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The International Court of Justice can name climate obligations. Why won’t it confirm genocide?
Prism
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August 14, 2025
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) made headlines in July with a historic climate ruling. In a long-awaited advisory opinion, the United Nations’ highest legal body confirmed what many in the Global South have long known: Wealthy nations...
Scientists Utilize Climate Data to Map and Predict Spread of Amphibian Chytrid Disease
Bioengineer.org
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August 14, 2025
A groundbreaking study from researchers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) offers a new beacon of hope for neotropical frogs threatened by a...
New Climate Report Deserves to Be Debated, Not Silenced
The American Spectator - Virginia
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A new report from the Department of Energy concludes that, yes, the climate is changing and humans contribute to it — but no, it’s not necessarily the impending catastrophe we’ve been warned about. In another era, an agency charting this kind of...
Economy On Positive Trajectories, Friendly Investment Environment Created – Edun
New Telegraph
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August 14, 2025
The economy has become resilient and attractive to investors following painstaking reforms, which have birthed an investment-friendly environment. The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun, said on Thursday in...
Study challenges Californiaâs green energy agenda, citing natural oil seeps as climate culprits
Natural News
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August 14, 2025
Study challenges California’s green energy agenda, citing natural oil seeps as climate culprits California study suggests natural oil seeps contribute more methane emissions than drilling operations. Oil production may reduce seep emissions by...
Anish Kapoor Climate Protest Painting Installed On Active Shell Oil Platform
Artlyst
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Greenpeace climbers have mounted a provocative artwork on a North Sea gas rig as heatwaves ravage the UK and beyond. In a protest, Greenpeace activists have installed a monumental new work by the Turner Prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor on an...
Can GDI overtake SDGs?
The News International
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GOVERNANCE The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represented a quantum leap from their predecessor, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).They wove together environmental sustainability with poverty eradication, connected human rights with...
Despite International Courts, Climate Science Is Not The Law In The U.S.
Zero Hedge
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Authored by Gary Abernathy via The Empowerment Alliance, While not everyone is on board with President Trump’s “America First” philosophy, its importance when it comes to energy is brought into sharp focus when considering where the U.S. would be...
America Shifts From Climate To Security With $1B Critical Minerals Push
Forbes
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Morenci is the largest copper producer in North America getty The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has announced its intent to pour nearly $1 billion into advancing mining, processing, and manufacturing technologies for critical minerals...
Contributor: A climate report without denial and without excessive alarm bells
Los Angeles Times
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August 14, 2025
A new report from the Department of Energy concludes that, yes, the climate is changing and humans contribute to it — but no, it’s not necessarily the impending catastrophe we’ve been warned about. In another era, an agency charting this kind of...
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...
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...
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...
'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...
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....
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...