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Facebook to shut down face-recognition system, delete data

More than a third of Facebook’s daily active users have opted in to have their faces recognized by the social network’s system. That’s about 640 million people.

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WATCH: Countries agree to cut methane by at least 30 percent by 2030

Nations responsible for almost half the world’s methane emissions are signing a pledge Tuesday.

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro meets Italy far-right leader

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro met Italian far-right leader Matteo Salvini Tuesday in a ceremony for Brazilians killed in World War II, on a visit to Italy marred by controversy. The Brazilian far-right leader chose to skip UN climate talks in

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Chinese envoy argues nation is in ‘special development stage’ preventing more emissions cuts

Xie Zhenhua, who played a pivotal role in talks leading to the 2015 Paris climate accord, underscored China’s stance that the United States and other developed nations should be the ones doing more to cut climate-damaging emissions faster, not China.

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Biden administration acknowledges impacts of oil and gas sales on public land, but hasn’t stopped them

The Interior Department is preparing to offer oil and gas lease sales on large tracts of public land despite concluding that burning fossil fuels from those parcels could carry huge costs and contribute to climate change.

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U.S. says oil and gas sales damage climate, but won’t quit them yet

The Interior Department is preparing to offer oil and gas lease sales on large tracts of public land despite concluding that burning fossil fuels from those parcels could carry huge costs and contribute to climate change.

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Why the push to decriminalize psychedelics is growing in Michigan

Detroit voters will vote on whether to decriminalize entheogenic plants and fungi, including psilocybin mushrooms, which show promising medical applications.

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PHOTO: Recycled Formula 1 car on display in Glasgow

President Joe Biden said that “our current technology alone won’t get us where we need to be.”

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How Nov. 2, 2010 Made the Rich So Much Richer

November 2, 2010, is a day that that has been mostly forgotten by history, but that should live in infamy. It was the day when America’s democratic institutions retreated to the sidelines of economic policymaking and largely left the nation’s

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African Union seeks $12.5B from world to tackle climate adaptation

In his remarks before a meeting of world leaders, President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo noted that the global effort on climate change “can’t be won unless it is won in Africa.”

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