Thursday, December 18, 2025

UK agency developing early warning system for major climate tipping points

The new system will use drones, plankton bloom patterns and cosmic ray detection combined with artificial intelligence and detailed, cutting-edge computer models.

Humanity’s shrinking window: Reversing the Amazon’s slide toward the tipping point

A closer look at the Amazon’s declining health and its global implications.

Top Six Green Energy Good News Stories From the Paris COP21

There is some good news on the emissions front, and new renewable energy installations are key to it.

ExxonMobil could be banned from EU Parliament after failing to show at climate hearing

"Oil majors' climate branding sounds increasingly hollow and their credibility is on the line."

Climate change and the limits of economic growth

If economic growth ushered in this era of climate change, how can economic growth also be part of the solution?

As risky finances alienate investors, fracking companies look to retirement funds for cash

Drilling companies plan to source 40 percent of their capital for 2019 from private equity funds.

World’s biggest banks poured $673 billion into fossil fuels last year

“This is one of the most insane misallocations of capital in human history.”

Challenging the global north’s ‘clean energy’ transition

Plans are underway to explore the Manifesto’s implications in various sectors, like labor and the women’s movement.

‘Not just bad, it’s pathological’: while pushing big oil bailouts, trump slaps wind and...

“Robbing from a clean energy future to prop up the dirty energy past.”

Microplastics in human placentas linked to premature births

Researchers analyzed 175 placentas collected at both term and preterm, or under 37 weeks of pregnancy, and measured the amounts of 12 different microplastics and nanoplastics.