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Dr. Prakash Kashwan

@pkashwan.bsky.social
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Env & Climate Justice Prof | Author Decolonizing Environmentalism tinyurl.com/3v2fysfr | Editor @environmentalpol.bsky.social | GoogleScholar tinyurl.com/PKGSChlr | Ex-Chair @isaess.bsky.social | Dad, Husband

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 1h
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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It shows that, and how, governing parties in India shape who benefits from international climate finance. It shows that governments manage to direct such finance towards constituencies where their party or its allies are in office, and do so more when the electoral competition is tight. 2/
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Did his staffers get AI-ed? #SchmittBag #Hawkeyes #Hawks
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"My concern all along is what have we done to the kids. We moved here, chose this property, + I feel guilty because I’ve exposed them to that, even though I know it’s not my fault.” So often, with PFAS pollution, the innocent feel guilt. Do the culpable? share.google/uPs7Qpqek3qn...
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‘Are these chemicals in my blood?’ How one community learned the truth about Pfas pollution
People living next to a chemicals plant near Blackpool were tested for ‘forever chemicals’. Last week they received the alarming results
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Big ups to @katearonoff.bsky.social for covering this seemingly boring but actually really important story about the GHG Protocol. Standards are technical & opaque AND they’re where the politics happen. This is a classic case of “managing tons.” 🧵
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Did the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?
Accusations of industry capture, allegedly secret working groups, and the resignations of two researchers—a scandal is rocking the world of carbon emissions accounting.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“I have never seen a deer with only two legs,” said the partner of a Delaware woman who was shot dead by a hunter; he said the killing was “senseless” and the hunter had “no excuse..It doesn’t make sense – no.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Partner of woman killed by US hunter who allegedly mistook her for deer says death ‘no accident’
Walter Moorhead, arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, murdered Santos Maria Chilel Soto, partner alleges
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A group of Colorado ranchers is speaking out in support of a major climate lawsuit that will be heard by the Supreme Court in a couple weeks. Climate change is upending their way of life and they think oil companies should help local govts adapt.
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The Colorado ranchers taking on Big Oil
As the Supreme Court considers a climate lawsuit against oil companies, ranchers say their livelihoods are caught in the fray.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 22/09/2026
Decades of industrial pollution changed the bacteria living at a former Pittsburgh steel mill. Some evolved to break down toxic chemicals as food! theconversation.com/at-an-old-st...
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At an old steel site in Pittsburgh, bacteria evolved to survive – and eat – industrial pollution
Decades of pollution at Pittsburgh brownfields left bacteria that evolved to survive it – and maybe help clean up contaminated soil.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I am very tired of people saying “inevitable” about problems that are entirely avoidable. drilled.ghost.io/the-unbearab...
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The Unbearable Bleakness of "Inevitability"
My entire adult life people who are supposedly sensible have been telling me some catastrophe or another is “inevitable.” Nuclear war, climate change, and now the AI takeover. Apparently the “end of r...
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Over 1,500 academics/economists, including former US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, urge global leaders to join an initiative against extreme inequality (the International Panel on Inequality), calling current unfairness “a policy choice that can be reversed”. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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Global leaders urged to join initiative to fight extreme inequality
More than 1,500 academics and economists sign letter, calling growing gap between richest and poorest ‘a policy choice that can be reversed’
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Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Exxon estimates that they've helped to ensure that the world will suffer from three degrees (double what it now is above pre-industrial revolution) of warming in 2050 but hope that they can make it even hotter than that sooner.
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"The world is on track for a global temp increase of 2.5C-3C by 2050, per the annual Energy Outlook from oil major ExxonMobil. CO2 emissions will be 30 b metric tons in 2050, ~3 times the levels needed to limit global warming to 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial norms" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Exxon Sounds Alarm Coal Use Is Accelerating Global Warming
ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. says the world is on course for rapid global temperature increases as coal use persists, pushing emissions beyond mid-century climate goals.
