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Cover of the United Nations University report on the environmental cost of AI's energy consumption, carbon emissions, water and land. Credit: UNU-INWEH

UN report: Artificial intelligence consumes not only electricity, but also water, land and metals

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A new report from the United Nations University warns that the growth of AI is creating a vast environmental footprint: data centers, cooling, power generation, mineral mining, e-waste, and inequality between countries that deploy the technology and those that do not.
Climate crisis is intensifying, no government is doing anything serious to stop it. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Why is climate policy stalling despite broad public support?

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An article in The Conversation argues that the gap between public support for reducing emissions and the continued use of fossil fuels stems from power structures, inequality, and perceptions that limit the sense of what is possible.
Climate crisis effects on humans. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Earth's climate turns out to be more fragile than expected – new study finds

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Researchers present a new measure of carbon load on the climate system and warn: the land, sea, and air began to change as early as the 30s
Wars are undermining the fight against the climate crisis. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The Wars That Exacerbate the Climate Crisis: "A Mass Climate Attack"

As countries try to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, geopolitical conflicts contribute to pollution, destroy green infrastructure and divert budgets – threatening to derail the fight against global warming.
Fires in the Jerusalem Mountains, 30/4/2025. Photographed by KKL-JNF employees and foresters.

NASA: Climate crisis doubles the extremes of forest fires worldwide

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Satellites detect dramatic increases in the frequency, intensity and extent of extreme fires due to global warming. There are plenty of reasons for fires. Human error would be more forgivable if it weren't for warming
Melting glaciers are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world's strongest ocean current, researchers have found. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

The Great Ocean Slowdown: How Antarctic Ice Loss Is Reshaping the Climate

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New research finds that melting ice in Antarctica is weakening the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and could lead to worsening climate extremes, disrupting marine ecosystems, and reducing the ocean's ability to absorb carbon by 2050.
Trump is satisfied with the cancellation of environmental regulation, the climate disaster in the background shows that he is wrong. Illustration by Avi Blizovsky, using artificial intelligence

MIT Business Review: Trump's victory is a tragic loss for progress in tackling the climate crisis

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The differences between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in the fields of science. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Science summarized Trump's position against Harris' position on scientific issues. Trump wants to damage basic science as well, Harris - to his predecessor

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Ahead of the presidential elections, Science magazine examined the differences between the positions of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on science and environmental issues
This map depicts the global temperature anomalies for the meteorological summer in 2023 (June, July and August). It shows how much warmer or cooler different regions of the Earth were compared to the baseline average from 1951 to 1980: NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin

Climate crisis dealt a strong blow: Summer 2023 was the warmest ever

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This raw data is analyzed using methods that take into account the variable distance between temperature stations around the world and the effects of urban heat islands that may distort the calculations.
Among the OECD countries, Israel is almost at the bottom of the list, in 34th place out of 38; And - did not achieve any of the 17 goals set until 2030. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Indexes in indices: Israel is far from being a sustainable country

Not keeping up: a new Israeli study indicates that our country has fallen behind in meeting the UN's sustainable development goals. So what do we do? According to the author of the study, we cannot wait for a legislative change -
From left: Microsoft President Brad Smith, CFO Amy Hood and CEO Satya Nadella. Photo: Brian Smale, Microsoft

Microsoft will reach negative carbon emissions by 2030 * will establish a fund of one billion dollars to find removal solutions

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Air pollution and carbon emissions, from Wikipedia.

The human race did not live with an atmosphere saturated with carbon dioxide until the middle of the twentieth century

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Illustration: pixabay.

The light wing that will save fuel

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A particularly hot summer in Alaska in 2004 caused the collapse of the permafrost seen in the photograph. Source: NPS Climate Change Response.

Thawing the ice freeze could accelerate global warming

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Climate conference in Paris, December 2015. Image: shutterstock

The Israeli delegation leaves for the climate conference in Paris

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A Volkswagen Jetta, as photographed in Russia on September 16, 2015. Photo: g0d4ather / Shutterstock.com

How was Volkswagen caught cheating on emissions tests by the American Association for Clean Air?

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The map of global warming in recent decades. From Wikipedia

The link between carbon emissions and global warming has been proven beyond any doubt

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Plastics that absorb carbon dioxide could one day be used in factory chimneys in the future. [Courtesy of ACS]

A "sponge" that absorbs carbon dioxide

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Minister Amir Peretz at the Pratt Award ceremony, May 9, 2013. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Minister Peretz: canceling the plan to reduce greenhouse gases - lacks any economic and social logic

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A British Airways Airbus A380. PR photo

London's garbage will become fuel for British Airways planes

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Nancy Knowlton, Chief Marine Biologist at the Smithsonian Institution and Museum of Nature in Washington

In the short term, the fishing must be regulated and the pollution of the sea with sewage must be stopped. In the long term, to save life in the sea, carbon emissions must be stopped

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