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Satellites Reveal America’s Top 15 Methane Super-Emitters (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-17 | tags: methane emissions, satellites, oil and gas basins

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Al Gore says the real AI risk isn’t data centers — it’s what industry leaders are warning about (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-16 | by Connie Loizos | tags: al gore, ai data centers, air conditioning emissions

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Al Gore has a surprisingly calm take on the AI data center backlash (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-16 | by Connie Loizos | tags: al gore, ai data centers, climate movement

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Trump EPA moves to wipe out climate rules for power plants (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-15 | get Airthings View Plus air quality monitor → | tags: epa, carbon pollution standards, clean air act

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Maersk is testing a giant spinning cylinder to cut fuel use on cargo ships (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-11 | get Ninety Percent of Everything Rose George book → | tags: maersk, rotor sail, cargo ships

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Climate 'Feedback Loops' Could Worsen Global Warming By 30%, Study Finds (slashdot.org)

2026-09-11 | tags: climate feedback loops, permafrost thaw, methane emissions

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Overlooked Climate Feedback Loops Could Make Global Warming 30% Worse (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-10 | tags: climate feedback loops, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions

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Google signs its biggest rice-methane carbon credit deal with Indian startup Mitti Labs (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-10 | by Jagmeet Singh | get Zojirushi Neuro Fuzzy rice cooker → | tags: google, mitti labs, carbon credits

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Atmospheric CH4 plateau sustained by NOx emission rise and southward shift (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-02 | by Zhu | get Temtop M2000 air quality monitor CO2 → | tags: noaa, methane, intergovernmental panel

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The World’s Most-Used Material Has a Massive Carbon Problem. A Bolt of Plasma May Fix It (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-31 | tags: carbon emissions, plasma technology, industrial materials

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These trees are making air quality in cities worse (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-20 | by Basu | tags: weeping willow, ozone emissions, urban vegetation

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London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone cleaned up the city’s air. Then children’s lungs got bigger (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: ultra low emission zone, london, vehicle emissions

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How the Middle East can become a hub for sustainable aviation fuels (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-18 | by Jiang | tags: sustainable aviation fuels, strait of hormuz, middle east energy

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Microsoft Ups Investment in Polluting AI, but Cuts Down Carbon Removal by 80% (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: microsoft, carbon removal, emissions

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Ancient rise in CO2 was catastrophic for forests: what that means for today’s plants (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-13 | by Dinneen | tags: paleocene-eocene thermal maximum, co2 emissions, natural history museum

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AI Could Help Fossil Fuel Companies Create More Emissions (wired.com)

2026-08-11 | by Molly Taft | tags: microsoft, artificial intelligence, fossil fuels

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AI’s biggest climate problem may not be data centers (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: fossil fuel, data centers, emissions

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Amazon’s New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States (futurism.com)

2026-08-11 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: amazon web services, ai data center, pecos county

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Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S. (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-08 | by Anthony Ha | tags: amazon, carbon, carbon emissions

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AI Data Centers Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of Air Pollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: centers, data centers, emissions

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Food packaging is entering a new era of scrutiny (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: food packaging, sustainability, carbon emissions

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French climate lawsuit over corporate emissions signals the next global legal fight (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: french court, european oil company, climate lawsuit

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All living things emit a faint glow. Could this light be useful? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-28 | by Marchant | tags: biophotons, cells, emissions

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A California city wants to ban new drive-thrus. Here’s why (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: california, napa, drive-thrus

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How much energy do data centers and artificial intelligence use? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-23 | by Hannah Ritchie | tags: data centers, artificial intelligence, electricity

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Nobody knows how bad corporate AI emissions really are. This startup has a way to estimate them (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: corporate ai, ai emissions, ai data centers

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Fans Flocked to World Cup Host Cities—Causing 80 Percent of the Tournament’s Emissions (wired.com)

2026-07-20 | by Ritsuko Kawai | tags: fifa world cup, university of cambridge, greenhouse gas emissions

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How to Abandon Your Climate Commitments and Get Away with It (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-19 | tags: climate commitments, environmental policy, government regulation

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EU defangs a key pillar of its climate policy to allow more pollution (engadget.com)

2026-07-17 | by Steve Dent | tags: eu emissions trading system, linear reduction factor, carbon border tax

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AI-driven Datacenter Builds Increased Microsoft's Emissions 25% In One Year (slashdot.org)

2026-07-12 | by Posted | tags: carbon, emissions, energy