According to Financial Times (FT), the Bezos Earth Fund was one of the largest funders of the SBTi which Bezos helped establish five years ago. The $18m grant from Earth fund, originally set to be a three-year commitment, was extended in 2021 but expired last year as planned. This financial support had been essential in…
NEW YORK (AP) — Freezing foreign aid. Withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement. Prohibiting nonprofits that receive U.S. foreign aid from providing abortions. Then Monday, the new Trump administration announced a freeze on all federal loans and grants, though that pause has been rescinded. Nonprofits of all sizes are now grappling with how these changes…
Chinese artificial intelligence startup company DeepSeek stunned markets and AI experts with its claim that it built its immensely popular chatbot at a fraction of the cost of those made by American tech titans. That immediately called into question the billions of dollars U.S. tech companies are spending on a massive expansion of energy-hungry data…
United States President Donald Trump has attacked the Federal Emergency Management Agency, known as FEMA, threatening to dismantle the organisation altogether. In a visit to hurricane-ravaged North Carolina on Friday, Trump announced he would sign an executive order “to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA — or maybe getting rid of FEMA”….
China has reaffirmed its commitment to jointly tackling global challenges on Tuesday, drawing a contrast with the U.S. following President Donald Trump‘s order to quit the World Health Organization (WHO) and a landmark climate agreement for the second time. Newsweek reached out to a Trump representative by email with a request for comment. Why It…
Happy Saturday, everyone! Make sure to enjoy the “warmer” temperatures today and tonight while they last. We have arctic air on the way that will make temperatures plummet starting Sunday night. Temperatures will remain BELOW FREEZING between Sunday night and Tuesday night – this includes both high and low temperatures. The high today will be…
A soldier walks next to a Tesla Cybertruck, which was donated to the National Guard, after powerful winds fueling devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area forced people to evacuate, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood on the west side of Los Angeles, California, U.S. Jan. 13, 2025. Daniel Cole | Reuters Tesla started offering discounts…
Several hundred people may have been killed when the most powerful cyclone in nearly a century hit the French Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte, according to a senior local French official. “I think there will certainly be several hundreds, maybe we will reach a thousand, even several thousands,” prefect Francois-Xavier Bieuville said on the local…
Conor McGregor’s fiancée Dee Devlin is showing that she is standing by the UFC star for better and for worse after a series of sexual assault allegations were made against him. She accompanied McGregor to court in Dublin on Friday, where her partner was told he must pay the woman who accused him of raping her in…
Visitors look at a video about battery-powered ships in the showroom at the headquarters of Chinese EV battery maker CATL in Ningde, Fujian province on November 15, 2024 GREG BAKER Text size With Donald Trump expected to take the United States again out of climate diplomacy, China, the world’s largest emitter but green energy powerhouse,…