Guardian Environment
David Pocock applauds $387.4m in extra funding for CSIRO after tens of thousands sign petition
Australia's CSIRO will receive $387.4 million in additional funding after a sustained campaign by scientists and staff, reversing a funding drought that an analysis commissioned by Senator David Pocock found had left the agency at its lowest financial point since 1978. The boost comes after hundreds of job cuts forced the national science agency into crisis mode. Pocock has welcomed the Albanese government's move as a critical step toward securing the long-term viability of one of Australia's most important research institutions.
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David Pocock applauds $387m in extra funding for CSIRO after tens of thousands sign petition
Australia's CSIRO will receive a $387.4 million funding injection after sustained pressure from scientists, staff, and tens of thousands of petition signatories. The boost comes as independent senator David Pocock commissioned analysis revealing the agency's funding had fallen to its lowest level since 1978. The decision reverses a period of damaging cuts that had already led to hundreds of job losses at one of the country's most vital research institutions.
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New Jersey Leads the Nation in Superfund Sites as EPA Funding Cuts and Staff Reductions Threaten Cleanups
New Jersey contains more Superfund sites than any other state, accounting for nearly 9 percent of the nation's total contaminated locations — many of which have languished for decades. Now, federal funding cuts and EPA staff reductions under the Trump administration are raising serious concerns about whether ongoing and planned cleanups will stall. For a state already bearing a disproportionate share of the country's toxic legacy, the timing could not be worse.
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Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres
Google's developers understated the carbon emissions of two proposed UK datacentres by a factor of five in official planning documents, according to a Guardian review. The errors affect major AI facility projects in Thurrock and North Weald, Essex, as well as a separate Lincolnshire site. The miscalculations raise serious questions about the integrity of environmental assessments underpinning some of the UK's largest planned infrastructure projects.
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Inside the Indigenous Fight to Save Alaska’s Bristol Bay
Bristol Bay's Indigenous communities have spent over two decades fighting a proposed Canadian mining project that threatens one of the world's most productive wild salmon fisheries. Alannah Hurley of the United Tribes of Bristol Bay makes the case that protecting the watershed is both an environmental and sovereign rights issue. The battle over the Pebble Mine has become a defining conflict between extraction interests and Indigenous-led conservation.
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