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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Scientists Urge Consumers to Stop Buying Products Made From Antarctic Krill apple.news/APKBc45NwQ7u...
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Scientists Urge Consumers to Stop Buying Products Made From Antarctic Krill — Inside Climate News
A new global boycott comes as major retailers withdraw krill products from their shelves to protect whales and other marine life.
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New Documents Add to Evidence in Climate Deception Case Against ExxonMobil apple.news/AbMt82575TmC...
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New Documents Add to Evidence in Climate Deception Case Against ExxonMobil — Inside Climate News
Court filings by the Massachusetts attorney general’s office include previously undisclosed documents, revealing new details about internal deliberations at the oil giant.
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
World's largest penguin colony hit by 'alarming' decline in numbers apple.news/AyKCW-FvISaG...
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World's largest penguin colony hit by 'alarming' decline in numbers — BBC News
Climate change is blamed for dramatic decline of chinstrap penguins living on a remote volcanic island.
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash apple.news/AwQQZDuCvSFu...
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Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash — Ars Technica
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires apple.news/Az9Ei6COIQee...
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Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires — The Guardian
FOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Google Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center Project apple.news/AJbA5TEGYTDC...
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Google Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center Project — Futurism
It's "gross incompetence," or "gross disregard" for the law. Or both. As the AI race reaches white-hot temperatures, big tech companies are caught up in a heated race to build as many pollution-belchi...
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Meta Is Using Its Massive AI Data Centers to Avoid Paying Billions of Dollars in Taxes apple.news/A2Z_REpj9Rb6...
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Meta Is Using Its Massive AI Data Centers to Avoid Paying Billions of Dollars in Taxes — Futurism
As if AI data centers alone weren't infuriating enough. The AI industry’s data centers aren’t belching pollution, driving their neighbors bonkers with screeching noise, and using up vast amounts of po...
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
US datacenter discharged large amounts of pollution for almost a year with no permits apple.news/ASl4PMVbpSLK...
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US datacenter discharged large amounts of pollution for almost a year with no permits — The Guardian
Records show Vineland facility in New Jersey emitted health-harming pollution before regulators stepped in
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
States sue to stop Trump’s retreat on power plant emissions apple.news/AbS-2sjp-SRO...
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States sue to stop Trump’s retreat on power plant emissions — The Washington Post
The Trump administration’s abandonment of climate rules at the nation’s most polluting power plants is being challenged in federal court by 21 states, the District of Columbia and three major cities i...
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Will new EU methane rules really push up gas prices in Europe? apple.news/AeLn6vle-Toi...
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Methane is responsible for 30% of global warming – so why is the EU trying to delay rules to cut it? — Euronews
“Methane is the quickest brake we have on warming this decade. Before ministers agree to ease off it, I'd ask them to look very carefully at what it actually costs.”
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Swiss glaciers suffer 'disastrous' year of ice loss, threatening water supplies apple.news/AHmK2PL_MTZO...
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Swiss glaciers suffer 'disastrous' year of ice loss, threatening water supplies — BBC News
Scientists say such rapid melting is no longer surprising given the pace of climate change.
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
US utilities earn F as coal retirements fall, gas plans rise, and climate goals backslide apple.news/Ajlv8KOGsQYu...
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US utilities earn F as coal retirements fall, gas plans rise, and climate goals backslide — The Cool Down
"The utilities studied scored 7/100." Sep 27, 2026 A new Sierra Club analysis says that the nation's largest electric utilities are sliding backward on clean energy. Rather than accelerating coal reti...
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI datacentre apple.news/ApFOAZk6fSYK...
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‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI datacentre — The Guardian
Plans for one of Europe’s largest AI campuses in a Unesco-designated reserve have sparked a fierce local backlash
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We can’t stop the ‘Godzilla’ El Niño – but can we limit its damage? apple.news/AE0-xLxfxTMa...
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‘Godzilla’ El Niño to be the strongest in living memory. How can we prepare for the unavoidable? — Euronews
El Niño can’t be stopped, but experts say better preparation and climate action could reduce the damage both now and in the future.
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer apple.news/AlxPgeau9QNO...
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UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer — The Guardian
El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
'No world in which you can escape': Expert says climate change is coming for everyone apple.news/AKvJO9EozSR-...
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'No world in which you can escape': Expert says climate change is coming for everyone — The Cool Down
"Yeah, your wealth doesn't protect you." Sep 19, 2026 Climate change is sometimes seen as a distant crisis or someone else's problem. However, a stark warning highlighted by Novara Media pushes back o...
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn apple.news/ATDkmV36URVi...
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn — The Guardian
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There's a Reef in Indonesia That's Bombed Every Hour of Every Day apple.news/A32jzMAe3TfO...
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There's a Reef in Indonesia That's Bombed Every Hour of Every Day — Surfer
Blast, or bomb fishing is an old habit that dies hard in the tropics.
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports apple.news/Akrn1CMyNTTu...
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How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports — The Guardian
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak apple.news/AQfWQ21aHTkq...