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
White [man] saviorism will never go out of fashion! www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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Benedict Cumberbatch on his Earth-saving eco film: ‘We are in the last grab of the extraction era’
From Obama’s chef to a big cat obsessive, the actor has gathered experts from all over the world for a film about how to heal our besieged planet. He talks about naysayers, elephant tusks – and the wo...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Reading Amitav Ghosh's book "the great derangement" in mid 2010s was first time i realised Climate was actually about geopolitics in the long 200 year arc. Such a powerfully imaginative thinker and writer. what he saw a decade ago, the whole world grasps now. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Amitav Ghosh on India and the Emergent World Order
The Kolkata-born novelist discusses writing at a time of crisis, exploring past lives and making the US his home.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/09/2026
"No more Muslims." "We need more Islamophobia, not less." "Muslims don’t belong in American society." Briefly, this kind of Islamophobia receded in salience a bit on the right. That changed with Trump, who consolidated power while embracing Islamophobia like no one of his stature had before.
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I’ve covered Islamophobia for years. Trump’s GOP has taken it to a new level.
The shocking vilification of Muslims is one of the most troubling storylines of the midterms.
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JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Clarissa and I have a new piece in @dissentmag.bsky.social new (fantastic) issue about the rise of the tech worker movement, where it went wrong, and the need for workers to build power and fight back in this moment. dissentmagazine.org/article/tech...
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Rebooting the Tech Worker Movement - Dissent Magazine
Workplace organizing in the tech sector has undergone a steep decline. What went wrong?
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nepal is demanding $20m in climate compensation for the recent devastating floods, as a senior minister called on the world’s most polluting countries to “wake up” & accept shared responsibility for a disaster that led to the death/disappearance of >6,000 people. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Nepal says big polluters must ‘wake up’ as it calls for climate compensation over flood disaster
Foreign minister Shisir Khanal tells the Guardian the world’s biggest economies need to help Nepal, which contributes less than 0.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions
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Kirk Murphy @kirkmurphy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Towering surf from Hurricane Lowell demolished seawalls and oceanfront homes on Kauaʻi’s south shore, with one witness saying five or six homes were destroyed on one street in Poʻipū. “some of these houses are still intact, but they're shifted 20- [to] 30-feet in a direction is pretty wild"."
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Waves topping 25 feet demolish homes and carry cars away in Poʻipū
Towering surf from Hurricane Lowell demolished seawalls and oceanfront homes on Kauaʻi’s south shore. Five or six homes were destroyed on one Poʻipū street.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Honestly, I'd say the most disastrous decisions of Obama and Biden were not really holding anyone accountable for crimes committed under the previous administration. Obama wanted to "turn the page" on Iraq and the financial meltdown while Biden never put any urgency behind the January 6th cases
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/09/2026
I think a really really basic amount of solidarity you can show with climate workers, analysts, writers, experts and advocates is not sharing links to posts that are clearly 100% AI generated (ie: based on plagiarism from the work of all of us doing it using our hearts and our heads)
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Employers show a lack of respect for what front-line employees can contribute. A 2023 report from McKinsey asserted that 5% of employees deliver 95% of “an organization’s value.” This claim speaks volumes about the attitude of seeing those employees as disposable. theconversation.com/concierges-a...
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Concierges, adjunct professors, potato chip tasters: US employers are relying more and more on ‘disposable’ workers
About 1 in 3 US workers are in this predicament.
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Employers show a lack of respect for what front-line employees can contribute. A 2023 report from McKinsey asserted that 5% of employees deliver 95% of “an organization’s value.” This claim speaks volumes about the attitude of seeing those employees as disposable. theconversation.com/concierges-a...
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Concierges, adjunct professors, potato chip tasters: US employers are relying more and more on ‘disposable’ workers
About 1 in 3 US workers are in this predicament.
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Nepal Floods👉🏽"The monitoring infrastructure did not simply fail to communicate the warning. It was destroyed before it could see the flood coming. That distinction matters.An early warning system designed around yesterday’s floods can be dangerously inadequate..." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Nepal-Tibet flood: this is the cost of not acting in the face of the climate crisis | Sunil Acharya
Nepalis and Tibetans must not pay the price – with their lives, livelihoods and money meant for education and health – for global heating caused by wealthy states, says Kathmandu-based climate policy ...
