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Canada to stop directly financing fossil fuel projects abroad

With weeks until an end-of-year deadline it agreed to last year, Canada has announced that it will end new direct subsidies for fossil fuel investments and projects abroad — including those owned by Canadian companies.

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Heat waves can overheat data centres, causing outages

As heat waves become more common and extreme due to the effects of climate change, the data centres that provide the backbone for the online services the public relies on are at risk of overheating.

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Monarch butterfly numbers skyrocket in Mexico

Mexican experts said this week that 35 per cent more monarch butterflies arrived this year to spend the winter in mountaintop forests, compared to the previous season. Experts say the rise may reflect the butterflies’ ability to adapt to more extreme bouts of heat or drought by varying the date when they leave Mexico.

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Climate change forces moth species to move further north

Data collected by the University of Eastern Finland shows that climate change is driving the pine beauty moth to settle further north due to higher-than-average temperatures in the region.

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Ukraine war: 150 eco-crimes committed so far, group says

Amid broader concerns of a "fossil fuel war" in Ukraine and its effect on the environment, a group says it has documented more than 150 cases to date of alleged ecological crimes by Russian forces.

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