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Brace for more shareholder fights after ‘major shift in power’ against oil giants
Shareholder battles that have rocked two of the world’s biggest oil companies are expected to spill over to other sectors,…
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Climate Ruling Could Force Big Change at Shell
To comply with a Dutch court order to cut carbon emissions, Royal Dutch Shell RDS.A -0.82% PLC may have to…
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Soil microbe transplant could improve tree growth and remove more CO2
By Adam Vaughan A site in Wales that is part of the tree-planting scheme run by The Carbon Community The…
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Oil Giants Are Dealt Major Defeats on Climate-Change as Pressures Intensify
Exxon XOM 1.17% Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell RDS.A 0.38% PLC suffered significant defeats Wednesday as environmental groups and…
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Can tiny forests breathe fresh air into our cities? | DW | 25.05.2021
In 2014 eco-entrepreneur Shubhendu Sharma gave a TED Talk about the value of the mini-woodland ecosystems he was planting across India.…
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Nature Can Save Humanity From Climate Doom—but Not On Its Own
Here’s what not to do, says Girardin: Clear forests and plant new trees so corporations can offset their carbon emissions.…
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White House, NASA tout new satellites to monitor climate change, hurricanes
The White House is providing fresh details of a major satellite program that administration officials call poised to reveal vital…
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This Evolutionary Gift May Protect Coral From Climate Change
To see what defenses coral have already evolved against warmer waters, Meibom and his colleagues wanted to learn just how…
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EU leaders to debate who will pay for green transition
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders meet on Tuesday to debate how to split the efforts and costs of the…
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Exxon to add two new directors in battle over company’s future
By Jennifer Hiller, Svea Herbst-Bayliss HOUSTON/BOSTON (Reuters) -Exxon Mobil said on Monday it would appoint two new board members, days…
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Greenland’s ice sheet is releasing huge amounts of mercury into rivers
By Karina Shah The edge of the Russell glacier, which flows from the south-west of the Greenland ice sheet Martin…
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Big banks play ball with SEC on mandatory climate disclosures
WASHINGTON — Faced with the potential requirement that they inform investors about climate change risks, publicly traded banks so far…
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Green Finance Goes Mainstream, Lining Up Trillions Behind Global Energy Transition
Some of the world’s biggest companies and deepest-pocketed investors are lining up trillions of dollars to finance a shift away…
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Environmentalists see infrastructure as crucial path to climate goals
Supporters of President BidenJoe BidenRep. Dingell hospitalized for surgery on perforated ulcer Biden administration renews Temporary Protected Status for Haiti…
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Solyndra, 10 years later
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the Solyndra scandal. What was already a failure of a government-backed solar panel…
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What could be in store for banks after Biden climate change order
WASHINGTON — Several financial regulators were already moving in the direction of incorporating climate change risk in their monitoring of…
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Extreme weather displaces record numbers of people as temperatures rise | DW | 20.05.2021
Storms, floods, wildfires and droughts drove more than 30 million people from their homes last year, as rising temperatures wrought…
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All Those Electric Vehicles Pose a Problem for Building Roads
Last week, Washington governor Jay Inslee—the guy who, while running for president two years ago, proposed a nationwide ban on…
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Dear ExxonMobil: I See A Bad Moon Rising (For You)
I see the bad moon a-rising I see trouble on the way I see earthquakes and lightnin’ I see bad…
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Biden ordering climate risk strategy for financial assets
President Joe Biden is ordering his administration to create a strategy to quantify the risks climate change poses to both…
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Kimberly Nicholas interview: How to be human in a warming world
To have any hope of tackling climate change, we must alter many aspects of society, says sustainability researcher Kimberly Nicholas…
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Combating carbon emissions with soil microbes
Climate change is projected to drive down seasonal extremes, which would decrease soil microbe productivity, impact plant and forest growth,…
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San Diego County Supervisors Add Environmental Justice Office
Photo by Erik Anderson Above: Ship unloading goods at a port facility in National City on Mar. 29, 2021. San…
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What’s the big deal if bees are dying? | DW | 19.05.2021
“Save the bees!” — these calls to action usually come with a quote attributed to Albert Einstein: “If the bee disappeared off the face of the Earth, man would only have…
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The Particular Psychology of Destroying a Planet
Subscribers to The Climate Crisis newsletter received this piece in their in-boxes. Sign up to receive future installments. Two weeks…
