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Climate Watch: Kaduna begins desilting 200,000 metres of drainage to curb flooding
The Cable
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August 25, 2025
Climate change directly affects our communities, health, and livelihoods. Yet, media coverage often prioritises politics and business over climate-related stories, leaving crucial environment news under-reported. Climate Watch seeks to bridge this...
Climate Science Digest: August 25, 2025
Muser Press
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August 25, 2025
Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (August 25, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In Africa, heatwaves are hotter and longer than 40 years ago, UIC researchers say...
Climate disasters are escalating: 6 ways South Africa’s G20 presidency can lead urgent action
The Conversation
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August 25, 2025
South Africa currently holds the presidency of the G20 – the group of 19 of the world’s largest economies and the African Union. It has set up a Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group to find concrete solutions for countries experiencing...
Climate-Smart Vegetable Seeds set to drive Smallholder Resilience in Sahel and West Africa
News Ghana
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August 25, 2025
With climate change intensifying across the Sahel and West Africa, East-West Seed, one of the world’s leading vegetable seed companies, is introducing new climate-smart vegetable seeds. These new seeds are designed to help smallholder farmers...
Climate Change May Spread an Asian Bat and the Deadly Disease it Carries
The Environmental Magazine
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August 25, 2025
"A vaccine in development may slow the spread of Nipah virus, which kills up to 75 percent of the people it sickens, but reducing the environmental disruptions that bring people, livestock and bats together could be more effective." "On May 3,...
Environmental reviews for development discussed
Warwick Advertiser - New York
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The Warwick Town Planning Board, at the Aug. 20 meeting, reviewed an application for a mixed-use commercial, residential and recreational development known as Blain Town Square, which is located on Route 94, across from the Price Chopper entrance....
Environmental Justice as Theater
Convene magazine - Illinois
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August 25, 2025
Next month, Climate Week NYC is making a theater production part of participants’ learning experience. Here’s why. Author: Michelle Russell Rishi Varma explores themes of environmental justice in his new play ‘Sulfur Bottom.’ Photo by Austin...
Climate change stimulates harmful insects. Specialists resort to measures
IPN
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August 25, 2025
The TikTok platform is launching a set of measures to protect the community in the Republic of Moldova ahead of the parliamentary elections on September 28. In this regard, the platform has established the Mission Control Center group, which...
Climate action can’t wait – and neither can Africa
IOL
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Climate change is no longer a future problem – it’s happening now, and having dramatic impacts, especially on vulnerable countries and including on our own continent. Climate action is necessary on all fronts – ambitious mitigation to reduce...
Environment carries out 4,600 tests to guarantee safe bathing waters
Euro Weekly News
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August 25, 2025
More than 4,600 microbiological tests have been carried out. Credit: Kasiber / Creative Commons Environment carries out 4,600 tests during the summer season to ensure the quality of bathing waters in the Valencian Community. The regional...
Environmental review completed for upcoming Gulf of America lease sale
Offshore Energy
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August 25, 2025
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has finalized the environmental study required for the next round of the Gulf of America’s Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) lease sale to move forward. Illustration; Source: BOEM The completion of the...
Environmentalists Embrace Alligator Alcatraz Ruling
1290 WJNO - Florida
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Environmentalists applauding a federal judge's ruling halting construction at Alligator Alcatraz, essentially shutting down the facility within the next three months. Zoo Miami's Ron Magill says it won't be easy to see exactly how much damage was...
Experts push for early warning systems at climate forum
The Standard
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Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change, and Forestry Deborah Mlongo Barasa at the opening of the 71st Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum (CHACOF 71).[Benard Orwongo, Standard] The 71st Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook...
Labor’s new attempt to pass climate laws
Cairns Post
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August 25, 2025
Environment Minister Murray Watt is going ahead with a refresh of Labor’s stymied environmental reforms, that both protect nature and help speed up approvals on critical home building and resources projects. Labor is set to fast-track its...
AI developers and climate activists divided on technology’s role in sustainability
Muser Press
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August 25, 2025
Summary: Artificial intelligence and climate activism share a common interest in sustainability, but a recent study suggests their perspectives often diverge in crucial ways. Researchers at the University of Washington explored these differences...
Gangotri Glacier Study Reveals Climate-Driven Shift In Ganga’s Water Flow
Free Press Journal
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August 25, 2025
The study was carried out by the Glaci-Hydro-Climate Lab at IIT Indore and modelled streamflow from 1980 to 2020. | Dehradun: A new scientific study has revealed that climate change is altering the water composition flowing from the Gangotri...
Singapore delays full climate disclosures for small and mid-sized listcos
The Business Times Singapore
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[SINGAPORE] The Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (Acra) and Singapore Exchange Regulation (SGX RegCo) have pushed back most climate reporting requirements for small and mid-sized listed companies by five years. While all listed...
IFAD Workshop: NiMet DG Canvasses Climate-smart PPP To Fashion Risks Into Agro Infrastructure Development
Daily Independent
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August 25, 2025
1 Stella Omona The Director-General/CEO of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) and Permanent Representative of Nigeria with WMO, Professor Charles Anosike, has canvassed Climate-Smart Public-Private Partnership (PPP) to enable integration...
Singapore Accounting And Corporate Regulatory Authority And Singapore Exchange Regulation: Extended Timelines For Most Climate Reporting Requirements To Support Companies - Large Listed Companies Continue To Lead Efforts
Mondovisione
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The Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) and Singapore Exchange Regulation (SGX RegCo) have extended the timelines for implementing climate reporting (including external assurance) requirements, to support listed companies and...
Story Applications ESA data records help underpin climate change report 25/08/2025 197 views 11 likes Read
ESA
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Applications 25/08/2025 177 views 11 likes According to the newly released 35th State of the Climate report, 2024 saw record highs in greenhouse gas concentrations, global land and ocean temperatures, sea levels, and ocean heat content. Glaciers...