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Interactive: How climate finance ‘flows’ around the world | Carbon Brief
Interactive: How climate finance ‘flows’ around the world | Carbon Brief

Climate finance is one of the bedrocks of negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including the “COP24” talks taking place this month in Katowice, Poland.
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UN climate finance rules 'dragging' amid fight over who reports what
UN climate finance rules 'dragging' amid fight over who reports what

Developing countries want to know how much aid is coming; rich countries worry about 'constitutional constraints', at Cop24 climate talks in Katowice
Climate Home News Climate Home News
The 'great dying': rapid warming caused largest extinction event ever, report says
The 'great dying': rapid warming caused largest extinction event ever, report says

Up to 96% of all marine species and more than two-thirds of terrestrial species perished 252m years ago
the Guardian the Guardian
France considers lower electricity tax to stabilise household power prices - sources
France considers lower electricity tax to stabilise household power prices - sources

The French government is considering lowering taxes on electricity in order to stabilise household power bills, two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters on Thursday.
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Evening Standard comment: We shouldn’t forget that climate change matters
Evening Standard comment: We shouldn’t forget that climate change matters

What would the news be about if Brexit hadn’t been created? Where would political energy be going? What would be the big issues shaping our future? What would people be campaigning about? One of them is staring us in the face: climate change.
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Global drought trends under 1.5 and 2 °C warming
Global drought trends under 1.5 and 2 °C warming

Drought characteristics for SPI under different levels of global warming.
Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS) Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS)
Ice and fire: How burning forests can help melt ice sheets
Ice and fire: How burning forests can help melt ice sheets
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Revealed: US Oil Billionaire Charles Koch Funds UK Anti-Environment Spiked Network - DeSmog
Revealed: US Oil Billionaire Charles Koch Funds UK Anti-Environment Spiked Network - DeSmog

For years, people have speculated about who is behind a shadowy group of well-connected ‘free speech advocates’ spreading far-right ideologies and climate science denial. The group emerged from a libel trial and bankruptcy of the ‘Living Marxism’ magazine in 2000, has roots in the Trotskyist left, and is now the factory behind a production line of…
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The amateur scientists tackling the global energy crisis
The amateur scientists tackling the global energy crisis

For his eighth birthday, Richard Hull’s mother bought him a Geiger counter. It was 1955 and the United States was testing nuclear weapons on its own soil. “They would always announce a test in the newspaper,” Hull remembers. “The material that went into the stratosphere drifted with the prevailing winds. The radioactive fallout particles came…
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Global warming will happen faster than we think
Global warming will happen faster than we think

Three trends will combine to hasten it, warn Yangyang Xu, Veerabhadran Ramanathan and David G. Victor.
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Compared to the threat of climate change, Brexit is a distraction | Letters
Compared to the threat of climate change, Brexit is a distraction | Letters

Letters: Readers respond to David Attenborough’s warning of the collapse of civilisation at the UN’s climate change conference
the Guardian the Guardian
'Sun in a box' could power a CITY using vast vats of molten silicon
'Sun in a box' could power a CITY using vast vats of molten silicon

MIT researchers say their 'sun in a box' could store excess energy from  solar and wind power, and deliver it back into an electric grid on demand.
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'Conceivably the Worst': Groups, Lawmakers Blast Confirmation of Climate Denier to FERC - EcoWatch
'Conceivably the Worst': Groups, Lawmakers Blast Confirmation of Climate Denier to FERC - EcoWatch

Bernard McNamee, a climate change denier who helped write the Trump administration's failed coal and nuclear bailout plan, was confirmed Thursday as a commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The Senate approved the nominee on a straight party-line vote of 50-49.
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Green Groups Sue to Get Giraffes on Endangered Species List - EcoWatch
Green Groups Sue to Get Giraffes on Endangered Species List - EcoWatch

Four Animal welfare groups sued the Trump administration on Thursday for failing to protect Africa's vulnerable giraffes, Reuters reported. The groups had petitioned Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to list giraffes under the Endangered Species Act in April 2017. The FWS is supposed to respond to such....
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Norway to Ban Deforestation-Linked Palm Oil Biofuels in Historic Vote - EcoWatch
Norway to Ban Deforestation-Linked Palm Oil Biofuels in Historic Vote - EcoWatch

A 2017 report commissioned by RFN found that palm oil-based biofuel is worse for the climate than fossil fuels. The report, authored by low carbon fuels policy expert Chris Malins, concludes: "There is a large body of evidence that because of indirect land use change, palm oil biodiesel is worse for the climate than the…
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Scientists Discover 'Most Diverse Coral Site' on Great Barrier Reef - EcoWatch
Scientists Discover 'Most Diverse Coral Site' on Great Barrier Reef - EcoWatch

