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CYCC to Host First Youth Conference in Jamaica to Drive Regional Environmental & Climate Action
Win Media SKN
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August 12, 2025
Kingston, Jamaica (August 12, 2025): The Caribbean Youth Climate Council (CYCC), a regional network representing young people from CARICOM member states, will host the inaugural Caribbean Youth Environment & Climate Change Conference from...
Mainstream TV news outlets have squandered rare opportunities to hold Trump officials accountable for climate harms
Media Matters For America
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December 8, 2025
Collins raised substantive issues: the report’s rushed timeline, hand-picked, climate-contrarian authors, the fact that “the EPA is already using this [report] to change its policy,” and that scientists said their work was misrepresented. But...
NCF Trains Journalists on Climate Reporting, Calls For Biodiversity Protection
This Day
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August 12, 2025
Oluchi Chibuzor The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF), under the Climate Resilience for Critical Sites for Migratory Birds and People along the East Atlantic Flyway (CREAF) project, funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the...
US Dept. of Energy secretary assembled climate skeptics to shape report challenging science
Environmental Health News
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August 12, 2025
Energy Secretary Chris Wright recruited a group of long-standing climate skeptics to produce a Department of Energy study now being used by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to justify rolling back greenhouse gas regulations. Benjamin...
Coal mine dispute in UK sparks investor-state legal battle over climate ruling
Environmental Health News
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August 12, 2025
Investors in a canceled coal mine in northern England have launched an international arbitration case against the UK government, challenging a court’s decision that blocked the project over its projected carbon emissions. Katie Surma reports for...
Economic, Environmental Ripple Effects Feared from Potential EPA Downsizing in North Carolina
INDY Week - North Carolina
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August 12, 2025
This story first published online at North Carolina Health News. As the Trump administration keeps pushing to change the focus of scientific research and roll back environmental regulations—moves that critics say favor industry over public...
Inaugural Caribbean Youth Environment & Climate Change Conference set for Jamaica
Dominica News Online
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August 12, 2025
Dominica News Online - Tuesday, August 12th, 2025 at 4:44 PM Photo Credit: Uncharted Jamaica ToursThe Caribbean Youth Climate Council (CYCC), an organization representing young people across CARICOM member nations, is set to host its first-ever...
N.B.’s warming climate could mean more frequent fires
CHCO Television
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August 12, 2025
For Saint Andrews Fire Chief Kevin Theriault wildfire seasons in New Brunswick have always ebbed and flowed. He has been wearing the fire chief’s white helmet for 14 years now. In May 2023, Theriault battled, alongside many other firefighters, a...
Fire ants: Invasive species fueled by state’s growth, global warming
Marco Eagle - Florida
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This kind of bites: Climate change is making fire ants an increasingly hot topic in Florida these days. But our efforts to tame them may only be scratching the surface. Red imported fire ants rank among the world’s most invasive and destructive...
Local View: Don't blame Canada for wildfires; blame climate inaction
Duluth News Tribune - Minnesota
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August 12, 2025
On July 7, four of Minnesota’s congressional representatives — Pete Stauber, Tom Emmer, Michelle Fischbach, and Brad Finstad — joined two colleagues from Wisconsin and made headlines by levying accusations at Canada for the thick wildfire smoke...
56 million years ago, Earth underwent rapid global warming. Here’s what it did to pollinators
The National Tribune
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August 11, 2025
Pollinators play a vital role in fertilising flowers, which grow into seeds and fruits and underpin our agriculture. But climate change can cause a mismatch between plants and their pollinators, affecting where they live and what time of year...
Far-right gains in Europe threaten EU climate goals
WNYC - New York
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August 12, 2025
Far-right parties are surging in popularity across Europe and environmentalists say their influence could put the EU’s climate agenda in jeopardy. Also, as Russian troops advance deeper into eastern Ukraine just days ahead of a meeting between the...
UNDP Ghana and EPA Ghana Engage Importers in Training to Advance Climate-Friendly Cooling in Ghana
Modern Ghana
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Ghana’s Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (RAC) sector has experienced steady growth over the past decade, driven by rapid expansion in electricity access, urbanization, population growth, a rising middle class, increasing household incomes, as...
In South America's lithium triangle, the scramble for transition minerals endangers human rights and the environment
International Federation for Human Rights
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August 12, 2025
A new study details the patterns of human rights and environmental abuses until now linked to mining in the “lithium triangle” of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. The explosion in demand for this critical mineral for EV batteries and renewables has...
Walsh: EPA proposal a step in the right direction for common sense environmental policy
Nisqually Valley News - Washington State
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August 12, 2025
By Rep. Jim Walsh / R-Aberdeen About two weeks ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it was beginning the process of rescinding its 2009 “Endangerment Finding” on greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution — a bureaucratic...
Federal funding loss threatens WA’s coastal defenses against climate hazards
The Center Square
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August 12, 2025
(The Center Square) – The federal government is withholding funding to the Washington Department of Ecology that impacts the state’s efforts to mitigate coastal hazards. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, is withholding...
Fall Class of Climate Stewards Seeks Environmental Advocates
Noozhawk - California
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August 12, 2025
The Community Environmental Council (CEC) is enrolling its Fall 2025 Climate Stewards certification course, designed to engage and empower Central Coast residents to take action on climate change. The course will meet weekly via Zoom, Sept. 9-Oct....
Economic, environmental ripple effects feared from potential EPA downsizing in NC
WUNC - North Carolina
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August 12, 2025
As the Trump administration keeps pushing to change the focus of scientific research and roll back environmental regulations — moves that critics say favor industry over public health — members of North Carolina’s scientific and environmental...
Fighting for Environmental Justice: Q+A with Michi Yoshikawa '25
Pace University - New York
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Image Class of 2025 MS in Environmental Science and Policy Why did you choose to pursue environmental science and policy as a course of study? I became interested in environmental science and policy while I learned more about climate change. As I...
Climate change risk documents delayed
Sky News Australia
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August 11, 2025
Labor has pushed back the release of documents outlining risks posed by climate change. The analysis conducted by the Department of Climate Change details the severe economic, environmental and budgetary risks. It includes estimates of...