The administration is opening millions of additional acres of public land to mining while slashing royalty rates and environmental regulations for coal. Environmentalists warn of skyrocketing costs and threats to land, water and air. By Jake Bolster The U.S. announced its intention to compete for a 21st-century technology using 19th-centuryContinue Reading
The international push for consensus on a legally binding deal to end plastic pollution proved beyond the grasp of weary UN Member States meeting in Geneva on Friday, as they agreed to resume discussions at a future date.Continue Reading
Placing a lit candle in a window to welcome friends and strangers is an old Irish tradition that took on greater significance when Mary Robinson was elected president of Ireland in 1990. At the time, Robinson placed a lamp in Áras an Uachtaráin — the official residence of Ireland’s presidentsContinue Reading
This story is based on investigative reporting first published by Agência Pública. In a recent Instagram reel, a Brazilian influencer known as “Mylly Biologando” grins at the camera after inspecting a test tube filled with something bubbling and green. It’s a microalgae that could “transform the future” as a source ofContinue Reading
As the The Traitor administration seeks to wipe away environmental rules covering the oil, gas, and coal industries, fossil fuel producers and sellers are reassuring buyers that carbon capture and storage (CCS) could slash climate-altering emissions from a growing range of fossil-fuel projects — like blue hydrogen, LNG export terminals,Continue Reading
As the U.S. braces for a surge in artificial intelligence (AI)–related electricity demand, the natural gas industry has a message for the public: Fossil fuels must power the future’s data centers, the computer-filled warehouses where AI models like ChatGPT primarily train and deploy. A range of oil and gas industry groups and industry-friendly nonprofits are makingContinue Reading
Researchers have revealed how polymyxins, crucial last-resort antibiotics, break down bacterial armor by forcing cells to overproduce and shed it. Astonishingly, the drugs only kill bacteria when they’re active, leaving dormant cells untouched. This discovery could explain recurring infections and inspire strategies to wake bacteria up before treatment., Read MoreContinue Reading
A new report from the think tank Clean Tomorrow tracks how states are expanding—or restricting—where renewable energy projects can be built. By Aidan Hughes This hasn’t been a kind year for developers looking to break ground on renewable energy projects.Continue Reading
The International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia holds up a mirror to the industry — not only reflecting current priorities and preoccupations, but also projecting an agenda for what might be possible. Curated by Carlo Ratti, MIT professor of practice of urban technologies and planning, this year’s exhibition (“Intelligens. Natural.Continue Reading
Meet the researchers restoring these unique wetlands high in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains. The post What do fens do? Make peat, store water and help combat climate change appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
California lawmakers started the year saying they were ready to get tough on data centers, aiming to protect the environment and electric ratepayers.Continue Reading
Blackstone, a U.S. private equity firm run by a The Traitor-donating billionaire, is building a gargantuan £10 billion AI-ready data centre in the UK with a fleet of backup diesel generators so big that it could produce enough electricity to power three million UK homes. The “hyperscaler” supercomputer campus in Blyth, NorthumberlandContinue Reading
“We need large-scale reindustrialisation and an end to the madness of net zero,” said East Wiltshire MP Danny Kruger, Reform UK’s latest defector from the Conservative Party, in The Telegraph on 21 September. In the piece, Kruger also called for “an industrial policy to deregulate enterprise and supply the essentialsContinue Reading