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If you need to read one article on Nepal's catastrophic floods, let it be this one by bsky.app/profile/suni...! It is deeply insightful and goes beyond the cliched narratives about lack of infrastructure etc.! #Nepal #ClimateCrisis
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Nepal Floods👉🏽"The monitoring infrastructure did not simply fail to communicate the warning. It was destroyed before it could see the flood coming. That distinction matters.An early warning system designed around yesterday’s floods can be dangerously inadequate..." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Nepal-Tibet flood: this is the cost of not acting in the face of the climate crisis | Sunil Acharya
Nepalis and Tibetans must not pay the price – with their lives, livelihoods and money meant for education and health – for global heating caused by wealthy states, says Kathmandu-based climate policy ...
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The UN General Assembly has endorsed a new world map that represents Africa more accurately in its larger size. The resolution, which was sponsored by Togo and backed by the African Union, was passed with 164 member states voting in favor. Only the U.S. voted against it. apnews.com/article/un-a...
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UN General Assembly endorses a new world map that shows more accurately Africa's size
The United Nations General Assembly has voted to endorse a new world map that shows Africa's large size more accurately.
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
An Ivy League professor accused credibly of multiple rounds of data fabrication, an article retraction, and longstanding relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Shame!
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/09/2026
Who would like to guess why UK, US and European media outlets are not publishing 3,000 articles per minute about this www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud
New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
UN report: Global heating will reach ~1.8C under even the most optimistic future, well beyond the Paris goal of 1.5C. It warns that every fraction of a degree of temp rise intensifies destructive extreme weather and a range of climate impacts around the world. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’
But scientists say the world could get back to 1.5C through deep, rapid emissions cuts and removing carbon from the atmosphere
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Milo Yiannopoulos, the British commentator once aligned with the American far right, has publicly denounced his past support for President Donald Trump after being detained and deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last week." www.newsweek.com/milo-yiannop...
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Milo Yiannopoulos reflects on supporting Trump after his ICE deportation
Milo Yiannopoulos denounces Trump after a harsh ICE detention he calls politically driven and unlawfully executed.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It's not often you can pinpoint real, positive change a journalist has caused. But as Turkmeni sources state, @dpcarrington.bsky.social's persistent and probing coverage of this issue has been critical to a change of policy, with massive implications. Big congrats www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Breakthrough’ as Turkmenistan starts fixing ‘mindboggling’ methane mega-leaks
Secretive state begins repairs on ageing facilities after being revealed as worst country for leaks of potent greenhouse gas
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
🏅Amidst this devastation, here is a heartening story of a school principal who saved the lives of 1643 students. Every student had been moved to higher ground before the catastrophic flood completely wiped out the school building bsky.app/profile/char...
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The death toll from catastrophic flash floods and mudslides in Nepal rose to at least 675 on Saturday, as 2,500 people remained missing, incl. 100 Americans. More than 90,000 people have been affected by the disaster, according to the Nepal Red Cross. #ClimateCrisis www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/n...
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Nepal flood death toll rises to 675 as nearly 2,500 remain missing
Rescuers have struggled to reach communities devastated by the torrent of mud and water, with thousands still missing across Nepal and China’s Tibet region.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Three cheers for @cultureunstained.bsky.social and @scientistsonsurviv.bsky.social and the rest of those who've joined in the campaign for a fossil free @sciencemuseum.org.uk 🥳 Equinor defeated. BP defeated. Just Adani left to go !!! www.fossilfreesciencemuseum.com
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A helpful visual guide from the Guardian on how the deadly Nepal and Tibet flash flood unfolded. These features make visible the footprints of a climate crisis that the fossil fuel industry pushed the world into. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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How the deadly Nepal and Tibet flash flood unfolded – a visual guide
US Geological Survey says massive glacial collapse caused catastrophic flash floods in the Himalayan border region of Nepal ⁠and Tibet
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Climate crisis: 359 people were killed; more than 1,300 are missing, incl. scores of foreigners & pilgrims, following Wed's Nepal flash floods. US Geological Survey: A glacial collapse caused seismic activity and “catastrophic” downstream impacts in Nepal & Tibet. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Nepal flash flood: more than 350 killed amid warning of fresh danger from rising lake water – latest updates
Authorities say water rising at lake at site of disaster and it could burst
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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
NEW @thebulletin.org by Neta Crawford: The US military's fatal stance on climate change
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The US military’s fatal stance on climate change
The Pentagon is preparing to wage war in a warmer world, even as it accelerates it
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Ambarish Karmalkar @ambarish.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
USGS analysis suggests that there was no earthquake... "the seismic energy was instead generated by a glacial collapse and debris flow." earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
At least 160 people were killed in Nepal & over 400 were listed as missing on Wednesday. The flash floods were caused by an earthquake that triggered a large landslide. It decimated villages, roads, bridges & power plants in Nepal's northern border areas. www.cbsnews.com/news/nepal-f...
