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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.
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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
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Fired Government Scientists Are Finding New Ways to Spread the Word on Climate Change / The Trump administration killed the National Climate Assessment. The researchers who were working on it aren't giving up

rollingstone.com
u/silence7 — 3 days ago
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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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Why This Long-Sought, Bipartisan Senate Deal Has Environmentalists Feuding | “Permitting reform” will streamline clean energy projects—and dirty ones, critics fear.

motherjones.com
u/silence7 — 4 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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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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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 — 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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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
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A US Supreme Court Battle Over Climate Change Begins | The justices are about to hear a lawsuit that could determine whether the oil industry faces billions of dollars in liability for damages caused by global warming.

nytimes.com
u/silence7 — 11 days ago
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All Hail Electrification. But Let’s Talk About the Hard Part / With $100 worth of gasoline, an internal-combustion-engine car would go 862 miles; with $100 worth of electricity, an electric vehicle would go 2,310 miles #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

insideclimatenews.org
u/Keith_McNeill65 — 13 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