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Plastic deadlock
Dawn
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August 18, 2025
AFTER days of negotiations, UN-brokered efforts for agreement on a new plastics treaty collapsed on Friday. The failure of what was meant to be the most important environmental treaty since the Paris Agreement is sad and terrifying, adversely...
Recycling process developed for dry-processed cathodes
chemeurope.com
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Innovative production processes such as the dry processing of electrodes are a decisive step towards making the production of battery cells more environmentally friendly and cost-effective. This process completely eliminates the need for...
Plastic cleanup is more vital than ever
Brandon Sun
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August 18, 2025
Opinion Representatives at the recent United Nations conference in Geneva have once again failed to negotiate a binding global treaty to tackle plastic pollution. The Switzerland gathering was the sixth round of talks in less than three years and...
Green plus -- cities strive to power new energy vehicles with green electricity
People's Daily Online
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(Xinhua) 09:45, August 18, 2025 SHENZHEN, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- China's southern metropolis of Shenzhen has officially launched an incentive program to encourage new energy vehicle (NEV) owners to charge their rides with electricity from renewable...
Plastic waste posing serious threat to wildlife in grasslands; experts call for immediate intervention
Hindustan Times
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August 18, 2025
Experts and conservationists have sounded an alarm over the rising threat posed by plastic waste to wild animals in the region’s grasslands such as wolves, hyenas, wild dogs, blackbucks and several bird species that often mistake discarded plastic...
Oil firms revive old wells to cut costs
Business Day
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August 18, 2025
...Seplat restores 29 wells to production ...Oando projects $270m on drilling in H2 Nigeria’s leading indigenous oil companies are increasingly turning to the revival of idle wells rather than embarking on costly new drilling campaigns as they...
Energy crisis: Need for re-look at the energy mix
Zimbabwe Independent
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Many households and industries are now turning to their own private sources of energy like solar plants, diesel generators and windmills. ZIMBABWE is facing a serious energy crisis that has resulted in long hours of load shedding, sometimes as...
Energy Dividend Aristocrats Shine Amid Market Uncertainty
Oil Price
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August 17, 2025
With U.S. markets trading close to record highs, many investors are now turning to dividend-paying stocks as they try to balance growth and income. Dividend investing provides a predictable and reliable source of cash flow that can complement...
Climate — The Pakistan Story
Daily Times
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August 18, 2025
Published on: August 18, 2025 6:03 AM Fantastic Four is a retro-futurist movie depicting heroes saving the planet while having powers to control water, air, and earth. These elements control humans and their sustenance. The world in general and...
Climate and the youth
The News International
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August 18, 2025
International Youth Day is celebrated on August 12 every year to highlight the problems and challenges faced by the younger generation and to work together to identify solutions. According to the UN, there are 1.2 billion young people aged 15 to...
CM Yogi inaugurates UP’s first green hydrogen plant in Gorakhpur
ETManufacturing.in
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August 18, 2025
Gorakhpur, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on Sunday, inaugurated Uttar Pradesh’s first and India's second green hydrogen plant, built by Ahmedabad-based Torrent Group at Khanimpur in Gorakhpur. The project, jointly developed by Torrent Group...
Brownfield pledge as speculation continues over plans for hundreds of homes on green belt site in Dudley
Express & Star
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August 18, 2025
Planning officers have ruled that an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) will not be required for a proposal to build more than 500 homes on land known locally as 'The Triangle' in Wall Heath. A formal planning application is expected to follow,...
Statement on Commonwealth environmental watering and non-urban water metering in New South Wales
The National Tribune
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August 18, 2025
Dept of Climate Change, Energy, Environment & Water The following can be attributed to Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, Dr Simon Banks: The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder (CEWH) has temporarily paused all environmental watering...
US Energy Secretary Calls For An End To All Subsidies For Solar & Wind
CleanTechnica
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August 18, 2025
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Last Updated on: 17th August 2025, 10:00 pm US Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who made his fortune by drilling holes in the Earth to access methane gas and then leaving...
Trump’s climate deregulations endanger N.J.’s health and future | Opinion
NJ.com - New Jersey
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August 17, 2025
By John McKeon When future generations of Americans look back and ask themselves where we went wrong in the existential fight against climate change, they will see this moment as a critical turning point. The Trump administration has announced its...
Sadiq underscores need for tree-plantation to combat pollution, climate change
Business Recorder
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August 18, 2025
ISLAMABAD: On the occasion of Tree Plantation Day, Speaker National Assembly, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq underscored the urgent need to adopt tree plantation as a national obligation in order to combat the growing threats of environmental pollution and...
Experts seek global action amid ‘failed treaty’ against plastic pollution
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 18, 2025
Following failed negotiations over a global plastic pollution treaty among over 100 countries in Geneva, environmentalists have underscored the urgency of international cooperation against the menace, insisting that global agreement is crucial in...
When neutrality becomes complicity in fight against plastic pollution
The Jakarta Post
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or the sixth time, the world has engaged in lengthy discussions about the fate of our planet and efforts to combat plastic pollution. Yet, once again, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) failed to produce progressive policies on...
Australia’s Ambassador For Climate Change
The National Tribune
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August 18, 2025
Dept of Climate Change, Energy, Environment & Water Senator the Hon Penny Wong, Minister for Foreign Affairs The Hon Chris Bowen MP, Minister for Climate Change and Energy The Hon Pat Conroy MP, Minister for Pacific Island Affairs Source &...
COUNTERPOINT: America needs affordable energy — Coal doesn’t fit the bill
Republican Herald - Pennsylvania
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August 18, 2025
For a decade now, coal has been on the way out. The industry’s future was considered mainly dead and buried — until the Trump administration decided to pull out every stop to dig it out of the grave. And this wasn’t caused by any “Green New Deal”...