Climate, Energy & Conservation
It is truly Orwellian. Who is to determine what is correct and what is not correct? OFCOM, BBC Verify, the Government?The postOFCOM’s Clampdown on Free Speechappeared first onWatts Up With That?.
Move over cats and dogs. There’s a new hot favorite pet in town: ants. More and more people are raising pet ants around the world. They are small, low-maintenance and display complex behaviors that fa...
https://naturalnews.com/2026-05-19-ev-decentralized-reality-check-supply-chains-grid-failures.html By Edison Reed Report Highlights Obstacles to Electric Vehicle Transition Global electric vehicle man...
By Vijay Jayaraj Africa’s push to host world-class data centers — AI’s digital engines — is running up against a political embargo on the fuels that reliably power them, and ordinary Africans are payi...
* Today I had the experience of driving for an extended period behind a Tesla. One of my daughters was with me. We were in a rural area of upstate New York, on a two-lane road with enough ...
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate...The postDeBriefed 22 May 2026: UN adopts landmark resolution | Trump takes on ‘RCP8.5’ | Cl...
The world added dozens of new coal power plants last year in what amounted to the biggest coal buildout in a decade, according to a new analysis. And yet, the amount of electricity generated by coal p...
Following Heartland’s recommendations, several states have barred their governments from doing business with institutional investors and mega-asset managers like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard....
A former South African police officer who became a notorious alleged rhino-poaching kingpin has been killed by unknown gunmen, police announced. Joseph “Big Joe” Nyalungu was shot dead at his office i...
https://www.wired.com/story/climate-change-next-hantavirus-outbreak/ By MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES ORFILA Excerpt: The hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship has created a global public healt...
Hundreds of scientists gathered in London this week to discuss the role of migration as...The postExperts: Why migration is ‘not a failure of adaptation’ in a warming worldappeared first onCarbon Brie...
The federal government is so prone to excessive spending that it is even wasting money on waste itself.The postWaste of the Day: Radioactive Wasted Moneyappeared first onWatts Up With That?.
On May 21, residents of Sakwa, in southeastern Kenya, gathered to protest the government’s plan to install a nuclear power plant near their homes, along Lake Victoria. Sakwa, in Siaya County, is home ...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/21/risk-of-snakebites-increasing-climate-crisis-habitat-loss-who-study By Jonathan Watts – UK Guardian The risk of snakebites is increasing across the ...
The global rush for minerals needed for the green energy transition risks repeating the same old extractive patterns that have long left communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo bearing the cos...
The MS-289 runs through the Taquaperi Reserve in southern Mato Grosso do Sul, between Coronel Sapucaia and Amambai. For the Kaiowá and Guarani, it is both a road and a reminder of the land disputes th...
A company is now poised to “cool the earth” by spraying the skies of the world with “sunlight-reflecting aerosols.”The postLIVE at 1PM EDT: They Want to Dim the Sun to Save the Earth – The Climate Rea...
World Turtle Day is celebrated every May 23 to raise awareness about the threats faced by turtles and tortoises. Turtles, tortoises and terrapins, which together make up the order Testudines, have evo...
Snow leopards haunt the rocky ridgelines of Central Asia, vanishing into terrain so rugged that researchers rarely catch more than a brief glimpse on camera traps. Locals call them “ghosts of the moun...
KATHMANDU — Nepali officials are preparing to hand over the government’s ambitious new zoo to the country’s leading wildlife conservation body. Whether that body is up to the task is up for debate. Di...