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Bangladesh missions quietly drop president’s image
New Age Bangladesh
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United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka 17 August, 2025, 18:37 President Mohammed Shahabuddin. | UNB photo Though there had been ‘no written official instruction as such’ from the ministry of foreign affairs for the removal of president Mohammed...
The Contribution of Digital Technology to Net-Zero Ambitions
Business Matters
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August 15, 2025
The SBTI offers a solid platform for organizations to establish and achieve such climate goals. Nevertheless, achieving net-zero is not an easy achievement—it takes accurate data monitoring, practical analysis, and effective contradiction and...
Why some climate policies are more popular than others – a psychologist explains
The Conversation
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August 14, 2025
Despite growing concern about climate change, many countries have seen backlashes against certain environmental policies, often because they are seen as costly, restrictive or unfair. In France, an attempt to introduce a fuel tax was shelved after...
Developing Integrated Approaches to Human Rights, Climate, and Nature
BSR
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Key Points Landmark court decisions and new sustainability laws highlight the urgent need to tackle the triple planetary crisis—climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss—while safeguarding human rights. However, siloed operational...
'We’re willfully blinding ourselves': Mass. researchers worry as federal environmental data disappears
WBUR - Massachusetts
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Dylan Carlson Sirvent León was working in his office at Harvard University when he began receiving frantic messages from his research colleagues. Environmental data was starting to disappear from government websites. It was January, and President...
UESD Launches 5th Anniversary with Renewed Commitment to Environmental Protection
Ghana News Agency
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August 14, 2025
By Kamal Ahmed Somanya(E/R), Aug 14, GNA – The University of Environment and Sustainable Development (UESD) has launched its 5th Anniversary celebrations with a renewed commitment to champion environmental protection, sustainability, and...
China Focus: China strengthens all-round efforts to counter climate strains
Xinhua News Agency
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by Xinhua writer Gao Zhu BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- The summer of 2025 has tested China with familiar yet intensifying climate challenges, from heavy rainfall in some northern areas to persistent inland heat, with global warming adding to the...
Are Trump’s Climate Moves Imperiling National Security?
Inkstick Media
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August 14, 2025
Jamie Minden was a high school freshman in California when she experienced the most destructive wildfire in her state’s history. The Camp Fire ravaged multiple communities with help from high winds and drought conditions worsened by global...
Trudeau-era climate policies hang in the balance as Carney seeks grand bargain to build
Canada's National Observer
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August 13, 2025
As Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government prepares its fall budget, discussions of striking a “grand bargain” between the environment and economy are raging. The tariff war with the United States is the backdrop to the grand bargain negotiations....
Full transcript of "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Aug. 17, 2025
CBS News
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On this "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan: Secretary of State Marco Rubio Democratic Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado Fiona Hill, former senior director for Europe and Russia on the National Security...
Scientists decry Trump energy chief’s plan for climate reports
Canada's National Observer
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August 13, 2025
This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, is facing growing criticism from scientists who say their “worst fears” were realized when Wright...
Some New York Dems Starting To Realize Climate Targets Are Too Extreme
Independent Journal Review
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August 14, 2025
Some New York Democrats are sounding the alarm over the state’s climate goals, arguing that New York should delay implementing some of its stringent green energy mandates. Donna DeCarolis and Dennis Elsenbeck — appointed members of New York’s...
Wisconsin dairy groups continue suit over special environmental prosecutor
The Center Square
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August 14, 2025
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s two largest dairy groups can continue with their case against Wisconsin’s special environmental prosecutor. A judge in Calumet County last week said the Wisconsin Dairy Alliance and Venture Dairy Cooperative can...
Microbiomes may be corals’ secret weapon against climate change: Study
Mongabay
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August 14, 2025
Researchers compared how genetically similar populations of Pocillopora corals cope with heat stress in Panama’s Gulf of Panama and Gulf of Chiriquí, both on the Pacific coast. The team looked at the entire holobiont — the coral’s symbionts,...
Texas GOP Says Flood Relief Is Priority. Here’s the Climate Policy They Won’t Pass.
Texas Observer
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August 14, 2025
Governor Greg Abbott’s first special legislative session this year appears headed for an abrupt end after House Democrats fled the state to protest the Texas GOP’s cynical exploitation of the deadly Fourth of July Hill Country floods to enact...
How this father and daughter are fighting climate change with comics
The Union Democrat - California
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Pasadena’s Bob Wyman estimates he’s been to San Diego Comic-Con at least 20 times over the years, even once showing up in Doctor Who cosplay with daughter Sally Krueger-Wyman. But this year, the father-daughter duo arrived with a different...
RICS Collaborates With Cambridge Institute For Sustainability Leadership To Advance Sustainable Built And Natural Environment
Facilities Management UK
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August 14, 2025
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) announces a new project with The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) which will align CISL’s sustainability leadership expertise with RICS’ mission to achieve a...
Three Most Egregious Fabrications In EPA’s Climate Rollback Proposal
Forbes
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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 16: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) logo is displayed on a door at its headquarters on March 16, 2017 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed budget for 2018 seeks to cut the EPA's budget...
Kishtwar Catastrophe
Greater Kashmir
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August 17, 2025
Mountains melted and washed away humans within a flicker of an eye! It looked like a doomsday. A series of cloudbursts wreaked havoc in mountainous Chisoti village of Kishtwar area of Jammu’s Doda district on August 14 just after noon. The...
Unmanaged Wastes Making Nigeria More Vulnerable to Climate Woes – FUTA Don
News Diary Online
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August 14, 2025
A Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Energy and Environment) at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, Christiana Ijagbemi has called for the adoption of sustainable waste engineering practices as a key solution to Nigeria’s climate...