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Europe is the fastest-warming continent, report says: Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average ...
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Europe is the fastest-warming continent, report says
Quick Glance: Europe Leads in Climate Change, Urgent Need for Renewable Energy
  • Europe is the fastest-warming continent, with temperatures rising about twice as fast as the global average, according to a joint report by top climate monitoring organizations.

  • The continent generated 43% of its electricity from renewables last year, surpassing fossil fuels for the second consecutive year, highlighting the need for targeted strategies to transition to renewable resources.

  • Temperatures in Europe are now 2.3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, nearing the goals of the Paris climate accord to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, impacting human health with increased deaths related to extreme climate events.

  • The report emphasizes the urgent need for action as heatwaves, wildfires, and other extreme weather events have led to significant economic losses and human casualties across the continent.
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Biden to unveil $7 billion for rooftop solar in Earth Day message: President Joe Biden on Monday will celebrate Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in grants for ...
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Biden to unveil $7 billion for rooftop solar in Earth Day message
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States may need to brace for long, hot summer: The latest outlooks, plus recent research, suggest an unusually hot June through August.
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States may need to brace for long, hot summer
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Cloud seeding was not the cause of the storms in Dubai: It was the worst storm since regional records began 75 years ago. There was quickly speculation about ...
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Cloud seeding was not the cause of the storms in Dubai
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“Sorry, we’re hiding behind a cheap excuse”: The great moral philosopher was born 300 years ago. What would Kant have said about climate protection ...
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“Sorry, we’re hiding behind a cheap excuse”
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Balance for 2023: A year of climate contrasts in Europe: 2023 was a year of extremes: heat, fires, high water levels. Climate change has brought new weather ...
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Balance for 2023: A year of climate contrasts in Europe
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Europe endured record number of ‘extreme heat stress’ days in 2023: New report warns people are increasingly at risk in a continent warming twice as fast as the ...
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Europe endured record number of ‘extreme heat stress’ days in 2023
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A powerful volcano is erupting. Here’s what that could mean for weather and climate
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A powerful volcano is erupting. Here’s what that could mean for weather ...
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Forget South Park, Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy Is No "Woke Warrior" Insists Industry Insider
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Forget South Park, Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy Is No "Woke ...
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Maxwell Frost on Earth Day calls Trump a ‘threat to our planet’: On Earth Day, progressive Democrat Maxwell Frost (Fla.) is calling former President Trump a ...
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Maxwell Frost on Earth Day calls Trump a ‘threat to our planet’
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Quick Glance: Joe Biden Announces Support for Young People in Climate Sector
  • On Earth Day, US President Joe Biden announced the opening of a new portal where job seekers can apply for positions in the Climate Corps to offer young people green jobs and work towards a green economy, as reported by Digital Journal.

  • In his announcement on X, Biden emphasized, “Today, we are mobilizing the next generation of workers in clean energy, conservation, and climate resilience.”

  • According to Biden, the new program will train over 20,000 young individuals to secure “well-paying jobs” after completing their paid training.

  • Biden launched the climate service program last fall, and within weeks, the White House received more than 42,000 expressions of interest from Americans, mostly aged between 18 and 35.
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Sealing up your home can save money and fight climate change: An Edina woman knew her house could get drafty in the winter, so she signed up for a home energy ...
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Sealing up your home can save money and fight climate change
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Thousands protest against over-tourism in Spain’s Canary Islands: Demonstrators say mass tourism is overwhelming the Atlantic archipelago.
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Thousands protest against over-tourism in Spain’s Canary Islands
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Biden administration bans drilling in nearly half of Alaska petroleum reserve in sweeping win for climate advocates
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Biden administration bans drilling in nearly half of Alaska petroleum ...
Quick Glance: Restrictions on Oil and Gas Leasing in Alaska under Biden Administration
  • The Biden administration announced restrictions on new oil and gas leasing on 5.3 million hectares of a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska to protect wildlife from the impacts of climate change.

  • The decision finalizes proposed protections that drew backlash from environmentalists last year for violating Biden's climate change pledge.

  • The limitation on new leasing faced opposition from Republican lawmakers who criticized the decisions as undermining national security interests.

  • Environmentalists praised the decision, while the oil industry labeled it as misguided and raised concerns about future developments in the reserve.
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Two years to save the planet, says UN climate chief, and other nature and climate stories you need to read this week
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Two years to save the planet, says UN climate chief, and other nature and ...
Quick Glance: Scottish Government Abandons 'World-Leading' Climate Target
  • The Scottish Government has abandoned its “world-leading” target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030.

  • Ministers will bring forward legislation to ensure the climate change target “better reflects the reality of long-term climate policymaking”.

  • Scotland will move away from legally binding annual targets to a five-yearly carbon budget approach.