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‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak — The Guardian
‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Burning forests, emptying rivers, €180bn in damage: Europe’s politicians face reckoning after ‘summer of truth’ apple.news/Ag1OYMyisTg2...
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Burning forests, emptying rivers, €180bn in damage: Europe’s politicians face reckoning after ‘summer of truth’ — The Guardian
Amid record-shattering heatwaves and popular demand for climate action, why are politicians often timid or in denial?
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Alarming new map reveals when individual glaciers could vanish as planet warms apple.news/ASkz1HtJaRSO...
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Alarming new map reveals when individual glaciers could vanish as planet warms — The Cool Down
The website also offers a direct way to see how quickly conditions may change if warming continues. Sep 18, 2026 People can now zoom in on one of climate change's clearest warnings through a new inter...
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Environment, health groups sue over Trump move to wipe out climate rules for power plants apple.news/AuzC6PhuTSsW...
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Environment, health groups sue over Trump move to wipe out climate rules for power plants — The Hill
Environmental and public health-focused organizations are suing the Trump administration over its move to wipe out most climate regulations on coal and gas power plants.
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Satellites Reveal America's Top 15 Methane Super-Emitters apple.news/AHUPLLyfZSl-...
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Satellites Reveal America's Top 15 Methane Super-Emitters — Gizmodo
A new report ranks the highest emitting methane sources from three major oil and gas basins in the U.S.
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Planet’s atmosphere breaks record for water vapour levels increasing risk of extreme heat and rainfall apple.news/ASj2JqypgTEC...
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Planet’s atmosphere breaks record for water vapour levels increasing risk of extreme heat and rainfall — The Guardian
Global heating contributes to record, with a warmer atmosphere able to hold more water, scientists say
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Iran war is driving clean energy development. It's not enough to help the planet, yet apple.news/APHEiN7mxRh-...
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The Iran war is driving clean energy development. It's not enough to help the planet, yet — The Associated Press
Countries are embracing clean power and taking steps to use less energy because of the war against Iran. But it is not yet enough to help address climate change.
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Airlines should pay for CO2 removal if Heathrow expands, say climate advisers apple.news/A6dLC-j3aRja...
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Airlines should pay for CO2 removal if Heathrow expands, say climate advisers — The Guardian
Climate Change Committee says government cannot expand airport without requiring aviation industry to clean up its emissions
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump’s EPA Will Let Power Companies Unleash Unlimited Greenhouse Gas Pollution apple.news/AkD39lO8CRhC...
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Trump’s EPA Will Let Power Companies Unleash Unlimited Greenhouse Gas Pollution — Futurism
Giving climate change the coal shoulder. Climate change? What climate change? Choosing to bury their heads in the sand on behalf of the citizens of this country and perhaps the planet at large, the Tr...
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Iceland to propose whaling ban, leaving Norway and Japan isolated apple.news/AwVu8YirmRzi...
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Iceland to propose whaling ban, leaving Norway and Japan isolated — Reuters
Iceland's government will submit a bill in February to ban whaling, a move that would leave Norway and Japan as the ​only two countries in the world to continue commercial whaling.
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Is Europe’s largest carbon capture project ‘a pass to keep polluting’ apple.news/AcU5raBh-Q6-...
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Delay tactic or genuine solution? Carbon capture under fire again as EU invests in ‘unproven’ technology — Euronews
Carbon capture and storage has been found to be “technically uncertain and very high cost”.
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
East Coast states are losing a key power source as offshore wind projects stall, shrink, or vanish apple.news/A_Nl-qVFeS2W...
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East Coast states are losing a key power source as offshore wind projects stall, shrink, or vanish — The Cool Down
"The wind resource, and even the solar resource, in the Eastern U.S. is not nearly as good as it is in the West." Sep 09, 2026 With the wind-energy industry in the United States squeezed by financial ...
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Climate scientist says he was fired at West Point after refusing to omit human causes apple.news/AWlasOz2VRpa...
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Climate scientist says he was fired at West Point after refusing to omit human causes — The Cool Down
"Would be like trying to teach the law without being able to even mention the Constitution." Sep 05, 2026 West Point's only climate scientist says the academy pushed him out after he refused to omit a...
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Grinding up fish to feed to fish is ‘absurd’: fears over UN aquaculture plan apple.news/AZmbq664OS9m...
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Grinding up fish to feed to fish is ‘absurd’: fears over UN aquaculture plan — The Guardian
Huge rollout of fish farms could harm ecosystems and threaten vulnerable communities’ food sources, say experts
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
United Nations Concedes That Efforts to Arrest Climate Change Have Failed, and the Planet Is Now Spiraling Into Environmental Catastrophe apple.news/AU5TfjizmQ7W...
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United Nations Concedes That Efforts to Arrest Climate Change Have Failed, and the Planet Is Now Spiraling Into Environmental Catastrophe — Futurism
We now need to "face the inevitability of exceeding global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius." With so many climate projections and mitigation strategies eyeing far-away years like 2050, it can be tempti...
