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• Environmental technology | green technology | clean technology [Reddit]2026-10-10✓ Read

  Built a free aquatic-conservation platform for South Africa - React/.NET, live GBIF + IUCN data, PostGIS mapping. Looking for feedback

  Hi r/envirotech — I’m a solo developer in South Africa. I’ve spent about a year and a half building EcoAquatic (ecoaquatic.org), a free, non-commercial platform for tracking fish species and aquatic conservation, starting with South African waters and built to expand country by country. The tech side, since this is the crowd for it: React + TypeScript frontend, .NET backend. Species data built on the GBIF taxonomic backbone (3,000+ species with confirmed SA occurrences), enriched with live IUCN Red List status and FishBase/SASSI data.

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• Inside Climate News2026-10-10✓ Read

  Greece’s Seafood Problem Starts Elsewhere

  One of Europe’s biggest aquaculture industries is linked to overfishing, pollution, food insecurity and labor abuses.By Johnny Sturgeon, Ian Urbina This story is part of an investigation conducted by an international team of journalists based at The Outlaw Ocean Project. Read the other stories here.

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• Inside Climate News2026-10-10✓ Read

  In One Historically Black Florida Community, the Drinking Water Is Brown

  In Whitted, testing has confirmed the water is contaminated with arsenic and PFAS/PFOS. An effort to connect the residents to the local water system has moved slowly.By Amy Green WHITTED, Fla.—When Ann Jones runs her kitchen faucet, the water flows clear only some of the time. Sometimes the water is brown. Fill a pitcher, and the water is the color of iced tea.

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• Inside Climate News2026-10-10✓ Read

  Unpacking the Environmental Issues in Susan Collins’ Tough Race in Maine

  The incumbent senator, once endorsed by the League of Conservation Voters, is facing strong headwinds due in part to her fealty to the Trump administration.Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with veteran Maine journalist Kevin Miller.

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• Inside Climate News2026-10-09✓ Read

  Northern California Community Wants Stronger Oversight of Dangerous Refineries Nearby

  Residents of a small San Francisco Bay Area town plagued by refinery accidents came to a community meeting to call for stronger enforcement and transparency about risks.By Liza Gross MARTINEZ, Calif.—Scores of people tired of living near accident-prone refineries packed an elementary school auditorium to hear what their government officials were doing to protect them.

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• Inside Climate News2026-10-09✓ Read

  Looking for Oil in Alaska, No Environmental Strings Attached

  A Bureau of Land Management decision will accelerate permitting in the nation’s largest single tract of public land, home to a fragile, rapidly warming wilderness.By Anika Jane Beamer Oil companies will no longer be required to conduct environmental reviews before exploring for fossil fuel reservoirs in the Western Arctic, the largest tract of federally managed public land in the United States.

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• Inside Climate News2026-10-09✓ Read

  Michigan Spill Prompts Federal Probe of Energy Transfer Pipelines’ Safety

  The spill just north of Detroit, similar to a jet fuel leak last year in Pennsylvania, comes as Republicans face political peril in Michigan.By Marianne Lavelle A crude oil pipeline spill last month in the Detroit suburbs has prompted federal authorities to open an investigation into the safety of all 20,000 miles of hazardous liquids pipelines operated by Energy Transfer.

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• Inside Climate News2026-10-09✓ Read

  SEC Issues Warning to Investment Firms That Challenged ExxonMobil

  The commission issued a rare “report of investigation” into the largest asset managers and state pension funds, part of a broader campaign to curb investor activism on climate risks.By Nicholas Kusnetz The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued an unusual warning this week to the country’s largest asset managers and a climate-focused investor group over their roles in a 2021 campaign that replaced board directors at ExxonMobil.

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• Inside Climate News2026-10-09✓ Read

  China’s Blue Mirage

  Fish farming in Xinjiang is sold as proof that technology can overcome geography. The reality is a desert seafood boom built on political control and forced labor.By Ian Urbina This story is part of an investigation conducted by an international team of journalists based at The Outlaw Ocean Project. Read the other stories here.

