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Page Updated: Wednesday, December 07, 2022 9:00 PM ET

Environment

Deutsche Welle

IOC delays decision on Winter Games host over climate change

Deutsche Welle - 1 day ago

The IOC is taking on a new approach to the selection of the Olympic Winter Games host, aiming to be more sustainable.

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Mongabay

As EU finalizes renewable energy plan, forest advocates condemn biomass

Mongabay - 4 hours ago

Policymakers could finalize revisions to the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive by year end, even as forest activists offer new evidence denouncing wood pellets as an energy source, and calling for an end to subsidies.

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Mongabay

New criminal code rings alarms for environmental protection in Indonesia

Mongabay - 1 day ago

JAKARTA — Indonesia’s parliament has passed into law a sweeping set of amendments to the country’s Criminal Code, which experts have warned will weaken environmental protections. The House of Representatives on Dec. 6 unanimously decided to codify Indonesia’s penal code, a holdover from the Dutch colonial era and known as the KUHP, despite years of […]

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Scientific American

UN chief meets young activists ahead of COP15 talks

Euronews - 14 hours ago

Nearly 200 countries will try to hammer out a new global framework to protect 30 per cent of Earth's land and oceans by 2030.

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Christian Science Monitor

‘We are a part of nature’: Hawaiians learn to let lava flow

Christian Science Monitor - 6 days ago

For decades, Hawaiians have searched for ways to divert lava flows – from deific offerings to building walls to dropping bombs. Now they are wondering: What’s the point in trying to control the environment?

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Scientific American

Jackson gets rare federal intervention in water crisis

Washington Examiner - 6 days ago

Federal help is on the way for Jackson, Mississippi, to alleviate its water woes after a judge approved an interim water manager to spearhead its efforts to reform the failing system.

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Daily Express

These UK unis have banned fossil fuel giants from campus recruitment

Euronews - 2 days ago

A number of UK universities have now banned fossil fuel recruiters from campus, a policy previously only applied to the tobacco and gambling industries.

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Euronews

Why have 2,500 dead seals washed up on Russia’s shores?

Euronews - 2 days ago

In 1900, there were more than a million Caspian seals - but after a century of overfishing and habitat degradation, some environmentalists warn that there are just 70,000 left.

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