"The eight oil companies were contacted for comment." www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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"After adjusting the model biases, we estimate that global rice yield losses decrease by 8.1% under 1°C of global warming, approximately twice the unadjusted estimates, with South and Southeast Asia being the most vulnerable regions." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Vulnerability to high temperature shapes global warming impacts on rice yield
Warming-driven global rice yield losses were underestimated by half due to underestimated heat stress.
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The wildfires in the Pacific NW are incredibly sad and devastating. We have to face the fact that a warming climate is unsustainable. As you can see, fires in the Pacific NW are getting much larger in recent decades. The largest fires (100K acres+) have increased by 10-15X since the 1980s. 1/
Bolivia: "2019 to 2024 has been a period of premeditated ecocide. It hasn’t just been going on for a year, or a few months, but five years. It is violating Bolivian legislation like the Mother Earth Law, which says that Nature has the right to regenerate." hilldavid.substack.com/p/an-ecologi...
‘An ecological crisis with consequences we're only beginning to understand'
Interview with Bolivian journalist Marielle Cauthin about the country’s deforestation crisis
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“Residents of nearby communities have a right to know the extent of pollution in their environment and the risks to their health.” www.hrw.org/news/2026/07...
DR Congo: Oil Company Operations Pose Grave Pollution Threat
Pollution linked to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s only oil producer poses serious health risks to communities near its operations.
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Ukraine Foreign Affairs Minister: "We have detected intensive Russian propaganda campaign across Europe using pictures from Ceuta to sow destabilisation." Far-right from EU (& US!) falls with open eyes for hybrid threats from the weaponisation of migration, even fan the flames. #unity #solidarity
“Most deployed dFADs are ‘lost’ either accidentally or intentionally, and so regulating to minimise this ‘loss’ and therefore minimise the risk of overall interaction with MPAs is, I think, the most important element" news.mongabay.com/2026/07/drif...
Drifting tuna fishing gear enter half of marine protected areas: study
Marine protected areas (MPAs) may prohibit industrial fishing within their boundaries, but they cannot stop fishing gear released elsewhere from drifting inside. A new global study estimates that drif...
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"While accelerated adaptation is crucial, there are also limits to adaptation. Limiting further increases in fire risk requires a rapid transition away from fossil fuels." www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
Climate change increases likelihood of compounding drivers of severe wildfire conditions in France and Spain – World Weather Attribution
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"how can philanthropy strengthen resilience, coordination and long-term capacity in ways that enable societies not only to navigate uncertainty, but also to learn, adapt and help create the conditions for open, inclusive and democratic societies to thrive?" www.ariadne-network.eu/wp-content/u...
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++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
"It underscores the need for more localized heat action plans, improved and heat-relevant healthcare infrastructure, and robust early-warning systems. These findings have implications not only for India but also for other countries in South Asia and ...Africa" www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
Frontiers | Estimating heatwave-induced excess mortality in India's districts
India is among the world’s most heat-exposed nations, with hundreds of millions of people facing dangerous temperatures each summer and a mortality burden th...
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“At least accurately measure the problem and then everyone can be alert, early warning systems can be put in place and lives will be saved” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘The heat took him from me’: India’s death toll rises amid escalating heat crisis
As extreme heat claims the lives of workers in India’s poorest areas, many fear the true mortality rate is being dangerously undercounted
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"tens of millions of Americans who use chatbots are increasingly likely to receive answers manipulated by Parscale on behalf of the Israeli government." www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-bra...
Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.
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“Subsidy reform should be treated as an economic necessity” www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-84-...
Analysis: 84% of nations miss deadline to identify ‘nature-harming’ subsidies by 2025 - Carbon Brief
Most countries failed to meet a 2025 target to identify all of their subsidies that could be “harmful” to biodiversity, according to Carbon Brief analysis.
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“This ecosystem is ecologically important to species that we do care about. We can’t just go disrupting it in the name of conservation and imagine that everything is OK and that you’re doing a good thing.” therevelator.org/why-ocean-cl...
Why The Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis • The Revelator
Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?
