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#climate-change
Higher education
fromCornell Chronicle
2 months ago

Faculty event to highlight how teaching about climate change can move beyond discourse and despair | Cornell Chronicle

A Jan. 28 Cornell event brings art, sustainability, reflection, and teaching practice together to help faculty engage climate change across humanities and community.
Philosophy
fromApaonline
1 month ago

What May We Hope for After Thirty Years of Failed Climate Summits?

Global commerce and industrialization produced wealth but caused climate change, now threatening the international order trade once seemed to secure.
Environment
fromNature
10 hours ago

'Yes, we can': a blueprint for a clean economy and healthy society

A new 'clean' economy focused on sustainability can lead to a more efficient and prosperous society.
Environment
fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

Letters: Global warming isn't a hoax; it's a scientific consensus

Scientific consensus from 97-99% of climate scientists confirms Earth is warming due to human activity, primarily fossil fuel burning, with measurable impacts on climate systems.
fromCornell Chronicle
2 months ago
Higher education

Faculty event to highlight how teaching about climate change can move beyond discourse and despair | Cornell Chronicle

Agriculture
fromRealagriculture
1 day ago

RealAg on the Weekend: Pre-seed decision making, Agracity, & who should own farmland, Apr 4 & 5/26

Farmers have opinions on farmland ownership, and discussions include acquisitions, decision-making, and family expectations on farms.
UK politics
fromIndependent
2 days ago

Carpool, slow down and do your laundry at night - families to be warned to cut energy use in government campaign amid Iran crisis

Officials are meeting daily to address rising fuel prices due to the Iran war and promote energy-saving measures.
#ai
Artificial intelligence
fromEntrepreneur
4 days ago

Why Entrepreneurs Can't Ignore AI's Growing Energy Demands

AI's rapid growth is significantly increasing global electricity demand, reshaping energy as a strategic business asset for entrepreneurs.
Artificial intelligence
fromEntrepreneur
4 days ago

Why Entrepreneurs Can't Ignore AI's Growing Energy Demands

AI's rapid growth is significantly increasing global electricity demand, reshaping energy as a strategic business asset for entrepreneurs.
Right-wing politics
fromTruthout
2 days ago

No Kings Must Mean No War: Foreign Policy Is Least Democratic Space in Politics

The majority of Iranian Americans oppose the war on Iran, despite media portrayal of pro-monarchy sentiments.
Science
fromThe Atlantic
3 days ago

Who Gets to Block the Sun?

Stardust Solutions aims to develop solar geoengineering technology to cool the planet, despite skepticism and concerns over safety and trust.
#middle-east-conflict
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
4 days ago

What can nations do to make up for the ongoing energy shortfall?

The Middle East conflict has disrupted 20% of the world's fuel supply, prompting countries to seek alternative energy sources.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
6 days ago

What can nations do to make up for the ongoing energy shortfall?

The Middle East conflict has disrupted 20% of the world's fuel supply, prompting countries to seek alternative energy sources.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
4 days ago

What can nations do to make up for the ongoing energy shortfall?

The Middle East conflict has disrupted 20% of the world's fuel supply, prompting countries to seek alternative energy sources.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
6 days ago

What can nations do to make up for the ongoing energy shortfall?

The Middle East conflict has disrupted 20% of the world's fuel supply, prompting countries to seek alternative energy sources.
SF music
fromFuncheap
4 days ago

What Comes After

What Comes After is a choral event exploring themes of resilience and transformation through music and dialogue.
fromWarpweftandway
6 days ago

Upcoming Collaborative Learning Events

The first event is a roundtable on "Zhuangzi: Fate, Desires, Transformation" on April 6th at 9:00am Beijing time.
Philosophy
Arts
fromArtforum
5 days ago

Biennials and the Environmental Cost of Global Art

Biennials embody complex circulations of art, audiences, and resources, raising ecological concerns about mobility and engagement in cultural contexts.
OMG science
fromBig Think
5 days ago

We saved the world once - we can do it again

The Montreal Protocol successfully addressed the ozone layer depletion, showcasing human resilience in combating environmental crises.
London politics
fromwww.bbc.com
6 days ago

New bin rules begin in England but not all councils are ready

New rules mandate weekly food waste collections in England, but many councils are unprepared to meet the deadline.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
6 days ago

G7 ready to take necessary measures' to ensure energy market stability

We stand ready to take all necessary measures in close coordination with our partners, including to preserve the stability and security of the energy market, said the G7 in a statement after a teleconference.
World news
SF politics
fromFortune
6 days ago

Hyperscalers often lack the "aptitude" on power as the political push picks up to expedite grid connections and pipelines | Fortune

Federal efforts to expedite power grid interconnections face challenges due to hyperscalers' communication issues and lack of understanding of processes.
#earth-day-2026
Environment
fromEarth911
2 days ago