  • A new package of climate action measures was announced, including tripling the number of charging points for electric vehicles and exploring a new integrated ticketing system for public transport in Scotland.
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What caused the storm that brought Dubai to a standstill?: A storm hit the United Arab Emirates and Oman this week bringing record rainfall that flooded ...
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What caused the storm that brought Dubai to a standstill?
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Chris Stark: Rishi Sunak has set us back, head of climate change watchdog says: In a BBC interview, Chris Stark says the PM has not made climate change "as much ...
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Chris Stark: Rishi Sunak has set us back, head of climate change watchdog ...
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Commentary: Don’t blame Dubai’s freak rain on cloud seeding: Cloud seeding could not have built a huge storm system the size of France, says this University of ...
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Commentary: Don’t blame Dubai’s freak rain on cloud seeding
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United Arab Emirates struggles to recover after heaviest recorded rainfall, massive flooding, hits desert nation
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United Arab Emirates struggles to recover after heaviest recorded rainfall ...
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UAE Witnesses Highest Rainfall in 75 Years: According to a statement released by the National Center of Meteorology, the United Arab Emirates experienced the ...
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UAE Witnesses Highest Rainfall in 75 Years
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Death, drought and devastation: Europe faces 'huge number' of climate extremes, report finds
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Death, drought and devastation: Europe faces 'huge number' of climate ...
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Is online shopping bad for the planet?: Online shopping requires electricity, packing materials and transportation. But there are upsides, too ...
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Is online shopping bad for the planet?
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Startups want to cool Earth by reflecting sunlight. There are few rules and big risks
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Startups want to cool Earth by reflecting sunlight. There are few rules ...
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Average world income 'to fall 19% due to climate change': The effects of climate change will reduce income across the world economy by 19% in the next ...
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Average world income 'to fall 19% due to climate change'
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Deadly Sahel heatwave caused by ‘human-induced’ climate change: Study: Mali and Burkina Faso recorded most extreme heat in what scientists called a ...
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Deadly Sahel heatwave caused by ‘human-induced’ climate change: Study
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Earth has its warmest March on record, beating 2023's milestone: Global average temperatures are running hotter than last year, which was the globe's hottest.
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Earth has its warmest March on record, beating 2023's milestone
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Scottish Greens to vote on whether to scrap Bute House Agreement with SNP: The vote could see Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater leave the Scottish Government.
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Scottish Greens to vote on whether to scrap Bute House Agreement with SNP
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Jane Fonda’s advice to people depressed about the future: Get involved: Jane Fonda knows what it feels like to worry about the future.
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Jane Fonda’s advice to people depressed about the future: Get involved
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"Climate lie": ORF rejects Baumgartner's statements about Wadsak: Felix Baumgartner accused ORF meteorologists of "climate lies". ORF warns of insult, defamation ...
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Corporations struggle on climate goals amid backlash over 'woke capitalism,' experts say
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Corporations struggle on climate goals amid backlash over 'woke capitalism ...
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Want to go vegan? Here’s what I gained when I gave up meat for a plant-based diet.
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Want to go vegan? Here’s what I gained when I gave up meat for a ...
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Turtles swimming to extinction in Malaysia as male hatchlings feel heat: Already under pressure from habitat loss and pollution, turtles face an existential ...
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Turtles swimming to extinction in Malaysia as male hatchlings feel heat
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In Kenya, drought-tolerant camels replace cows for herders: Herders in Kenya are substituting camels for cows, whose numbers have declined by the millions as ...
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In Kenya, drought-tolerant camels replace cows for herders
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Scientists say coral reefs around the world are experiencing mass bleaching in warming oceans
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Scientists say coral reefs around the world are experiencing mass ...
Quick Glance: Global Coral Bleaching Event After Extreme Heat
  • US climate agency NOAA declares a concerning global coral bleaching event for the fourth time in history after a year of extreme ocean heat.

  • Impacts of coral bleaching span oceans worldwide, with sea surface temperatures at record levels.

  • Corals under extreme heat stress can recover, but otherwise, the reef requires several years to regenerate.

  • Despite losses, some reefs show signs of color, offering hope for potential recovery, while scientists caution about the escalating impacts.
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Scientists navigate the paradox of extreme cold events in a warming world: According to Copernicus Climate Change Service, February 2024 was the warmest February ...
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Scientists navigate the paradox of extreme cold events in a warming world
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Dubai's record-shattering "rain bomb" has clear climate change ties
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Dubai's record-shattering "rain bomb" has clear climate ...
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California Announces First New State Park in a Decade, Sets Climate Goals for Natural Lands
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California Announces First New State Park in a Decade, Sets Climate Goals ...
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New summer weather outlook looks toasty across much of US as June looms less than 50 days away
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New summer weather outlook looks toasty across much of US as June looms ...
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Liberia Democracy in Focus - FrontPageAfrica: A Major Investigation Finds Climate Change is Driving Nine out of Every Ten Liberian Farmers to Want to Migrate ...
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Liberia Democracy in Focus - FrontPageAfrica
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Asia is most climate disaster-impacted region, UN meteorological agency says: Asia was the world's most disaster-hit region by climate related hazards last year ...
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Asia is most climate disaster-impacted region, UN meteorological agency ...
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South Korean court hears children's climate change case against government: South Korea's Constitutional Court began hearing on Tuesday a case that accuses the ...
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South Korean court hears children's climate change case against government
Quick Glance: South Korean Court Deliberates Children's Climate Change Lawsuit Against Government
  • Environmental activist Choi Jia, alongside her younger sibling Choi Heewoo, participates in a press briefing preceding the initial hearing concerning petitions asserting that the government infringed upon their human rights due to an inadequate approach to climate change.