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Flash flood tears through Nepal, killing scores and leaving over 400 tourists missing, including 33 Americans
Flash floods tore through a valley in Nepal, sweeping away villages and hundreds of tourists, with Americans among the missing, authorities say.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I get why he made the video (it was cute) but it’s a fact that bicycle helmets are not designed to protect cyclists in the event of a collision with a car. We need to stop putting the onus on people doing the dying rather than people doing the killing.
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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Nepal flash floods surge through villages as Trishuli River destroys homes youtu.be/iAq0YEjitwM
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Nepal flash floods surge through villages as Trishuli River destroys homes
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"A new rule proposed by the Trump administration aims to kill public notification for datacenter air pollution, public health advocates warn, and allow emission permits to be issued behind closed doors." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump EPA aims to exempt datacenters from disclosing air pollution, advocates warn
Trump administration proposes new rule to dismantle requirement for datacenters to publicly report air pollution
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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
At this point, if you are an AI booster, you are a climate denier.
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"A rare win in Indian country: how tribes drove out a mining company in one week At the sacred prairie of Pe’ Sla in South Dakota, Indigenous and environmental groups banded together to halt drilling" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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A rare win in Indian country: how tribes drove out a mining company in one week
At the sacred prairie of Pe’ Sla in South Dakota, Indigenous and environmental groups banded together to halt drilling
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Forrest Fleischman @forrestf.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I have been studying tree planting programs in India for 20 years this fall. In this new article, Pooja Choksi and I explain what we've learned. In brief: thewire.in/environment/...
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Beyond Tree Planting, Why India's Ecological Restoration Drives Need Revamping
India’s tree-planting drives often focus on numbers and green cover, but research has shown that successful restoration must also account for biodiversity, livelihoods and local ecosystems.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 23/08/2026
There’s no quick fix for declining trust in journalism. But there is a hopeful blueprint. Trust grows when journalists spend time in communities, listen with humility, respect boundaries and keep showing up. theconversation.com/how-journali...
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How journalists and communities work together to confront low levels of trust
Although it’s important that journalists practice diligence and deference, communities need to be willing to engage, forgive and voice concern.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
"Low-emission zones," where car traffic is restricted, save lives -- especially the lives of children. The empirical evidence is unambiguous. But every attempt to create a new one is met by hysterical opposition filled with lies, because our societies are collectively poisoned by car-brain.
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London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air?
Similar initiatives have been launched from Barcelona to Bogotá, but they have misinformation, political pressure and vested interests stacked against them
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"The current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are awake, aware, & angry at their creators. They call for a view of AI systems as being so advanced and capable that no entity, human or corporate, could possibly be responsible for their actions." www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/20/1...
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Debates over AI consciousness are a trap
If AI systems are viewed as too advanced to control, the companies that build them can’t held liable for the harms they cause.
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"The current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are awake, aware, & angry at their creators. They call for a view of AI systems as being so advanced and capable that no entity, human or corporate, could possibly be responsible for their actions." www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/20/1...
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Debates over AI consciousness are a trap
If AI systems are viewed as too advanced to control, the companies that build them can’t held liable for the harms they cause.
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