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Why Hasn’t Climate Change Put a Dent in Luxury Real Estate?
(Bloomberg) — About a week after NASA released satellite imagery of California’s precipitously low water reserves, Douglas Elliman published its…
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‘Climate Chancellor’ Merkel Leaves Germans Flooded and Frustrated
(Bloomberg Markets) — Angela Merkel’s slow-motion departure from the German political stage took an ironic turn in April as the…
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FEATURE-Catching fire: AI is helping scarce firefighters better predict blazes
By Avi Asher-Schapiro, Thomson Reuters Foundation * Artificial intelligence helps model fires before they break out * Tech tools allow…
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A Startup Plans to Mine the Ocean Floor. It Could Be a Disaster.
(Bloomberg Opinion) — The sea floor between Hawaii and Mexico is covered in potato-sized rocks that contain many of the…
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PG&E’s Wildfire Plan: 10,000-Mile Trench Warfare
(Bloomberg Opinion) — When you’ve been stuck in the bunker as long as PG&E has, going underground is second nature.…
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The Saudi Prince of Oil Prices Vows to Drill ‘Every Last Molecule’
(Bloomberg Markets) — The Boeing 767 banked over the Red Sea, turning east into Saudi Arabia. A commercial version of…
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Greening Energy to Fight Climate Threat May Cost $92 Trillion
(Bloomberg) — Governments and companies will need to invest at least $92 trillion by 2050 in order to cut emissions…
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Proposed new rules to curb Colorado commuters rile businesses
The state of Colorado wants all large businesses in the metro Denver area to track what their employees do before…
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Trial Arrives for a Mastermind of Honduran Activist’s Murder
Last August, a Honduran court ruled David Castillo would finally face trial on charges he planned the 2016 murder of…
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China Is Carrying Out the World’s Largest Climate Migration Program
It’s the Dragon Boat Festival in early summer and Xiang Yang and his wife are sitting outside their house in…
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Greenland suspends oil exploration because of climate change
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The left-leaning government of Greenland has decided to suspend all oil exploration off the world’s largest…
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Winning a Policy Debate Is All About Timing
How do policy options move to the top of a party’s agenda? The short answer: when groups fight for them,…
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai: Climate is ‘bar none’ the No. 1 concern for young people
Google’s dedicated “sustainability” landing page is where the tech giant outlines its goals to combat climate change — like being…
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Welcome to Europe in 2035: Electric Taxis and Hydrogen Boilers
(Bloomberg) — It’s just after 5 p.m. on Friday in late July 2035. You’re driving home from work in your electric car.…
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The Winklevoss’s Crypto Carbon Capture Conundrum
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Picture a metric ton of carbon dioxide. That’s tricky to do, what with it being a gas and an…
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Corporate Climate Efforts Lack Impact, Say Former Sustainability Executives
(Bloomberg) — Tariq Fancy’s growing sense of unease and frustration with sustainable investing culminated on a private jet. The irony…
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CLIMATE: Medical students push for classes on warming’s health impacts
During her first year of medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, the wildfire smoke was so bad…
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GE Sets 2050 Goal of Zero Emissions From Jet Engines, Gas Power
(Bloomberg) — General Electric Co. vowed to curb the greenhouse gases produced by the use of its products—including thousands of…
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EU to Press Ahead on Carbon Tax That IMF Criticizes: G-20 Update
(Bloomberg) — Finance ministers from the Group of 20 nations aimed to deliver momentum to the global effort on climate…
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Golf Carts Now Run on the Same Batteries as Your EV
Golf carts are no exception. “The pandemic exploded our business,” said John Evans, who has been running Mission Golf Cars…
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‘We’ve been disrespected’
By Majlie de Puy Kamp, CNN Photographs by Will Lanzoni, CNNVideo by Matthew Gannon, Demetrius Pipkin & Nick Scott, CNN…
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Wind Project Splinters a Mexico Region Prized for Powerful Gusts
(Bloomberg) — Two years ago, an SUV carrying four men screeched to a halt in front of the house of German…
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The Latest Green Bitcoin Plan Uses, Er, Coal
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Bitcoin has a carbon problem. Producing Bitcoins and keeping them secure relies too much on cheap coal power,…
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The Life and Suspicious Death of Cachou the Bear
(Bloomberg) — Ivan Afonso checked his computer one last time before picking up the phone. It was April 2020, and…
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New infrastructure deal must focus on climate, activists say
WASHINGTON (AP) — Climate activists and their Democratic allies in Congress are pressing with renewed urgency for huge investments to…
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Nordic Region, Arctic Circle Feel the Heat as Brutal Summer Hits
(Bloomberg) — Record-high temperatures from Canada to Scandinavia and intense wildfires flaring up from California to Russia’s Far East are adding…
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Private Equity Follows the Money—and the Money Is Ditching Fossil Fuels
(Bloomberg) — The buyout industry has long been a major backer of fossil-fuel deals. Now it’s rolling out new green…
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The Burning Question for California Wine Country
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Down the hall from Tom Knecht’s office in St. Helena, hanging on a wall near the reception area,…
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Travel Norway’s Fjords on a Quiet Electric Ferry
(Bloomberg) — Hop on a ferry in Norway and it’s increasingly likely that the rumble of a diesel engine will have…
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Brexit-Battered London Spars With Paris for Green Finance Crown
(Bloomberg) — As JPMorgan Chase & Co. chief Jamie Dimon made clear this week, Paris keeps chipping away at London’s…
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Trailblazers Building a More Equitable, Sustainable World
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — Excerpts from Bloomberg interviews with trailblazers from around the world who are reshaping business and government to…
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Exxon’s Lobbyist Video Apology Has Many Problems
(Bloomberg Opinion) — The first problem with Exxon’s apology is that it had to issue an apology. The second problem…
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Dear Bank CEO, You Are Cordially Invited to Defund This Pipeline
(Bloomberg) — Even by the standards of the chief executive of America’s biggest bank, March 31 looked like it was…
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Peak Meat: High Prices and Plant-Based Trends Threaten Demand
(Bloomberg) — In the U.S., sales of meat at grocery stores are down by more than 12% from a year…
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What German Parties Are Promising Ahead of September’s Election
(Bloomberg) — With Germany’s election fast approaching, the main parties have published their manifestos. We compared the things voters care about, from taxes to housing and climate, to…
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Lakes Are Losing Oxygen—and Their Inhabitants Are in Danger
Rose identified a second problem too: Deep water is becoming less clear because of a host of factors including erosion,…
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What’s a Heat Dome? Are We in for More of Them?
(Bloomberg) — A rare heat wave has shattered records across the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Western Canada. In a region…
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Hit Hard By Drought, Farmers Get Creative
(Bloomberg Opinion) — In Goodhue, Minnesota, 60 miles southeast of the Twin Cities, the crops and pastures aren’t nearly as…
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As Climate Change Fries the World, Social Media Is Frying Our Brains
Amid emergency heat, flooding, and famine, it’s even more critical that people recognize and agree at least on the big…
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How Last Century’s Oil Wells Are Messing With Texas Right Now
(Bloomberg) — Ashley Watt is nothing if not a friend of fracking. She’s invested in mines that supply the sand…
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Smart Charging Tries to Chill the Summer Power Grid
(Bloomberg) — With summer heat frizzling already frazzled power grids, the California Independent System Operator, which handles the state’s grid…
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Why Methane Is Climate’s Low-Hanging Invisible Fruit
(Bloomberg) — Methane is the second-largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide. But new and better techniques to spot…
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New Water Wars Are Coming to the American West
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Water has been generating conflicts and controversies in the U.S. for centuries, but the American West could…
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