Australian scientists have found the "most diverse coral site" on the Great Barrier Reef, observing at least 195 different species of corals in space no longer than 500 meters. The non-profit organization Great Barrier Reef Legacy and marine scientist Charlie Veron confirmed the diversity of the site, known as the "Legacy Super Site."
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Hemp May Soon Be Federally Legal, But Many Will Be Barred From Growing It - EcoWatch
Hemp May Soon Be Federally Legal, But Many Will Be Barred From Growing It - EcoWatch

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has, perhaps unexpectedly to those who find themselves agreeing with only this one position of his, been a major force for legalizing industrial hemp. Industrial hemp differs from marijuana in that it's bred specifically to have extremely low concentrations of THC, the primary psychoactive...
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4 Tips for Setting Up a Windowsill Garden - EcoWatch
4 Tips for Setting Up a Windowsill Garden - EcoWatch

Old Man Winter limits most of us from gardening year-round. Growing vegetables indoors is impractical without an expensive greenhouse—except for herbs, which grow big enough for a satisfying harvest with minimal space or attention. Pick up a selection in fall before nurseries clear out their stock for winter.
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Maersk wants to slash carbon emissions from shipping to zero. But it needs help | CNN Business
Maersk wants to slash carbon emissions from shipping to zero. But it needs help | CNN Business

The world's biggest shipping company wants to slash its carbon emissions to zero by developing a new kind of container ship to ply the oceans.
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Clean Energy Sweeps Across Rural America
Clean Energy Sweeps Across Rural America

Clean energy deployment has expanded rapidly over the past decade, and the analysis in this report demonstrates that this growth has created jobs, supported infrastructure development, and provided new opportunities to build thriving economies throughout the rural Midwest....
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Airlines ignoring efficient planes in blow to carbon targets – study
Airlines ignoring efficient planes in blow to carbon targets – study

TUI Airways comes top of 2018 Atmosfair Airline Index while Virgin Atlantic ranks 83rd
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'We live in a lobstocracy': Maine town is feeling the effects of climate change
'We live in a lobstocracy': Maine town is feeling the effects of climate change

When lobsters are life, environmental change affects livelihoods, and warming waters will ultimately bust the lobster industry
the Guardian the Guardian
World's oldest known wild bird to become a mother for the 37th time
World's oldest known wild bird to become a mother for the 37th time

Wisdom, a 68-year-old Laysan albatross, has laid another egg with her longtime lover at the Midway Atoll national wildlife refuge
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Rivian Wants to Do for Pickups What Tesla Did for Cars
Rivian Wants to Do for Pickups What Tesla Did for Cars

RJ Scaringe's Rivian Automotive just unveiled its electric pickup truck, and it's looking good.
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California Becomes First State to Require Solar on New Homes - EcoWatch
California Becomes First State to Require Solar on New Homes - EcoWatch

Sunny California is officially the first state in the nation to require solar panels on most new homes. The California Building Standards Commission unanimously confirmed the standards during a vote. The mandate applies to houses, condos and apartment buildings up to three stories tall that obtain building permits after Jan. 1, 2020.
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'It's medieval': why some cows are still living most of their lives tied up | Tom Levitt
'It's medieval': why some cows are still living most of their lives tied up | Tom Levitt

A farming practice where cows are tethered and restricted to sitting or standing is still common across Europe, particularly southern Germany. Now farming groups are calling for a ban
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Lost lands? The American wilderness at risk in the Trump era
Lost lands? The American wilderness at risk in the Trump era

Exclusive: a new study reveals the vast extent of public lands being opened up to the energy industry. The Guardian heard from three communities on the frontlines
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100% of Sea Turtles in Global Study Found With Plastics in Their Bellies - EcoWatch
100% of Sea Turtles in Global Study Found With Plastics in Their Bellies - EcoWatch

A new study of sea turtles shows that the world's governments and corporations are not doing enough to reduce plastic pollution—and marine life is suffering as a result. All 102 turtles necropsied from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea were found with plastics, microplastics, and other synthetics in their digestive systems.
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In World First, Luxembourg to Make All Public Transportation Free - EcoWatch
In World First, Luxembourg to Make All Public Transportation Free - EcoWatch

Luxembourg is about to become the world's first country to make all its public transportation free under the new government's efforts to curb traffic congestion and benefit the environment. The initiative will end all fares for trains, trams and buses by summer 2019. The environmentally minded Prime Minister Xavier Bettel was just reappointed.
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