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Mongabay
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Shark Meat Nation
Brazil is the world’s largest consumer and importer of shark meat. But it’s not just restaurants and grocery stores — a Mongabay investigation found that the country’s government agencies have purchas...
Watts Up With That
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Net Zero Just Cut Aussie Wheat Production by 50%
Too bad all those Aussie oil refineries had to close.The postNet Zero Just Cut Aussie Wheat Production by 50%appeared first onWatts Up With That?.
CO2 Coalition
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Can US and India Forge a ‘Big, Beautiful’ Energy Deal?
By Vijay Jayaraj U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to India produced much-needed diplomatic momentum, with more ground to cover on the energy front. Even with an Indian commitment to purchas...
Climate Realism (Heartland)
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RCP8.5 Has Been Dropped: What It Means — and What It Doesn’t
Guest post by CERES Science. The developers of the greenhouse gas emissions scenarios for the IPCC’s next assessment report (AR7) have officially dropped RCP8.5 – the high-emissions pathway long treat...
Yale Environment 360
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The Pilgrimage to Mecca Is Becoming More Dangerous as Mideast Warms
Global heating has “fundamentally altered” the climate of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and is exposing millions of hajj pilgrims to extreme and dangerous heat even in months outside summer, a new analysis has...
Climate Depot
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Climate Science Without Its Most Discredited Worst-Case Scenario – The IPCC has retired RCP 8.5 & introduced seven model replacements
Climate Science Without Its Most Discredited Worst-Case Scenario by Morgan Sweeney The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change threw out one of its most extreme emissions scenarios l...
Mongabay
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Brooklyn Rivera, defender of Nicaragua’s Indigenous lands, dies in detention
La Moskitia, on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast, is often treated in Managua as a frontier: timber, gold, cattle, rivers, votes, and military concern. To the Miskitu, Sumu-Mayangna, Rama, Garífuna, and Cr...
Watts Up With That
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The Rice Catastrophe Paper and the RCP 8.5 Rug-Pull
Rice has fed civilizations through the Holocene Climatic Optimum, the mid-Holocene warm spike, the Medieval Warm Period, and the Little Ice Age. The paper’s own author concedes that aggregate producti...
Mongabay
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Europe removes record number of dams in 2025 to restore rivers, help species
A massive slab of wartime concrete blocked the Pčinja River in Kumanovo, North Macedonia for more than 70 years. A 53-meter-long and 30-meter-wide (174 by 98 feet) structure of reinforced concrete pac...
Watts Up With That
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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #692
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits..” — Albert EinsteinThe postWeekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #692appeared first onWatts Up With That?.
Mongabay
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In Brazil, a project paying farmers for forests is looking to scale up
Landowner Carlos Roberto Simonetti gets three harvests per year from the corn, soy and cotton plantations on his 17,000-hectare (about 42,000 acres) farm called Fazenda Natureza Feliz, or Happy Nature...
Mongabay
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The global trafficking ring preying on a rare golden monkey from Brazil
Smuggled in cars, aboard airplanes, or on sailboats crossing the Atlantic Ocean, tiny golden-furred monkeys are being wrenched from their Brazilian forest homes and trafficked overseas by sophisticate...
Watts Up With That
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Germany’s Ecological Holocaust… Once Fairy Tale Forests Getting Cleared for Wind Turbines
Germany is chronically stuck in “green” insanity. Prognosis: very poor.The postGermany’s Ecological Holocaust… Once Fairy Tale Forests Getting Cleared for Wind Turbinesappeared first onWatts Up With T...
Mongabay
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Global sand demand is outpacing nature’s ability to replenish it, UN says
The global sand mining industry removes around 50 billion metric tons of material each year, outpacing the rate at which sand replenishes through the slow geological processes of weathering, reports M...
Mongabay
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Intense heat during Mecca’s spring threatens millions of Hajj pilgrims
As millions of Muslims gather for the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, a new scientific analysis warned the “safe window” for the event is shrinking, with increased risk of heat exhaustion and ...
Mongabay
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27 Moon Bears rescued from illegal Laos bile farm
In what was described as the largest bear farm rescue in Southeast Asia, authorities in Laos in conjunction with the international NGO Free the Bears freed 27 Asiatic black bears from a foreign-owned ...
Watts Up With That
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The Real Story of the D-Day Weather Forecast
Weather prediction was a primitive, subjective affair at that time. There were no numerical weather prediction models, little understanding of jet streams and upper-level weather features, and an acu...
Mongabay
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Nature’s feedback loops can drive collapse. Thomas Crowther thinks they can also drive recovery
Thomas Crowther’s career has been shaped by large claims about small things. A seed, a patch of soil, a soundscape, a moment of fear, a local restoration project: each, in his telling, can become part...
Watts Up With That
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Lets Hope Global Temperature Stays Elevated Until the Paris Agreement Collapses
"Such temporary breaches do not mean the Paris Agreement’s long-term climate goals are unattainable" - the desperate UN push to save the Paris Agreement.The postLets Hope Global Temperature Stays Elev...