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- Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse? | Technology | The Guardianwww.theguardian.com Data center emissions likely 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?
Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures
>“It’s down to creative accounting,”
The tool.used by most white collar grifters.
- www.france24.com Honduran anti-mining activist who fought to save forests, rivers is killed
An environmental activist who protested mining and hydro-electric projects in northern Honduras in an effort to preserve tropical forests and rivers has been killed, police said on Sunday.
- An incredible shift in the weather has turned the Sahara greenedition.cnn.com An incredible shift in the weather has turned the Sahara green | CNN
There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, but an unusual shift in the weather pattern has caused storms to move where they typically wouldn’t.
- Leak at First CO2 Injection Site in US Exposes Dangerous Folly of Carbon Capturewww.commondreams.org Leak at First CO2 Injection Site in US Exposes Dangerous Folly of Carbon Capture | Common Dreams
"This incident puts an exclamation point on concerns communities across the country have been raising for years about the dangers the CCS industry poses to public safety and drinking water," said one climate group.
- Oregon’s Largest Natural Gas Company Said It Was Going Green. It Sells as Much Fossil Fuel as Before.www.propublica.org Oregon’s Largest Natural Gas Company Said It Was Going Green. It Sells as Much Fossil Fuel as Before.
NW Natural told Oregonians it had a new source of clean energy: renewable natural gas. Industry documents obtained by ProPublica reveal how the company has, for years, perpetuated its core fossil fuel business while painting a picture of going green.
- ‘Water Is Coming.’ Floods Devastate West and Central Africa | Flooding caused by heavy rains has left more than 1,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed.
> Although Africa produces only a fraction of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, Africans bear an exceptionally heavy burden from climate change, according to the World Meteorological Organization. > > And adapting to it will cost sub-Saharan Africa $30 billion to $50 billion annually over the next decade, or 2 to 3 percent of the region’s gross domestic product, it said. > >“The impact of climate change is what we’re witnessing right now,” said Olasunkanmi Okunola, a scientist whose study focuses on flood risk management and climate adaptation. “There’s no way we can prevent major disasters from happening, but there are steps we can take to lessen the effect.”
- grist.org Food is a huge source of methane emissions. Fixing that is no easy feat.
At least two-thirds of methane emissions come from human activity, which is both a problem and an opportunity.
- www.theguardian.com Submerged cemeteries and collapsed bridges in drone footage of Europe floods – video
Deaths have been reported in Romania, Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic
> Deaths have been reported in Romania, Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic
- theintercept.com They Protested a Military Base Expansion. So the FBI Investigated Them as Terrorism Suspects.
The FBI filed a Stop Camp Grayling protest in a terrorism investigation file — then did physical surveillance on a demonstration.
Cody Bloomfield
September 13 2024, 6:00 a.m.
"Treating the Stop Camp Grayling protesters as terrorists is the latest episode in a worldwide trend of governments smearing climate and environmental activists as terrorists — an ongoing Green Scare. Misapplication of the terrorism label frequently serves as pretext for invasive surveillance and sustained scrutiny."
- www.theguardian.com Climate scientists troubled by damage from floods ravaging central Europe
Experts unsurprised at intensity of extreme weather but say damage wreaked shows how unprepared world is
Ajit Niranjan
Mon 16 Sep 2024 07.03 EDT
- UK to appoint nature envoy for first time | Labour will also boost environmental efforts by reestablishing climate role cut by Rishi Sunakwww.theguardian.com UK to appoint nature envoy for first time
Exclusive: Labour will also boost environmental efforts by reestablishing climate role cut by Rishi Sunak
- apnews.com High Court rejects the UK's first new coal mine in 30 years
A judge has rejected plans for the U.K.'s first coal mine in three decades, delivering a victory for environmental groups.
- www.theverge.com Can satellites spot wildfires before they grow out of control?
As wildfires grow more intense, firefighters want better data.
