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#Peace & Community #European #Middle East #Asia #UN #North America #Oceanian #AfricanA New Generation of Industries Emerges in Texas From Federal Push for Mining Revival
Major oil companies are drilling in East Texas again, but not for oil. This time, they’re after lithium for batteries and other rare elements. Chevron and Halliburton announced East Texas projects this summer. Exxon has acreage across the border in Arkansas. Smackover Lithium, a joint venture of a Norwegian oil giant and a Canadian miner, […]
Published on: October 20, 2025 | Source:
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Illinois Wants Climate Education in Schools. Now Teachers Need to Figure Out How to Make It Happen.
Last year, Laura Stamp asked her eighth-grade students a thought-provoking question: If they could redesign their city, how would they make it more sustainable? Stamp, who teaches science at Brooks Middle School in Oak Park—a suburb of Chicago—wanted her students to take a closer look at how they could mitigate carbon emissions from industries contributing […]
Published on: October 20, 2025 | Source:Housing secretary says 'job on the line' over 1.5m housing target
Housing secretary tells BBC Panorama widespread scepticism will make hitting target "all the sweeter".
Published on: October 20, 2025 | Source:From Hollywood to horticulture: Cate Blanchett on a mission to save seeds
The Hollywood actor teams up with Kew’s Millenium Seed Bank as it celebrates its 25th anniversary.
Published on: October 19, 2025 | Source:China Helped Indonesia Build One of the World’s Biggest, Youngest Coal Fleets. It’s Still Growing.
Planet China: Ninth in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world. BANTEN PROVINCE, Indonesia—The city of Cilegon is surrounded by coal-fired power plants, half a dozen within 10 miles. Some days, the hills that rise above town nearly disappear behind smog that clogs the air and obscures […]
Published on: October 19, 2025 | Source:Alabama’s E.O. Wilson Land Between the Rivers Preserve Is a ‘Place That Time Forgot’
CLARKE COUNTY, Ala.—In the Land Between the Rivers, even the poison ivy tries to grow vertically. Locked in a constant race against time and tides, the vine sends its notorious three-leaf clusters stretching upward like cypress knees, desperate to gain enough of a foothold to survive when the floods come back. “It’s almost like a […]
Published on: October 19, 2025 | Source:Our Newsroom Comes of Age
In October 2007, ICN opened its doors with a two-person team and a little bit of pilot funding. The day the website launched, it had 102 visitors. The second day, just 53. Today the newsroom looks different: ICN has grown from a staff of two people to 40, and from only 100 readers to reaching […]
Published on: October 19, 2025 | Source:Skeletons found in mass grave are ancient Roman soldiers, study finds
The archaeological discovery in Croatia contains seven male skeletons scientists believe are 1,700 years old.
Published on: October 18, 2025 | Source:As EPA Stalls, States Are Left to Handle Solar Panel Waste
SAVANNAH, Ga.—What happens when a solar panel dies? The vexing question hung last week over the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) sustainability conference, the first of its kind for the nonprofit representing America’s solar industry. According to the International Energy Agency, up to 78 million tons of solar panels are expected to retire around the […]
Published on: October 18, 2025 | Source:At a Solar Energy Conference, the Star Is … the Soil?
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Imagine driving past a solar farm and underneath the panels, you see a field of yellow flowers dancing in the wind. Soil scientist Christina Hebb asked a room of solar developers to picture this scene at a conference here last week of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the nonprofit that advocates for the […]
Published on: October 18, 2025 | Source:Rising Electric Rates Tied to Distribution Spending, Disasters and Some Clean Energy Programs, Study Says
Skyrocketing electricity bills are the political punching bag of the moment, with elected officials pointing fingers at everything from utility profits to data centers to clean energy policies, and voters across the country left confused about who to blame for rates that jumped by more than double the rate of inflation in the past year. […]
Published on: October 18, 2025 | Source:Gas Plant That’s Part of PJM’s Fast-Tracked Process Is Getting Pushback in Virginia
SCOTTSVILLE, Va.—In rural Fluvanna County about an hour west of the state capital, a proposed natural gas power plant offers a window into a multi-state effort to speed more electricity sources onto the grid. All but a handful of the projects in the initiative by PJM Interconnection, which runs the regional grid, would belch carbon […]
Published on: October 18, 2025 | Source:Chinese Nobel laureate and physicist Chen Ning Yang dies aged 103
Yang, one of the world's most influential scientists, earned global recognition for his work in theoretical physics.
