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How the blue LED almost didn’t change the world
Verdict
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August 13, 2025
In many cities today, streets are lit by white lights, screens show vivid colors, and buildings glow with precise patterns of illumination, all depending on a small but important invention from the early 1990s: the blue light-emitting diode, or...
Government funding propels decarbonization of freight
Truck News
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August 13, 2025
Claude Guay, parliamentary secretary to the minister of energy and natural resources, announced more than $25 million for 33 projects aimed at improving electric vehicle (EV) charging availability, decarbonizing freight transportation and...
Pivot Energy and CU Boulder Break Ground on 5 MW Solar Project Supporting Campus Decarbonization Goals
AltEnergyMag
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August 13, 2025
The off-site solar project is expected to reduce university's Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2030 -- Pivot Energy, a leading national renewable energy independent power producer, and the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder),...
CEF Group secures €38 million to launch Jammu and Ahmedabad biogas plants
CNBC-TV18
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August 13, 2025
Cleantech player CEF Group has secured €38 million in equity and debt funding from the German Export Finance Bank and a few Indian conglomerates to set up two flagship compressed biogas (CBG) plants in Jammu and Ahmedabad. “This initial debt...
Four Columbia Women Are Reimagining Rice Farming to Tackle Climate Change
State of the Planet
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August 13, 2025
During my time at the Columbia Climate School and School of International and Public Affairs as a student in the MPA in Environmental Science and Policy program, I had the privilege of studying alongside the brilliant women behind Clean Crop, a...
Column: EPA’s perilous stance on greenhouse gases ignores science
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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August 7, 2025
It’s difficult to comprehend how, in a year already punctuated by deadly heat waves, flash floods, choking wildfire smoke and historic droughts, the Environmental Protection Agency could claim that greenhouse gases pose no real harm to people. The...
Pakistan’s Deadly Monsoon Floods Were Worsened By Global Warming: Study
The Environmental Magazine
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August 7, 2025
"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Heavy rainfall that triggered floods in Pakistan in recent weeks, killing hundreds of people, was worsened by human-caused climate change, according to a new study. The study by World Weather Attribution, a group of...
Clarity on California’s Climate Disclosure Rules Could Be on the Horizon
Lexology
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As the January 1, 2026, deadline to make the first required disclosure under California’s landmark climate laws approaches, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has announced that it will host another virtual public workshop on August 21 to...
New study highlights ‘grave, growing’ danger of plastic pollution to world’s health
PBS Frontline
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August 9, 2025
John Yang: In Geneva, negotiators from 175 nations are trying to hammer out the first ever legally binding treaty on plastic pollution. The key sticking point is whether it should mandate cuts in plastic production. Oil producing nations including...
Brunei’s largest solar power plant commences construction
World Construction Network
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August 13, 2025
Construction has commenced of what is claimed to be Brunei’s largest solar power plant, a 30MW solar photovoltaic (PV) facility in Kampong Belimbing. This project, developed by Seri Suria Power, aims to generate over 64,000MWh of clean electricity...
Light pollution is encroaching on observatories around the globe – making it harder for astronomers to study the cosmos
Space.com
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August 10, 2025
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Outdoor lighting for buildings, roads and advertising can help people see in the dark of night, but...
Uttarkashi disaster was forewarned? Expert opinion ignored, protection rules flouted
The Week
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On August 5 2025, at 1 pm in Dharali, Uttarkashi district, a settlement that had grown beside the pristine Bhagirathi River in Uttarakhand’s fragile Higher Himalayas was suddenly buried under 15 to 20 meters of landslide and glacial debris. The...
Micro menace
Down to Earth
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While public concern over plastic pollution is relatively recent, the science linking plastics to health harms dates back to the 1970s. Early studies flagged chemicals like phthalates and bisphenols as endocrine disruptors—compounds that mimic or...
Kazakhstan will suffer most from global warming - Bozumbayev
KazTAG
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Astana. August 7. KazTAG - Kazakhstan will suffer the most from global warming, said Kanat Bozumbayev, Deputy Prime Minister. "Kazakhstan is the country that will suffer the most from global warming. It is in the top ten countries, so all our...
Indigenous communities plead for action at plastic pollution talks
RTL Today
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Indigenous communities from North America are at talks on a global treaty on plastic pollution in Geneva, pleading the case for the environment they depend upon, which is slowly being choked by microplastics. In the grounds of the United Nations...
Monarch Butterflies Are Losing Their Navigational Abilities. You Can Guess Why
Gizmodo
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August 13, 2025
Each fall, millions of eastern North American monarch butterflies migrate up to 3,000 miles south to the mountains of central Mexico, then return to their northern range in the spring. These winged insects rely on a complex navigation system to go...
Canada to Add 850+ EV Chargers in $18 Million Zero-Emission Push
Tesla North
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August 13, 2025
Canada is investing more than $25 million CAD (about $18 million USD) in 33 projects to expand electric vehicle (EV) charging availability, decarbonize freight transportation, and develop innovative technologies for medium- and heavy-duty trucks....
Connecticut Green Bank And Goodleap Partner To Create An AI-Powered Virtual Power Plant Initiative To Unlock Savings For Homeowners And Enhance Grid Reliability
MENAFN
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August 13, 2025
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) GoodLeap logo (PRNewsfoto/GoodLeap) Connecticut Green Bank The partnership will aggregate solar and energy storage systems through the Energy Storage Solutions program to incentivize homeowners and reduce strain on the...
Climate crisis driving rise in dengue fever outbreaks across Pacific
Samoa News
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August 13, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As dengue fever infections hit their highest level in a decade and several countries declare emergencies, the climate crisis is driving a sharp rise in dengue fever cases across the Pacific islands, experts say. Pacific...
Life is creeping back into this river, but so is the pollution
Manchester Evening News
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August 10, 2025
The River Tame is one of the dirtiest waterways in Greater Manchester and spent decades with very little sign of life as a result, but now wildlife is returning. The huge river flows from the Pennines, through the bulk of its namesake borough...