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Bill Gates Stuns Climate Debate: “I’ll Sacrifice 0.1°C to Eliminate Malaria” – What You Need to Know

Bill Gates Stuns Climate Debate: “I’ll Sacrifice 0.1°C to Eliminate Malaria” – What You Need to Know

In-depth, Bill Gates’s memo argues that climate funds and innovation should save lives first. He noted his Gates Foundation’s billions spent on health (HIV, malaria, etc.) and said a small temperature rise is worth eliminating massive human suffering abcnews.go.com abcnews.go.com. Gates insists even though every fraction of a degree matters, we must consider pragmatic trade-offs: “If you have something that gets rid of 10,000 tons of emissions, that you’re spending several million dollars on… that just doesn’t make the cut,” he wrote abcnews.go.com. Climate experts disagree. Kristie Ebi (Univ. of Washington) agrees aid should boost health, but cautions Gates assumes
28 October 2025
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BREAKING: Exxon Sues California, Citing ‘Free Speech’ in Climate Lawsuitreuters.comtimesunion.com

BREAKING: Exxon Sues California, Citing ‘Free Speech’ in Climate Lawsuitreuters.comtimesunion.com

Lawsuit filed over climate disclosure laws Exxon’s lawsuit is the first major test of California’s bold climate disclosure mandates. According to Reuters, Exxon Mobil sued the state on Oct. 25, 2025, “challenging two state laws that require large companies to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related financial risks” reuters.com. The lawsuit names California and its air‐resources board, and asks a federal court to block both SB 253 and SB 261 from taking effect. Exxon’s complaint argues that the laws compel speech: “the First Amendment bars California from pursuing a policy of stigmatization by forcing Exxon Mobil to describe its non-California business
26 October 2025
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Mount Everest Snowstorm Crisis: Rare Himalayan Blizzard Traps Hundreds of Trekkers and Exposes Deepening Climate and Tourism Fault Lines

Mount Everest Snowstorm Crisis: Rare Himalayan Blizzard Traps Hundreds of Trekkers and Exposes Deepening Climate and Tourism Fault Lines

A Rare Storm Triggers a Mount Everest Crisis The sudden blizzard The first week of October is normally considered a safe window to visit Tibet’s Karma Valley on the northern slopes of Mount Everest. The monsoon rains typically retreat, leaving crisp skies and manageable snow cover. But in 2025 the weather defied expectations. A low‑pressure system lingering over the Bay of Bengal channelled moist air into the Himalayas foxweather.com. When the warm, humid air hit cold Himalayan air masses at around 4,000 m, a convective snowstorm formed over the Everest region. Snow began falling on Friday and intensified over the weekend, blanketing
6 October 2025
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Antarctica’s Sudden Sea‑Ice Crash: Are We Crossing a Climate Tipping Point?

Antarctica’s Sudden Sea‑Ice Crash: Are We Crossing a Climate Tipping Point?

Antarctic Sea Ice: From Growth to Collapse Early stability and unexpected expansion For decades Antarctic sea ice behaved differently from its Arctic counterpart. While Arctic sea ice shrank steadily with warming, Antarctic sea ice grew slightly. The Southern Ocean is insulated from global warming by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and strong westerly winds, and freshwater input from melting ice shelves promoted surface stratification. That stratification created a “lid” of cold, fresh water that limited mixing with deeper warm water and helped sea ice form phys.org. Abrupt reversal in 2016 This apparent stability ended around 2015–16. In a Nature study, Marilyn Raphael
4 October 2025
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Moon Mission Milestone, Autism Risk Shock & Europe’s Climate Alarm – Science News Roundup (23–24 Sept 2025)

Moon Mission Milestone, Autism Risk Shock & Europe’s Climate Alarm – Science News Roundup (23–24 Sept 2025)

Space & Astronomy Artemis II Moon Mission – Countdown to History: In a major update from NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Sept 23, officials confirmed that Artemis 2 – the first crewed mission in NASA’s lunar return program – remains on schedule for no later than April 2026, with an earliest launch target of Feb 5, 2026 space.com. The 10-day mission will send four astronauts around the Moon, the first humans to venture beyond low-Earth orbit in over half a century. “We together have a front-row seat to history: we’re returning to the Moon after over 50 years,” exclaimed Lakiesha Hawkins, a senior NASA exploration
24 September 2025
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Black Hole Feasts, AI for Teens & Climate Alarms: Science News Roundup (Sept 18–19, 2025)

Black Hole Feasts, AI for Teens & Climate Alarms: Science News Roundup (Sept 18–19, 2025)

