Climate, Energy & Conservation
The Great Simplification Archive #127 with Ed Conway
Could this taxpayer funded climate conference possibly get more embarrassing?The postAussie Climate Minister turns to International Labor Unions to Fill Seats at his No Show Fiji Climate Conferenceapp...
Egypt’s deserts are often introduced to the world as empty: Wide horizons, silence, heat, sand and stone. In tourism brochures they become dramatic scenery. In archaeological writing they can appear a...
A recent article in the Financial Times (FT) claims that “War and climate change drive surge in global shipping costs.” The part about climate change is unsubstantiated because no long-term data suppo...
The UK is pioneering the use of “super batteries” that can store energy for long periods, smoothing the output from…The postQ&A: What is ‘long-duration energy storage’ – and why does the UK need it?ap...
A scheme to slash car pollution in London was a boon to children, whose lungs grew faster after the program was launched, researchers found.Read more on E360 →
In 2026, the world has likely never burned so little Contrary to climate scare stories Common but wrong claim #1: 'Decline driven by Africa' No, all continents are seeing less fire this yearhttps://t....
Great white sharks are one of the top apex predators of the ocean, with their distinct coloring making them easy to identify. But how did they get their name if they're not white?
Recent setbacks with the above in-process projects all but ensure that the original goal of 76 “green” hydrogen projects, part of the Biden-era goal of Net Zero by 2050, will not be reached.The postHy...
DUNEDIN, New Zealand — At a U.N. meeting in 2015, Aotearoa New Zealand’s then Prime Minister John Key made a major announcement that drew praise from international conservation groups: His administrat...
The Financial Times Says War and Climate Change Spiked Shipping Costs: War, Yes; Weather, Yes; Climate Change, NO! By Linnea Lueken A recent article in the Financial Times (FT) claims that “War and cl...
NASA released a vibrant new view of 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, revealing new details about how stars are forming.
Group identity, social status, and a credential-dominated policy establishment make the climate narrative increasingly immune to disappointing results, argues Evert Doornhof of Clintel. The result is ...
The Philippine Supreme Court has struck down a regulation requiring commercial fishing vessels to continuously transmit their locations and submit electronic catch reports, a decision small-scale fish...
Coincidentally, August 19 was a Wednesday in 1992, as it is today. We were tracking the first named storm of the year — a tropical storm northeast of the Caribbean. At first glance, the storm looked i...
If you’re a black-tailed deer on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington, you’re always surrounded by friends and family. You are free-range, with abundant food to forage in familiar woo...
Agents of Brazil’s Indigenous agency, FUNAI, spent 60 days in June and July 2026 physically marking the borders of the Rio Pardo Kawahiva Indigenous Territory. The 411,000-hectare (1 million-acre) are...
JAKARTA — It had been 648 days since Nur Hidayati, an Indonesian environmental activist fondly known as Yaya or Mbak Yaya, died of cancer. Rukka Sombolinggi, secretary-general of Indonesia’s largest I...
While elephant ivory, rhino horns and pangolin scales get a lot of attention when it comes to illegal wildlife trade, marine wildlife are widely targeted as well. A new AI-driven tool detects marine w...
New research suggests a “massive and untapped” opportunity for conservation within commercial concessions in Southeast Asia, reports Mongabay’s Carolyn Cowan. Using satellite data, researchers identif...