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  Oil companies spent over $2 million on Meta ads in the lead-up to the midterms. That’s twice the amount spent by the League of Conservation Voters, the Sierra Club, and Greenpeace – combined. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/11/oil-companies-spent-over-2-million-on-meta-ads-in-the-lead-up-to-the-midterms/

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  This Greek ship has collected enough waste from remote shorelines to fill 22 Olympic swimming pools. The 20-member cleaning team has created the largest database on marine pollution in the Mediterranean. https://www.euronews.com/2026/11/06/this-greek-ship-has-collected-enough-waste-from-remote-shorelines-to-fill-22-olympic-swimm

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  How the biggest renewable energy project in US history finally got built. The SunZia wind farm is a marvel. Why did it take 20 years to build? https://grist.org/solutions/how-the-biggest-renewable-energy-project-in-us-history-finally-got-built/

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  The EPA is quietly killing its web archive. Tens of thousands of documents on contamination, clean power, and Trump’s climate deletions are now scheduled to disappear. https://grist.org/accountability/the-epa-is-quietly-killing-its-web-archive/

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  ‘A Crime of Extreme Inequality’: Richest 0.1% Generate More Carbon Pollution Than Half of Humanity. “The ultra-rich are setting the planet on fire and then charging the rest of us for the extinguishers.” https://time.com/article/2026/10/27/carbon-emissions-ultra-rich-oxfam-report/

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  This "Doomsday Glacier" could drown coastlines around the world. And the outlook is getting worse. As it melts away faster than ever, scientists are racing to get a better understanding of when it might fail. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming https://grist.org/science/thwaites-runaway-climate-disaster-new-studies-show/

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  One of America’s Last Remaining Chestnut Groves Could Soon Be Wiped Out to Make Room for an AI Data Center. It's "one of the largest single AI infrastructure investments in US history." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chestnut-grove-last-remaining-anthropic-ai-data-center

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  ‘Voting is medicine’: These health professionals want you to vote in the midterms. Physician Cynthia Mahoney says voting is a powerful prescription for health. https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/10/voting-is-medicine-these-health-professionals-want-you-to-vote-in-the-midterms/

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  Every year, Amazonian rivers spill over their banks and flood the forests around them for months. These wetlands cover around 30% of the Brazilian Amazon. More than 6% of the total area of Amazon floodplain forests and other wetland areas has been cleared over the last 40 years. Nearly a third of that destruction occurred between 2015 and 2024. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/10/a-belgium-sized-area-of-amazon-wetland-has-been-converted-and-losses-are-...

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  A Carcinogenic Pesticide ‘No One Needs’ Is Found in Dangerous Quantities in a Quarter of US Rivers. Atrazine, banned by 63 other countries, is linked to lymphomas, breast cancer, reduced fertility and multiple birth defects—but we don’t actually need it to grow food for people. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17102026/atrazine-carcinogenic-pesticide-found-in-us-rivers/

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  The Race for Lithium in the West Is Becoming a Race for Water. In the arid American West, expanded mining intensifies battles in vulnerable communities over one of the region’s scarcest resources. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11102026/lithium-race-becomes-race-for-water-in-arid-west/

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  Trump is gutting the Endangered Species Act. These 10 species show what’s at stake. Hundreds of imperiled species, including North Atlantic right whales and rusty patched bumble bees, could face greater threats from industry and development. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming https://grist.org/regulation/trump-gutting-endangered-species-act-these-10-species-show-whats-at-stake/

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  Environmental groups say Chemours still committing illegal PFAS discharges. Groups say Chemours is exceeding discharge limits for "forever chemicals" it agreed to at its Fayetteville Works plant 70 miles upstream of Wilmington, NC. https://www.starnewsonline.com/videos/news/environment/2026/10/05/environmental-groups-say-chemours-still-discharging-pfas-pollution-in-nc/92044101007/

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  A cancer-linked pesticide banned in more than 60 countries around the world contaminates an estimated 25% of river and stream miles in the lower 48 US states, including many waterways used for drinking water, according to a new analysis. https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/09/atrazine-pesticide-river-pollution/

