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Tlaib and Michigan environmental leaders warn big beautiful bill threatens local health
Michigan Public - Michigan
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August 20, 2025
Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib joined community environmental and health leaders Tuesday afternoon outside Salina Elementary School in Dearborn to discuss the local effects of President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The law, which...
German Companies Keen On Setting Tech Innovation Centre In Indore City
Free Press Journal
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August 20, 2025
German Companies Keen On Setting Tech Innovation Centre In Indore City | FP Photo Indore (Madhya Pradesh): A high level delegation of leading German companies has considered the city as an emerging hub of innovation and showed keen interest in...
AI needed to help Ireland’s infrastructure withstand climate disasters – Deloitte
The Irish Times
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A powerful set of available AI tools will help improve the resilience of much of Ireland’s ageing infrastructure, which is increasingly exposed due to increased floods, storms and other climate-related disasters, according to consultancy firm...
Talking politics, college professor gives thoughts on current climate
WNKY - Kentucky
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August 20, 2025
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The American political climate is on fire right now as many changes are being made. Western Kentucky University political science professor Jeff Budziak took some time to give his thoughts on the second administration of...
Debora Cahn Talks Season 3 of ‘The Diplomat’ and Whether She’ll Infuse the Current Political Climate Into the Series
The Hollywood Reporter - California
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August 19, 2025
Diplomacy ranks high among Emmy voters, even if not so much in the current realm of American politics. The Diplomat has two Emmy nominations for 2025, and they’re big ones: best drama series and best lead actress in a drama for Keri Russell, who...
Caribbean Association of Banks Inc. (CAB) and the International Finance Corporation…
721 News
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August 19, 2025
Saint Lucia – The Caribbean Association of Banks Inc. (CAB), in partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), has officially launched a landmark initiative to develop a comprehensive Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)...
Govt blames climate change for sugar price hike
The News International
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August 20, 2025
ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday pinned the blame for Pakistan’s soaring sugar prices on climate change rather than mismanagement or profiteering. Special Assistant to the Prime Minister Haroon Akhtar told reporters that a 20 percent decline...
Sunderban crocodiles losing their nesting grounds due to climate change: Govt report
Hindustan Times
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August 20, 2025
Saltwater crocodiles, the world’s largest crocodiles that are found in the Sundarbans in West Bengal, are losing their nesting grounds due to effects of global warming and climate change on the fragile delta ecosystem, a government report flagged...
UK FCA Findings on Climate Reporting Under the TCFD Regime
JD Supra - California
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August 19, 2025
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the findings from its multi-firm review of climate reporting by asset managers, life insurers and FCA-regulated pension providers under the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures...
Unlimited campaign spending threatens our political soul
Observer
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August 20, 2025
NRM supporters during party activitiesFor Uganda’s democracy to mature and fulfill its promise of national building, the unchecked flow of money into political campaigns must be decisively curtailed. Limitless campaign spending is ipso facto...
How Misreporting Cloudbursts Masks The Real Climate Crisis In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Friday Times
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August 20, 2025
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been devastated by torrential monsoon rains, flash floods and landslides, plunging 11 districts of the province into crisis. The provincial government has declared a flood emergency as the death toll has climbed to 365, with...
Liberia: ALICOR Welcomes U.S. Government’s Concern Over Aggression Against the Liberian Media
Front Page Africa
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August 20, 2025
Mr. Emmanuel Tophic Degleh, Secretary General/ ALICOR Monrovia – The Association of Liberia Community Radio (ALICOR) has welcomed the United States Government’s 2024 Human Rights Report highlighting aggression against the Liberian Media,...
Political fight over EVs comes to the Wilmington waterfront
Star News - North Carolina
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The Trump administration's policies, including ending EV tax rebates and rolling back clean car standards, are creating challenges for the electric vehicle industry. Despite political headwinds, North Carolina has seen substantial EV investment,...
NSA Ajit Doval Highlights ‘New Environment’ As India-China Ties Show Upward Trend Ahead Of SCO Summit
Free Press Journal
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August 20, 2025
National Security Adviser Ajit Doval said a “new environment” had been created to help India-China relations move forward. The NSA said this in his opening remarks before Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. | X @ANI New Delhi: National Security...
Chinese company partners PWDs in energy project
NewsDay Zimbabwe
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IN an effort to promote clean energy adoption, curb deforestation and improve livelihoods, a Chinese renewable energy company has partnered people with disabilities in Zimbabwe in an innovative solar cooking project. IN an effort to promote clean...
Tech companies' data centres use much more water than is disclosed
interest.co.nz
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By Peyton McCauley & Melissa Scanlan* As demand for artificial intelligence technology boosts construction and proposed construction of data centres around the world, those computers require not just electricity and land, but also a significant...
New tourism path for climate survival
Bangkok Post
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August 19, 2025
Hotel bookings are vanishing. Tour buses sit idle. Empty beaches. The culprit? Not mass protests. Not pandemics. But smoke, dust, and heat. Tourism fuels Thailand's economy, yet smog, heat waves, and flash floods are rapidly choking it. Can...
Carbon Capture fractions. A corporate con-job on the taxpayer dime
Michael West Media
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August 20, 2025
Australia’s best-known Carbon Capture & Storage plant captures a mere fraction of the total emissions it generates. David McEwen explains. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is supposed to be the solution to permit high-emissions fossil fuels, with...
Cloudbursts in South Asia: Risks and Climate Adaptation Strategies
Mezha
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August 20, 2025
Sudden and intense downpours, known as cloudbursts, wreak havoc in the mountainous regions of South Asia: they trigger flash floods, dangerous landslides, and mud avalanches that destroy settlements and turn communities into ruined patches of...
Outrage over politician’s dog massacre claims
Bangalore Mirror
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Activists say MLC Bhojegowda must be arrested for alleged murder of dogs, demand strict legal action and removal from post for condoning violence Animal activists are up in arms against Janata Dal (Secular) member of Legislative Council SL...