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AI data centres could undermine UK's emissions goals
Four planned "hyperscale" data centres consider using gas-fired power for their electricity needs.
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Scientists detect signals at the smallest scale ever explored
Researchers have detected signals from the smallest distances ever probed.
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UK ministers told not to engage formally with Indian mega-zoo after lobbying
Guardian and Mongabay reveal approaches to officials and MPs on behalf of Vantara zoo ahead of UK-chaired Cites meeting on endangered animal imports British government ministers were told not to engage formally with Vantara, the…
Do not ‘engage formally’: UK officials advised against billionaire-run zoo ahead of CITES meeting
LONDON — British officials explicitly advised government ministers to not engage formally with Vantara, the controversial zoo founded and led by Indian billionaire Anant Ambani, according to documents obtained by Mongabay and The Guardian…
BBC NEWS — SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENT
Boulders dropped off coast to disrupt deep fishing
Greenpeace drops nine large rocks to create a barrier to bottom-trawling fishing vessels.
BBC NEWS — SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENT
From scooters to shampoo - the people saving hundreds from dumpster diving
The men and women who rummage through commercial bins to take clothes and other items.
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William Nordhaus, Nobel Prize Winner Who Founded Climate Economics, Dies at 85
William Nordhaus, who created revolutionary economic models of the effects of global warming, died Oct. 30 at 85.
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Barclays Steps Up Client Reviews to Monitor Exposure to Flooding
Barclays Plc is stepping up its review process to ensure it detects client exposures to intensifying flood risks.
What’s on the climate calendar for November 2026?
After the US midterms and the launch of the COP30 roadmaps, the climate world's attention turns to Antalya for COP31 The post What’s on the climate calendar for November 2026? appeared first on Climate Home News.
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Do the Shetland Isles need Cold War-style military protection?
Calls are being made for the defence of the Shetland Isles to be strengthened after increased sightings of Russian trawlers off the coast of Scotland.
Two public servants in Brazil removed after threatening to poison Indigenous people
Brazil’s Indigenous voters helped reelect incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Oct. 25. Following his win, two officials in the municipality of Tacuru, Mato Grosso do Sul, allegedly sent WhatsApp messages threatening to poison…
William Nordhaus Has Died. Nobelist Influenced Climate Policy.
The Yale professor moved climate change into mainstream economic analysis.
Scientists discover potentially massive dwarf planet candidate hiding beyond Pluto
Object 2026 ED138 was spotted beyond Pluto using observations from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, and scientists say it could be among the largest dwarf planets ever found.
Flash flooding triggers evacuations in Southwest and a dire warning for a Colorado spa town
Heavy rains and flash flooding have prompted mandatory evacuation orders in parts of the U.S. Southwest.
He Pioneered a Groundbreaking Idea and Was Met With Corporate Wrath
Economist William Nordhaus said putting a price on pollution was the best way to reduce climate change. Then came the fossil fuel lobby and the anti-tax movement.
Indigenous peoples and local communities solidify decision-making powers at COP17
At the 2026 U.N. Biodiversity Conference in Armenia (COP17), Indigenous peoples and local communities strengthened their role in the decision-making of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), with the full operationalization of a…
Diverse forests can better withstand extreme weather events, study finds. Here’s why
Forests around the world face mounting pressures as the climate changes. In order to understand how they will fare, new research suggests looking at the forest for the trees — more specifically, the different types of trees within. The…
Extreme heat no longer confined to summer, extending health risks, study finds
There was a time when, across large swathes of the world, the seasons fed into each other in a relatively predictable cycle of warmer and colder weather. In temperate nations, frigid winter thawed into spring. Spring bloomed into summer…
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‘Bookkeeping Trick’ and Fuzzy Math Conceal the Climate Impacts of Beef, Researchers Say
Climate negotiators head to Turkey next month for the United Nations annual climate summit, just two months after an alarming U.N. report said the world has a vanishing chance of limiting global warming to safe levels. The report’s…
Dangerous mosquito-borne virus surges in popular US state as cases reach highest levels in decades
Florida's dengue fever outbreak has reached 485 locally acquired cases, with Tampa Bay accounting for 95% of infections and emergency declarations issued.
Ranchers in Brazil ordered to leave home of Indigenous people living in voluntary isolation
A federal judge in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state has ordered individuals, along with their employees, animals, machinery, equipment and movable property, to leave the Piripkura Indigenous Territory within 120 days. The Oct. 7 ruling reverses…
Can profit and purpose truly align in the built environment?
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Building a better market for renewable energy in Britain
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