Aila Määttä
@ailamaatta.bsky.social
Nordic countries, R&D and innovation, diversity and gender issues, sustainable development, nature, climate, health, Arctic issues, EU, culture etc.
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Terveys- ja sosiaalialan yritysten määrä kasvoi jopa 29% viime vuoden aikana. Myös alan liikevaihto ja henkilöstömäärä kasvoivat.
”Ennen kaikkea lisääntyivät mikroyritykset, eli alle 10 henkeä työllistävät #yritykset”, sanoo asiantuntijamme Mira Kuussaari uutisessa.
🗞️ stat.fi/fi/uutinen/T...
”Ennen kaikkea lisääntyivät mikroyritykset, eli alle 10 henkeä työllistävät #yritykset”, sanoo asiantuntijamme Mira Kuussaari uutisessa.
🗞️ stat.fi/fi/uutinen/T...
December 19, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Terveys- ja sosiaalialan yritysten määrä kasvoi jopa 29% viime vuoden aikana. Myös alan liikevaihto ja henkilöstömäärä kasvoivat.
”Ennen kaikkea lisääntyivät mikroyritykset, eli alle 10 henkeä työllistävät #yritykset”, sanoo asiantuntijamme Mira Kuussaari uutisessa.
🗞️ stat.fi/fi/uutinen/T...
”Ennen kaikkea lisääntyivät mikroyritykset, eli alle 10 henkeä työllistävät #yritykset”, sanoo asiantuntijamme Mira Kuussaari uutisessa.
🗞️ stat.fi/fi/uutinen/T...
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Situationen för många av Sveriges arter är fortsatt ansträngd men lagom till jul presenterar SLU Artdatabanken en glädjande nyhet.
Glädjebeskedet: Utter, havsörn och groda inte längre rödlistade
klimatgranskaren.se
December 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Situationen för många av Sveriges arter är fortsatt ansträngd men lagom till jul presenterar SLU Artdatabanken en glädjande nyhet.
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Spanien går i Tysklands fotspår och inför en billig tågbiljett som ska gälla i hela landet. I Sverige har regeringen i stället lagt pengarna på billigare bensin.
Spaniens nya drag — lanserar superbillig tågbiljett
klimatgranskaren.se
December 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Spanien går i Tysklands fotspår och inför en billig tågbiljett som ska gälla i hela landet. I Sverige har regeringen i stället lagt pengarna på billigare bensin.
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Tuoreen arvioinnin mukaan luonnonmetsien, lehtojen, harjumetsien ja puustoisten soiden suojelutasot ovat Etelä-Suomessa huonoimmassa mahdollisessa luokassa. 🌲 🍃
”Arvioinnin tulokset tarjoavat arvokasta ekologista tietopohjaa ennallistamisen päätöksentekoon,” sanoo erityisasiantuntija Aija Kukkala.
”Arvioinnin tulokset tarjoavat arvokasta ekologista tietopohjaa ennallistamisen päätöksentekoon,” sanoo erityisasiantuntija Aija Kukkala.
Laaja-alaisten metsäluontotyyppien tila on heikko – luonnonmetsiä ja korpia tarvitaan lisää erityisesti eteläisessä Suomessa
Luontodirektiivin mukaisen suojelutasoarvioinnin tuoreet tulokset osoittavat, että laaja-alaiset metsäluontotyypit - luonnonmetsät, lehdot, harjumetsät ja puustoiset suot - ovat huonossa tilassa. Luonnonmetsiä ja puustoisiin soihin kuuluvia uhanalaisia korpia tarvitaan enemmän, jotta niiden eliöyhteisöt säilyvät pitkällä aikavälillä. Suomen ympäristökeskuksen (Syke) koordinoima suojelutasoarviointi antaa eväitä kansalliseen ennallistamissuunnitteluun, jota tarvitaan luontotyyppien tilan parantamiseksi ja EU:n ennallistamisasetuksen tavoitteiden saavuttamiseksi.
www.syke.fi
December 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Tuoreen arvioinnin mukaan luonnonmetsien, lehtojen, harjumetsien ja puustoisten soiden suojelutasot ovat Etelä-Suomessa huonoimmassa mahdollisessa luokassa. 🌲 🍃
”Arvioinnin tulokset tarjoavat arvokasta ekologista tietopohjaa ennallistamisen päätöksentekoon,” sanoo erityisasiantuntija Aija Kukkala.