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‘We have lost everything’: extreme rainfall across Asia brings flash floods and typhoons: From Afghanistan to Taiwan, unprecedented deluge highlights devastating impact of climate breakdown “It rained for 10 days and 10 nights, non-stop – I’d never seen anything like it,” says Anar Gul, a...
‘We have lost everything’: extreme rainfall across Asia brings flash floods and typhoons
‘We have lost everything’: extreme rainfall across Asia brings flash floods and typhoons: From Afghanistan to Taiwan, unprecedented deluge highlights devastating impact of climate breakdown “It rained for 10 days and 10 nights, non-stop – I’d never seen anything like it,” says Anar Gul, a...
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"many Chinese mining and metals companies still appear to be turning a blind eye to human rights abuses in their supply chains, highlighting need for improved transparency as the first step in accountability." www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/b...
Shifting ground: Human rights, Chinese investment and the rush for transition minerals - Business and Human Rights Centre
Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights Centre
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Shifting atmospheric circulation patterns over Europe since the 1980s have been the major cause of increasingly severe droughts on the continent, according to a study in Nature Geoscience. go.nature.com/4x1kDPo 🌎🧪
"I can’t help thinking how different the world would be right now if it had paid more attention to Richard, to his work, to his wisdom." www.robhopkins.net/2026/07/27/i...
In memory of Richard Heinberg
It is with great sadness that I take this moment to mourn the passing of my friend Richard Heinberg and to celebrate his life and work. Richard passed away after a short illness a few days ago and …
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"It is scientifically undisputed that anthropogenic warming is the main driver of these unprecedented heat extremes, which will continue to negatively affect agricultural production unless emissions are reduced." eciu.net/media/press-...
June heatwave knocks €2 billion off European harvest prospects – new…
Industry forecasts suggest the European grain harvest will be down 9 million tonnes due to the impact of the June heatwave
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"Brazil's experience illustrates how political narratives and weapon proliferation may restructure wildlife exploitation patterns, highlighting the need for politically insulated environmental enforcement, ... and governance resilient to ideological shifts." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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"We uncovered a linguistic “golden age” with tens of thousands of languages 3000 to 1000 years ago. Great loss of linguistic diversity did not begin with recent colonial expansion but as multinational empires first spread along with their languages, pathogens..." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene
Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...
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"What’s the point of MPs if they simply channel corporate demands?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot
Industrial poultry farming is killing our rivers. But rather than stop it, the government has been facilitating it. Will Andy Burnham end this ecocide, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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"We are facing the expansion of transnational criminal networks into Indigenous territories that currently represent one of the last barriers against the illegal occupation of this region of the Amazon.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Masked men invading and taking Amazon communities ‘hostage’ in organised crime surge, say local leaders
Delegation sent to Brasília after gunmen from organised crime group enter homes in western Amazon
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"The true test of leadership is the capacity to sit with a hard question—no answer in sight—until answers begin to emerge. Sit long enough, and they almost always do." ckarchive.com/b/xmuph6hp52...
🤟 An essay by Frederic Laloux: Where do you feel out of integrity?
Click here to view in browser Hi [FIRST NAME GOES HERE], Most weeks we send you stories from pioneering companies around the world. This week is a bit different. Frederic Laloux...
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"Ten years of reporting provide a substantial record, although many of the pressures that led to the creation of Mongabay Latam have intensified." news.mongabay.com/2026/07/ten-...
Ten years of Mongabay Latam
When Mongabay Latam began publishing in 2016, the decision felt like a logical next step. Mongabay Indonesia, launched four years earlier, had shown that a locally led, local-language newsroom could b...
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"let’s reframe water security so that it isn’t just matter of adding quantity; it’s also about protecting against geopolitical sabotage, supporting populations & ecosystems health, and building resilience against climate extremes." cwrrr.org/resources/an...
3 Reasons to Rethink Desalination Strategies Amid Rising War & Climate Risks - CWR
Desalination plants are exposed to targeted attacks, pollution & extreme sea level rise, so CWR's Jamie Chan suggests it's time to rethink desal for water security
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