Earth911 Inspiration: Show Up for Planet Earth

Make Earth Day 2026 a pivotal response to environmental damage from recent U.S. policy reversals.
Environment
fromEarth911
4 days ago

Earth Day 2026: Our Power, Our Planet Is A Call To Activism

Earth Day 2026 emphasizes civic action and political engagement in response to environmental rollbacks, shifting focus from personal lifestyle changes.
Environment
fromEarth911
2 days ago

Earth911 Inspiration: Show Up for Planet Earth

Make Earth Day 2026 a pivotal response to environmental damage from recent U.S. policy reversals.
Environment
fromEarth911
4 days ago

Earth Day 2026: Our Power, Our Planet Is A Call To Activism

Earth Day 2026 emphasizes civic action and political engagement in response to environmental rollbacks, shifting focus from personal lifestyle changes.
#energy-crisis
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Starmer must call energy summit akin to 2008 crisis response, Labour MP says

A global energy summit is needed to address the impending energy crisis caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Europe news
fromwww.dw.com
1 week ago

How countries are tackling the global energy crisis

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led to a global energy crisis with rising oil prices and various countries implementing fuel rationing measures.
Non-profit organizations
fromNature
1 week ago

'Continuity over novelty': why environmental science needs to rethink its focus

The closure of forest-service research offices threatens long-term ecological research and institutional memory in the US.
Social justice
fromFast Company
1 week ago

Modern social impact conferences need a new playbook

Conferences must address real tensions and foster candid discussions to remain relevant and effective in today's uncertain environment.
Education
fromApp Developer Magazine
1 week ago

UNESCO AI initiatives driving sustainable development in Africa

Artificial intelligence in Africa focuses on practical solutions, reliable data, and local constraints rather than just large models and global headlines.
fromNature
1 week ago

Now is the time for scientific societies to guide global research

Modern scientific societies are increasingly vulnerable due to their dependence on membership fees and journal subscriptions, which are being challenged by the rise of virtual networking and open-access publishing.
Science
World news
fromFortune
1 week ago

An uneasy mix of celebration and anxiety dominates the 'Davos of energy' as the month-long Iran war further disrupts the global economy | Fortune

Ending the war risks ceding the Strait of Hormuz to Iran, impacting global energy supply and causing widespread economic consequences.
#oil-prices
Europe news
fromCity AM
5 days ago

Europe urges fewer flights, remote working as Iran war drains oil supplies

Oil prices are rising due to the Iran war, prompting Europe to implement emergency measures to conserve energy.
Environment
from24/7 Wall St.
5 days ago

The Iran War Just Revived Clean Energy - Buy This ETF Before Its Too Late

Rising oil prices due to geopolitical tensions are accelerating the transition to clean energy as an economic necessity.
Europe news
fromCity AM
5 days ago

Europe urges fewer flights, remote working as Iran war drains oil supplies

Oil prices are rising due to the Iran war, prompting Europe to implement emergency measures to conserve energy.
Environment
from24/7 Wall St.
5 days ago

The Iran War Just Revived Clean Energy - Buy This ETF Before Its Too Late

Rising oil prices due to geopolitical tensions are accelerating the transition to clean energy as an economic necessity.
fromwww.bbc.com
1 week ago

Campaigners celebrate after new town plans dropped

Campaigner Aysha Hawcutt stated that residents were 'not anti-homes', but believed the Adlington plan was 'the wrong proposal in the wrong place'. She expressed pride in the community's resilience against the development threats.
London politics
fromHarvard Business Review
2 weeks ago

How To Deliver on ESG Initiatives in Emerging Market

Multinational firms are under rising pressure-from investors, regulators, and employees-to demonstrate positive societal impact in the places where they do business. With ESG-focused institutional investments projected to reach nearly $34 trillion this year and roughly 90% of large U.S. companies now disclosing ESG reports, these pressures are now a central part of corporate strategy.
Business
fromwww.kaltblut-magazine.com
3 weeks ago

The Climate Crisis

At a young age, I learned quickly how oil wealth and power could burn the land while people struggled. I saw heat rise off the streets, the Nile strained, and the air thickened with injustice. In my teenage years, through Aotearoa, being on the edge of the Pacific, I felt the ocean breathing heavy, swallowing the shores of islands that have done the least to cause this harm.
Photography
fromState of the Planet
1 week ago

Centering Community in Climate Resilience and Disaster Preparedness

I watched my mom and the attitude she takes to life. She always believes there is a 'better' coming; even if you can't see it now, it is coming soon.
Online Community Development
#energy-consumption
World news
fromBBC News
2 weeks ago

Drive more slowly and work from home to help ease energy crisis, IEA urges

Asian countries are implementing measures to limit energy consumption amid a significant energy security challenge.
Environment
fromwww.bbc.com
2 weeks ago

