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Trump vowed to stop an 'energy emergency.' Then he created a real one

The president used executive powers to boost oil and coal, but he can't fix the shortages caused by the Iran war.
grist.org
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Life-size statue of Ron DeSantis intentionally melting in clap back to climate change deniers

The life-size statue’s face has melted away to reveal a skull underneath.

www.the-independent.com
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Data centers are burning fossil fuels. It's destroying Big Tech's climate goals

In his new book, Paris Marx explores how global anti-data center movements are fighting Big Tech’s power over us.
www.cnet.com
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Amazon deforestation hits record low in Brazil, but El Niño and a tight election threaten progress

Deforestation fell almost 42% in a year, but a possible change in president could reverse the trend.
www.euronews.com
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Why beef prices keep rising as drought shrinks US cattle herds

As long as climate change keeps worsening droughts, ranchers will be cautious about raising more cattle.
www.bloomberg.com
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Most major carbon emitters barely mention health in their climate plans

Low- and middle-income countries that contribute little to global warming have done the most to plan for its toll on health, while the major economies behind more than half the world’s emissions barely consider it in their latest climate commitments.

healthpolicy-watch.news
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The world is crumbling in 'The History of Concrete'

John Wilson reveals the poetry in one of the world's most common materials — and an environmental catastrophe hiding in plain sight.

grist.org
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‘Subsidizing suicide’: UN chief urges governments to stop propping up polluting fossil fuels

Fossil fuels are 'boiling our planet', says Guterres. Yet COP31 hosts Türkiye and Australia are expanding them, a new report shows.
www.euronews.com
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Brussels says EU countries partly to blame for failure on key climate rule

There’s a circular blame game going on over who’s responsible for failures in EU methane law.
www.politico.eu
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Opinion: ‘Digger,’ Tom Cruise’s big flop, is a secret masterpiece

The film has been panned by critics and shunned by audiences, but its message about the climate crisis is one we need to hear.
www.nytimes.com
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Alberta’s fracking boom, in photos

Here's what life is like in a fracking hot spot, where locals say the creeks are dry and the roads are ruined.

thenarwhal.ca
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Inside Big Beef’s ‘90s campaign to rewrite its climate story

Documents show how the National Cattlemen’s Association launched a long-term misinformation campaign to downplay livestock’s environmental impacts.
sentientmedia.org
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Data center opposition giving environmental groups momentum

Environmental groups are gaining momentum as concerns over rising electricity bills, pollution and AI fuel bipartisan opposition across the U.S.
qz.com
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The EPA is about to hand oil and gas companies a huge methane-related gift

Rolling back regulations will give industry players “exactly what they’ve long wanted.”
www.motherjones.com
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New data centers in Texas and New Mexico could upend climate goals

Officials in New Mexico and El Paso, Texas, made plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Neither plan took into account how the construction of three new data centers could upend climate goals in both places.
www.propublica.org
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Trump goes after an offshore wind farm that’s already up and running

The administration is seeking to reevaluate a key permit for Revolution Wind, a $6.2B project that is already generating power.

www.canarymedia.com
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Amit Forlit, the Israeli private eye at the heart of a climate hacking scandal

For decades, an Israeli private investigator has operated on the edges of international intrigue while rubbing elbows with powerful figures.

www.nytimes.com
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How AI chatbots may be talking people out of climate action

Across 28,800 prompts, models were 7.5 times more likely to advise “stay the course” than “change,” even when the status quo is anti-climate.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
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