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Grasslands and Wetlands Are Being Gobbled Up By Agriculture, Mostly Livestock - Inside Climate News A new study takes a first-of-its kind look at how farming converts non-forested areas and major carbon sinks into cropland and pasture.

Most policies have been aimed at minimizing agriculture’s impact on forests. A new study says the focus should be on grass and wetlands, too.

Environmental, Community Groups to Challenge Regulators’ Approval of Dominion’s Gas Plant - Inside Climate News An appeal to be filed on their behalf by the Southern Environmental Law Center will argue that the new plant in Chesterfield County would not comply with either the state’s environmental justice or cl...

Three climate and justice nonprofits filed an appeal before the Virginia Supreme Court on Tuesday arguing that the new Dominion Energy natural gas plant in Chesterfield County doesn’t comply with either the state’s environmental justice or clean economy acts.

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash Flock off

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The battle against AI for mass surveillance isn’t over yet.

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San Jacinto Air and Water Town Halls San Jacinto: What’s in the Air and WaterTwo upcoming environmental town halls in East Harris County hosted by Public Health Watch  Register here! We want to hear from you! Public Health Watch will host two community town halls in early 2026 focused on environmental health reporting, government accountability and community right-to-know issues in East Harris County. We hope you will join us for these community conversations about the most pressing environmental issues facing your community.

San Jacinto Air and Water Town Halls

San Jacinto: What’s in the Air and WaterTwo upcoming environmental town halls in East Harris County hosted by Public Health Watch  Register here! We want to hear from you! Public Health Watch will host two community town halls in early 2026 focused on…

Rep. LaMonica McIver Faces 17 Years in Prison over ICE Jail Inspection Democracy Now! speaks with Congressmember LaMonica McIver of New Jersey, who is facing up to 17 years in prison stemming from an incident last May when she and two other Democratic congressmembers sou...

“I’m not going to let them bully me out of doing my job. I’m just not,” says Congressmember LaMonica McIver.

Clean Energy Can Protect Midwest Families From Data-Center Driven Energy Bill Spikes It’s no secret that Big Tech and AI companies are rushing to build new power-hungry data centers as quickly as they can. In Michigan, for example, a massive new 1.4 gigawatt data center received conditional approval to draw enough electricity from the grid to power a million homes and increase the l

To examine the effects of the AI boom on the power grid, we conducted an analysis published entitled “Data Center Power Play”. In addition to a national report, the project also includes state-specific analyses for Illinois, Michigan & Wisconsin. UCS’s James Gignac takes a closer look in his blog:

YouTube video by DW Documentary When the rains cease to fall - Indian farmers left alone | DW Documentary

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What are climate misinformation and disinformation and how can we tackle them? | UNDP Climate Promise Climate misinformation and disinformation undermine climate action and polarize public discourse. We explain why and what we can do about it.

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Winter Storm Fern: How to prep as "catastrophic" storm nears "Preparations should be completed as soon as possible," the Weather Prediction Center said in a Thursday update.

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Patagonia Is Burning - Inside Climate News Heat, drought, and high winds exacerbated deadly blazes in Chile this weekend and stoked fires that continue to smolder in Argentina.

Heat, drought, and high winds exacerbated deadly blazes in Chile this weekend and stoked fires that continue to smolder in Argentina.

As Artificial Stone Countertops Kill Workers, House Republicans Discuss Protections—for Manufacturers - Inside Climate News Sponsors of a new bill want to give the industry immunity from lawsuits brought by injured employees. That will kill even more workers, experts warn.

Hundreds of workers who finish luxury countertops have developed silicosis, an irreversible but preventable lung disease caused by inhaling silica dust. But it’s the manufacturers that Republicans want to protect.

State PFAS laws and regulations taking effect in 2026 States such as Colorado and Maine have banned more products, while states such as Minnesota and New Mexico will require manufacturers to submit reports detailing their use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl ...

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YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English Back to textbooks: Denmark rolls back digital learning • FRANCE 24 English

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AI’s water and electricity use soars in 2025 It’s guzzling up even more water than expected.

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Climate Viz of the Month November 2025 Hi! I am happy to share the first of (hopefully) some new graphics in this ‘climate viz of the month’ blog. For quite a few years now, I’ve been procrastinating on figuring out an eff…

The thickness of #Arctic sea ice dropped to a new all-time record low this year around the North Pole (data from PIOMAS). More in my latest 'climate viz of the month' blog: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-... #OpenScience #SciComm #DataViz #OpenData

North Star Data Center Policy Toolkit: State and Local Policy Interventions to Stop Rampant AI Data Center Expansion - AI Now Institute This policy toolkit is primarily geared toward stopping, slowing, and restricting rampant data center development in the US at the local and state level. Our approach recognizes the extractive relatio...

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Michigan OKs landmark regulations that push up-front costs to data centers Michigan regulators on Thursday adopted landmark standards for the booming data center industry with a plan they say tries to protect residents from subsidizing the industry's hefty energy use.

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Gartner Calls For Pause on AI Browser Use Gartner has called for organizations to block today’s AI browsers on security concerns

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NIH’s environmental health journal goes dark Environmental Health Perspectives, the federal government’s premier peer-reviewed academic journal, will transition to an external publisher.

EHP announced it’s plan for it to go dark about six months ago. They are transitioning to another publisher, although I’m not sure if all of the past research will move with them.

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America’s Biggest Bitcoin Miners Are Pivoting to AI In the face of a profitability crisis, industrial-scale bitcoin miners are transforming their data centers into AI factories.

In the face of a profitability crisis, industrial-scale bitcoin miners are transforming their data centers into AI factories. www.wired.com/story/bitcoi...

New industry standard calls for better record-keeping to protect Indigenous data - ICT The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers recently approved the first-ever international standard regarding best practices for protecting Indigenous data

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NIH’s environmental health journal goes dark Environmental Health Perspectives, the federal government’s premier peer-reviewed academic journal, will transition to an external publisher.

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Rep. McGarvey writes letter to EPA, urging continued oversight of UPS crash site McGarvey is asking the EPA to continue to play an active role in overseeing the site.

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Using Kohler's Poop-Analysis Camera? Double Check This Key Privacy Setting First Don't perch on your camera-equipped throne assuming your "data" is end-to-end encrypted. It's not quite that simple.

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Data centers bring money to small towns. But do they also bring jobs? Tech companies are investing hundreds of billions of dollars in data centers across the country. But despite the record-setting price tags, the centers create few jobs.

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Report: Pesticide banned in 70+ countries widely used in NC A new analysis showed the harmful life cycle from production to application of a widely used pesticide in North Carolina.The chemical paraquat is a quick-acting herbicide used for weed control.

"We need to get off of this pesticide treadmill, and we can't just ban one chemical at a time. We need to be looking at these as classes of chemicals." @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

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