  • A public hearing regarding a lawsuit brought by twenty-four young environmental activists against the government commenced in one of South Korea's top judicial bodies on Tuesday. The plaintiffs argue that the government's negligence in addressing climate change left them unprotected.

  • Maintaining that South Korea's current climate strategies fall short in containing the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the plaintiffs claim this breaches the state's duty to safeguard fundamental rights. Scientists caution about the dire consequences of surpassing a 1.5C temperature increase.

  • During the legal proceedings, the government asserted its commitment to minimizing carbon emissions and upholding its citizens' basic rights. Nevertheless, activists expressed dissatisfaction with the government's response and urged for more concrete actions against climate change.
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Charlene Ruto: Gen Ogolla spoke highly of Africa Youth Climate Assembly : She said that Kenya had lost a CDF and young people had lost a mentor and a champion.
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Charlene Ruto: Gen Ogolla spoke highly of Africa Youth Climate Assembly
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Here's what AI for sustainability actually looks like: ChatGPT won't save the planet. Nor will Copilot, or Stability AI, or Claude. But there is still a ...
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Here's what AI for sustainability actually looks like
Quick Glance: Uncovering the World of AI-Generated Media
  • The proliferation of AI-generated images and text is a growing concern on the internet, impacting users more than they realize.

  • Experts caution about the impact of synthetic media on decision-making processes and society.

  • Despite the potential for beneficial applications of generative AI, the lack of oversight necessitates consumers to verify content authenticity.

  • There are techniques to detect fake images and videos, such as identifying details like flawed hand positions, inconsistent eye reflections, and incoherent backgrounds.
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Can celebrities influence environmental issues? Experts weigh in.: How the world's most famous people can aid in environmental awareness.
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Can celebrities influence environmental issues? Experts weigh in.
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RFK Jr. wants to poach climate voters from Biden, skeptics from Trump: The independent presidential candidate called for an LNG export ban in an interview with ...
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RFK Jr. wants to poach climate voters from Biden, skeptics from Trump
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Activist Wawa Gatheru on Championing Black Women as Climate Leaders This Earth Day—And Beyond
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Activist Wawa Gatheru on Championing Black Women as Climate Leaders This ...
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Climate Action Is a Legal Obligation, European Court Rules: The European Court of Human Rights found that climate change is a human rights issue ...
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Climate Action Is a Legal Obligation, European Court Rules
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Dubai flights: DXB issues advisory ahead of expected unstable weather - News | Khaleej Times
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Dubai flights: DXB issues advisory ahead of expected unstable weather - ...
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Global leaders begin bid to address plastic pollution: News from the Irish Examiner's team of reporters
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Global leaders begin bid to address plastic pollution
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World’s workers increasingly at risk as climate changes, ILO says: The International Labour Organization estimates that 70.9% of the global workforce ...
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World’s workers increasingly at risk as climate changes, ILO says
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Harris County wins part of $7 billion federal solar fund: The administration announced Monday 60 applicants had been selected for a program benefiting 900 ...
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Harris County wins part of $7 billion federal solar fund
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Bangladesh taking up projects to tackle climate change: PM: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said Bangladesh Climate Development Partnership (BCDP) has ...
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Bangladesh taking up projects to tackle climate change: PM
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Consistently warmer weather just ahead for Virginia: Afternoons in the 70s and 80s will be common starting next week
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Consistently warmer weather just ahead for Virginia
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Earth Day: Stories of people, climate and hope: In honor of Earth Day, CNN's Chief Climate Correspondant Bill Weir joins the podcast to share some of those ...
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Earth Day: Stories of people, climate and hope
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By 2100, Some Destinations Will Lose Half Their Nice Weather Days: The Dominican Republic, known for good weather, will have 124 fewer “outdoor days” in 75 years ...
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By 2100, Some Destinations Will Lose Half Their Nice Weather Days
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Here Comes the Sun Money: Biden Launches $7B 'Solar for All' on Earth Day: The 60 recipients will use the funding to help low- and moderate-income families ...
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Here Comes the Sun Money: Biden Launches $7B 'Solar for All' on Earth Day
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Dubai Floods Expose Weaknesses to a Fast-Changing Climate: CityLab Daily: Also today: The “energy nerds” obsessed with home electricity gadgets ...
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Dubai Floods Expose Weaknesses to a Fast-Changing Climate: CityLab Daily
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Bezos Earth Fund Is Donating $100 Million to Groups Using AI to Help Combat Climate Change
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Bezos Earth Fund Is Donating $100 Million to Groups Using AI to Help ...
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Groups push carbon fee proposals: Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
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Groups push carbon fee proposals