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IT Sustainability Think Tank: How datacentres can go from power hungry to power smart in 2026

A year is a long time in tech, and the same is true of IT sustainability. So here are some reflections on how the green IT conversation around datacentres changed during 2025

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Australia's climate future: New model goes global

Climate change will shape everything about life in Australia—from the homes we live in and the food we grow to the risks of bushfires, floods, and heat waves. But what will that future look like? We can't know without climate models.

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Utah leaders hinder efforts to develop solar energy supply

Solar power accounts for two-thirds of the new projects waiting to connect to the state’s power grid.

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Gazans Face “Not Just a Humanitarian Catastrophe but an Ecological Collapse”

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every day when Rajaa Musleh wakes up and checks her phone, she fears she will see news that another member of her family has been killed in Gaza. Musleh, a nurse and humanita…

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Lords write to environment secretary over “complacent” response to waste crime inquiry

The chair of the House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee has written to the environment secretary expressing “deep disappointment” at the government’s response to its waste-crime inquiry.
The post Lords write to environment secretary over “complacent” response to waste crime inquiry …

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Climate change primed Washington state for historic flooding

Low snowpack, leftover burn scars, and abnormally warm temperatures are supercharging the atmospheric rivers hitting the Pacific Northwest.

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Arctic Report Card Marks Record Temperatures and Rainfall in Arctic

A yearly checkup on the region documents a warmer, rainier Arctic and 200 Alaskan rivers “rusting” as melting tundra leaches minerals from the soil to waterways.

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Ranchers in South Dakota Turn to Prescribed Burns to Treat Their Land

A “green glacier” of trees is steadily taking over native grasslands. Landowners are banding together to treat the problem with fire.

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Sunken Meadow Restoration Gains Traction with $1.5 Million Award

(December 3, 2025) - The National Fish and Wildlife Service announced nearly $12 million in grants from the Long Island Sound Futures Fund (Futures Fund) to organizations and local governments to...

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Whole Foods to install smart food waste bins from Mill starting in 2027

The food waste startup founded by Nest alumnus Matt Rogers also received an investment from Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund.

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Can Brazil’s grid keep up with its clean energy boom?

The transmission system’s inability to absorb extra power has forced suspensions of renewables plants at an alarming rate

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EU to Abandon Combustion Engine Ban in Win For Carmakers

The European Union is set to propose softening emissions rules for new cars, scrapping an effective ban on combustion engines following months of pressure from the automotive industry.
Bloomberg's Craig Trudell explains how this proposal will affect carmakers and the rollout of electric vehicles in …

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How the Trump administration is fast-tracking logging in Illinois’ only national forest

Facing pressure to increase timber harvests, the Forest Service is sidestepping rigorous environmental reviews and limiting public participation.

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Dry Fall Months Keep Swamp Water Levels Lower than Average

It is dry, but it has been drier. Audubon’s conservation team has been tracking rainfall and water-level data at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary for nearly 70 years and reports that we received slightly...

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Why we need to treat freshwaters as a network

The post Why we need to treat freshwaters as a network appeared first on Freshwater Habitats Trust.

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UK beauty brands invited to join nationwide take-back scheme for hard-to-recycle packaging

Partnership between the British Beauty Council and MYGroup aims to capture cosmetic packaging not handled by kerbside collections.
The post UK beauty brands invited to join nationwide take-back scheme for hard-to-recycle packaging appeared first on Circular Online.

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This is another ‘ozone layer’ moment. Now, we must urgently target methane | Mia Mottley

The oil and gas industry must be legally bound to cut methane emissions. With climate tipping points approaching, time is running out • Mia Mottley is the prime minister of BarbadosThe timing is brutal. Just as the world celebrates the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Paris climate agreement …

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Morocco’s Safi counts the cost in aftermath of deadly flash floods

Triggered by sudden torrential rains, the flash flood killed at least 37 people in the coastal city of Safi.