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22/09/2026

Attention filmmakers! Submit your short climate documentary to the Bloomberg Green Docs film competition. Grand prize: $25,000. Here's what you need to know:

• Films must address the urgency of climate change and be under 10 minutes, including credits.

• Submissions are being accepted now through October 2, 2026.

• The winner will be announced at the Bloomberg Green Docs program on November 13 in New York City in partnership with DOC NYC. The top five documentaries will be shown.

• To read the official rules and requirements, visit: bloom.bg/4ySc0HI

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17/09/2026

Ma Jun, the former chief economist of China’s central bank, discusses how the country became a green-finance superpower on Bloomberg Green's Zero podcast.

When it comes to green tech, China is a list of superlatives. It produces more solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles and batteries than anywhere else in the world. But is finance the real climate hero?

17/09/2026

As the US doubles down on oil and gas, the rapid shift by emerging markets into alternative sources of energy is forcing a reset that will have profound consequences for global power dynamics, according to Al Gore.

16/09/2026

Rising temperatures have coincided with a saltier Mediterranean Sea, as the water separating Europe from North Africa heats up at a faster pace than the global ocean surface, according to a new study.

It’s the latest sign that oceans, which have long absorbed the carbon-dioxide emissions and excess heat driving global warming, are starting to buckle under the pressure of that dynamic. Read more: bloom.bg/4yDuuLM

📷: Martin Bertrand/AFP/Getty Images

08/09/2026

Some 90,000 reservoirs supply nearly 70% of US water supplies. But they are slowly filling up with sediment — and wildfire and rains are making it worse. The solutions are tricky and expensive.

Drought is emptying thousands of US reservoirs. Wildfires and extreme rain are filling them with sediment.

08/09/2026

AI is taking the forecasting of tropical storms, the deadliest and costliest type of weather disaster, to another level.

AI is taking the forecasting of tropical storms, the deadliest and costliest type of weather disaster, to another level

04/09/2026

As AI use shifts from simple, one-off queries to longer and more complex tasks, the added computing required results in a dramatically larger environmental footprint. The energy needed to build a web app using some models is equivalent to powering a home for 2.5 hours.

Read more about the impacts of AI: bloom.bg/4gvVfMc

📷: Francesca Volpi/Bloomberg

03/09/2026

Outdoor retailer Patagonia has sued the Trump administration over the shrinking of protected national monument lands in Utah.

The company joins a coalition challenging the sharp reduction in size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.

13/08/2026

Attention documentary filmmakers! We want to see your view of our climate future. Submit your short film to our Bloomberg Green Docs competition by October 2, 2026. Grand prize: $25,000. More information and official rules: bloom.bg/4eKz8RG

07/08/2026

Brazil sharply reduced deforestation through tougher enforcement. But the destruction didn't stop — it crossed the border. Bolivia's Amazon now faces a crisis. Read The Big Take: bloom.bg/4z2yarJ

📷: Wara Vargas Lara/Bloomberg