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  The Supreme Court will hear a major climate change case involving a devastating Colorado wildfire. Boulder, Colorado is suing oil and gas companies to help pay for damage caused by disasters linked to climate change. https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-climate-change-wildfires-natural-disasters-688e1297b3c683b2a0e210850d1dd185

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  Despite The War on Clean Energy, Renewables Have Added 34 Times More Capacity Than Fossil Fuels and Nuclear. “Clearly, the White House has bet on the wrong horse.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-can-t-kill-renewables

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  ‘Mega-Industrial’ Trawlers Threaten Europe’s Ocean Health. Europe’s floating factories make up just one percent of the fleet but catch more than half the fish—and they cause the majority of environmental damage. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01102026/europe-mega-industrial-trawlers-threaten-ocean/

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  California just made it legal to turn balconies into tiny power plants. The state is the biggest to approve solar panels that plug into walls, giving residents a cheaper way to generate their own electricity. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming https://grist.org/solutions/california-just-made-it-legal-to-turn-balconies-into-tiny-power-plants/

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  US datacenter discharged large amounts of pollution for almost a year with no permits. Records show Vineland facility in New Jersey emitted health-harming pollution before regulators stepped in. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/01/us-datacenter-new-jersey-pollution

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  New research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer. Paper raises questions about safety of food and other products as early onset breast cancer rates surge worldwide. #ClimateChange https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/26/breast-cancer-us-pesticide-products

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  Trump wants to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs. The Forest Service is proposing to allow motorized vehicles on all trails, two-tracks, and roads unless it explicitly designates otherwise. https://grist.org/regulation/trump-wants-to-open-nearly-all-national-forest-trails-to-dirt-bikes-and-atvs/

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  My boomer mom’s cheap online shopping habit drives me nuts. Licensed therapist Leslie Davenport weighs in on overcoming a generational clash when it comes to sustainable consumption. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Sustainablility https://grist.org/culture/ask-a-climate-therapist-boomer-mom-cheap-shopping-habit/

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  Many US military veterans have much higher levels of Pfas “forever chemicals” in their blood than non-veterans, new peer-reviewed research finds, raising more questions about health risks the nation’s service members face after serving at polluted bases. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/18/pfas-veterans-blood-forever-chemicals

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  Pork lobbyist helping lead “nonpartisan” group working against state animal welfare laws. A letter to the editor in the LA Times implored Congress to take action against a California law that requires farmers provide hogs, calves and chickens with enough room to turn around, lie down and stretch. #ClimateChange https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/05/pork-lobby-proposition-12-farm-bill-lobbying/

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  How the Planet-Altering Disaster of “Forever Chemicals” Was Kept Secret. 3M knew that harmful “forever chemicals” had seeped into people’s blood decades ago and continued making them. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming https://www.propublica.org/podcast/forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-3m-secret-kris-hansen

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  Iceland is one of just three countries, along with Norway and Japan, that still allows commercial whaling in its waters, but that may be about to change. The Icelandic government will put forward a bill in February that could ban the practice. https://e360.yale.edu/digest/iceland-whaling-ban

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  ‘Nature makes every colour in the world’: Meet the company brewing an end to toxic chemical dyes. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming https://www.euronews.com/2026/08/24/nature-makes-every-colour-in-the-world-meet-the-company-brewing-an-end-to-toxic-chemical-d

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  World’s top 20 private equity firms produce more greenhouse gases a year than most countries, report finds. Firms manage $7.3 trillion in assets and could afford to transition away from fossil fuels yet invest in natural gas and coal-fired plants to power datacenters. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/15/private-equity-firms-energy-assets-greenhouse-gas

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  Dutch Pension Fund Pulls Nearly Half a Billion Euros From Climate ‘Megapolluter’ BlackRock. “This is a massive win for Dutch pensioners—not to mention all living creatures on Earth.” #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming https://www.commondreams.org/news/blackrock-climate-change

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  ‘I’ve Never Seen This’: Massive Collapse in Support for AI Data Centers Captured in New Poll. “If you can think of a cohort of Americans, there’s a good chance they wouldn’t welcome a data center in their area.” #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming https://www.commondreams.org/news/data-center-poll-collapse