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The pollution paradox: How cleaning up smog drives ocean warming

Grist

A vast expanse of ocean stretching from Alaska to California periodically warms by up to 4 degrees Celsius (7 degrees Fahrenheit), decimating fish stocks, starving seabirds, creating blooms of toxic algae, preventing salmon returns to rivers, displacing sea lions, and forcing whales into shipping lanes to find food. Met Office.

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Major Donor to Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Owns Russian Assets

DeSmogBlog

As revealed by The Mirror and Good Law Project in the former’s print edition, Lilley controls a series of companies that own 12,000 hectares of farmland in the Stavropol region of Russia, in the south west of the country, used to produce cereals and oilseeds. Farage also has a history of denying climate science and attacking green policies.

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California Targets Nearly $400M to Fill Gaps in EV Charging Infrastructure

GreenTechMedia

Newsom’s surprise decision last month, amid record-breaking heat waves and wildfires driven by global warming, to set a 2035 deadline for ending sales of new gasoline-fueled vehicles. This week's announcement follows on Gov. That move puts California in the vanguard among U.S. and the Netherlands.

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The answer to climate-killing cow farts may come from the sea

Grist

Methane is an especially potent greenhouse gas: During its 12-year lifespan after being released, it traps 84 times as much heat as carbon dioxide, and its effect on global warming over a century is 34 times that of CO2. The need to rein in methane emissions is especially urgent in Cali­fornia, home to 1.8 million dairy cows.

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'The world is moving on': Coca-Cola's Therese Noorlander on plastic, packaging, and youth activism

Business Green

Having been crowned the most polluting brand in the world for two years running by the Break Free from Plastic campaign in its global audit of plastic waste, the firm also last year revealed it produces three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year, or the equivalent of 200,000 bottles a minute.

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Wind project off North Carolina coast gets overwhelming support

Renewable Energy World

A fishing boat captain and realtor called the structures “visual pollution” and “monstrosities.” But unchecked global warming poses an exponentially greater danger. How might global warming alter its annual trek? But the southern Atlantic Ocean is also along the gannet’s migration route.

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Making the Impossible Possible

Mr. Sustainability

C stated in the Paris Agreement, according to the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming and Mercator Research Institute. But it is not just about carbon emissions… According to most estimates however, international shipping worldwide is responsible for ‘only’ 2-3% of all global greenhouse gas emissions.