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Restored California wetlands still released greenhouse gases, study finds

California has spent decades restoring wetlands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, hoping that reflooded farmland can rebuild soil, store carbon and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A new study published titled Interannual Variability in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Challenges Post-Restoration Net Sink Predictions in California Delta Wetlands in Global Change Biology…

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Nepal seeks climate compensation from India, China and US after deadly floods leave 4,000 missing

Nepal seeks climate compensation from world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. Deadly floods killed over a thousand people and left many missing. The nation demands justice for climate-related losses and damages. Nepal is pressing wealthier nations for climate funding ahead of a UN summit. This push highlights the global debate…

The Economic Times

Floating wetlands a promising way to decrease wastewater emissions: new research

Treating dirty waste water solves one environmental problem but creates another by releasing large amounts of climate emissions. As microorganisms break down sewage, they release carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide – three potent greenhouse gases.

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In 2017, USGS and MIT researchers dated a magma pulse to 251.9 million years ago. 9 years later, it links to Earth's worst extinction

Earth faced its worst extinction event around 252 million years ago. Volcanic activity in the Siberian Traps is the leading explanation for this crisis. New dating places a major magmatic phase near the extinction's start. Underground magma interacting with sedimentary rocks released greenhouse gases.

The Economic Times

Something is thawing beneath Alaska — and the price tag could be $43 trillion

Alaska's tundra holds immense frozen carbon stores which are thawing. This thaw releases greenhouse gases, potentially causing significant global economic damage. Researchers estimate this damage could reach forty-three trillion dollars by the year 2200. Such emissions contribute to further global warming and widespread climate impacts. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions can…

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‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question

As the UK has baked through extreme heatwaves this summer, the same question has echoed across television studios and radio interviews: “Was this heatwave caused by climate change?”

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Will Courts Uphold the EPA's Rescission of the "Endangerment Finding"?

The legal arguments put forward by the EPA are weak and unpersuasive, and could undermine the Administration's position in other climate litigation.

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Lakes that ‘breathe’ ancient carbon: a surprising find in the Congo Basin

In the heart of the Congo Basin’s Cuvette Centrale, a large depression hosting the world’s biggest tropical wetland complex, lie two vast, shallow blackwater lakes, Lake Tumba and Lake Mai Ndombe. Together they are roughly the size of 420,000 football fields.

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Why This Australia-India Deal Matters More Than You Think

India's demand for electricity is rising faster than ever as cities expand, industries grow, and millions of people require reliable power every day. While solar and wind energy continue to grow, they cannot generate electricity around the clock. That is where nuclear energy becomes important. India's latest uranium supply agreement…

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Earth’s deep memory is thawing with the Arctic permafrost, degrading records of our ancient world

Permafrost usually hits the news as a hazard; a planetary risk. When this ice-rich ground thaws, it damages roads and building foundations. It drains lakes and tips trees into drunken forests. It releases greenhouse gases that have been locked in carbon-rich soils for thousands of years, amplifying warming, driving further…

The Conversation

Planned Texas data centers could emit more greenhouse gases than many countries

Texas regulators are allowing AI data centers across the state to start up thousands of new pollution sources with no public notice or environmental reviews.

The Texas Tribune

Oceans hit record June temperatures as El Niño builds: Why the world is heading for more heat, floods and stronger cyclones

The world is heading for more heat, floods and stronger cyclones because record-breaking ocean temperatures are loading the climate system with enormous amounts of extra energy. More than 90% of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases has been absorbed by the oceans, causing sea surface temperatures to reach record…

The Times of India

Trump ramps up war on regulations with 702 cuts in pipeline

The Trump administration is aggressively cutting federal red tape, aiming to eliminate 702 regulations by September. This move, unprecedented in its scale, targets environmental reviews, energy standards, and diversity initiatives, projecting $1.5 trillion in economic savings. A key rollback involves repealing the "endangerment finding" for greenhouse gases, a cornerstone of…

The Economic Times

Texas leads nation in proposed power plants for data centers, which would emit large amounts of greenhouse gases

Nearly half of the power plants planned to supply electricity for data centers would be in Texas. Experts warn they will emit significant pollution that could harm the health of communities nearby.

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The Arctic is sitting on a 63-billion-ton carbon secret, and scientists are concerned

Beneath the Arctic’s frozen surface lies a hidden carbon reserve of nearly 63 billion tons. As rising temperatures thaw ancient permafrost, scientists warn this vast storehouse could release greenhouse gases that accelerate climate change faster than previously expected.

The Independent UK

Trump eases refrigerant rule in a bid to address surging grocery costs

The Trump administration is loosening a federal rule that requires grocery stores and air-conditioning companies to reduce greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment

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Trump will ease refrigerant rule in a bid to address surging grocery costs

The Trump administration is loosening a federal rule that requires grocery stores and air-conditioning companies to reduce greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment

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Trump will ease refrigerant rule in effort to address surging grocery costs

The Trump administration is loosening a federal rule that requires grocery stores and air-conditioning companies to reduce greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment

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Wars destroy lives and the climate. Why aren’t we counting military emissions?

When delegates gathered for COP30 in Belém, Brazil in November 2025, they scrutinized various sectors of the global economy for their contributions to rising greenhouse gases. Agriculture, aviation, steel, cement — all were on the table. One topic not discussed was war.

PC Gamer

Gas power projects for just 11 US data center 'campuses' could emit more greenhouse gases than entire countries, according to report

"That terrifies me in a lot of ways."

TechRadar

The dark side of AI —shocking report reveals 11 planned AI data centers connected to OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft could produce more greenhouse gases than Morocco

New AI data centers could emit more greenhouse gases than an entire nation.

Salon

Trump's EPA rollback meets resistance

EPA says it can’t regulate greenhouse gases — NRDC, Earth Justice and 24 Democratic-majority states beg to differ

Radio France Internationale

France’s first advanced chemical recycling plant opens, to criticism from NGOs

TotalEnergies' new plastics recycling plant has come under fire from environmental activists, who claim the chemicals it uses will create more greenhouse gases than conventional recycling methods.

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US states sue Trump EPA over decision to repeal bedrock climate finding

Lawsuit says rescission of endangerment finding – which ruled greenhouse gases threaten public health – was illegal

The Conversation

Will the world fill the climate leadership void left by the US?

The Trump administration pulled the rug out from underneath US federal climate policy in February, when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) overturned the landmark 2009 “endangerment finding”. Now, the official policy of the US government holds that greenhouse gases do not pose a risk to human health.

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