Environmental Ballot Wins
Voters around the country approved measures on conservation, water and data centers on Tuesday.
Voters around the country approved measures on conservation, water and data centers on Tuesday.
This story was originally published by Capital B and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you’re a Black American (or any American, actually) worried about a data center coming to your neighborhood, the...
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Tech billionaires spent big, and data centers became a lightning rod. Satellite images reveal potential delays at two Microsoft AI data center projects, highlighting power and permitting challenges facing neoclouds. Covered by 35...
You’ve probably been hearing a lot about data centers this week. Candidates in several races made regulating data centers a key part of their campaigns. Now, 40 ballot measures to slow or stop data centers have...
Thousands across the U.S. have gotten involved to oppose data centers. One is a Maryland woman who'd been evicted after a pay cut and became a leader of a community effort that blocked a vast project.
Environmental groups embrace AI, even as they warn of data center impacts Reuters
Fierce pushback to data centers helped carry Democrats to victory in key races across the nation this week, and where the centers were explicitly on the ballot, they lost overwhelmingly. Midterm voters rejected...
In a landmark event, SFC Environmental Technologies debuted on the stock exchange with a promising start, opening at a premium. The IPO garnered impressive attention, being oversubscribed 9.47 times. Institutional investors showed...
For many customers, choosing an electric vehicle (EV) is an environmentally conscious choice. But sustainability doesn't end at the showroom. It also extends to the choices people make while owning and operating their vehicles. For an...
A Halloween-themed protest against fossil fuels has targeted the first minister's residence in Edinburgh. Environmental campaigners have staged a Halloween themed demonstration outside the Scottish First Minister’s official residence...
Environmental campaigners have staged a Halloween themed demonstration outside the Scottish First Minister’s official residence over “scary” fossil fuels.
Campaigners said John Swinney is ‘not getting any treats this year’.
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Making Iran’s skies breathable, its energy reliable, and its industries competitive would be powerful measures of a free Iran’s renewal.
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CBSE drops Class environmental education New subject choices explained
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The PREMIER project, a public-private European consortium of research organizations (like Radboud University) and international pharmaceutical companies, has launched a new database to support the environmental risk assessment (ERA) of...
Scientists at Nottingham Trent University, the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in Ethiopia and Ethiopia's Jimma University wanted to explore the benefits of growing oats and alfalfa together, as...
Ancient Maya communities made extensive use of liquid mercury and a red, mercury-containing pigment called cinnabar to decorate buildings, pottery and burial sites. Unsurprisingly, as previous research has shown, this led to mercury...
Imagine a crowded dance floor where bodies move to the beat beneath a glittering disco ball. Some of the dancers pair up, drawn together by the heady atmosphere. For flies, as for humans, the right atmosphere can serve as a potent aphrodisiac.
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Exposure to toxic metals like cadmium has been associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes such as miscarriage, preterm birth and low birth weight. Because these effects are difficult and ethically challenging to study directly in...
Environmental organizations are opposing the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act, which aims to accelerate the U.S. clean energy transition by streamlining permitting processes and limiting litigation.
A former public servant gives advice on how to navigate the moral quandaries of increased AI use for government employees.
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<p> Ald. Nicole Lee on Thursday demanded a full-blown environmental review of Amtrak’s proposed maintenance facility in Bridgeport, claiming the assessment promised this week by the Federal Railroad Administration appears to be confined...
Amid growing U.S. opposition to data-centre expansion, company commits to bearing electricity and grid infrastructure costs, publishing water and power consumption, and working with unions on local hiring and training; proposes measures...
Haloferax volcanii, a model halophilic (salt-loving) archaeon, showed growth during a 160-day experiment simulating Martian subsurface brine, according to a paper published in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Changeworks wins Environmental Social Enterprise 2026 for tackling fuel poverty, improving home energy efficiency and supporting Scotland’s net-zero transition.
Invasive alien species (IAS) are one of the main causes of biodiversity loss worldwide. A study published Nov. 4, 2026, in the journal PLOS One by Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth at Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Germany, and...
Fires in the U.S. are getting faster, larger and more dangerous, but people continue to develop and move into fire-prone regions. New research from the University of Colorado Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental...
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The US Environmental Protection Agency sent out an advisory warning Windham residents to not eat any fish caught from Presumpscot River that flows downstream from the Keddy Mill site building.
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We are in the midst of a Super El-Niño. Chris Fletcher, chair of the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo, unpacks what that could mean for Canadian winters. »»» Subscribe to CBC News to...
Environmental Defense Fund analysis shows administration handed out $950m and Clean Air Act exemptions It’s a good time to be a coal plant in the US. The Trump administration has given support to almost half of the nation’s coal plants,...
Authorities allege company may have breached Finnish environmental laws by forgoing required impact assessment ‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre Finnish police have launched a...
Finnish police have launched a criminal investigation into Google after reports that it illegally destroyed trees for its planned data centres. The incident has caused outrage over what critics describe as an...
Remember the furore over Google's AI data center in Finland? The police are now investigating the matter.
The tech giant allegedly cleared hundreds of hectares of forest before environmental checks were done.
The tech giant allegedly cleared hundreds of hectares of forest before environmental checks were done.
Nicola Shaw, who has led the company since 2022, will step down in January, it is announced. Nicola Shaw is stepping down after the company was handed its lowest possible environmental rating, amid mounting criticism over pollution....
Nicola Shaw is stepping down after the company was handed its lowest possible environmental rating, amid mounting criticism over pollution.
Yorkshire Water has announced its chief executive is stepping down - a day after the company was given the lowest environmental rating by regulators.