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            <title><![CDATA[How a photo of a patient’s face could predict whether they’ll survive cancer]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Researchers say they’ve developed an AI model trained on more than 40 million photographs that can help predict mortality risk.

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            <title><![CDATA[IPCC scientists vow to press on with climate reports despite political deadlock]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[After governments again failed to agree a timeline, nearly 120 IPCC authors pledged to complete their assessment on time and with full scientific rigour]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Inside the quest to combat Arctic fires and save the planet’s frozen carbon]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[These scientists hope that fire-spotting satellites, AI tools and ancient land practices could preserve the world’s vulnerable permafrost—and the vast carbon it stores]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Indian rappers use music to sound climate alarm]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Indian rapper Kali needed little inspiration to write about dwindling water supplies -- he drew on childhood memories of hauling plastic pots full of the precious resource]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Where do investors see value in clean energy?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Rising demand, energy security and compelling economics are bringing investors back to clean energy – but they need to watch its volatility]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Americans are spending more money to drive worse cars]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[If high gas prices won’t persuade drivers to go electric, what will?]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Marine life dramatically declined in Gulf of Mexico in years after BP oil spill, study finds]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[In a deep, dark part of the Gulf of Mexico, the number of marine animals plummeted by about 60% in the years following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion, a new study found]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What’s behind the protests in France and what happens next]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Weeks of student-led protests over conditions in French schools spiraled into violent protests across the country in recent days]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Philippine president orders creation of carbon market framework]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[But the framework’s contribution to Philippine climate ambition remains uncertain, as the country’s updated pledge lacks a 1.5°C-aligned decarbonisation pathway and clarity on how much of its conditional target will be met through carbon markets, says civil society]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Curfew imposed in parts of central Paris and other cities after rioting across France]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[French authorities have imposed overnight curfews in parts of central Paris and other cities after a weekend of riots and looting across the country]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Marine life dramatically declined in Gulf of Mexico in years after BP oil spill, study finds]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[In a deep, dark part of the Gulf of Mexico, the number of marine animals plummeted by about 60% in the years following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion, a new study found]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Where is the promotion of New Zealand’s public interest?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[New Zealand’s remoteness makes it uniquely exposed to supply-chain shocks. A climate scientist argues that the public interest means cutting import dependence with renewable energy, not leaving energy security to private profit]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Trenberth]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Bridges 2026 makes implementation the priority for sustainable finance]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Three days in Geneva left sustainable finance with a harder question to answer: how quickly capital can reach the projects that need it
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The energy transition doesn’t need another breakthrough]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The climate solutions we need have largely been invented, yet they stall on the day someone has to commit capital]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Vincent Poizat]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The world’s pharmacy is leaking its antibiotics]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[India supplies a fifth of the world’s generic medicines, and some of its antibiotic factories have released drug residues at levels that breed resistant bacteria. In 2020 it drafted binding discharge limits for 121 antibiotics, then dropped them in 2021. WHO targets and tighter European rules now give it every reason to bring them back]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tanmay Arora]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cyprus: Divided island, banking memory and Eastern Mediterranean energy risk]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Cyprus has repaired its banks, but real estate, gas, energy isolation and a divided island now define its risk
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diego Balverde]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fundraising to protect oceans, forests and other key nature sites falling short ahead of UN summit]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Efforts to raise hundreds of billions of dollars to preserve the world’s oceans, forests, rivers, lakes and other parts of the natural world have fallen short ahead of a key U.N. summit on biodiversity]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The climate story hiding in plain sight in the global economy]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The war in Iran, AI, and countries’ growing debt burden all sat at the top of the agenda as leaders of the world’s international financial institutions gathered in Bangkok this week for the fall meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pacific nations await climate billions, as fossil fuel divide looms over Cop31]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Ahead of next month’s United Nations Cop31 climate summit, as a strengthening El Niño drives Pacific sea temperatures towards record levels, more than $5 billion promised to the region remains unpaid. Cop31 co-hosts Turkey and Australia are pushing to speed up the switch to electric transport, heating and industry, but participating countries are divided over how to wind down the use of coal, oil and]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[COP17: Which countries have released new pledges to tackle nature loss?