”Arvioinnin tulokset tarjoavat arvokasta ekologista tietopohjaa ennallistamisen päätöksentekoon,” sanoo erityisasiantuntija Aija Kukkala.
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In a new study, @eeshani.bsky.social & fellow experts ask: What does life look like for northern Ugandan women who were taken as children and are now adults?
20 years on, the study finds lasting psychological & social impacts that economic measures often miss:
https://go.cgdev.org/49j4n31
20 years on, the study finds lasting psychological & social impacts that economic measures often miss:
https://go.cgdev.org/49j4n31
From Childhood Abduction to Adulthood: What 20 Years Reveal About Women in Northern Uganda
Two decades after the LRA left northern Uganda, its legacy of abduction lives on in the daily emotional experiences of the girls–now women– that they abducted. Addressing that legacy requires policy c...
go.cgdev.org
December 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
In a new study, @eeshani.bsky.social & fellow experts ask: What does life look like for northern Ugandan women who were taken as children and are now adults?
20 years on, the study finds lasting psychological & social impacts that economic measures often miss:
https://go.cgdev.org/49j4n31
20 years on, the study finds lasting psychological & social impacts that economic measures often miss:
https://go.cgdev.org/49j4n31
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From snowy owls and hammerhead sharks to bats and sea turtles 🦉🦈🐋
Countries have proposed adding 42 migratory species to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) highlighting need for stronger intl cooperation to protect wildlife on the move.
Decisions expected in 03/26: https://ow.ly/shgy50XMar0
Countries have proposed adding 42 migratory species to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) highlighting need for stronger intl cooperation to protect wildlife on the move.
Decisions expected in 03/26: https://ow.ly/shgy50XMar0
December 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
From snowy owls and hammerhead sharks to bats and sea turtles 🦉🦈🐋
Countries have proposed adding 42 migratory species to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) highlighting need for stronger intl cooperation to protect wildlife on the move.
Decisions expected in 03/26: https://ow.ly/shgy50XMar0
Countries have proposed adding 42 migratory species to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) highlighting need for stronger intl cooperation to protect wildlife on the move.
Decisions expected in 03/26: https://ow.ly/shgy50XMar0
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Was 2025 the year that business retreated from net zero?: From retailers to banks, carmakers to councils, the bold pledges for carbon-neutral economies are being watered down or scrapped Almost a year since Donald Trump returned to the White House with a rallying cry to the fossil fuel in...
Was 2025 the year that business retreated from net zero?
Was 2025 the year that business retreated from net zero?: From retailers to banks, carmakers to councils, the bold pledges for carbon-neutral economies are being watered down or scrapped Almost a year since Donald Trump returned to the White House with a rallying cry to the fossil fuel in...
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Was 2025 the year that business retreated from net zero?: From retailers to banks, carmakers to councils, the bold pledges for carbon-neutral economies are being watered down or scrapped Almost a year since Donald Trump returned to the White House with a rallying cry to the fossil fuel in...
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⏳ 45 days until #IPBES12
The IPBES #BizBiodiversity assessment is the result of 3 years work by 80 leading authors incl. scientists, business experts, Indigenous Peoples & local communities from 35 countries.
📍 Manchester, UK | 3–8 February 2026
Learn more: https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG
The IPBES #BizBiodiversity assessment is the result of 3 years work by 80 leading authors incl. scientists, business experts, Indigenous Peoples & local communities from 35 countries.
📍 Manchester, UK | 3–8 February 2026
Learn more: https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG
December 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
⏳ 45 days until #IPBES12
The IPBES #BizBiodiversity assessment is the result of 3 years work by 80 leading authors incl. scientists, business experts, Indigenous Peoples & local communities from 35 countries.
📍 Manchester, UK | 3–8 February 2026
Learn more: https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG
The IPBES #BizBiodiversity assessment is the result of 3 years work by 80 leading authors incl. scientists, business experts, Indigenous Peoples & local communities from 35 countries.
