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This story was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. For centuries, farmers in Melendugno, a town located at the tip of southern Italy’s boot heel, built stone walls to mark the boundaries of their fields, shield their crops from the winds blowing out of North Africa, and divide farmland from pasture.   Today, those same ancient stones […]

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The sponsor of a flagship event at Reform UK’s annual conference has accused party leader Nigel Farage of adopting “very far-right, very anti-immigrant” rhetoric, DeSmog can reveal. The event was hosted on 6 September by the Heartland Institute – an infamous U.S. climate science denial group – and run “in collaboration” with Quews News. Founded […]

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A UK charity that portrays itself as a climate leader facilitated a £830,000 donation to the Mercatus Center, a conservative think tank heavily funded by U.S. oil billionaire Charles Koch, DeSmog can reveal. The London-based Founders Pledge channels donations from entrepreneurs to charities – empowering business leaders “to do immense good”, according to its website. […]

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This story is being published in collaboration with The Tyee, an award-winning independent media outlet based in BC.  Danielle Smith and her team met with members of the right-wing think tank the Heritage Foundation not long after the 2024 U.S. election, the Alberta premier said at a conference last month. Smith was speaking at the recent […]

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As artificial intelligence company OpenAI plans its rapid construction of behemoth power-guzzling data centers to fuel the AI boom, it has hired a new energy chief – an official from the first Trump administration who is a dedicated champion of natural gas. John McCarrick, the company’s new head of Global Energy Policy, was a senior energy […]

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This article by Capital & Main is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. “I’ve never seen it this bad.” Eddie LeJuine has been fishing and shrimping along the southwestern coast of Louisiana for about four decades. The garrulous 62-year-old can talk for hours about the best fishing spots and the […]

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