San Francisco outage disrupts trains, leaves 130,000 without power
2025-12-20
The power outage also disrupted San Francisco public transportation and PG&E said publicly it was working to fix the issue.Continue Reading
In Murphy’s Final Weeks, NJ Climate Advocates Race to Lock in 100 Percent Clean Power
2025-12-20
A bill would harden the state’s 2035 clean-electricity goal into statute, tighten pollution rules for power plants and confront rising demand from data centers. By Rambo Talabong In the final weeks of Gov. Phil Murphy’s tenure, New Jersey climate advocates are trying to do something governors rarely manage on theirContinue Reading
‘They Don’t Give A Damn’: Scotland’s Highland Communities Tire of Charm Offensive by ‘Polluting’ Salmon Giant Mowi
2025-12-20
The world’s largest salmon producer stands accused of a charm offensive in the Scottish Highlands that distracts from its “noisy” and “polluting” fish farms. Seafood giant Mowi produces more than a fifth of the world’s farmed salmon and is the market leader in Scotland, where it farms a third ofContinue Reading
Behind Closed Doors, Georgia County Rewrote Data Center Rules
2025-12-20
On the cusp of a December 16 county hearing in Georgia on a proposed law to regulate the booming data center industry, documents uncovered by DeSmog reveal that lobbyists continued to influence county leaders to revise planning regulations in favor of developers. Over the past year, Coweta County, about 40Continue Reading
Mark Carney Claims Fossil Fuel Expansion Is ‘Canada Strong,’ but U.S. Investors Get the Profits
2025-12-20
Prime Minister Mark Carney has been playing up protecting Canada’s energy sovereignty by expanding fossil fuel extraction. But who owns the oil patch? The reality is that U.S. capital controls the majority of oil and gas companies operating in Canada and that American ownership of the Canadian oil resources is increasing. Recent reporting from Oilprice.comContinue Reading
This “mushroom” is not a fungus, it’s a bizarre plant that breaks all the rules
2025-12-20
Balanophora is a plant that abandoned photosynthesis long ago and now lives entirely as a parasite on tree roots, hidden in dark forest undergrowth. Scientists surveying rare populations across East Asian islands uncovered how its cellular machinery shrank but didn’t disappear, revealing unexpected similarities to parasites like malaria. Some islandContinue Reading
Artemis II Crew Rehearse Launch Day Demonstration
2025-12-20
The four astronauts set to fly around the Moon during NASA’s Artemis II test flight depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, during a dress rehearsal for launch day on Dec. 20, 2025. From left are CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, NASAContinue Reading
Twenty Years Into Fracking, Pennsylvania Has Yet to Reckon With Its Radioactive Waste
2025-12-20
Former government officials say the state isn’t doing enough to regulate fracking waste, even as new research shows it’s far more radioactive than previously known. By Kiley Bense, Peter Aldhous Fracking’s Forever Problem: Seventh in a series about the gas industry’s radioactive waste.Continue Reading
‘The world is watching’: Guterres and Lula urge unity as COP30 talks near deadline
2025-12-20
With the clock ticking on climate negotiations in Belém, UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, speaking separately, delivered a united message: the world is watching, and compromise cannot wait.Continue Reading
What’s at stake in the COP30 negotiations?
2025-12-20
Talks at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, were suspended on Thursday after a fire broke out in the venue, triggering evacuations that halted negotiations between more than 190 delegations. The summit was set to conclude Friday, and the disruption came at a critical moment as countries were lockedContinue Reading
Media Pushing Pro-LNG Report Didn’t Mention Author Worked for Oil and Gas Lobby Firm
2025-12-20
Several Canadian media outlets gave prominent coverage in December to a new report arguing that exporting massive amounts of natural gas from British Columbia to Asia will be good for the global fight against climate change. But stories in Canada’s national newspaper of record, The Globe & Mail, as wellContinue Reading
How a Big Oil PR Firm Helped Top UK Cultural Institutions Defend Their Fossil Fuel Sponsorships
2025-12-20
Sadler’s Wells, a top performing arts theatre in London, hired one of the United Kingdom’s biggest public relations agencies — and one with close ties to the oil industry — to help it defend a sponsorship deal with Barclays. Brunswick Group — whose clients have included oil giants BP, Shell,Continue Reading
From biting flies to feathered dinosaurs, scientists reveal 70 new species
2025-12-20
Researchers announced over 70 new species in a single year, including bizarre insects, ancient dinosaurs, rare mammals, and deep-river fish. Many were found not in the wild, but in museum collections, proving that major discoveries can still be hiding in plain sight., Read MoreContinue Reading