Drive more slowly and work from home to help ease energy crisis, IEA urges

Governments are urged to implement measures to reduce energy consumption amid high prices due to the Gulf conflict.
fromState of the Planet
6 days ago

From Classrooms to Climate Impact: Two Careers Flourish in Singapore

"Singapore is in a very unique position because they face a lot of land constraints, so there are few ways for them to generate their own renewable energy. Singapore is pushing for integrated energy systems throughout ASEAN, so that renewable energy produced in other countries can be brought back to Singapore. There's a very distinct, coordinated effort for countries to come together to work on climate change and energy security in a way that I haven't really seen."
Environment
Philosophy
fromWarpweftandway
2 weeks ago

Two Collaborative Learning () Events This Week

The 四海为学 Collaborative Learning Project hosts two free public events: Louise Edwards discussing childhood and gender in China on March 19, and Peter Hershock exploring AI and agency from a Buddhist perspective on March 20.
Alternative medicine
fromNatural Health News
3 months ago

Apocalyptic warnings mask a prosperous reality at COP30

Historical data contradicts climate chief warnings of climate-induced famines; modern hunger stems from conflict and politics, not environmental factors, while CO2 increases have enhanced agricultural productivity.
fromBusiness Matters
1 month ago

The Psychology Behind Why Business Conference Attendees Gravitate Towards Charging Stations

When power runs low, anxiety sets in. Psychologists often refer to this as battery anxiety, a stress response linked to the fear of losing access to information, contacts, or work tools. Attendees become less focused in sessions, check their devices more frequently, and start scanning the venue for somewhere to recharge.
Miscellaneous
Environment
fromState of the Planet
2 weeks ago

Climate Finance Has Failed Africa Twice Over. Here's How To Fix It.

Africa faces immediate climate crisis requiring both massive adaptation investment and urgent global emissions cuts, yet receives inadequate financing while adaptation focus overshadows critical decarbonization efforts.
Artificial intelligence
fromDanielmiessler
1 month ago

The Great Transition

Multiple simultaneous transitions are reshaping how knowledge moves from private expert domains to public accessibility through AI and LLMs, fundamentally transforming knowledge work and expertise value.
fromSustainable Bus
1 month ago

UITP monitoring Gulf geopolitical developments ahead of Dubai Summit - Sustainable Bus

UITP is closely monitoring geopolitical developments in the Gulf region in advance of the 2026 Summit, next month in Dubai. Over the past few days, we have remained in ongoing contact with the relevant authorities and our 2026 local hosts, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), as we carefully assess the situation in real time.
World news
Online Community Development
fromNature
1 month ago

Going 'beyond GDP' should not mean sidelining the SDGs

The UN's High-Level Expert Group will recommend development progress measures beyond GDP, with SDG specialists urging new frameworks to build on existing indicator work rather than start anew.
fromThe Nation
3 weeks ago

A World on Fire Needs More Climate Reporting-Not Less

Covering Climate Now was formed in 2019 in response to the climate silence that then prevailed in much of the press, especially in the United States. Over the years that followed, hundreds of newsrooms joined our effort, and press coverage of the story began to reflect the scale of the crisis. Newsrooms beefed up their climate reporting teams; they confronted misinformation that sought to play down the problem; they thought creatively about how to find the climate connection on every beat.
Environment
Artificial intelligence
fromState of the Planet
1 month ago

How Can AI Address Climate Justice When Women's Voices Are Silenced?

AI in environmental decision-making risks reinforcing inequities unless women's voices, labor, and lived realities are embedded in its foundations from the start.
Environment
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Letters: Global warming isn't a hoax; it's a scientific consensus

Scientific consensus from 97-99% of climate scientists confirms Earth is warming primarily due to human activity, not natural cycles alone.
fromEngadget
2 months ago

The US withdraws from dozens of international bodies, including climate-focused organizations

In a new executive order, President Donald Trump has declared that the United States will withdraw from 66 international organizations and bodies, including several focused on tackling climate change. Trump made his disregard for climate change clear when he withdrew the US from the Paris climate agreement for a second time in early 2025, but these new withdrawals further confirm the second Trump administration is against global collaboration in general.
US politics
Environment
fromNature
1 month ago

Climate change and geopolitics threaten water supplies - but disaster is not inevitable

Global water systems face crisis from overuse, pollution, and climate change, requiring urgent strengthening of international water-sharing treaties with dynamic monitoring systems.
#davos
fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
2 months ago

US will exit dozens of international organizations as it further retreats from global cooperation

Most of the targets are U.N.-related agencies, commissions and advisory panels that focus on climate, labor and other issues that the Trump administration has categorized as catering to diversity and woke initiatives. The Trump Administration has found these institutions to be redundant in their scope, mismanaged, unnecessary, wasteful, poorly run, captured by the interests of actors advancing their own agendas contrary to our own, or a threat to our nation's sovereignty, freedoms, and general prosperity, the State Department said in a statement.
US politics
Science
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Economics has failed on the climate crisis. This complexity scientist has a plan to fix that

An agent-based global economic super-simulator could forecast crises and guide policy, with a ~$100m build cost and massive potential ROI from crisis prevention.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Does the World Economic Forum still matter in a fractured global economy?