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target. What happens now? apple.news/AkwsoUAWQSlC...
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A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target. What happens now? — The Conversation UK
It’s no longer possible to hold climate change to 1.5°C. But it’s not game over – it’s game on.
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Meet the company trying to make car tyres less toxic for the planet apple.news/AoXvyW0hAT9q...
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Lower pollution, longer range: How a new type of car tyre is reversing a hidden downside of EVs — Euronews
Electric cars are cleaner to drive - but their tyres pose a pollution problem. Better materials could help fix the problem.
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Brewing 'Godzilla' El Niño, intensified by fossil fuels, could push 50 million into hunger apple.news/Axw4XbJ5GTsq...
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Brewing 'Godzilla' El Niño, intensified by fossil fuels, could push 50 million into hunger — The Cool Down
Scientists expect this event to be among the strongest in living memory. Aug 30, 2026 The El Niño weather system building in the Pacific Ocean — already being labeled a "Godzilla" event — may have con...
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
‘Breakthrough’ as Turkmenistan starts fixing ‘mindboggling’ methane mega-leaks apple.news/A232My_JLQaa...
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‘Breakthrough’ as Turkmenistan starts fixing ‘mindboggling’ methane mega-leaks — The Guardian
Secretive state begins repairs on ageing facilities after being revealed as worst country for leaks of potent greenhouse gas
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
‘Tiny bit of rain and the sewage comes’: Brighton swimmers vent fury at sea pollution apple.news/AqR7Ku1R5Tj-...
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‘Tiny bit of rain and the sewage comes’: Brighton swimmers vent fury at sea pollution — The Guardian
Checking for sewage spills has become as normal as checking the weather forecast, say swimmers on East Sussex beaches
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
New legal opening gives US communities a way to make fossil fuel giants pay for climate harm apple.news/AFAx5CWHJT8i...
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New legal opening gives US communities a way to make fossil fuel giants pay for climate harm — The Cool Down
"This science could be really useful to help communities plan for the future." Aug 30, 2026 After a year of lethal heat, flooding, and wildfire smoke, the fight over climate accountability may be ente...
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Dolphin dies from H5 bird flu in SA as researchers withdrawn from sub-Antarctic island over ‘psychosocial risk’ apple.news/AmmYvLIz4RrC...
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Dolphin dies from H5 bird flu in SA as researchers withdrawn from sub-Antarctic island over ‘psychosocial risk’ — The Guardian
Australian government announces 24 expeditioners based at research station on Macquarie Island will be evacuated over possible ‘prolonged psychological stress’
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
How climate change affects different modes of transport – from roads to railways apple.news/AFS92iWSNSw6...
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How climate change affects different modes of transport – from roads to railways — The Conversation UK
Climate change does not affect every form of transport in the same way. And the result is more than just cancelled journeys.
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
West Point’s only climate scientist fired after continuing to teach human causes of climate change apple.news/AOwzhibQfTTa...
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West Point’s only climate scientist fired after continuing to teach human causes of climate change — The Guardian
Adam Kalkstein compared administration’s order to ‘trying to teach the law’ without mentioning ‘the constitution’
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Forever chemicals’ surge during pilot of Thames Water plan to combat drought apple.news/A5Ow1x5p0Rje...
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‘Forever chemicals’ surge during pilot of Thames Water plan to combat drought — The Guardian
Exclusive: utility company wants to draw off tens of millions of litres of water a day from Thames and replace it with treated effluent
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
How narwhal 'scientists' track Arctic warming apple.news/AAWUIoBwERsC...
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How narwhal 'scientists' track Arctic warming — AFP News
The fight against climate change has a new, spiral-tusked ally: the narwhal.
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Researchers define 'snow eaters,' a category of heat wave that can strip inches of snowpack overnight apple.news/A7vycXysMTQO...
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Researchers define 'snow eaters,' a category of heat wave that can strip inches of snowpack overnight — The Cool Down
Water that would ideally melt over a longer period can surge out all at once. Aug 26, 2026 A newly defined kind of heat wave is giving scientists a more precise way to describe a familiar, fast-moving...
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Sand overextraction weakening riverbanks as concrete demand soars apple.news/AqAQZfp4RQJC...
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Sand overextraction weakening riverbanks as concrete demand soars — The Guardian
Research finds demand has more than doubled since 2000 and 80% of current demand comes from Asia
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Are Arctic plants cooperating to survive a warming climate? apple.news/AGPQVZph7RCe...
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'Mini jungle': Alaska is getting greener as the climate warms – with cascading effects — Euronews
A lush knee-high jungle grows in the Arctic, but warming is changing Earth's mini-greenhouse.
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds apple.news/Ausm3WAxcSxi...
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Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds — The Guardian
Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running
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Jeff @whiters.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields, analysis shows apple.news/ASnXrumRISpu...
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Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields, analysis shows — The Guardian
Exclusive: Economic harm of CO2 pollution from Rosebank and Jackdaw forecast to far outweigh any boost to UK
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