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.

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)