YouTube and TikTok amplified disinformation that “sowed confusion” during the worst flood in Spain’s history, according to a new report. A year’s worth of rain fell in just eight hours on Valencia in October 2024, killing 237 and causing widespread destruction to buildings and infrastructure, making it Europe’s most catastrophicContinue Reading
Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the landmark Finch Supreme Court ruling on a Surrey oil well confirmed that applications for major developments should consider all significant direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions. However, a review of 35 proposed developments across the UK’sContinue Reading
Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect could starve life across entire marine ecosystems., Read MoreContinue Reading
Proponents tout biomass burial to create carbon credits as a win-win-win for the climate, fire-scarred landscapes and those looking to offset their emissions. By Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan Rebecca Gentry can clearly picture the first time she saw her family’s ranch outside of Hardin, Montana, after the wildfire. A week after theContinue Reading
Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by the Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg, according to U.S. tax records reviewed by DeSmog. The donations, which were made between 2017 and 2022, were listed on IRS 990 Forms filed by theContinue Reading
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is continuing his campaign to accelerate the global switch from fossil fuels to clean energy – “the cheapest source of new electricity in nearly every country.” Continue Reading
Around 2.2 million Cubans remain in dire need of assistance across the eastern provinces of Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Holguin, and Guantanamo as the after effects of Hurricane Mellisa continue, UN aid workers said on Wednesday. Continue Reading
The state has rejected the pipeline three times. Advocates say it’s a betrayal of the state’s climate goals and a threat to water quality. By Lauren Dalban New York regulators on Friday approved a water-quality permit for a long-contested pipeline that would bring natural gas to the state from Pennsylvania.Continue Reading
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), the anti-state pressure group, must implement reforms to be more transparent and less politically biased, according to the charities regulator. The Charity Commission launched an investigation into the IEA in May, based on “perceptions of potential political bias, perceptions of a potential lack of transparencyContinue Reading
By the mid-1950s, the average American had roughly five times more discretionary dollars in their pocket than they’d had a decade earlier. Whilst this boosted the sales of goods, it also created a challenge: Durable products like cars and cookers lasted too long. So to keep revenues growing companies neededContinue Reading
Once considered geologically impossible, earthquakes in stable regions like Utah and Groningen can actually occur due to long-inactive faults that slowly “heal” and strengthen over millions of years. When reactivated—often by human activities—these faults release all that built-up stress in one powerful event before stabilizing again. This discovery reshapes howContinue Reading
Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.Continue Reading
With global power demand from data centers expected to more than double by 2030, the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) in September launched an effort that brings together MIT researchers and industry experts to explore innovative solutions for powering the data-driven future. At its annual research conference, MITEI announced the Data CenterContinue Reading