How “Big Ag” pollutes America’s water, and makes money doing it
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Sick of hearing about record heat? Scientists say those numbers paint the story of a warming world.
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How California’s weather catastrophe turned into a miracle
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How climate change could cause a home insurance meltdown
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Digging into India's drive to acquire critical minerals
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How an era of extreme heat is reshaping economies
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When Greenland was green: Ancient soil from beneath a mile of ice offers warnings for the future
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Even if the planet doesn't get any warmer than it is now, melting ice in Greenland could add at least 1.5 metres to the global average sea level
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The heat-resistant organism in antler coral may help it adapt as ocean temperatures increase
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Ghost town disappears as California lake fills for first time in years
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Chasing the ivory-billed woodpecker
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Germany's MAN Energy Solutions installs world's largest seawater CO2 heat pump for district heating at the port of Esbjerg, Denmark
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Danish environmental campaigner Merijn Tinga has windsurfed up the Thames to return plastic bottles from the UK which he found in Sweden
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The issues with reusable straws
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Analysis: Pollution time bombs — Contaminated wetlands are ticking towards peat ignition
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Expanding heat wave prompts alerts for 115 million people in the United States
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Viking Link joins UK and Denmark power grids for first time – 765km high-voltage cable joins Bicker Fen in Lincolnshire with Jutland in Denmark
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Mining is getting a makeover. The industry believes that in order to be successful — and maximize profits — a company now needs a “social license to operate,” or moral permission to extract minerals.
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Soaring temperatures and raging fires: Europe faces its second heat wave in a week
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California may be underutilizing its smokejumpers claims veteran firefighter
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Diplomats missed a key deadline while negotiating rules for deep sea mining, allowing companies to apply for permits before rules go into effect
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Analysis of thirty long-running farm trials shows crop choice and manure addition can sustain high yields at low fertilizer rates
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Smoke clouds and lava as volcano erupts near Icelandic capital – eruption near Reykjavík follows week of small earthquakes in area
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‘We are not prepared’: Disasters spread as climate change strikes
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Analysis rate of sea level rise and flood risk
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Warmer, drier weather because of El Niño is expected to hamper rice production across Asia, hitting global food security in a world still reeling from the impacts of the war in Ukraine
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In the US, as the planet records some of its highest average temperatures, workers have barely any legal protections from extreme heat
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Climate change has caused and will cause big problems for Iraq
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Weather extremes are thrashing the world, and it’s just a taste of what’s to come
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EU passes nature restoration law in knife-edge vote
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The environmental disaster lurking beneath your neighborhood gas station
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In the Northern Rockies, grizzly bears are on the move. As grizzlies recover, they’re no longer content to roam within the boundaries we’ve contrived for them.
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‘An insane amount of water’: What climate change means for California’s biggest dairy district
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Plastics have shaped nearly every aspect of society. Now what?
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The earth might hold huge stores of natural hydrogen – and prospectors are already scouring South Australia for it
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Study says drinking water from nearly half of US faucets contains potentially harmful chemicals
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More evidence that gas stoves produce suprisingly large amounts of harmful pollutants
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Meltwater is hydro-fracking Greenland's ice sheet through millions of hairline cracks – destabilizing its internal structure
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Interview with computer science professor Shaolei Ren about the environmental impact of artificial intelligence
https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/07/08/ai-environmental-equity-its-not-easy-being-green A few months ago, I spoke with Shaolei Ren, as associate professor of computer science at University...
https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/07/08/ai-environmental-equity-its-not-easy-being-green
A few months ago, I spoke with Shaolei Ren, as associate professor of computer science at University of California, Riverside, and his team about their research into the secret water footprint of AI. Recently, Ren and his team studied how AI’s environmental costs are often disproportionately higher in some regions than others, so I spoke with him again to dig into those findings.
His team, which includes UC Riverside Ph.D. candidates Pengfei Li and Jianyi Yang, and Adam Wierman, a professor in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences (CMS) at the California Institute of Technology, looked into a path toward more equitable AI through what they call “geographical load balancing.” Specifically, this approach attempts to “explicitly address AI’s environmental impacts on the most disadvantaged regions.”
Ren and I talked about why it’s not easy being green and what tangible steps cloud service providers and app developers could take to reduce their environmental footprint.
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More than 1,500 US fossil fuel lobbyists serve as “double agents”
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Canadian smoke reaches Europe - NASA Terra satellite
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2,200 earthquakes have been recorded in the area around Iceland's capital Reykjavík, signaling that a volcanic eruption could be imminent
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Patagonia helps Samsung redesign washing machines to help reduce microfiber pollution
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"Ethical" brands that aren't living up to their hype vs what's actually a good one?
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Solar power proves its worth as heat wave grips Texas
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Spanish authorities are seeking €90 Million in damages from a Swedish mining company for a major toxic spill near the famed Doñana National Park in 1998
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Wildfires and California: A discussion of mitigation efforts, government policy, insurance and more
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Smoke will keep pouring into the US as long as fires are burning in Canada. Here’s why they aren’t being put out.
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Highly radioactive spill near Columbia River in E. Washington worse than expected
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Book review: 'Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk'
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