📍 Manchester, UK | 3–8 February 2026
Learn more: https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG
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“It is the kind of test that, in the wrong hands, could cause a lot of harm”
A study of blood-based markers for Alzheimer’s disease in Norway confirms earlier estimates
go.nature.com/3N7sLfg
A study of blood-based markers for Alzheimer’s disease in Norway confirms earlier estimates
go.nature.com/3N7sLfg
How common is Alzheimer’s disease? First population-wide blood test holds surprises
Nature - A study of blood-based markers for Alzheimer’s disease in Norway confirms earlier estimates, and may show how education level relates to risk.
go.nature.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
“It is the kind of test that, in the wrong hands, could cause a lot of harm”
A study of blood-based markers for Alzheimer’s disease in Norway confirms earlier estimates
go.nature.com/3N7sLfg
A study of blood-based markers for Alzheimer’s disease in Norway confirms earlier estimates
go.nature.com/3N7sLfg
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‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis: Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril – in maps and charts The destr...
‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis
‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis: Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril – in maps and charts The destr...
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis: Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril – in maps and charts The destr...
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Ever wondered why no one talks about the hole in the ozone layer anymore?
It's because we fixed it.
Scientists provided the data, governments implemented policies, and people came together to take global collective action.
It can be done.
Now we need to do the same for methane emissions.
It's because we fixed it.
Scientists provided the data, governments implemented policies, and people came together to take global collective action.
It can be done.
Now we need to do the same for methane emissions.
This is another ‘ozone layer’ moment. Now, we must urgently target methane | Mia Mottley
The oil and gas industry must be legally bound to cut methane emissions. With climate tipping points approaching, time is running out, says the prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Ever wondered why no one talks about the hole in the ozone layer anymore?
It's because we fixed it.
Scientists provided the data, governments implemented policies, and people came together to take global collective action.
It can be done.
Now we need to do the same for methane emissions.
It's because we fixed it.
Scientists provided the data, governments implemented policies, and people came together to take global collective action.
It can be done.
Now we need to do the same for methane emissions.
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A recent study by Dutch colleagues shows that a shutdown of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries.
That is a thus far underappreciated risk of climate change.
@swinda.bsky.social
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
That is a thus far underappreciated risk of climate change.
@swinda.bsky.social
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Experts warn ongoing concern with Atlantic Ocean will be direct threat to dozens of nations: 'Consequences for at least 1,000 years to come'
"A huge responsibility for the decision makers of today."
www.yahoo.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
A recent study by Dutch colleagues shows that a shutdown of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries.
That is a thus far underappreciated risk of climate change.
@swinda.bsky.social
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
That is a thus far underappreciated risk of climate change.
@swinda.bsky.social
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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San Francisco is suing 10 of the world’s most powerful companies for selling products that damage public health. Nope, not e-bikes or chemicals or vapes — we're talking about ultraprocessed foods. Can an approach like this work to improve public health?
Read more in our latest:
Read more in our latest:
Can legal challenges against ultraprocessed foods get us to take them seriously?
Ultraprocessed foods are now understood to be very bad for us. Can the city of San Francisco hold food companies legally liable?
foodprint.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
San Francisco is suing 10 of the world’s most powerful companies for selling products that damage public health. Nope, not e-bikes or chemicals or vapes — we're talking about ultraprocessed foods. Can an approach like this work to improve public health?
Read more in our latest:
Read more in our latest:
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📊 How do income and social integration compare across the Nordics?
The #Nordic #Statistics Database offers easy access to interactive and downloadable data on income levels, gender pay gaps, poverty, social protection, and more.
🔎 Explore and compare the data: nordregio.org/news/where-d...
The #Nordic #Statistics Database offers easy access to interactive and downloadable data on income levels, gender pay gaps, poverty, social protection, and more.
🔎 Explore and compare the data: nordregio.org/news/where-d...
December 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
📊 How do income and social integration compare across the Nordics?
The #Nordic #Statistics Database offers easy access to interactive and downloadable data on income levels, gender pay gaps, poverty, social protection, and more.
🔎 Explore and compare the data: nordregio.org/news/where-d...
