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• Activists across Europe prepare two days of protests against datacentres

  Environmental organisations including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth are demanding an immediate halt to large computing infrastructure projects due to surging resource demands. The coordinated mobilisation targets the massive energy footprint driven by the artificial intelligence boom, which threatens national climate targets and strains public utilities. In response, technology companies maintain that these facilities remain vital engines for broader economic productivity and job creation.

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• Delhi revives artificial rain plan as AQI worsens

  Officials are collaborating with IIT Kanpur to deploy high-altitude cloud-seeding missions using substances like silver iodide to induce precipitation and settle atmospheric dust. The renewed intervention follows a persistent pollution crisis driven by low wind speeds that has pushed air quality into the very poor and severe categories across multiple monitoring stations. Further trial runs are expected to take place following the Diwali and Chhath holidays.

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• Ten years of the Paris Agreement: Has the world kept its climate promises?

  A decade after nearly 200 nations enacted the landmark treaty to avert catastrophic warming, global pollution levels remain near historic peaks as progress plateaus. Although renewable adoption has reduced projected end-of-century warming to roughly 2.6 degrees Celsius, the United Nations confirmed that surpassing the critical 1.5C threshold is now unavoidable. Widening disparities among major emitters and recurring American political reversals continue to undermine coordinated international action.

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