Atomic wildfires are Russia’s looming compound disaster. Waste from the Soviet nuclear program is stored across the country’s vast interior — the same area most threatened by increasingly intense blazes.
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Atomic wildfires are Russia’s looming compound disaster. Waste from the Soviet nuclear program is stored across the country’s vast interior — the same area most threatened by increasingly intense blazes.

newlinesmag.com
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago
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In drought-stricken France, tankers supply drinking water. France is seeing water shortages in regions that usually have plenty of supply. This summer's extreme heat is exposing how unprepared much of the country, and Europe, is for increasing water scarcity.

dw.com
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago
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Reform says we need to choose between climate and economy. It’s wrong. The party’s deputy leader Richard Tice says we should stop worrying about extreme heat and enjoy it. This dangerous nonsense will wreck our finances and the planet.

theguardian.com
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago
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Why Egyptian farmers are growing crops under solar panels. The additional shade reduces evaporation and stress on the plants, all while generating clean electricity.

grist.org
u/DonManuel — 1 day ago
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The stock market may have a climate change problem. Climate change may be coming for your index funds, and the government is making those risks harder for investors to see, former regulators say.

eenews.net
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago
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The end of the European summer. As extreme heat overwhelms the Continent’s great cities, they are racing to transform themselves for a climate that they were never built to withstand.

newyorker.com
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago

‘Prepare early’: bushfire authorities sound alarm for NT, NSW and Queensland. Effects of global heating in NT worsened by ‘dangerous and fire-promoting buffel grass’, expert says.

theguardian.com
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago

New Zealand climate liability bill, preventing courts from finding certain types of liability for greenhouse gas emissions, passes final reading. The govt says this is in response to the Smith vs Fonterra and others case, which they say is causing uncertainty in business confidence and investment.

sciencemediacentre.co.nz
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago

Tourists seek cooler climates — but at what cost to nature? With heat records continually being broken and southern summers getting hotter, travelers are heading north. Fragile ecosystems are paying the price.

dw.com
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago
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Carbon pollution has fuelled ‘massive expansion’ of marine heatwaves in Europe, study finds. Hottest periods this year in most sea regions would have been ‘virtually impossible’ in a preindustrial climate.

theguardian.com
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago

Trump hits pause on Canada tariffs threat, and hints at revival of Keystone XL oil pipeline project. US president delays 50% tariffs by three days, and says contentious oil project ‘may be awoken from the grave’.

theguardian.com
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 1 day ago
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Green industrialist Dale Vince backs new North Sea drilling in surprise U-turn. It comes after the environmental campaigner said just months ago that new North Sea drilling would be a “betrayal of millions of us” if given the green light by the UK Government.

thenational.scot
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 2 days ago
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Researchers say a spike in temperatures during an ice age 304 million years ago could inform what climate scientists are learning about rapidly changing conditions today.

phys.org
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 2 days ago
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Lake Powell hits record low, threatening water and electricity supply. The alarming milestone at Lake Powell, reached Saturday, comes about a week after the river’s other major reservoir, Lake Mead, also hit a historic low.

mercurynews.com
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 2 days ago
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How $600B of Biden’s clean energy funding escaped Trump’s cuts. A POLITICO analysis finds that while the administration wiped out hundreds of billions in clean-energy tax breaks, spending has been harder to unwind.

politico.com
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 2 days ago
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Congress may kill the federal heat rule before OSHA can. The Biden-era heat safety rule was already languishing. Now, in a summer of record-breaking heat, a congressional committee has moved to block it entirely.

grist.org
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 3 days ago
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How the far right is tightening its grip over the EU – from the inside. A new majority of MEPs is driving the most sweeping rollback of EU protective standards across migration, climate, corporate accountability and AI that Europe has seen.

theguardian.com
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 3 days ago
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Iraq’s ghost villages: Islamic State drove people away – now a new enemy is preventing their return. Nearly a decade after fighting ended in northern Iraq, the climate crisis has brought extreme heat and a water shortage, making life almost impossible.

theguardian.com
u/The_Weekend_Baker — 3 days ago