The #Nordic #Statistics Database offers easy access to interactive and downloadable data on income levels, gender pay gaps, poverty, social protection, and more.
🔎 Explore and compare the data: nordregio.org/news/where-d...
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💧 Historic news from #COP30: Lake Rice (Pimadashkodeyong), the ancestral lake of the Alderville First Nation in Ontario, now has its own legal standing under Alderville law
➕ More information: https://f.mtr.cool/mmkgldwxtx
➕ More information: https://f.mtr.cool/mmkgldwxtx
December 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
💧 Historic news from #COP30: Lake Rice (Pimadashkodeyong), the ancestral lake of the Alderville First Nation in Ontario, now has its own legal standing under Alderville law
➕ More information: https://f.mtr.cool/mmkgldwxtx
➕ More information: https://f.mtr.cool/mmkgldwxtx
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Data from all countries who took part in Round 11 (2023/24) of our #survey has been included in the latest release.
The updated integrated file (Edition 4.0) includes #data from Estonia 🇪🇪 and Ukraine 🇺🇦 for the first time, alongside data from 28 other countries.
The updated integrated file (Edition 4.0) includes #data from Estonia 🇪🇪 and Ukraine 🇺🇦 for the first time, alongside data from 28 other countries.
Final release of Round 11 data | European Social Survey
Data from all countries who took part in Round 11 (2023/24) of the European Social Survey (ESS) has been included in the latest release.
buff.ly
December 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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In a world where you can be anything, be kind to nature.
From climate change to disasters, our planet is under pressure — yet nature holds the key to resilience and life itself.
Let’s act with kindness towards nature, which sustains us all: www.unep.org/topics/natur...
From climate change to disasters, our planet is under pressure — yet nature holds the key to resilience and life itself.
Let’s act with kindness towards nature, which sustains us all: www.unep.org/topics/natur...
December 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
In a world where you can be anything, be kind to nature.
From climate change to disasters, our planet is under pressure — yet nature holds the key to resilience and life itself.
Let’s act with kindness towards nature, which sustains us all: www.unep.org/topics/natur...
From climate change to disasters, our planet is under pressure — yet nature holds the key to resilience and life itself.
Let’s act with kindness towards nature, which sustains us all: www.unep.org/topics/natur...
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Climate change is increasing the algae in our waterways, with devastating consequences for ecosystems.
Read more by @Patrick Greenfield for The guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/10/toxic-blooms-algae-marine-dead-zones-lakes-ecosystems-dead-elephants-fish-sea-lions-aoe
Read more by @Patrick Greenfield for The guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/10/toxic-blooms-algae-marine-dead-zones-lakes-ecosystems-dead-elephants-fish-sea-lions-aoe
Dead elephants and feral sea lions: how poisonous algal blooms harm the planet
As the Earth heats up, the amount of algae in our waterways is rapidly increasing, transforming the colour of lakes and killing entire ecosystems
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Climate change is increasing the algae in our waterways, with devastating consequences for ecosystems.
Read more by @Patrick Greenfield for The guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/10/toxic-blooms-algae-marine-dead-zones-lakes-ecosystems-dead-elephants-fish-sea-lions-aoe
Read more by @Patrick Greenfield for The guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/10/toxic-blooms-algae-marine-dead-zones-lakes-ecosystems-dead-elephants-fish-sea-lions-aoe
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New research shows toxic chemicals in food systems cost us up to $2.2 trillion a year in health impacts.
Meanwhile the EU Commission wants to destroy our protections against pesticide risks. We can't let this happen, help us👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/news/raise-y...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Meanwhile the EU Commission wants to destroy our protections against pesticide risks. We can't let this happen, help us👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/news/raise-y...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Synthetic chemicals in food system creating health burden of $2.2tn a year, report finds
Scientists issue urgent warning about chemicals, found to cause cancer and infertility as well as harming environment
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
New research shows toxic chemicals in food systems cost us up to $2.2 trillion a year in health impacts.
