Climate, Energy & Conservation
Frankly #155
I had been struck by photographs of the Cerros de Mavicure rising above the forest and the Inírida River in eastern Colombia. The dark rock, exposed against an almost unbroken expanse of green, seemed...
China has published a new five-year plan for coal, the latest in a slew of important policy documents for the…The postQ&A: What does China’s 15th five-year plan for coal mean for climate action?appear...
A little more than one year ago, Australia rolled out a program to heavily subsidize home batteries, part of a larger effort to make use of the huge volumes of solar energy that were going to waste. O...
The recent trend for the Greenland Sea appears to be consistent with the trajectory enveloping much of the Arctic since the mid-2000s as reported by England et al., 2025.The postNew Study Details Mass...
A recent story from The Conversation (via PBS News), “Climate change may be making us lonelier. How heat waves and extreme weather disrupt social connections,” claims that the loneliness epidemic is m...
Tropical Storm Lala is forecast to become Hurricane Lala as it tracks toward Hawaii. It's a sprawling system and impacts will arrive well before the center approaches the islands and continue well aft...
https://climatechangedispatch.com/youth-climate-lawsuit-trump-fossil-fuel-agenda/ The Ninth Circuit refused to revive the case, leaving intact a ruling that the young climate activists lacked standing...
Muhammad Ali Nawaz didn’t expect to see so many cats. Nawaz, a wildlife ecologist at Qatar University, had set out to survey Qatar for the sand cat, a tiny, seldom-studied felid that lives in deserts ...
Shaer’s essay is a Malthusian masterpiece: doom-and-gloom with a prediction waiting to be refuted. It’s subtitle:The postThe Weak EV Narrative (fix is in with NYT essay)appeared first onWatts Up With ...
A new study ranks the best states to live in across the country, and some of the states in the top 10 might surprise you. The study, published by WalletHub, took into consideration a number of factors...
Three 2026 studies reveal that the Amazon can regrow quickly, but deforestation and warming could trigger a system-wide tipping point in the next 15 years.
Judges are being “educated” in advance on the plaintiffs’ case. The obviousness of this becomes clearer still if one considers the counterfactual: Big Oil, conservative foundations, the NRA, a right-t...
LUBUK KEMBANG BUNGA, Indonesia — Tesso Nilo National Park, located on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, often makes headlines due to human-wildlife conflict — a byproduct of illegal encroachment and d...
NUMBING ISLAND, Indonesia — The waters off Numbing Island, part of the Riau archipelago between Sumatra and Singapore, are among Indonesia’s richest fishing grounds. Local fisher Edy says the abundant...
At a meeting with conservationists a couple of years back, Juan Lavista Ferres had a eureka moment. As the director of Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab, Lavista Ferres has extensively worked on projects th...
In Mozambique, southeast Africa, more than 1,600 women participate in agroecological practice programs across the provinces of Maputo and Gaza (both in the south), Tete (central region) and Cabo Delga...
Widespread flooding in northeastern India that affected more than 500,000 people and claimed at least 99 lives between June and August 2026 was primarily driven by human factors like rapid urbanizatio...
Recovery projects for 100 critically endangered and extinct-in-the-wild species across the world are set to receive new funding under a conservation initiative announced Aug. 4. Re:wild and the Bezos ...
Seven years after being returned to the forests of northern Sumatra from a rehabilitation facility, a female orangutan rescued from traffickers has been found nurturing a baby in the wild, giving new ...