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The Great Simplification #230 with Olivier Hamant
Climate, Energy & Conservation
The Great Simplification #230 with Olivier Hamant
I guess NPR and the Washington Post, et al. do not know their audiences.The postClimate Journalism in Declineappeared first onWatts Up With That?.
In "Land Less" — the Third-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — filmmaker Alexi Liotti follows the activists fighting a bill that would transfer thousands of acres of Alaskan r...
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Roads through Brazil’s forests divide primate habitat and sometimes ...
A recent post at Axios, “How America is adapting to climate extremes,” claims that recent infrastructure hardening projects across America are necessitated by worsening extreme weather due to climate ...
At least eight earthquakes struck off the coast of the southern Philippines on Wednesday afternoon, which the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology are calling aftershocks of the deadly m...
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16027495/washington-governor-spokane-wildfires-climate-change-arson-suspect-arrested.html By EMMA RICHTER, US SENIOR NEWS REPORTER The former governor of Washing...
"... opposition parties have rejected Sánchez’s plans for a “state pact” to prepare Spain for the climate emergency. ..."The post“Climate Change Kills”: Spain’s Rebuke to Climate Deniersappeared first...
Billionaire Aliko Dangote’s choice of Lamu, Kenya, for his oil refinery project, estimated to cost $17 billion, has elicited mixed reactions, with environmental activists warning of its potential risk...
Researchers around the world are cautioning that a marine super-spreader event could be on the horizon, following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2026/08/04/climate_crusaders_turn_to_flimsy_extreme_event_attribution_to_bring_down_oil_gas_and_coal_1198291.html By Gary Abernathy August 04, 2026 Earlier thi...
It has always been a bit of a mystery why the IPCC CMIP models reproduce the tropospheric temperature profile so poorly, here we try and explain the problem.The postModeling the Troposphereappeared fi...
In April 2026, Malaysia enacted an absolute ban on the import of electronic waste, moving to end its role as a primary destination for the world’s hazardous electrical and electronic scrap. The regula...
A viral, bull-headed humanoid robot has captivated millions online, but its mission goes far beyond its unsettling appearance. Meet Threehalves, the prototype designed to help tackle wildfires, forest...
The Andean leaf-eared mouse thrives at extreme elevations where most other mammals wouldn’t survive. At these altitudes, oxygen levels are low; temperatures are permanently below freezing; and humans ...
KATHMANDU — Nepal is now home to an estimated 429 wild tigers, up from 355 four years ago and nearly four-fold from 16 years ago, the country’s conservation officials reported on the occasion of World...
There’s a thriving illegal wildlife trade in Cambodia that caters to high-ranking government officials and wealthy Chinese nationals, according to a report on a yearlong undercover investigation by th...
An all-too-familiar scene has unfolded across the Phoenix metro area and Southwest Arizona as a large dust storm engulfed the region, creating unhealthy air quality for thousands.
The mission to rescue the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory from sinking into Earth's atmosphere experienced a setback over the weekend.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is on a collision course with the moon and is expected to crash into it early Wednesday morning. On Aug. 5, the rocket's upper stage is expected to impact the moon at a high...