Space & Astronomy Record-Breaking Black Hole Growth Astronomers have identified a “black hole on overdrive” in the early universe, feeding faster than theory predicted. The supermassive black hole — about a billion solar masses and observed 12.8 billion light-years away — is devouring matter at 2.4 times the Eddington limit (the usual maximum rate) nasa.gov nasa.gov. This quasar’s extreme X-ray output makes it the brightest black hole of the universe’s first billion years nasa.gov. Its existence helps explain how giant black holes grew so quickly after the Big Bang. The lead researcher, Luca Ighina of the Center for Astrophysics, was
19 September 2025
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Martian Life Clue, Cosmic Breakthroughs & Climate Shocks – Science News Roundup (Sept 10–11, 2025)

Martian Life Clue, Cosmic Breakthroughs & Climate Shocks – Science News Roundup (Sept 10–11, 2025)

Key Facts Mars Rover Uncovers Possible Biosignatures in Ancient Mudstone NASA’s Perseverance rover has delivered perhaps the most tantalizing hint of Martian life yet. Scientists announced that a sedimentary rock sample nicknamed “Sapphire Canyon,” drilled from Jezero Crater, contains organic carbon and unusual mineral patterns that could be of biological origin reuters.com reuters.com. Specifically, the rover detected two minerals – vivianite (iron phosphate) and greigite (iron sulfide) – that on Earth often form when microbes interact with sediments reuters.com. These minerals, along with the rock’s fine-grained, rusty-red appearance and “leopard spot” textures, constitute what researchers call a “potential biosignature” reuters.com
11 September 2025
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Space Shocks, Medical Miracles, and Climate Wake-Up Calls – Science News Roundup (Aug 19–20, 2025)

Space Shocks, Medical Miracles, and Climate Wake-Up Calls – Science News Roundup (Aug 19–20, 2025)

Space Exploration & Astronomy Medical Research & Biotechnology Environmental Science Climate Change Artificial Intelligence Energy Physics Sources: The above information is drawn from recent press releases, journal publications, and reports dated August 19–20, 2025, including NASA announcements science.nasa.gov science.nasa.gov, ScienceDaily and Sci-News summaries sciencedaily.com sci.news, university press releases sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com, Reuters newswire reports reuters.com, and peer-reviewed study findings sciencedaily.com scitechdaily.com. All content has been verified for accuracy as of August 20, 2025.
20 August 2025
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Astounding August Science Breakthroughs: Exoplanet Next Door, AI Milestone, Climate Alarms & More

Astounding August Science Breakthroughs: Exoplanet Next Door, AI Milestone, Climate Alarms & More

A Saturn-mass exoplanet candidate orbiting Alpha Centauri A at about 1–2 AU was directly imaged by JWST, potentially the closest directly imaged planet to its star at roughly 4 light-years from Earth. OpenAI released GPT-5 to about 700 million ChatGPT users, delivering significantly improved reasoning, problem-solving, domain expertise, and on-demand software coding with an enterprise focus. Italy’s Space Agency will have Italian scientific payloads aboard SpaceX’s Starship on its first Mars-bound missions, with Starship standing about 123 meters tall and a June engine test having ended in an explosion. On August 7, 2025, a solar storm consisting of M-class flares
8 August 2025
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Sky Watchers: The 2025–2033 Boom in Weather & Climate Satellite Constellations

Sky Watchers: The 2025–2033 Boom in Weather & Climate Satellite Constellations

Over 5,400 Earth observation satellites are projected to be launched globally from 2024 to 2033, nearly triple the previous decade. NOAA’s GeoXO program will deploy at least three geostationary satellites (with options up to four more) to upgrade GOES-R and extend Western Hemisphere coverage, following a $2.27 billion contract awarded to Lockheed Martin in 2024. NOAA/NASA plan JPSS-3 for 2027 and JPSS-4 for 2032 to provide critical morning-orbit polar data for numerical weather models. Europe’s MTG and MetOp-SG programs will deliver six MTG satellites (four MTG-I imagers and two MTG-S sounders) and the MetOp-SG A1/B1 pair by 2025, with MTG
21 June 2025
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Eyes in the Sky: How Satellites Are Revealing Our Changing Climate

Eyes in the Sky: How Satellites Are Revealing Our Changing Climate

Radar altimeters on TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2, Jason-3, and Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich have provided a global mean sea level record since 1992, showing a rise of about 3.3 millimeters per year and roughly 10 centimeters over 30 years. Arctic summer sea ice extent has declined by about 12% per decade since the 1980s, with the Arctic minimum shrinking from about 7.5 million km² in 1980 to 4.4 million km² in 2023. GRACE and GRACE-FO gravity missions have revealed that Greenland and Antarctica are losing hundreds of billions of tons of ice each year, contributing to sea level rise. NASA’s PACE mission,
6 June 2025
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