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Some 58% of countries have met a UN call to submit new pledges on addressing nature loss – two years after the original deadline]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[An AI-for-climate startup won Nvidia’s backing—after putting the climate part on ice]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Nvidia’s Jensen Huang visited Paris this week to unveil a slate of investments in French startups, the chip giant’s latest move to solidify its position at the heart of the AI industry]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Extreme weather is decimating Europe’s crops. These farmers have a solution]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[World Food Day: Europe is ‘losing hundreds of farms a day’. Crop diversification and subsidies that pay for outcomes could save them, farmers say]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[France reels from weekend of chaos as violence spreads across Europe]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[France is reeling from its worst rioting in years after nationwide protests over education and the cost of living spiraled into a wave of deadly, country-wide violence that has sparked a blame game at home and threatens to spill over into its European neighbors]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Catching smoke in Singapore]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Indonesia is mulling offers from Malaysia and Singapore to help control wildfires raging across the country—and which have cast a massive haze onto nearby countries]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Landmark China trial gets 84% efficacy in treating cancer with cue from waste water tech]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[For patients with advanced, metastatic cancer that has progressed despite systemic therapy, options remain critically limited. Now, Chinese scientists are pointing to an unconventional therapeutic agent]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Not a crystal ball: how AI can help governments manage debt]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Record debt is taking money from development, and debt offices need better early warning, better data and sharper scenarios. AI can help with some of this, but only on solid institutional foundations]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Seham Farouk]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Criminal networks threaten the Amazon. Indigenous leaders want the UN to act]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon are taking their fight against illegal mining, drug trafficking and deforestation to a United Nations conference in Vienna starting Monday]]></description>
            <link>https://illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/summary-criminal-networks-threaten-the-amazon-indigenous-leaders-want-the-un-to-act</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Energy efficiency is credit quality]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Every wasted megawatt hour weakens a balance sheet, making verified energy efficiency a measurable driver of credit qualit
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diego Balverde]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[‘Subsidising suicide’: UN chief urges governments to stop propping up polluting fossil fuels]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Fossil fuels are 'boiling our planet', says Guterres. Yet COP31 hosts Türkiye and Australia are expanding them, a new report shows]]></description>
            <link>https://illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/summary-subsidising-suicide-un-chief-urges-governments-to-stop-propping-up-polluting-fossil-fuels</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[AI, climate and private capital reveal Asia's diverging fortunes]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[IMF meetings end with region's resilience increasingly uneven and under pressure]]></description>
            <link>https://illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/summary-ai-climate-and-private-capital-reveal-asias-diverging-fortunes</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Expand the map: the Global South and the next global economy]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The next phase of global growth will not be decided only in the United States, China and Europe: young populations, clean energy and critical minerals make the case for expanding the map to Africa and the wider Global South]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Thaddeus Anim-Somuah]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tesla’s new Roadster car can thrust itself in the air. But don’t expect to drive it anytime soon]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Tesla has unveiled its new Roadster sports car, which can thrust itself in the air, among other engineering bells and whistles. But drivers shouldn’t expect to take it for a spin anytime soon]]></description>
            <link>https://illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/summary-teslas-new-roadster-car-can-thrust-itself-in-the-air-but-dont-expect-to-drive-it-anytime-soon</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[EU resists bid to weaken emissions rules as leaders spar over energy costs]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Defenders of the EU’s emissions trading system have resisted an Italian-led campaign to weaken Brussels’ flagship climate policy]]></description>
            <link>https://illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/summary-eu-resists-bid-to-weaken-emissions-rules-as-leaders-spar-over-energy-costs</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[“Given the severe consequences, this risk should be taken very seriously”: Dr. Susanne Ditlevsen on AMOC]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Dr. Susanne Ditlevsen, whose work with her brother Peter points to a possible AMOC tipping as early as 2037, argues for cutting emissions and building resilient societies instead of relying on geoengineering
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            <link>https://illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/given-the-severe-consequences-this-risk-should-be-taken-very-seriously-dr-susanne-ditlevsen-on-amoc</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Praveen Gupta]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Super El Niño 2026: what it is and what it could mean for the world and Europe]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Ocean temperatures are rising in the equatorial Pacific, and if this El Niño strengthens as forecast, 2027 could become the hottest year the planet has ever recorded]]></description>
            <link>https://illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/super-el-nio-2026-what-it-is-and-what-it-could-mean-for-the-world-and-europe</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Yury Erofeev]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Google, Stripe, Shopify sign carbon removal deal with CO2-into-rock startup 44.01]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Carbon removal buyer coalition Frontier announced new offtake agreements with carbon sequestration technology company 44.01, on behalf of purchasers including Stripe, Google and Shopify, alongside Autodesk, H&M Group and Workday, based on 44.01’s process to turn CO2 into rock]]></description>
            <link>https://illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/summary-google-stripe-shopify-sign-carbon-removal-deal-with-co2intorock-startup-4401</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Five big questions about Tesla’s new flying roadster]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Elon Musk says Tesla’s wildest car ever will enter production in 2028, but key details are MIA]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[AI could unlock more than $1tn in MENA value by 2030, shows new WEF and Bain report]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The potential gains span sustainable finance, investment, avoided asset losses and cross-sector partnerships, but implementation barriers remain]]></description>
