Brazil says Germany to contribute 700 million euros to green initiatives Germany is going to contribute around 700 million euros ($824.74 ​million) to projects related to climate change and sustainable mobility ‌in Brazil, Brazil's state development bank BNDES [RIC:RIC:BND...

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Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’ - Carbon Brief Renewable energy has overtaken coal to become the world's largest source of electricity in 2025, according to thinktank Ember.

Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’
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The Guardian view on Japan’s cherry blossom: when spring slips out of time | Editorial Editorial: A 1,200-year dataset shows the ‘peak bloom’ is arriving earlier. Global heating is unsettling nature’s rhythms – and their cultural meaning

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DeBriefed 17 April 2026: Fossil-fuel power slumps | ‘Super’ El Niño warning | Afghanistan’s climate struggle - Carbon Brief Oil prices rebounded after US-Iran peace talks failed and Global use of fossil fuels for power slumped during the Strait of Hormuz blockage.

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Q&A: What Magyar’s defeat of Orbán in Hungary means for climate and energy - Carbon Brief The right-wing populist Hungarian government led by Viktor Orbán has suffered a landslide electoral defeat...

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Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund Endorses Tom Steyer California must continue to lead the world’s clean energy transition while enhancing environmental protection, and that’s why the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund is endorsing Tom Steyer. I

fyi--
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Relocating Venice ‘may be necessary’ if sea levels continue to rise Scientists warn that no adaptation measure can sustain Venice as rising sea levels threaten to swallow the city.

"No optimal strategy." 🌎 www.euronews.com/2026/04/17/v...

Big Oil Breaks Everything The planet, our democracy, our courts...

Big Oil Breaks Everything
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No One Inherits a Finished Country History’s pendulum always swings back. It swings hardest in the direction of whoever is pushing.

No One Inherits a Finished Country
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Photo of 2 people in a canoe on the pristine waters of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota.

Chu Tsän Dek, a rust-colored river in Canada's Yukon Territory. This is what could happen to the rivers in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota if the copper mine is approved. (Photo by Benoit Turcotte / Yukon Geological Survey. Courtesy of Yale School of the Environment.)

The thawing of permafrost is one way to leach sulfuric acid into rivers: bsky.app/profile/heid....

Mining is another. That is what could happen to the rivers in the Boundary Waters Wilderness if the copper mine is approved. The photo (left) could look like the photo (right). That must not happen. 🌎

Steyer announces plan to jail ICE agents, calls agency a 'violent extremist group' Steyer compared his plan to the way law enforcement fought the mob and called the federal agency a “violent extremist group.”

Steyer announces plan to jail ICE agents, calls agency a ‘violent extremist group’

A fungus photo a day: two aging fairy parachutes/Marasmiellus candidus. These were their actual colors. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

Colombia convenes climate ‘coalition of the willing’ to break global fossil fuel deadlock Santa Marta conference born out of frustration at Cop summits, where renewable progress has been stalled by major polluters

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My friend @gwagner.com's take in @nature.com nicely complements points I made in my @livescience.com commentary "Our fossil fuel economy is a house of cards & Trump's war in Iran is about to topple it...need for a clean energy transition has never been clearer."
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Clean energy needs actual champions Two very different gubernatorial races--and a smashing victory last night in Arizona--drive home the point.

Bill McKibben endorses Tom Steyer for governor of California.

Clean energy needs actual champions
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A view from space we can't ignore Artemis II helps us see Earth from a different perspective, why warming oceans matter, and nuns planting hope in Nigeria

A view from space we can't ignore
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Tuvalu, tiny Pacific nation at the forefront of climate crisis, to host world leaders before Cop31 summit Conference president expresses ‘complete faith’ in Chris Bowen to lead tough negotiations

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War spurs EU plan for electricity tax cuts, faster shift from fossil fuels, draft shows The European Union plans ​to reduce electricity taxes and expand clean technologies faster to cut consumers' exposure to soaring ‌oil and gas prices, as part of its plan to offset the Iran war's energ...

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We're scientists. We know the climate's changing. And we know why. It was reported in the New York Times (gift link) that U.S.

We're scientists. We know the climate's changing. And we know why.
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The Boundary Waters Vote is Imminent The Senate is expected to take up the vote to permit the poisoning of the Boundary Waters as soon as today.

The Boundary Waters Vote is Imminent
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We're in for some heavy weather This spring, this year, and this eon

We're in for some heavy weather
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Inside Climate Talks: Special Interview with Author Hillary Rosner YouTube video by Inside Climate News

"Roam: Wild Animals and the Race to Repair Our Fractured World"
by science journalist Hillary Rosner--

"...the movement of species is one of the natural processes that sustains life on Earth, including ours."
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Climate Change Concern Near Its High Point in U.S. The 44% of U.S. adults who currently worry "a great deal" about climate change or global warming is near its 46% high point from 2020.

Do you know about climate hushing? It’s the silence about #climate change that’s fallen over media, business, & politics since Trump took office. But as this latest poll shows, 66% of Americans are worried about cc & 44% think news is underestimating its seriousness.

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New bill would help fund green space on school grounds For millions of students, access to outdoor spaces starts at school. A new bill would grant funds to turn asphalt schoolyards into outdoor living areas, benefitting millions of students across the cou...

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Interest in EVs surges in Europe as fuel prices jump after Iran war Demand at online marketplaces could settle at a new, higher normal, with the crisis leaving consumers ‘scarred’

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The U.S. Forest Service Is Worth More Standing 121 years of flawed, essential, irreplaceable work. And what happens when you take a chainsaw to it.

The U.S. Forest Service Is Worth More Standing
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I'm sure LLMs will make this worse, but its not exactly a secret that if you chase many 'classic' references back further than the 90s in many fields you run into some really shady practices. My favorite example is the Ismay quote that 'NATO is to keep the US in, Russia out, and the Germans down.'

Nations can't reach climate goals without rethinking humanity’s relationship to the Earth, per a new paper out in @frontiersin.bsky.social. The authors say societies should adopt an Indigenous framework of interconnection. I report for @insideclimatenews.org: insideclimatenews.org/news/0904202...

Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice are having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers

"The mass drowning of emperor penguin chicks as sea ice is melted by the climate crisis has led the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to declare the species officially in danger of extinction."

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