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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.

Ars Technica Science 15d ago

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.

NYT Science 16d ago

Former Dutch environmentalist who took controversial job at Tata Steel fired for far-right links

Dutch newspaper NRC revealed Pols had been a member of the far-right South African Afrikaner Studente Front (ASF) movement during his time as a student. Donald Pols, the former director of Milieudefensie, the Dutch branch of major environmental NGO "Friends of the Earth," sparked controversy last month when he accepted the position of Chief Sustainability Officer at multinational company Tata Steel. On Tuesday, however, Tata Steel announced the sudden termination of Pols's contract after...

Euronews 7d ago

'I was struggling with my mental health until the Postcode Gardener dropped by'

On a tiny patch of land by a church hall in a part of Swansea named after St Thomas, a sea of gardeners dressed in pale blue t-shirts are hard at work. The green-fingered members of the CanDo Hub – which supports adults with additional learning needs – are watering a raised bed of red onions and cabbages with red watering cans, nurturing window-boxes, and tearing up weeds. “It’s all because of Ollie,” Emily Jones, 32, tells me.

Daily Mirror 4d ago

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...

Euronews 7d ago

Brussels to Big Tech: Embrace sustainable AI or go away

BRUSSELS — The European Union’s energy chief says companies that want to profit off the artificial intelligence boom are welcome in Europe — but only if they demonstrate they are committed to the bloc’s energy, climate and environmental goals. That means supporting renewable and nuclear power sources rather than fossil fuels, and recycling the amounts of excess heat from data centers to heat Europeans’ homes and businesses, EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen told POLITICO in an...

Politico EU 10d ago