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• Climate crisis | The Guardian2026-10-09✓ Read

  AI and the climate crisis pose existential risks. The law offers a way to reduce them | Robert Reich

  Liability lawsuits have held tobacco, oil and pharma companies to account in the past. AI investors won’t ignore this threat

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• Inside Climate News2026-10-09✓ Read

  South Baltimore Residents Grapple With Contradictory Incinerator Decisions

  Residents expressed confusion and frustration as regulators shut down one incinerator and considered extending the lifespan of another.By Aman Azhar Around 100 Baltimore residents packed a community hall in the Curtis Bay neighborhood on the evening of Oct. 1. One after another, they implored the Maryland Department of the Environment not to renew the air permit for the city’s largest trash incinerator.

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• Climate crisis | The Guardian2026-10-09✓ Read

  How California is bracing for a winter of floods, fires and extreme storms all at once

  The strongest El Niño recorded is expected to bring a cascade of hazards to a state still facing wildfire and heat risks, while budget cuts have weakened disaster response agencies

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• Nature Climate Change2026-10-09✓ Read

  Topographic variation shapes organismal responses across mountain landscapes

  Nature Climate Change, Published online: 09 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02773-z The authors developed simulations to examine the role of topographic variation in mediating species response to climate change. They show that topographic variation can reduce energy expenditure by up to 20.8% and increase buffering benefits of elevation shifts by 82.1% for a diurnal ectotherm.

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• Inside Climate News2026-10-08✓ Read

  Wildlife Populations Have Plunged Globally, But Some Buck the Trend

  A new report by leading conservation nonprofits found populations of thousands of vertebrate species dropped 73 percent on average from 1970 to 2022.By Kiley Price A new report paints a dark picture of the state of global wildlife—but also highlights flickers of light where some populations are on the upswing.

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• Inside Climate News2026-10-08✓ Read

  To Block Solar Energy Projects, One Community Lumped Them in With Junkyards and Adult Bookstores

  A local fight in Indiana shows that even streamlined permitting can’t overcome deep community resistance to solar development.By Dan Gearino In Montgomery County, Indiana, utility-scale solar projects appear on an official list of undesirable land uses that also includes “adult-oriented businesses.”

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• Inside Climate News2026-10-08✓ Read

  Maryland Demands Answers as Fuel Leak Persists From Joint Base Andrews

  Water testing across several locations continues to show diesel-range hydrocarbons flushing into Piscataway Creek even after the base says it halted the leak.By Aman Azhar Maryland environmental regulators say jet fuel continues to seep into Piscataway Creek from Joint Base Andrews more than six months after the spill was reported, despite the base’s assurances that it has isolated the damaged fuel system and stopped the leak.

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• Inside Climate News2026-10-08✓ Read

  In Harrisburg, Advocates Rally for Tougher Rules on Fracking

  Concerned about surging energy demand fueled by data centers, environmental groups urge state regulators to increase minimum protective buffer distances around gas wells.By Marie Cusick Environmental groups and citizens are urging Pennsylvania regulators to increase the minimum amount of protective buffer space between gas wells and homes, schools and water sources. The issue has taken on new urgency as the AI data center buildout spurs more demand for natural gas.

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• Climate Law Blog2026-10-07✓ Read

  Parties to the London Convention and Protocol Debate Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Governance

  The parties to the 1972 Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (London Convention) and the 1996 Protocol to that Convention (London Protocol) are meeting this week. High on the agenda, as has been the case for the last decade and more, is “marine geoengineering including ocean fertilization.”

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• Inside Climate News2026-10-07✓ Read

  Compounding Climate Impacts Drive Tropical Forest Decline

  Extreme heat, drought and ozone from fire emissions are devastating the Amazon and other rainforests, new research shows.By Bob Berwyn Ozone pollution from fires, along with extreme heat and drought, is further weakening the Amazon rainforest’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide, new research shows.

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• Inside Climate News2026-10-07✓ Read

  The American Livestock Industry’s Main Lobbying Group Treated Climate Change as a PR Problem

  New research has revealed more examples of the National Cattlemen’s Association’s efforts to downplay and deny the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions.By Georgina Gustin In 1991, Random House published a picture book called “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: ABC’s for a Better Planet,” in which the masked cartoon turtles trade in their signature nunchucks for signs bearing environmental slogans.

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