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Washington sues NOAA, Commerce over termination of $9M in climate resilience funds
KIRO 7 - Washington State
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August 10, 2025
The state of Washington has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the U.S. Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of unlawfully cutting more than $9 million in funding for equity-focused climate resilience...
The 10 coldest countries in the world
Conde Nast Traveller
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August 12, 2025
A 2022 study in Nature Communications Earth & Environment confirmed that the Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the global average. And while the Middle East may be heating more rapidly in summer extremes, Arctic and sub-Arctic...
Letter: Protect the environment: It’s our foundation
InsideNoVa - Virginia
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Virginians are carrying a heavy load. Families are burdened by the rising cost of groceries, housing and utilities. Parents are worried about their kids’ education. Communities are concerned about safety and aging infrastructure that’s not built...
From 8 To 30 Bales: How Climate-Smart Cotton Farming Is Transforming Lives In Rural Zambia
MENAFN
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August 10, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) GENEVA, Switzerland, August 10, 2025/APO Group/ -- Zambian farmers have doubled their yields and their incomes, using climate-smart techniques learned through a partnership among the European Union, African,...
Not as much as one might be expected for rain in Swift Current according to Environment Canada
Swift Current Online
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August 10, 2025
Environment and Climate Change Canada is casting doubt on claims of rain south of Swift Current. Posts on social media indicate that the area south of Swift Current received five or more inches of rain in the last few days. However, ECCC...
Guest Report | Suzanne York | From Helplessness to Action: Pasadena Hearing Calls for Urgent Climate Protections
Pasadena Now - California
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A “People’s Hearing on Extreme Weather” took place Saturday in Pasadena, bringing together Los Angeles-area elected officials, advocacy groups, and community members. Organized by the Climate Action Campaign and its member environmental groups,...
Can an AI chatbot of Dr Karl change climate sceptics’ minds? He’s willing to give it a try
The Guardian
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August 10, 2025
There’s arguably no face, voice or collection of exuberant, patterned shirts more recognisable than those belonging to Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. The bespectacled boffin has been answering curly listener questions about science, with characteristic...
PM Modi's Vision Helped Increase Lion Population To 891: Environment Minister
MENAFN
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August 10, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) New Delhi, Aug 10 (IANS) Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav on Sunday credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for launching Project Lion in 2020, leading to a rise in the wildcat population from...
Letters to the editor: Ignoring climate change won’t make it go away
Morning Call - Pennsylvania
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August 10, 2025
Climate change is a real danger Instead of acting with common sense, concern and compassion for the children of today and all future generations, many elected officials have decided that they can ignore human-made climate chaos completely. Instead...
Neglecting climate investments
Meer
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August 10, 2025
According to the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), if we invest $266 trillion over the next 25 years, 10.6 tr/yr, we can achieve a 1.5° Celsius world, as described in the Paris Agreement, and we will save $1,266 trillion in avoided losses. That is...
Why so many Legionnaires' cases in NY? Environmental and human factors may play a role.
Gothamist - New York
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New York City’s ongoing outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Central Harlem, which has killed three people and sickened dozens more, is the latest in a series of similar clusters that have made headlines in recent years, usually in the summer...
The World Court ruled countries can be held liable for climate change damage – what does that mean for the US? (Opinion)
Daily Camera - Colorado
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August 10, 2025
The International Court of Justice issued a landmark advisory opinion in July 2025 declaring that all countries have a legal obligation to protect and prevent harm to the climate. The court, created as part of the United Nations in 1945, affirmed...
Caribbean lawyers celebrate ICJ climate change opinion: We’ve been heard
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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August 10, 2025
Features Narissa Fraser 2 Hrs Ago (From right) Acting Justice of the Supreme Court in The Bahamas Cheryl Bazard, KC, TT lawyer Justin Sobion, and attorney Kate Wilson, legal officer in the Department of Sustainable Development in St Lucia, outside...
From Altadena to Westminster: climate denial is a luxury we can’t afford
Business Matters
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August 10, 2025
But this time was different. The hills were scorched. The air was acrid. Driving into Altadena, I was met not by the familiar suburban hum but by the sight — and smell — of destruction. Houses gutted. Trees reduced to brittle, blackened bones. A...
COMMENTARY: EPA proposes to end US fight against climate change
News Tribune - Missouri
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August 10, 2025
President Donald Trump has been trying to eliminate climate regulations since his first day back in office when he signed an executive order declaring the primacy of fossil fuels. But his administration's most radical step came last week, when the...
'People's Hearing On Extreme Weather' targets Trump climate policy
Los Angeles Times
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August 10, 2025
On Saturday, Los Angeles-area elected officials, advocacy groups, and community members convened in Pasadena for what was billed as a “People’s Hearing on Extreme Weather.” Organized by the Climate Action Campaign and its member environmental...
Environmental and Community Outcry Over Shell’s Deep-Sea Drilling Approval in Northern Cape
South Africa Today
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August 9, 2025
Environmentalists, fishing communities, and heritage organizations are challenging the government’s decision to grant Shell permission to drill up to 3,200 meters deep off the Northern Cape coast, citing risks to marine ecosystems, cultural...
The peak of summer, the depths of winter
National Snow and Ice Data Center
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At the end of July 2025, daily sea ice extent in both hemispheres ranked third lowest in the 47-year satellite record. For most of the month, Arctic sea ice extent tracked close to levels recorded for 2012, the record-low-September year. July 2025...
NEMC reaches about 1,450 stakeholders with environmental education at Nane Nane exhibitions
The Citizen
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Dodoma. The National Environmental Management Council (NEMC) has reached nearly 1,450 stakeholders by providing education on sustainable environmental conservation and management at this year’s Nane Nane Agricultural Exhibitions held in Dodoma and...
The Tide Reclaims: Caribbean romance meets climate reality
CNC 3
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August 10, 2025
Lead Editor-Newsgathering [email protected] On the island of St Gyles, a small mass of land off the coast of Tobago, a fictional story of love meets climate change in Latoyaa Roberts-Thomas’ third book, The Tide Reclaims. Her novel connects two...