Climate lawsuits gain ground as governments scale back climate action. Over the past decade, legal activists have successfully taken a number of national governments to court, triggering the adoption of more climate-friendly policies.
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Climate lawsuits gain ground as governments scale back climate action. Over the past decade, legal activists have successfully taken a number of national governments to court, triggering the adoption of more climate-friendly policies.

rfi.fr
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 4 days ago
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Marina Silva on Flávio Bolsonaro: He will try to finish his father’s ‘perverse project’ to destroy the Amazon. Former Brazilian environment minister warns of destruction as far-right scion favourite to become president.

theguardian.com
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 4 days ago

We didn’t just fail to stop Ebola. We caused it. The driver of zoonotic outbreaks isn’t bad luck. It’s habitat destruction, wildlife trade, and decades of ignoring science.

therevelator.org
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 10 days ago
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Russia’s nuclear plants are ageing. Who will pay to dismantle them? Moscow faces a huge decommissioning bill at home even as it expands its nuclear industry abroad, promoting nuclear energy as a “sustainable” alternative to fossil fuels.

aljazeera.com
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 10 days ago

To cull or not to cull: Greenland debates fate of world’s slowest shark. As trawlers compete with Greenland sharks for halibut and cod, conservationists and fishers clash over what to do about misunderstood species.

theguardian.com
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 10 days ago
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Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash. “For all the claims Amazon makes about investing in carbon-free energy, it conveniently leaves out that it is constructing the single-largest source of climate emissions in the United States in Pecos, Texas."

arstechnica.com
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 10 days ago
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A Statement review – outstanding climate change dramedy about a 1980 meeting. Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti and Tatiana Maslany lead an excellent ensemble in this dramatization of a failed conference on climate change.

theguardian.com
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 11 days ago
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Heat-trapping gas once frozen in Arctic ground is slowly leaking and warming the planet. "Once you start leaking this carbon out, there's so much in the ground that it's not going to shut off. Essentially every year is setting a permafrost record."

phys.org
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 11 days ago
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FedEx believes $300M electric truck spend will save them $800M in diesel. FedEx is making serious moves to fully electrify its operating fleet by 2040, and this latest Harbinger deal is believed to be one of the largest binding orders for electric medium or heavy-duty trucks in history.

electrek.co
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 11 days ago
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Future of Amazon rainforest policies at stake in Brazilian presidential election. Opposition presidential candidate Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro says he doesn’t believe climate change is real.

apnews.com
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 11 days ago
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Short on land, Japan is building solar farms on old golf courses. Mountainous, densely populated Japan has little land available for large solar farms, so developers are erecting arrays on many of the now disused golf courses that proliferated during the country’s 1980s economic boom.

e360.yale.edu
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 15 days ago
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Incoming El Niño is so extreme it doesn’t have a scientific name. Climate scientist Daniel Swain explains what may be in store for the next year as we brace for an El Niño “so far above anything we've previously seen, it doesn't even fit on the same axis.”

insideclimatenews.org
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 11 days ago
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Hyundai warns the US may be next in line for a wave of cheaper Chinese EVs. Due to the increased competition from China, electric vehicles are more affordable than petrol cars in the UK.

electrek.co
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 24 days ago
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Babies ‘will face almost twice as much’ extreme fire weather in Europe than great-grandparents. Children born after 2025 will experience three more years of brutally fire-conducive weather as global heating intensifies.

theguardian.com
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 24 days ago
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The Hormuz crisis just did what climate summits couldn’t. The war wrecking your fuel budget is quietly moving a number nobody expected to move this decade.

thestreet.com
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 24 days ago
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‘I needed an IV’: shoes melt as turf temperature reaches 157F in Eagles-Titans game. Nashville was under a heat warning for Sunday’s game, which kicked off at noon local time. The air temperature was 95F (35C) with a heat index of 105F (40.5C).

theguardian.com
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 24 days ago