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Ahead of the United Nations climate talks in Brazil, advocacy groups are pushing for companies and governments to set meaningful emissions targets to lower emissions from livestock.

The world’s biggest meat and dairy companies are responsible for emitting more climate-warming methane than all of the countries in the European Union and United Kingdom combined, according to a new assessment published Monday.

Climate-Warming Methane Emissions from the World’s Biggest Livestock Companies Are Bigger Than From Major Oil and Gas Companies

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New Lawsuit Aims to Halt Expansion of a Montana Coal Mine Blamed for Drying up the Land Above It

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The proposed expansion of Signal Peak Energy’s Bull Mountains Mine has also revived scrutiny of a controversial land swap bill that would deprive Musselshell County of tax revenue.

ROUNDUP, Mont.—Environmental groups sued Tuesday to halt an expansion of the Bull Mountains Mine, claiming that the “energy emergency” underpinning its revival is nonexistent and that regulators have been aware for decades that underground coal mining would irrevocably damage the area’s water.

New Lawsuit Aims to Halt Expansion of a Montana Coal Mine Blamed for Drying up the Land Above It

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First Confirmed Cases of Bird Flu in California Elephant Seals Stoke Fear As Virus Surges Worldwide

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After a catastrophic outbreak of bird flu devastated southern elephant seal populations in 2023, scientists are on high alert.

Last week, a day that ecologists and virologists in California have feared for years finally arrived.

First Confirmed Cases of Bird Flu in California Elephant Seals Stoke Fear As Virus Surges Worldwide

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Scientists, Engineers and Legal Experts Condemn Partisan Attack on Scientific Reference Manual for Judges

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Last month, a government agency erased climate change from a manual that helps federal and state judges understand complex science in court. The political attack on the nonpartisan publication “should concern us all,” its co-authors warn.

Scientists, engineers, lawyers, statisticians and other experts sounded the alarm Monday about the recent decision to remove a chapter on climate science from an influential reference manual designed to help judges understand complex scientific evidence.

Scientists, Engineers and Legal Experts Condemn Partisan Attack on Scientific Reference Manual for Judges

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