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In the US, a fungal disease is spreading fast. A hotter climate could be to blame.

Grist

Research laboratories quickly mobilized to review historical specimens and found the fungus, called Candida auris , had been present in the country since at least 2013. In 2016, hospitals in New York identified a rare and dangerous fungal infection never before found in the United States. auris infections. In the U.S.,

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The Rules for Early-Stage Cleantech Venture Capital Investment in 2021

GreenTechMedia

That led, in turn, to a major drawback from big VC firms, with early-stage funding for climate tech companies falling to about $418 million in 2013. Global tallies of VC and private equity investment into cleantech in that year range from $9.2 But by 2019, venture funding had picked back up. The Washington D.C.-based

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'Confidence boosting': How recent climate pledges have put 2C Paris Agreement goal within reach

Business Green

The Summit saw President Biden pledge a 50-52 per cent reduction in US emissions from 2005 levels by 2030, while Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga promised a 46 per cent cut in emissions from 2013 levels by the end of the decade. warming by the end of the century above pre-industrial levels. target "within reach", he said.

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How U.S. ‘Risk-Takers’ Took a Gamble on Somalia’s Oil — Then Vanished

DeSmogBlog

The secrecy around the deal is perhaps best understood in the context of the Horn of Africa nation’s politics, which have been shaped by decades of conflict and ongoing clan-based division. Lord Michael Howard, the former Conservative leader, chaired the company since it was founded in 2013. Credit: Twitter/Asair Firin.

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Tufton Street Linked Donors Have Given £630,000 to the Conservatives Since Sunak Became Prime Minister

DeSmogBlog

As revealed by DeSmog this week, a firm owned by a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups – also donated £20,000 in March to House of Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt and Conservative MP Liam Fox.

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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Since the first edition was published in 2013, new strategies, measurements, and certifications have been developed. Climate impacts 2.

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Top 10 Women of Solar

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

M.P.H. – Co-Founder and executive director of WE CARE Solar Dr. Laura Stachel’s story of how she went from unknown OB/GYN to one of CNN’s Top 10 Heros of 2013 , starts in Northern Nigeria in 2008. Stachel , M.D., Stachel is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist with fourteen years of clinical experience, holding an M.D.