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Aerial view of Firmus Project Southgate AI data centre campus in northern Tasmania

A Singapore AI Firm’s Data Centre Is Set to Become Tasmania’s Biggest Power User

Firmus is building a A$2.1 billion AI data centre outside Launceston that will draw up to 400 megawatts, on track to become Tasmania's single largest electricity user. The company calls it the

June 15, 2026

by Technology Desk

Solar panels in the United States as solar electricity generation surpasses coal for the first time in May 2026

Solar Outpowered Coal in the US for the First Time in May 2026. The Grid Will Never Look the Same.

For the first time in recorded history, solar energy outproduced coal in the United States grid in May 2026 — a shift that arrived not with a landmark vote or a presidential order, but with a quiet crossing of lines

June 14, 2026

by Economy Desk

NASA Terra MISR satellite image of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain and Beaufort Sea summer 2000

Trump’s Arctic Refuge Oil Lease Sale Just Raised $3.7 Million. Only Two Alaska Companies Bid.

The Bureau of Land Management offered 688,829 acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain

NASA Terra MODIS image of Jeju Island Korea Strait February 19 2026 with sediment plume from Chinese coast and cloud vortices

South Korea’s Soft Corals ‘Slumped’ Off Jeju Island in 2024. Scientists Are Watching the Yangtze and the El Niño for a Repeat.

A Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology study describes an 80-kilometre stretch of Jeju Island's

NASA astronaut photograph from ISS of Texas Gulf Coast centered on Houston showing barrier islands and Lavaca Bay December 2020

A Texas Shrimper, a Louisiana Teacher and a Vietnamese Refugee Walked Into Formosa Plastics’ Taipei Meeting. Guards Dragged Wilson Out.

Diane Wilson, 78, Sharon Lavigne, 76, and Nancy Bui, 72, addressed shareholders at Formosa Plastics' annual meeting in Taipei on May 28. Wilson was dragged out by guards, on live Taiwanese television.

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA Landsat 8 OLI satellite image of Montgomery Alabama September 16 2025 showing Selma-Montgomery march route

An 800-Acre AI Data Center Is Planned a Mile From Selma’s Civil Rights Trail. A Black Alabama Community Is Saying No.

Cloverleaf Infrastructure has proposed Project Red Clay — an 800-acre hyperscale AI campus drawing 1,500 megawatts of electricity and up to 100,000 gallons of water a day — about a mile from

June 13, 2026

Climate·News

NASA Aqua MODIS satellite image of phytoplankton bloom off Mid-Atlantic coast Delaware New Jersey Maryland Virginia May 3 2026

The US Is Pulling Up a $386 Million Climate Ocean Sensor Network. The Blind Spot Arrives as a Very Strong El Niño Forms.

The National Science Foundation will dismantle nearly all in-water infrastructure of the Ocean Observatories Initiative — a $386 million, 900-sensor program designed to operate for thirty years and ten years into its

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA Suomi NPP VIIRS satellite image of South Asia at night showing lights of India Pakistan Bangladesh Sri Lanka

China’s Belt and Road Has Built 130 Million Tonnes of Carbon Into 105 Countries. Two New Studies Put the Bill on Steel.

Two peer-reviewed studies published Monday — one in Environmental Science & Technology, one in PNAS — pin 706 Belt and Road construction projects across 105 countries with more than 130 million tonnes

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA Suomi NPP VIIRS satellite image of Super Typhoon Sinlaku at peak intensity over Northern Mariana Islands April 13 2026

Super Typhoon Sinlaku Hit the Marianas in April. Two Months Later, 13,000 Pacific Islanders Are Still Displaced.

An April 14 super typhoon destroyed more than 7,000 homes and displaced 13,000 people across the Northern Mariana Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia. Two months later, over 9,000 federal disaster

June 13, 2026

Climate·News

NASA Suomi NPP VIIRS composite map of US nighttime lights showing dense illumination across Northeast and Mid-Atlantic

Pennsylvania’s Power Bills Are Up 50 Percent Since 2020. The Reason Is the Data Centers.

