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AP reporter in Berlin covering Germany, climate and science

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2024-11-12 13:43:16

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@npub1y98…fhhs Booking cross--border rail trips has become harder, not easier, in recent years. That needs to change. But in most cases the idea that flights are cheaper than rail journey is nonsense, at least in my experience. The one connection that always breaks the bank, though, is Eurostar. A single fare from Brussels to London costs more than three long-distance, high-speed journeys elsewhere on the continent. It's not sustainable.

2024-05-17 14:34:58

It's 2024, there are European elections next month, and still German media report on extreme weather events as if the country was an island in the void.
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2024-05-05 16:06:48

Crowds at pro-democracy protest in Berlin have now grown to perhaps 1,000.
One old man passing by on a bike thinks it's wrong to condemn the far-right Alternative for Germany party though. He thinks they are democrats too because he read that in the NZZ newspaper.
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2024-01-14 13:31:57

Full House at the Brandenburg Gate for a protest against Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany party following revelations that its members took part in a secret meeting to plan mass deportation if it comes to power. #AfD #correctiv
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2023-12-11 19:40:36

“What we have seen today is unacceptable,” Marshall Islands chief delegate and natural resources minister Samuel Silk said. "We will not go silently to our watery graves. We will not accept an outcome that will lead to devastation for our country, and for millions if not billions of the most vulnerable people and communities.”
#COP28
https://apnews.com/article/cop28-climate-summit-negotiations-fossil-fuels-47dfd6dbf32d987e885acd6dbffc7954

2023-10-26 06:37:50

What happened with #HurricaneOtis was just plain nuts, said University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy. But it coincides with a documented trend of hurricanes rapidly intensifying more often in recent decades because of warmer water connected to #climatechange, scientists said.
#Acapulco
https://apnews.com/article/otis-mexico-acapulco-hurricane-warming-oceans-pacific-18a5160b0d90caf693b41273647bd076

2023-10-07 10:26:52

The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users, writes Bloomberg columnist Dave Lee.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-05/the-moral-case-for-no-longer-engaging-with-elon-musk-s-x?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy

2023-08-25 14:34:06

Firefighters struggled Thursday against strong winds and hot, dry conditions to tame multiple wildfires ravaging #Greece, including one in the country’s northeast that officials say is the largest recorded in the European Union.
The #wildfires have left 20 people dead over the last week. Eighteen of those, including two boys aged between 10 and 15, are believed to be #migrants who crossed the nearby border with Turkey.
https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-greece-europe-firefighters-tenerife-turkey-c8c1d0ae0087f62293557efa599cfe65

2023-08-16 20:20:21

Like many countries, #Germany has seen a #solar power boom lately. Much of that's from large solar farms with hundreds of PV panels. But rooftop solar and so-called "balcony power plants" are also surging. The government today agreed several measures to make that even easier.
One of the measures in the "solar package" raises the maximum wattage balcony PV inverters can feed into the home grid to 800W from currently 600W. These will also no longer have to be registered with grid operators. 1/3

2023-08-15 05:25:56

Young environmental activists scored what experts described as a ground-breaking legal victory Monday when a Montana judge said state agencies were violating their right to a clean and healthful environment by allowing fossil fuel development.
The ruling in this first-of-its- kind trial in the US adds to a small number of legal decisions around the world that have established a government duty to protect citizens from #climate change.
State officials pledged to appeal.
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-youth-montana-trial-c7fdc1d8759f55f60346b31c73397db0
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2023-08-11 08:08:07

The California Energy Commission voted to extend the life of 3 gas power plants through 2026, postponing a shutoff deadline previously set for the end of this year.
“We need to move faster in incorporating renewable energy. We need to move faster at incorporating battery storage. We need to build out chargers faster,” commissioner Patricia Monahan said. “We’re working with all the energy institutions to do that, but we are not there yet.”
#climate #energy
https://apnews.com/article/california-gas-plants-power-energy-electricity-blackouts-e2b63904ed0cb0d80fb215476eb9ce98

2023-07-10 09:34:05

Nearly 50,000 Russian men have died in the war in #Ukraine, according to the first independent statistical analysis of #Russia’s war dead.
Two independent Russian media outlets, Mediazona and Meduza, working with a data scientist from Germany’s Tübingen University, used Russian government data to shed light on one of Moscow’s closest-held secrets — the true human cost of its invasion of Ukraine.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-military-deaths-facd75c2311ed7be660342698cf6a409

2023-07-01 16:17:50

A European space telescope blasted off Saturday on a quest to explore the mysterious and invisible realm known as the dark universe.
Named for antiquity’s Greek mathematician, #Euclid will scour billions of galaxies covering more than one-third of the sky. By pinpointing the location and shape of galaxies up to 10 billion light-years away scientists hope to glean insight into the #darkenergy and #darkmatter that make up most of the universe and keep it expanding. #ESA
https://apnews.com/article/space-telescope-launch-europe-universe-ed917b09537844edc8f61abf9cd01c29

2023-06-18 15:58:28

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@npub1ex3…c58j The motivation for voting against it wasn't recorded, but the Swiss People's Party had argued that it would drive up electricity prices (which advocates deny).

2023-06-18 15:45:17

A majority of Swiss citizens on Sunday voted in favor of a bill aimed at introducing new climate measures to sharply curb the rich Alpine nation's greenhouse gas emissions.
Final results released by public broadcaster SRF showed that 59.1% of voters were in favor of the bill, while 40.9% voted against.
https://apnews.com/article/switzerland-climate-referendum-glaciers-e56bc08b1de2f9e3f050847bb96ccf44
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2023-06-13 15:32:37

An Associated Press analysis found that fraudsters potentially stole more than $280 billion in COVID-19 relief funding; another $123 billion was wasted or misspent. Combined, the loss represents 10% of the $4.2 trillion the U.S. government has so far disbursed in COVID relief aid.
https://apnews.com/article/pandemic-fraud-waste-billions-small-business-labor-fb1d9a9eb24857efbe4611344311ae78?s=09