that the drought in Cape Town “is the latest illustration of how climate change, geographical misfortune and mismanagement or outright cynicism have left up to 40% of the world’s population vulnerable to shortages”. “As the world warms the pressure will only grow”, the article warns.

A feature in the Washington Post examines how a gradual change in preferred terminology from “global warming” to “climate change” came about – and why the claim by some, including Donald Trump, that this means that warming has stopped, is “demonstrably incorrect”. The National Academies of Sciences explained the shift back in 2005: “The phrase ‘climate change’ is growing in preferred use to ‘global warming’ because it helps convey that there are changes in addition to rising temperatures”. However, “while ‘global warming’ was eclipsed by ‘climate change’ decades later, it remains a valuable term that accurately and directly describes what’s happening to the planet’s temperature over time”, Samenow concludes.

Ocean acidification could threaten the survival of coral reefs by reducing the concentration of natural materials that corals need to construct their skeletons, a new study suggests. Using climate models, the research suggests that the skeletal density of one group of corals, known as Porites corals, could decline by up to 20.3 over the 21st century solely due to ocean acidification, which is worsened by climate change.

Climate change could drive large seasonal extremes in ocean acidification, a new study finds. Ocean acidification is a term used to describe a process where CO2 is absorbed by the ocean and reacts with seawater to produce acid, which can lower the pH of the ocean. Using global climate models, the research finds that an increase in atmospheric CO2 could cause changes to seasonal pH levels in the ocean. “Projected seasonality changes will tend to exacerbate the impacts of increasing [H+] on marine organisms during the summer and ameliorate the impacts during the winter, although the opposite holds in the high latitudes,” the researchers say.