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Podcast: The Climate Question

The Climate Question podcast from the BBC World Service features a variety of views on climate change and what to do about it....

A Breakthrough Institute report suggests concerns about the impacts of mining for materials needed for clean technologies are overblown. Photo by omid roshan on Unsplash
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Breakthrough Institute report: What is the true mining footprint of clean energy?

Breakthrough Institute: A rational comparison of the metal and mining footprints of clean electricity technologies — contrasted with the material requirements of fossil...

Tesla cars are seen next to the V3 supercharger equipment during the presentation of the new charge system in the EUREF campus in Berlin, Germany September 10, 2020. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi/File Photo
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Analysis: Tesla’s restructuring hits executive bench hailed by Musk

Tesla executives once proved that the car company wasn't a one-man show – as some leave in quick succession, should investors be wary?

FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, gestures as he attends the Viva Technology conference on innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo
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Musk disbands Tesla Supercharger team, leaving customers in the dark

Analysis: Elon Musk's abrupt decision to lay off employees who ran Tesla's charging business blindsided automakers gearing up to equip new EVs for...

FILE - Residents gather around the covered dead body of a woman found in a house after heavy rain in the Mathare area of Nairobi, Kenya, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
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Explainer: What’s causing the catastrophic rainfall in Kenya?

The devastating rains in Kenya are a result of a mix of factors, including the country's seasonal weather patterns, human-caused climate change as...

Workers stop for lunch at the arena, one of many amenities and infrastructure projects the community of 700 has been able to finance through relationship with industry, in Fort McKay, Alta., on Thursday April 25, 2024. Chief Raymond Powder says while Indigenous communities did not have a say in developing the oilsands in the first place, now that they are here he is doing his best to take advantage of opportunities for his community. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracke
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First Nations hope for new chapter as Trans Mountain pipeline expands

As the Trans Mountain pipeline extension opens up, First Nation communities nearby are wondering if it brings mutual benefit or "an economic stranglehold"

FILE PHOTO: A Tesla Model 3 vehicle warns the driver to keep their hands on the wheel and be prepared to take over at anytime while driving using FSD (Full Self-Driving) in Encinitas, California, U.S., October 18, 2023.     REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
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Analysis: Tesla’s self-driving bid for China faces rivals racing ahead

Tesla could prove a fierce competitor in China's autonomous-vehicle segment, experts say, citing its early lead in developing driver-assistance systems with some autonomous...

Indian environmental activist Alok Shukla, a recipient of this year's Goldman Prize, speaks at a village meeting in Chhattisgarh state (AFP)
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Indian forest activist at the coalface of mining battle

Alok Shukla has led a decade-long grassroots campaign against some of India's conglomerates seeking to tap one of the country's richest subterranean stores...

FILE PHOTO: A farmer picks coffee cherries at a farm in Vietnam's central highland of Di Linh district, December 12, 2011. REUTERS/Kham/File Photo
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Vietnam coffee farmers boost irrigation but running low on water: report

Coffee farmers in Vietnam have sharply increased use of irrigation in the main producing regions of the country amid excessive dryness, but they...

Research suggests climate change, not habitat loss, may be the biggest threat to the survival of threatened caribou herds. A caribou moves through the Algar region of northeastern Alberta in September 2017 in a handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-University of British Columbia-Cole Burton MANDATORY CREDIT
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Climate change, not habitat loss, may be biggest threat to caribou herds: study

The lead author of the study says simply replanting and restoring damage to the boreal forest isn't going to be enough to keep...

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