Facebook Launches New Climate Science Information Center

Facebook released its own Climate Science Information Center today, ahead of climate week celebrated between September 21 and September 27.

The Climate Science Information Center, modeled after the Covid-19 pandemic information hub, is a dedicated space on Facebook featuring facts, figures, and data from the world's leading climate organizations.

According to Mark Zuckerberg the Facebook's chief executive, explained that this space has factual resources from the world's leading climate organizations, and actionable steps people can take to deal with climate change.

As we've seen the wildfires raging across the west coast of the US and the flooding in South Sudan and South Asia, it's clear that climate change is real and the need to act is growing more urgent every day, Zuckerberg added.

In contrast, Facebook is planing to achieve net zero carbon emissions for its global operations in 2020, and aims to reach net zero emissions for its entire value chain in 2030.

Facebook's examples of these efforts include the company's data center in Odense, Denmark, which is fully supported by wind energy, and the data center in Clonee, Ireland, where the company has added a variety of native plants to support bee populations in the area and introduced a program to cultivate half a million bee hives.

Later, Facebook Gaming app launched  for iOS primarily an app used to watch streamers play video games, but removed the app’s mini games feature to pass Apple’s strict App Store approval process.

Also, the Gaming app rejected multiple times by Apple in recent months. The company reported that Apple cited App Store guideline 4.7 to justify the rejections, claiming the primary purpose of the new Gaming app is to play games.

The new app is primarily used to watch streams of games, much like Twitch is used on both iOS and Android. But on Android, the app also includes a number of mini games from Facebook’s Instant Games platform. That’s what Apple won’t allow.