Pennsylvania residential electricity rates rose nearly 14 percent in the past year and more than 50 percent since 2020. A Synapse Energy Economics report finds the data centers powering the AI boom

June 13, 2026

Climate·News

Bathymetric map of Mariana Trench produced by University of New Hampshire and NOAA showing deep western Pacific seafloor with Challenger Deep

Trump Just Opened the Pacific’s Marine Monuments to Industrial Fishing. Half a Million Square Miles Are No Longer Off-Limits.

An executive order signed Thursday strips commercial-fishing protections from the Mariana Trench, Papahānaumokuākea and Rose Atoll marine national monuments — over half a million square miles of Pacific Ocean that had been

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA Earth Observatory sea surface height anomaly map of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean during El Nino formation June 2023

NOAA Just Made El Niño Official. There Is a 63 Percent Chance It Becomes ‘Very Strong’ — and 2027 the Hottest Year on Record.

NOAA's National Weather Service declared El Niño formation on June 11, 2026, with a 63 percent probability of becoming a very strong event by November — only the fifth such occurrence since

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

Astronaut photograph from the ISS of Hurricane Milton Category 4 over the Gulf of Mexico October 8 2024

The Science That Pins Hurricanes on Fossil Fuels Is Under Coordinated Assault. The Scientists Are Organising a Defence.

An E&E News report finds the fossil fuel industry, the Trump administration, congressional Republicans and Republican attorneys general are running a multi-front, decade-long campaign against climate-attribution science — the field that ties

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

A page from the Federal Judicial Center's Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence with the climate science chapter removed under political pressure

The Judges Were Stripped of Their Climate Science Manual. Now the Report Is Coming.

Four months before the National Academies attribution report is expected in courtrooms, the Federal Judicial Center erased 90 pages of climate science from the guide judges use to evaluate exactly that kind

June 13, 2026

Climate·News

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A Singapore AI Firm’s Data Centre Is Set to Become Tasmania’s Biggest Power User

Solar Outpowered Coal in the US for the First Time in May 2026. The Grid Will Never Look the Same.

Trump’s Arctic Refuge Oil Lease Sale Just Raised $3.7 Million. Only Two Alaska Companies Bid.

South Korea’s Soft Corals ‘Slumped’ Off Jeju Island in 2024. Scientists Are Watching the Yangtze and the El Niño for a Repeat.

A Texas Shrimper, a Louisiana Teacher and a Vietnamese Refugee Walked Into Formosa Plastics’ Taipei Meeting. Guards Dragged Wilson Out.

An 800-Acre AI Data Center Is Planned a Mile From Selma’s Civil Rights Trail. A Black Alabama Community Is Saying No.

The US Is Pulling Up a $386 Million Climate Ocean Sensor Network. The Blind Spot Arrives as a Very Strong El Niño Forms.

China’s Belt and Road Has Built 130 Million Tonnes of Carbon Into 105 Countries. Two New Studies Put the Bill on Steel.

Super Typhoon Sinlaku Hit the Marianas in April. Two Months Later, 13,000 Pacific Islanders Are Still Displaced.

Pennsylvania’s Power Bills Are Up 50 Percent Since 2020. The Reason Is the Data Centers.

Trump Just Opened the Pacific’s Marine Monuments to Industrial Fishing. Half a Million Square Miles Are No Longer Off-Limits.

NOAA Just Made El Niño Official. There Is a 63 Percent Chance It Becomes ‘Very Strong’ — and 2027 the Hottest Year on Record.

The Science That Pins Hurricanes on Fossil Fuels Is Under Coordinated Assault. The Scientists Are Organising a Defence.

The Judges Were Stripped of Their Climate Science Manual. Now the Report Is Coming.

Radical Islam is being appreciated by Indian authorities too

Bangladesh; India’s Biggest Ally or China’s Dragon Nest?

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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