            <link>https://illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/summary-ai-could-unlock-more-than-1tn-in-mena-value-by-2030-shows-new-wef-and-bain-report</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Asean climate monitor issues highest alert level over toxic haze]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Ongoing fires in Indonesia that have blanketed parts of Southeast Asia with toxic haze have triggered the highest-level alert by the regional bloc’s climate and fire monitor]]></description>
            <link>https://illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/summary-asean-climate-monitor-issues-highest-alert-level-over-toxic-haze</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The infrastructure we forget to build]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Environmental investment can restore wetlands, protect watersheds and finance coastal resilience. But who builds the institutions needed to make those investments work?]]></description>
            <link>https://illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/the-infrastructure-we-forget-to-build</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Monty Simus]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[UN chief urges governments to stop propping up polluting fossil fuels]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Fossil fuels are 'boiling our planet', says Guterres. Yet COP31 hosts Türkiye and Australia are expanding them, a new report shows]]></description>
            <link>https://illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/summary-un-chief-urges-governments-to-stop-propping-up-polluting-fossil-fuels</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The mathematicians’ problem is becoming OpenAI’s problem]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[What the Fields medallists’ complaint tells investors about the economics of frontier AI]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Lishawa]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Maritime insurance is the new price of war]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[War raises maritime insurance, freight and working capital long before routes close, turning port efficiency into a financial hedge]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diego Balverde]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Brazil’s Amazon deforestation hits lowest level on record]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Data show a 42 percent drop in forest clearance from a year earlier, giving Lula a boost before the election run-off]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[AI runs into its next big obstacle: Insurance]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Artificial-intelligence industry’s phenomenal rate of growth means claims have potential to outpace limits on existing coverage]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tesla unveils what it says is a flying car]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Tesla CEO Elon Musk Thursday unveiled a car that he said will be able to fly, a feature long relegated to science fiction and Saturday morning cartoons]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[EU leaders’ summit descends into 3-hour argument over taxing car emissions]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Right-wing leaders used discussions to attack one of Europe’s most important climate policies

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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scientists knew the Doomsday Glacier was melting. They didn't realize how 'aggressively']]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The planet’s widest glacier is melting “more aggressively” than previously projected, meaning its impacts on global sea level rise could be double current estimates, according to new research by a team of glaciologists]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[EU leaders demand joint action to tackle soaring energy prices]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[EU leaders are pressing Brussels for coordinated measures to ease soaring energy costs, bolster fuel supplies and support struggling industries, as the crisis strains national budgets and tests the bloc's climate ambitions]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scientists are finding AI may make us remember things that never happened]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Studies show that artificial intelligence can distort memories, raising questions about what happens when machines become keepers of the past]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[University of Houston demonstrates 90% carbon capture efficiency to address AI energy demand]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Engineers at the University of Houston (UH) have developed a containerized carbon capture system designed to reduce emissions from natural gas power plants supporting the rapid expansion of AI data centers]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Canada PM warns 'stakes are high' as Alberta separation vote nears]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Mark Carney has urged Albertans to vote to remain in Canada ahead of an independence referendum on Monday, warning that the "stakes are high"]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[France and Germany have backed looser EU emissions rules for carmakers and agreed to include Britain in a “made in Europe” scheme, in a provisional deal reached Thursday that could reshape the bloc’s automotive and climate policies]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Could your brain data be used against you? UN calls for limits on neurotechnology]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Brain signals recorded by a gaming headset or a wellness gadget could one day be used as evidence against you in court, according to a new UN report which warns that neurotechnology is outpacing the laws meant to protect human rights]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Venezuela: the anatomy of fragility]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Venezuela sits on the world’s largest oil reserves and still collapsed, which shows that resource wealth is only as safe as the institutions built to manage it]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A terrestrial ecologist’s trip to Lakshadweep, and two conversations with marine scientists, on the difference between worry and grief, and where hope comes from]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Harini Nagendra]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Storage is the new strategic reserve]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Storage is becoming the strategic reserve of the electric age, protecting economies against war, volatility and grid failure
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Diego Balverde]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Climate cartoons by Carbon Paradox]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Renat Heuberger]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mont Blanc measured at nearly two meters taller than in 2023]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[After a decade of wildfires, an overlooked election could shape California’s climate future]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The race for state insurance commissioner hinges on a pivotal question: can the private market help us adapt to climate disasters?]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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