Some demonstrators held signs that said “our forests are not for sale.” Indigenous leaders from the Amazon Basin have been pushing governments participating in the climate conference taking place in Brazil to “respect our rights, incorporate our ancestral knowledge, and ensure the protection of indigenous territories”.
New industry-backed research shows how waste from deep-sea mining could have far-reaching effects on fish and their food.
“All these nuke bros who know nothing about operating a reactor, they just want a free pass,” Allison Macfarlane, former chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, tells Bloomberg. “They can have their free pass, but then they will have an accident.”
The US Environmental Protection Agency is considering keeping it alive, following news earlier this year that the Trump administration would shutter the money-saving program as part of its efforts to roll back energy and water efficiency standards.
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ArXiv, a popular platform for sharing research before it’s been peer-reviewed, now says it’ll only publish computer science review articles and position papers that’ve been peer-reviewed and accepted by an academic journal or conference.
It’s in response to a “flood” of generative AI-assisted submissions that “are little more than annotated bibliographies, with no substantial discussion of open research issues.”
In the memo, Gates tries to make the case that there’s too much focus on cutting greenhouse gas emissions and not enough on public health and poverty. It’s a narrative that lets polluters off the hook and plays into Trump’s efforts to rollback environmental protections and spread disinformation about climate change.
