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Justine Calma

Justine Calma

Senior Science Reporter

Senior Science Reporter

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    Meta’s becoming an electricity broker.

    The company plants to start trading power, a move that could support the buildout of new power plants as grids try to keep up with rising electricity demand from data centers and generative AI, Bloomberg reports.

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    Justine Calma
    UN climate talks were literally on fire.

    A blaze broke out in the conference venue Thursday, just ahead of negotiations scheduled to come to a close today in Brazil.

    The new silicon valley (literally)

    Is the promise of jobs worth all the water and chemicals it takes to manufacture chips in the Arizona desert?

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    Justine Calma
    Justine Calma
    1 in every 25 attendees at the UN climate conference is a fossil fuel lobbyist.

    More than 1,600 lobbyists for oil, coal, and gas have crowded into pivotal international climate negotiations going down in Brazil. They outnumber delegations from every country in attendance except for Brazil, according to an analysis by the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition.

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    Justine Calma
    Utilities around the world pledged $1 trillion in grid and renewable energy investments by 2030.

    The Utilities for Net Zero Alliance made the announcement Friday during the UN climate conference taking place in Brazil. Investment need to grow from $390 billion in 2024 to $670 billion annually between now and 2030 to update power grids, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

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    Justine Calma
    NASA and the European Space Agency launched a satellite to monitor sea levels.

    “Sentinel-6B will ensure that we continue to collect the high-precision data needed to understand our changing climate,” ESA’s director of earth observation programmes, Simonetta Cheli said in a press release.

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    Justine Calma
    Disinformation comes to the forefront of UN climate negotiations.

    Brazil, Canada, Chile, and at least seven other countries have endorsed a new ‘declaration’ to combat disinformation on climate change. It came together during the United Nations climate conference taking place this month, where more than 200 advocacy groups have called on governments to crack down on misleading content in advertising and online platforms.

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    Justine Calma
    Data centers are already influencing the global forecast for clean energy.

    Growing electricity demand for AI and the Trump administration’s love of natural gas have influenced the International Energy Agency’s latest World Energy Outlook, Heatmap reports.