Davos's role as a hub for global cooperation is questioned amid rising geopolitical tensions, protectionism, and debates over effectiveness and responsibility for crises.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

UN approves first carbon credits under Paris Agreement market mechanism

The UN-run market allows companies and countries to offset their excess emissions by financing projects that cut greenhouse gases in other nations. The new initiative involves a clean cooking project in Myanmar, which distributes efficient cookstoves that reduce pressure on local forests. Implemented in partnership with a South Korean company, the project will generate credits that will count towards the climate targets of South Korea and Myanmar.
Environment
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Peace as policy: Mediation is the core sense of modern diplomacy

Mediation is a strategic security tool essential to prevent escalation and global disruption; prioritize sustained, credible diplomatic engagement to normalize peace in 2026.
Environment
fromThe Local France
1 month ago

UN approves first carbon credits under Paris Agreement

The UN's new Paris Agreement carbon market issued its first credits for a Myanmar cookstove project, applying more conservative calculations to prevent greenwashing and build market confidence.
Philosophy
fromAeon
1 month ago

Institutions are how we scale up cooperation among millions | Aeon Essays

Institutions enforce cooperation but must also prevent guardians from abusing power, effectively shifting the cooperation problem upward rather than eliminating it.
World news
fromPrx
2 months ago

The World

EU leaders react cautiously to US actions; Iran cuts internet amid protests; push to return US oil firms to Venezuela; twin gorillas born in DRC.
fromwww.businessinsider.com
2 months ago

Live updates: Day two dawns on Davos

"M&A is high on the agenda," said Sharon Marcil, North America chair at BCG. "We're hearing it from so many CEOs."
World news
Environment
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Study questions claims AI will solve the climate crisis

New datacenters' energy demand is driving increased fossil-fuel electricity generation, undermining claims that AI will mitigate climate change.
World news
fromBreaking Defense
1 month ago

New UN forum seeks busting space traffic cooperation barriers - Breaking Defense

A UN expert group aims to improve international sharing of space situational awareness data to reduce collision risks and prevent misinterpretations that could trigger conflicts.
Environment
fromNature
2 months ago

Exceeding 1.5 C requires rethinking accountability in climate policy

Global temperatures have exceeded 1.5°C, requiring rapid pursuit of net-negative emissions, expanded adaptation, loss-and-damage response, and accountability to prevent further harm.
Environment
fromNature
2 months ago

The global plastics treaty can be saved - here's how to break the deadlock

Plastic pollution is globally pervasive, causes long-term harm and greenhouse-gas emissions, and international treaty negotiations are currently deadlocked.
Environment
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

UN backs boost in nature-saving business

Global harmful investments total US$7.3 trillion, about 30 times higher than the US$220 billion invested in nature-positive finance.
Environment
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

Climate action continues, even without Trump DW 01/08/2026

The US plans to withdraw from 66 international organizations and treaties, including major environmental bodies, undermining global climate cooperation.
Environment
fromEarth911
2 months ago

Guest Idea: Climate Risk Has Become A Defining Economic Issue

Climate-driven financial risks threaten housing and public budgets while large-scale clean-energy and durable carbon-removal investments (geothermal, biochar, novel hydrogen) accelerate to build resilience.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief

The global economy must be transformed to value environmental health, human wellbeing, sustainability and equity rather than GDP as the sole measure of progress.
fromArchDaily
2 months ago

On the International Day for Clean Energy: How Local Initiatives Respond to the Spatial Impacts of Energy Production

January 26 marks the International Day for Clean Energy, an initiative aimed at raising awareness and mobilizing action for an inclusive transition from fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas, to power generation systems with lower greenhouse gas emissions and fewer pollutants. The term "clean" signals a fundamental shift away from extractive, finite, and exhaustible energy sources toward systems based on renewable resources or on capturing energy embedded in natural processes.
Environment
Environment
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Why scientists warn of privately funded geoengineering

Private companies and investors are increasingly pursuing solar geoengineering despite limited research, potential global impacts, and a lack of regulation.
fromNature
2 months ago

I know science can't fix the world - here's why I do it anyway

His message is clear: our world is built on abundant energy, around 80% of which has come from fossil fuels over the past 50 years. Because supplies are limited, energy consumption will peak in decades - sooner if humans attempt to limit climate change. To keep global warming below 1.5 °C by 2100, the use of fossil fuels must fall by 5-8% each year - a pace that is too fast for low-carbon energy to keep up with.
Environment
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