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Trump Wants Venezuela's Oil. What It Means For Climate
Analysts say that technology and stricter emission controls may help, but the economic and climate feasibility of exploiting Venezuelan oil may remain a thorn in the flesh.
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Trump Is Eyeing Greenland's Oil And Minerals, But It's Difficult To Extract
Greenland is unlike where most people live. The climate is frigid. For much of the year, sea ice clings to the coast, making it inaccessible. An ice sheet, up to 2 miles thick, covers more than 80% of the island.
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What is The Aravalli Story And Why It Is Important
The Aravalli Hills one of the world's oldest mountain ranges and an ecologically sensitive zone that supports biodiversity, recharges groundwater, and regulates climate across northern India is at the centre of a legal and political storm.
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2025 Was One Of Three Hottest Years On Record: Scientists
Temperatures remained high despite the presence of a La Nina, the occasional natural cooling of Pacific Ocean waters that influences weather worldwide. Researchers cited the continued burning of fossil fuels that send greenhouse gases into atmosphere
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Iraqis Cover Soil With Clay To Curb Sandstorms
Deep in Iraq's southern desert, bulldozers and earthmovers spread layers of moist clay over sand dunes as part of a broader effort to fight increasingly frequent sandstorms.
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Heatwaves, Wildfires, Droughts, Storms Cost World Over $120 Billion In 2025: Report
Heatwaves, wildfires, droughts, and storms cost the world more than $120 billion in 2025, according to a new report analysing the escalating cost of climate change.
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How Much Water Does AI Use? Consumption Now Exceeds World’s Bottled Water, Suggests New Study
Anthropic has released an open-source tool called Bloom to test how AI models behave under normal and stressful conditions. Bloom automates behavioural testing by generating scenarios, running them at scale, and scoring responses for traits like bias or sycophancy. Anthropic says it simplifies a process that was previously manual and time-consuming...
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Opinion | Here's The Bad Climate News You Missed This Year
It might have seemed in 2025 that every piece of bad news for the global climate and energy transition had some sort of connection to President Donald Trump. If only it were so simple.
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Japan Citizens To Sue Government Over 'Unconstitutional' Climate Inaction
Hundreds of people across Japan will sue the central government Thursday seeking damages for "unconstitutional" inaction on climate change, the country's first such litigation.
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"Climate Alarmism": Trump Government Plans To Dismantle Top Research Centre
The Trump administration intends to dismantle one of the world's leading climate research institutions over what it said on Tuesday were concerns of "climate alarmism," despite opposition to the plan.
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Opinion | Putin's Visit Wasn't All Fireworks. But It Still Mattered
Neither India nor Russia can run only on sentiment in the perilous geopolitical climate of the day. For both, itll have to be about the actual numbers, too.
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New Research Links Volcanic Activity To Origins Of Black Death Pandemic
Previously unknown volcanic eruptions may have kicked off an unlikely series of events that brought the Black Death -- the most devastating pandemic in human history -- to the shores of mediaeval Europe, new research has revealed.
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Trumponomics To Gen Z's Rise: Top 10 Trends Of 2025 That Reshaped The World
Geopolitical conflicts, the growing influence of artificial intelligence (AI), and a rise in climate disasters like floods and cyclones - the year 2025 saw a lot of shifts globally, for good or bad.
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Is Earth Really Getting Too Hot To Live? Scientist Explains Climate Change
Hot air evaporates a lot more water, so crops, forests and landscapes in some areas dry out, which makes them more susceptible to wildfire. Each Celsius degree of warming can cause a sixfold increase in wildfire over parts of the western US.
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Amazon Employees Sign Open Letter To CEO, Flag Key Issue Over AI Rollout
The employees said that Amazon says it wants to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, but its emissions have actually grown by 35 per cent since 2019.
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Trump Wants Venezuela's Oil. What It Means For Climate
Analysts say that technology and stricter emission controls may help, but the economic and climate feasibility of exploiting Venezuelan oil may remain a thorn in the flesh.
-
Trump Is Eyeing Greenland's Oil And Minerals, But It's Difficult To Extract
Greenland is unlike where most people live. The climate is frigid. For much of the year, sea ice clings to the coast, making it inaccessible. An ice sheet, up to 2 miles thick, covers more than 80% of the island.
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What is The Aravalli Story And Why It Is Important
The Aravalli Hills one of the world's oldest mountain ranges and an ecologically sensitive zone that supports biodiversity, recharges groundwater, and regulates climate across northern India is at the centre of a legal and political storm.
-
2025 Was One Of Three Hottest Years On Record: Scientists
Temperatures remained high despite the presence of a La Nina, the occasional natural cooling of Pacific Ocean waters that influences weather worldwide. Researchers cited the continued burning of fossil fuels that send greenhouse gases into atmosphere
-
Iraqis Cover Soil With Clay To Curb Sandstorms
Deep in Iraq's southern desert, bulldozers and earthmovers spread layers of moist clay over sand dunes as part of a broader effort to fight increasingly frequent sandstorms.
-
Heatwaves, Wildfires, Droughts, Storms Cost World Over $120 Billion In 2025: Report
Heatwaves, wildfires, droughts, and storms cost the world more than $120 billion in 2025, according to a new report analysing the escalating cost of climate change.
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How Much Water Does AI Use? Consumption Now Exceeds World’s Bottled Water, Suggests New Study
Anthropic has released an open-source tool called Bloom to test how AI models behave under normal and stressful conditions. Bloom automates behavioural testing by generating scenarios, running them at scale, and scoring responses for traits like bias or sycophancy. Anthropic says it simplifies a process that was previously manual and time-consuming...
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Opinion | Here's The Bad Climate News You Missed This Year
It might have seemed in 2025 that every piece of bad news for the global climate and energy transition had some sort of connection to President Donald Trump. If only it were so simple.
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Japan Citizens To Sue Government Over 'Unconstitutional' Climate Inaction
Hundreds of people across Japan will sue the central government Thursday seeking damages for "unconstitutional" inaction on climate change, the country's first such litigation.
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"Climate Alarmism": Trump Government Plans To Dismantle Top Research Centre
The Trump administration intends to dismantle one of the world's leading climate research institutions over what it said on Tuesday were concerns of "climate alarmism," despite opposition to the plan.
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Opinion | Putin's Visit Wasn't All Fireworks. But It Still Mattered
Neither India nor Russia can run only on sentiment in the perilous geopolitical climate of the day. For both, itll have to be about the actual numbers, too.
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New Research Links Volcanic Activity To Origins Of Black Death Pandemic
Previously unknown volcanic eruptions may have kicked off an unlikely series of events that brought the Black Death -- the most devastating pandemic in human history -- to the shores of mediaeval Europe, new research has revealed.
-
Trumponomics To Gen Z's Rise: Top 10 Trends Of 2025 That Reshaped The World
Geopolitical conflicts, the growing influence of artificial intelligence (AI), and a rise in climate disasters like floods and cyclones - the year 2025 saw a lot of shifts globally, for good or bad.
-
Is Earth Really Getting Too Hot To Live? Scientist Explains Climate Change
Hot air evaporates a lot more water, so crops, forests and landscapes in some areas dry out, which makes them more susceptible to wildfire. Each Celsius degree of warming can cause a sixfold increase in wildfire over parts of the western US.
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Amazon Employees Sign Open Letter To CEO, Flag Key Issue Over AI Rollout
The employees said that Amazon says it wants to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, but its emissions have actually grown by 35 per cent since 2019.
