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Salesforce warns of AI’s growing environmental toll, and says it could be part of the solution
Tech Informed
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August 14, 2025
Salesforce, a US-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform, states that the artificial intelligence industry must adopt sustainability measures to address the strain the technology places on energy, water, and mineral resources. In its...
Connecting LAC and China: The power of cross-culture dialogue to address the climate crisis
Alliance Magazine
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August 14, 2025
As humanity faces worldwide challenges like the climate crisis, migration, and pandemics, philanthropy must break free from national borders and thematic silos to embrace a truly global future. To address many of today’s complex issues, we need a...
Why Poland is clinging onto coal, despite the economic and environmental costs
Notes from Poland
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August 14, 2025
Keep our news free from ads and paywalls by making a donation to support our work! Notes from Poland is run by a small editorial team and is published by an independent, non-profit foundation that is funded through donations from our readers. We...
Thanks for environmental, climate coverage
Herald - Washington State
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August 14, 2025
I wanted to thank the Everett Herald’s continued climate and environmental journalism. In an age when the federal government is censoring any mention of climate change, firing scientists, defunding grants to help communities adapt to climbing...
Why our broken food system remains a climate disaster: ‘broiling the planet to stuff our faces’
The Guardian
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August 14, 2025
Ridding ourselves of fossil fuels has been a tortuously ponderous process and, in the current political era, one that can seem to be in full retreat. But we do have the tools to run our cities, vehicles and industries on clean energy and even...
Met Éireann awards €2.8m in funding for climate and flood forecasting research
C103
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Pic : Cork County Council UCC is one of six universities to benefit. Met Éireann has announced that it is awarding €2.8 million in funding to six new university research projects to further develop climate services and new flood forecasting...
South Africa: New area-yield index insurance helps farmers tackle climate risks
Zawya
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Land Bank Insurance Company has expanded its pilot “index insurance” product with the introduction of Area-Yield Index Insurance (AYII), designed to help farmers manage financial losses caused by large-scale climatic and environmental risks. The...
The tiny ocean organisms that could help the climate in a big way
Grist Magazine
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August 14, 2025
Some of the littlest organisms in the ocean wield incredible influence, both on their ecosystems and on the planet. Like plants do on land, phytoplankton absorb sunlight and carbon dioxide and expel oxygen. They process so much of those two gases,...
Trump admin gives voices to scholars once silenced on climate change, COVID
The College Fix
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August 14, 2025
OPINION: Republican leader’s elevation of unorthodox scientists brings hope for future of academic freedom President Donald Trump’s administration has taken a lot of heat for cutting university grants for scientific research. But less noticed has...
Internews EJN offers small grant for climate change and environment reporting to Pacific media
Pacific News Service
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Internews and Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is collaborating with Media Associations in the Pacific identify at least 5 journalists or freelancers to be commissioned to do multimedia or in-depth, feature story on the environment and climate...
Expert Opinion. Ways to Reduce Methane Emissions in Central Asia: The Role of Biogas Projects in Achieving Climate Goals
The Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia
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Publication date: 14 August 2025 By Oxana Kravtsova, CAREC Programme Manager for Environment and Health Central Asia is a region where agriculture and waste management contribute significantly to methane emissions - a greenhouse gas 28 times more...
California’s environmental education, past and present
The Daily Californian
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While sitting in my elementary school’s garden, I was once tasked with writing down what I noticed, thought and felt. With ants trekking across my notebook, squinting through the sun at pumpkin blossoms and soil, the environment became something...
Victorian government cuts 350 jobs in environment department restructure
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 14, 2025
The Victorian government plans to cut around 350 jobs as part of a restructure to its Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA). The losses are expected to affect public sector workers in a variety of areas, including...
Governor's coal push will accelerate climate destruction
Lake County Leader - Montana
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August 14, 2025
Respectfully, let’s put the Governor’s recent rah-rah, siss-boom-bah for Montana’s coal industry into perspective. In his office’s Aug. 7 press release (titled “Gov. Gianforte, State Agencies Advocate for Coal Power”), Greg Gianforte and his...
Climate change: Leadership absence a problem to solving effects – Expert
New National Star
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August 12, 2025
BY EMMANUEL OLUKOTUN A researcher, Dr Uche Agbanusa, has said that lack of visionary leadership is contributing to the persistent effects of climate change in Nigeria. Agbanusa spoke at a two-day event organised by the Federal Government in...
Summer Lee, local officials say federal cuts could hurt efforts to fight climate change
WESA - Pennsylvania
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August 14, 2025
U.S. Rep. Summer Lee gathered with local leaders and environmental experts Wednesday to condemn President Donald Trump’s defunding of climate and infrastructure programs, even as experts say climate change is worsening the impact of severe...
Scandinavian heatwave that saw reindeer flock to cities made 10 times more likely by climate crisis
The Independent
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August 14, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
As both India and Pakistan face climate challenges, need for strategic clarity has become critical
Dawn
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August 14, 2025
PAKISTAN’S environmental journey since 1947 reflects the complex evolution of governance structures, policy frameworks and institutional responses to sustainability challenges. Though products of the same colonial legacy, India and Pakistan have...
Government-funded nuclear is fine for Dan Tehan, but not renewables or climate initiatives
Renew Economy
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August 14, 2025
From the party that promised seven taxpayer funded nuclear reactors, now comes a call to enforce pure free-market economics on all things renewable and climate related, at least according to new shadow energy minister Dan Tehan. Tehan’s speech to...
Sask weather scientists condemn coal plant extensions, warn of climate risks
Discover Moose Jaw
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August 13, 2025
As Saskatchewan prepares to keep its coal-fired power plants running past the federal cutoff date of 2029, a group of Saskatchewan-based scientists is warning the decision flies in the face of international climate agreements and exposes residents...