Published on: October 18, 2025 | Source:Mystery heatwave warms Pacific Ocean to new record
Temperatures have surged across a large area of the north Pacific - and scientists don't know exactly why.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Use of Congressional Review Act on BLM Plans Could Impact State Plans Under Other Agencies
After Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives invoked the Congressional Review Act against Bureau of Land Management land-use plans last month, experts warned that similar future actions could potentially impact management plans in other states that fall under different federal agencies. In September, the House passed resolutions under the Congressional Review Act (CRA)—a little-known […]
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Earth’s Oceans Lose Some of Their Luster
Pictures of Earth from outer space often show the planet as a gaudy quilt. Shimmering aquamarine water covers more than 70 percent of its surface and those hues often seem to signify life against the vast darkness of the universe. But new research analyzing satellite images of the planet over a span of more than […]
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Wyoming’s Draft Pilot Conservation Program ‘a Good Starting Point’ but There’s Room for Improvement
With the Nov. 11 deadline to finish the Colorado River negotiations fast approaching, Wyomingites got their first look at a draft of the state’s Green River pilot water conservation program during a meeting held Wednesday. Brandon Gebhart, the state engineer responsible for managing and regulating the water within Wyoming, and the state’s representative in the […]
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:International Coalition Joins Push for Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty: ‘We Cannot Protect Nature While Expanding Fossil Fuels’
An international coalition of more than 1,400 governmental and civil conservation organizations has called on its members to increase efforts to curb fossil fuel extraction and work toward a global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty. The International Union for Conservation of Nature adopted Motion 42 on Thursday, explicitly calling fossil fuel production a threat to nature, […]
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Landmark deal to cut global shipping emissions in tatters after US pressure
President Trump intervened in the talks calling the deal a "green scam".
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:How a Declaration of Ancestral Wisdom Is Changing Law, Science and Our Understanding of the World
When José Gualinga took the stage in a packed New York University law school auditorium in September, he admitted to feeling emotional. His audience had just watched the premiere of the documentary “Allpa Ukundi, Ñukanchi Pura” (Underground, Around and Among Us). The film showcases the Indigenous Kichwa People of Sarayaku and their pioneering efforts to […]
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Montana Court Dismisses Youth-led Lawsuit Challenging Trump Executive Orders Boosting Fossil Fuels
A federal district court in Montana Wednesday granted the Trump administration’s request to toss out a youth-led lawsuit challenging the administration’s efforts to increase the extraction and use of fossil fuels and other actions that suppress climate science and undermine renewable energy. While the court found it plausible that these actions would cause grave harm […]
Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source:The Death Toll Is Rising from Ecuador’s Crackdown on Protesters
At least three people have been killed in Ecuador as the government further ramps up its use of force against Indigenous-led protests triggered in part by crackdowns on environmentalists, according to civil society and human rights groups. Two of the dead are Rosa Elena Paqui, 61, who went into cardiac arrest following the inhalation of […]
Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source:Bears kill seven people in Japan this year as attacks hit record high
Seven people have died since April this year - the highest number since figures started being recorded in 2006, officials say.
Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source:China Briefing 16 October 2025: New export controls; IEA China projections; Provincial ‘Doc 136’ progress
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate... The post China Briefing 16 October 2025: New export controls; IEA China projections; Provincial ‘Doc 136’ progress appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source:The Carbon Brief Interview: UK Climate Change Committee’s Emma Pinchbeck
Emma Pinchbeck has been the chief executive of the UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) since... The post The Carbon Brief Interview: UK Climate Change Committee’s Emma Pinchbeck appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source:Some Shovelnose Sturgeon in Illinois Are Huge and Researchers Are Fishing for Reasons Why
Most days, researcher Stefan Tucker, with trawls, trammel nets, trot lines and even electrofishing gear, is on his boat looking for sturgeon in the Rock River. The nearly 300-mile waterway winds through Illinois’ northwest corner, at depths between 15 to 50 feet, flowing and gurgling from Wisconsin down to the Iowa border, where it joins […]
Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source:Scientists Warn About the ‘Greenlandification’ of Antarctica
As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the climatic blowtorch of human-caused global warming, most of Antarctica’s vast ice cap still seemed securely frozen. But not anymore. Physics is physics. As the planet heats up, more ice will melt at both […]
Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source:Australia's rainforests are releasing more carbon than they absorb, warn scientists
Australia's rainforests are the first in the world to make the "concerning" switch, say scientists.
Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source:Artificial reef created at offshore wind farm
The reef protects the wind turbine and serves as a home for a wide range of marine life.
Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source:Illinois Residents Urge Lawmakers to Act on Transit, Energy Bills
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—To meet with state lawmakers here, Michael Churchill, 24, left his home south of Chicago at 3 a.m. Wednesday, took a rideshare to a commuter rail station and switched to the L train to get downtown before catching an Amtrak train to the state Capitol Building. He has a vision condition that makes driving […]
Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source:Task Force Urges World Bank and International Monetary Fund to Prioritize Climate, Restructure Lending Policies
Economists from Asia, Africa and other regions are urging international financial institutions to reform their loan frameworks and mobilize more resources to help developing countries transition off fossil fuels and become climate-resilient. A report released Wednesday by the Task Force on Climate, Development and the International Financial Architecture lays out five guiding principles for the […]
Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source:Netherlands' renewables drive putting pressure on its power grid
Homes asked to use less electricity as network is overloaded by the rush to wind and solar power.
Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source:Global wildfires burned an area of land larger than India in 2024
“Extreme” wildfires emitted more than 8bn tonnes of carbon dioxide during the 2024-25 “global fire... The post Global wildfires burned an area of land larger than India in 2024 appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source:Pennsylvania Community Groups Urge Officials to Restrict Data Center Development
As plans to build huge data centers multiply across the United States, some Pennsylvania communities are pushing back. Responding to public opposition, commissioners in Hampden Township, near Harrisburg, voted in September against allowing data centers in office park zones. In the borough of Blakely, northeast of Scranton, a developer dropped plans for a data center […]
Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source:Controversial UK oil field publishes full scale of climate impact
The impact from the Rosebank oil field is estimated at nearly 250 million tonnes of planet warming CO2.
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