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Major 2015 wildfires in central Amazon killed a quarter of vegetation
By Karina Shah A wildfire in the Brazilian Amazon in September 2019 REUTERS/Bruno Kelly Devastating wildfires that swept the central…
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Bank regulators grilled on climate efforts, ILCs, ‘true lenders’
WASHINGTON — House lawmakers peppered federal financial regulators with questions Wednesday on a host of issues, highlighting the lingering tensions…
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‘Zombie’ fires in Alaska and Canada may be becoming more common
By Krista Charles Forest fires in the Arctic can smoulder all winter long Al Henkel/NBC NewsWire In the northern hemisphere,…
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World’s largest iceberg has just broken off an Antarctic ice shelf
By Adam Vaughan The finger-shaped iceberg is about 4320 square kilometres in size ESA/Earth Observation An iceberg bigger than Majorca…
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OCC chief signals new direction on bank supervision, fintech policy
WASHINGTON — The new head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency warned that some banks are taking…
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The International Energy Agency Issues a Landmark Statement About Fossil Fuels
The crucial turning points of the climate era can be found in a series of sentences, some of them pretty…
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Opinion: Scientists now believe Antarctica is headed for a climate-change tipping point by 2060
While U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken draws attention to climate change in the Arctic at meetings with other national officials this…
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Climate change meant Hurricane Sandy caused $8 billion more damage
By Karina Shah Aerial views of damage caused by Hurricane Sandy to the New Jersey coast U S Air Force…
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City must apply pandemic lessons to counter the risk of cyber-attacks
The devastating impact of the pandemic has rightly prompted businesses and investors to scour the horizon for other risks they…
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Will FDIC, OCC follow Fed into global climate group?
WASHINGTON — It was hailed as a coup when the Federal Reserve announced in December that it was joining a…
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How New Wind Turbines Produce Far More Energy
Wind turbines have become bigger, more powerful, and more cost-efficient to operate in recent decades. A key improvement has been…
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A giant levitating tap spewing garbage: How a Montreal artist is raising awareness of plastic pollution
TORONTO — An artist in Montreal is on a mission, in a big way, to raise awareness about plastic pollution.…
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UK water watchdog plans 2.8 billion pound backing for green projects
(Reuters) – Britain’s water regulator set out a 2.8 billion pound ($3.95 billion) green investment plan on Monday as it…
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Corals swap in heat-resistant algae to better cope with global warming
By Karina Shah Bleached staghorn corals in the Pacific Ocean near Fiji Helmut Corneli/Alamy Some corals can swap out the…
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Banks are finally out of the blocks in the urgent race to meet net zero
Central banks are taking steps to better assess climate-related risks, and asset managers responsible for more than a third of…
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Hurricane season spurs hog waste worries in North Carolina
As North Carolina heads into another hurricane season, some residents and organizations fear the stormy season will again flood communities…
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Your Electric Vehicle Can’t Get There from Here—At Least, Not Without a Charge
If we’re going to deal with the climate crisis, electric cars are a crucial part of the task.Photograph by Rebekah…
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Central Banks Jump Into Climate-Change Policy Fray
Central banks, the most powerful financial institutions in the world, want to become the guardians of the environment as well.…
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How EVs Could Transform the Streets of Africa
The electric-car revolution is reaching the streets of Africa. A handful of startups in several countries are building small electric-vehicle…
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The draw—and deadliness—of American denial
Americans have learned a lot about the concept of denial in recent years. COVID-19 denial, where the horrible facts of…
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Planting a million trees in the semi-arid desert to combat climate change
Reflecting on her childhood, Tucson, Ariz., Mayor Regina Romero points to her father as the figure who lit an environmentalist…
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The Hot Debate Over Solar Geoengineering and Its Impact on Climate
As concerns grow about how quickly the world can curb greenhouse-gas emissions, some scientists want to research an additional approach…
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AI Shows ExxonMobil Downplayed Its Role in Climate Change
Between 1977 and 2014, 80 percent of ExxonMobil’s internal research supported the idea that human activity was a contributor to…
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Climate change is speeding up the degradation of ancient rock art
By Donna Lu Rock art at Leang Sakapao in Indonesia Linda Siagian Degradation of ancient rock art in Indonesia may…
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Why have Elon Musk and Tesla suddenly turned against bitcoin?
By Matthew Sparkes Elon Musk is CEO of Tesla ALEXANDER BECHER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Elon Musk has performed a sudden U-turn on bitcoin…
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