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lite, lowbandwidth, lowcarbon, news, simplereaders, simpleweb

Author: Shepherd

There are a variety of "low-carbon" or "bandwidth-friendly" variants of news sites out there that load headlines with little styling and no images, such as CBC Lite, and much, much more.

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With a huge hat tip to AskMe contributors, these include:

News sites:
CBC Lite (Canada)
NPR Text (USA)
CNN Lite (USA)
PBS Lite (USA)
Times Wire (thumbnail images; USA)
ESPN Scoreboard (US sports, scores only)
Christian Science Monitor Text (World)
Neuters (text-only Reuters)

News aggregators:
brutalist.report (default is tech-focused)
newsasfacts.com (global / politics)
legiblenews.com (Condensed Wikipedia news)
poandpo.com (starts with politics/global, scroll down for 'magazine' topics)
68k.news (text-only Google news)
News Minimalist (ChatGPT generated list of stories with a 'significance score' over 5.5)
Skimfeed (headline links from many newspapers, magazines)

Other:
United Nations COP28 website has a "low carbon" toggle
Human Rights Watch Text (curated human rights headlines)

#lowcarbon

Just the facts, ma'am/man