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Want an oxygen-rich atmosphere? Stuff oxygen’s friends in the mantle.
Planet Earth has some pretty great qualities going for it. (Negative reviews mostly revolve around the staff and clientele.) Pretty high on the list of positives is a richly oxygenated atmosphere. But that’s something that evolved and built up over a couple billion years, only eventually resulting in a world conducive to animal life like us. Scientists have many ideas about what could have caused oxygen to increase, and it seems that a number of them are probably correct.
Rafe Pomerance, the Paul Revere of Climate Change, Dies at 79
Rafe Pomerance as president of the environmental group Friends of the Earth, in 1983. “He recruited us and energized us and gave us facts that allowed us to work on the most important issue of our time,” said Daniel Becker, a longtime leader with the Sierra Club.
Former Dutch environmentalist who took controversial job at Tata Steel fired for far-right links
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EU Commission to defend Spain in €106m US energy lawsuit
When firm Blasket Renewables sought to enforce compensation in a US court, the European Commission argued that Spain could not legally pay it, highlighting a clash between international arbitration and EU law. The European Commission is seeking permission from the European Council to defend Spain from a €106 million lawsuit brought in a US court under the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) which could put Madrid in breach of EU state aid rules, according to a document seen by Euronews. The ECT is a...
Brussels to Big Tech: Embrace sustainable AI or go away
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