Meanwhile the EU Commission wants to destroy our protections against pesticide risks. We can't let this happen, help us👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/news/raise-y...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Meanwhile the EU Commission wants to destroy our protections against pesticide risks. We can't let this happen, help us👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/news/raise-y...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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#ParisAgreement10
11. "The #ParisAgreement is a flawed creation, but also resilient. Even the twice-over withdrawal of the world's largest economy has yet to kill it."
It is governments, not the Agreement, who are failing on #ClimateAction, writes Katherine Browne: buff.ly/PRZ65ca
11. "The #ParisAgreement is a flawed creation, but also resilient. Even the twice-over withdrawal of the world's largest economy has yet to kill it."
It is governments, not the Agreement, who are failing on #ClimateAction, writes Katherine Browne: buff.ly/PRZ65ca
December 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
#ParisAgreement10
11. "The #ParisAgreement is a flawed creation, but also resilient. Even the twice-over withdrawal of the world's largest economy has yet to kill it."
It is governments, not the Agreement, who are failing on #ClimateAction, writes Katherine Browne: buff.ly/PRZ65ca
11. "The #ParisAgreement is a flawed creation, but also resilient. Even the twice-over withdrawal of the world's largest economy has yet to kill it."
It is governments, not the Agreement, who are failing on #ClimateAction, writes Katherine Browne: buff.ly/PRZ65ca
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The Croatian island Krk is the 2nd Zero Waste certified island IN THE WORLD 🌍
Despite 120k daily visitors in summer the island successfully:
♻️ recycles 57% of waste
🌱 composts 70% of food scraps
🗑️ cut per capita trash by 58%
❌ reduced illegal dumping by 60%
Find out how, here: zurl.co/6Snrl
Despite 120k daily visitors in summer the island successfully:
♻️ recycles 57% of waste
🌱 composts 70% of food scraps
🗑️ cut per capita trash by 58%
❌ reduced illegal dumping by 60%
Find out how, here: zurl.co/6Snrl
December 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
The Croatian island Krk is the 2nd Zero Waste certified island IN THE WORLD 🌍
Despite 120k daily visitors in summer the island successfully:
♻️ recycles 57% of waste
🌱 composts 70% of food scraps
🗑️ cut per capita trash by 58%
❌ reduced illegal dumping by 60%
Find out how, here: zurl.co/6Snrl
Despite 120k daily visitors in summer the island successfully:
♻️ recycles 57% of waste
🌱 composts 70% of food scraps
🗑️ cut per capita trash by 58%
❌ reduced illegal dumping by 60%
Find out how, here: zurl.co/6Snrl
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'This whole-body sensitivity is what will distinguish the next generation of soft robots from today’s rigid machines.'
To learn in the way humans do, robots need bodies that feel, argues @oxengsci.bsky.social's Prof Perla Maiolino ⬇️
To learn in the way humans do, robots need bodies that feel, argues @oxengsci.bsky.social's Prof Perla Maiolino ⬇️
The science of human touch – and why it’s so hard to replicate in robots
To learn in the way humans do, robots need bodies that feel.
theconversation.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
'This whole-body sensitivity is what will distinguish the next generation of soft robots from today’s rigid machines.'
To learn in the way humans do, robots need bodies that feel, argues @oxengsci.bsky.social's Prof Perla Maiolino ⬇️
To learn in the way humans do, robots need bodies that feel, argues @oxengsci.bsky.social's Prof Perla Maiolino ⬇️
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No surprise that the nuclear industry is undermining renewable energy in the US. They’ve been doing that in France for a long time.
How a Nuclear-Fossil Fuel Alliance Is Winning the Fight for Energy Dominance
The once unlikely partnership’s influence now reaches right into the White House, where President Trump wants to ban certain renewable projects.
www.bloomberg.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
No surprise that the nuclear industry is undermining renewable energy in the US. They’ve been doing that in France for a long time.
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10 years of the Paris Agreement 🎉
A decade of global climate cooperation and commitment to protecting our planet for future generations. 🧵
A decade of global climate cooperation and commitment to protecting our planet for future generations. 🧵
December 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
10 years of the Paris Agreement 🎉
A decade of global climate cooperation and commitment to protecting our planet for future generations. 🧵
A decade of global climate cooperation and commitment to protecting our planet for future generations. 🧵
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More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US data centers
More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US data centers
Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US data centers