Saturday, December 13, 2025

Funding for ‘sustainable biomass’ a drop in the ocean compared with Drax subsidies, campaigners...

Critics say the North Yorkshire power station is likely to continue burning wood pellets for electricity, and that the amounts granted to new projects are too low to result in any significant technological breakthroughs.

On track for extinction: Can humanity survive?

Unless we include addressing this dysfunctional individual and collective psychological state in our strategy to avert human extinction, we will ultimately fail and extinction will indeed be our fate.

China, 2049

A climate disaster zone, not a military superpower...

How an undercover cop set back a climate movement

There had to have been some who were suspicious of Mark ‘Flash’ Stone when he first joined UK activists fighting climate change...

How an application for propane fracking attempts to circumvent New York’s fracking ban

Fracking with water is a bad investment. Fracking with propane is worse.

Atlanta becomes 27th city to commit to 100% renewables

Atlanta, as well as the state of Georgia, has taken commendable strides in the renewable energy sector.

Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, August 28

Student loan watchdog quits, progressives launch campaign against Kavanaugh, air pollution harms cognitive performance, and more.

Koch Brothers Struggle to Block Climate Action in State Legislatures

The Koch groups have been targeting state budgets as a vehicle to protect polluter interests, with limited success.

2016: A year in photos, from climate change devastation to the power of protests

The year ended with the election of a president and vice president who don't embrace the scientific consensus that climate change is real and caused by humans.

Scientists find new way to reduce marine ‘dead zones’

Wetlands can help remove nutrient pollution causing low-oxygen “dead zones.” But how much benefit we reap depends a lot on placement, a new study finds.