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Oysters Ain't Safe VideoFlorida’s oyster crisis takes center stage in latest musical-science project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW3mnGnod0g

The U.S. Solar Industry Keeps Moving Forward Despite New Obstacles 

Even as U.S. federal policies change, market researchers still see big potential in the nation’s solar sector

https://triplepundit.com/2025/the-u-s-solar-industry-keeps-moving-forward-despite-new-obstacles/

Climate.gov will re-launch under new URL thanks to a secret team of web ninjas 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/climate/climate-government-website-noaa-data-preservation

Turning Sunlight into Clean Water: MIT’s Zero-Electricity Solar Desalinator Breakthrough

https://greenubuntu.com/turning-sunlight-into-clean-water-mits-zero-electricity-solar-desalinator-breakthrough/

The Druids Oak is 800 years old – can it help save tomorrow’s forests?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2xz8r7egpo

Huawei files patent for a sulfide-based solid-state battery with up to 3,000 km of range

https://autotechinsight.spglobal.com/news/5282517/huawei-files-patent-for-a-sulfide-based-solid-state-battery-with-up-to-3000-km-of-range

August’s positive climate news

https://www.ecotricity.co.uk/our-news/2025/augusts-positive-climate-news

Germany’s Rewe Group Targets 60% Plant-Based Sales By 2035, Calls for National Protein Plan

https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/rewe-group-plant-based-protein-strategy-germany-government/

Don’t let Donald Trump undermine your faith in the climate fight

The president’s fossil-fuel obsession can’t stop global progress, writes the former Environmental Protection Agency head

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/24/trump-climate-crisis-gina-mccarthy

 

Amazon rainforest is approaching ‘tipping points’ that could transform it into a drier savanna

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/amazon-rainforest-is-approaching-tipping-points-that-could-transform-it-into-a-drier-savanna

Gina Rinehart apocalyptic climate science denier’s visions for Australian bush summits just the latest in climate science denialism

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/22/temperature-check-gina-rinehart-herald-sun-bush-summit-column

 

Extreme heat is breaking records worldwide: UN weather agency 

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/08/1165597

Fireproofing forests on a hotter planet

France is battling one of the biggest wildfires in decades that is now larger than Paris. As climate change fuels record drought and heat that make wildfires more frequent and extreme, can we reduce forest fire risk?

https://www.dw.com/en/firefighters-control-biggest-wildfire-spain-portugal-france-solutions-how-to/a-73285647

EPA removal of vehicle emissions limits won’t stop the shift to electric vehicles, but will make it harder, slower and more expensive

https://theconversation.com/epa-removal-of-vehicle-emissions-limits-wont-stop-the-shift-to-electric-vehicles-but-will-make-it-harder-slower-and-more-expensive-262384

The Rise of Green Wall Street

https://time.com/7307275/green-wall-street-london-sustainable-finance/

Modelling Nature Connectedness Within Environmental Systems: 

Human-Nature Relationships from 1800 to 2020 and Beyond 

https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4834/6/3/82

Fewer Dutch companies are investing in climate measures

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/07/fewer-dutch-companies-are-investing-in-climate-measures/

South Africa proposes ban on polluting plastic microbeads

https://mg.co.za/the-green-guardian/2025-08-08-south-africa-proposes-ban-on-polluting-plastic-microbeads/

Great Barrier Reef records largest annual coral loss in 39 years 

Australian authorities say the Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral in four decades

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/great-barrier-reef-records-largest-annual-coral-loss-in-39-years/article69904116.ece

As the Colorado River slowly dries up, states angle for influence over future water rights

https://theconversation.com/as-the-colorado-river-slowly-dries-up-states-angle-for-influence-over-future-water-rights-254132

Engineers have unveiled one of the most elegant energy systems on the Normandy wind plateau, a wind turbine without blades

https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/07/13/1513382.html

The world’s fastest train journey – 375mph and 200 miles in 40 minutes

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/technology/general/the-world-s-fastest-train-journey-375mph-and-200-miles-in-40-minutes/ar-AA1Kb61a

Lithium price jump exposes China’s chokehold on supply 

CATL battery maker’s Yichun mine shut down spikes global prices as Beijing clamps down on competitive markets 

https://asiatimes.com/2025/08/lithium-price-jump-exposes-chinas-chokehold-on-supply/

Tribal nations scramble to save clean energy projects as federal support vanishes 

As federal programs are frozen or eliminated, Indigenous communities are seeking new ways to fund and finish urgently needed renewable energy plans.

https://grist.org/indigenous/tribal-nations-scramble-to-save-clean-energy-projects-as-federal-support-vanishes/

Israel destroys Palestine’s last surviving seed bank, echoing a colonial legacy of erasure

Destroying seeds is destroying a people’s history and its future.

https://globalvoices.org/2025/08/07/israel-destroys-palestines-last-surviving-seed-bank-echoing-a-colonial-legacy-of-erasure/

How We Can Improve Our Lives by Going Outside 

Marc Berman on the Physical and Mental Healing Properties of Nature

https://lithub.com/how-we-can-improve-our-lives-by-going-outside/

The Return of Aztec Floating Farms

In Mexico City, a 700-year-old Aztec farming technique is giving a sustainable edge to modern agriculture.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-return-of-aztec-floating-farms

Flooded, forgotten, forsaken — Pakistan’s endless monsoon crisis

Underneath the fatal climate events that have hit the country’s mountainous north are factors that are controllable yet ignored every year, every time. 

https://www.dawn.com/news/1931472/flooded-forgotten-forsaken-pakistans-endless-monsoon-crisis

3D Printed Home from primarily earth, lime & plant fibers —100 % natural

Instead of cement, we rely on soil, lime and natural fibers—abundant, renewable resources with a minimal environmental footprint.
Our proprietary mix-design delivers the strength and workability required for construction, offering a new, sustainable alternative for the built environment. 

https://www.libwork.co.jp/3dprinter_house/en/

Design to use nuclear waste as fuel for nuclear fusion could help the U.S. be a leader in the fusion economy. 

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/nuclear-energy/this-technology-is-possible-today-nuclear-waste-could-be-future-power-source-and-increase-access-to-a-rare-fuel

Tropical deforestation is associated with considerable heat-related mortality

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02411-0

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/28/collapse-critical-atlantic-current-amoc-no-longer-low-likelihood-study

Survivors’ voices 80 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki sound a warning and a call to action

https://theconversation.com/survivors-voices-80-years-after-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-sound-a-warning-and-a-call-to-action-262174

Nagasaki marks 80 years since atomic bombing as hibakusha numbers dwindle

Amid frustration among the dwindling number of survivors that their powerful calls for eradicating nuclear weapons are falling on deaf ears.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/09/japan/nagasaki-80th-anniversary-atomic-bombing/

Climate change driving sea turtles towards busy shipping lanes, researchers warn

https://www.brusselstimes.com/environment/1647657/climate-change-driving-sea-turtles-towards-busy-shipping-lanes-researchers-warn

Incredibly ‘confusing and chaotic’ situation for climate science in the US

The Trump administration’s attacks on environmental protections and climate science, though contested and sometimes overturned by the courts, have been continuing, jeopardizing data collection and storage. 

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2025/03/29/incredibly-confusing-and-chaotic-situation-for-climate-science-in-the-us_6739638_114.html

The Herds, a climate change art project — Life-sized animal puppets,

 by The Walk Productions — has completed its 20,000km journey from the Congo rainforest to Norway’s Arctic Circle. 

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/08/09/the-herds-life-sized-animal-puppets-complete-epic-20000km-climate-crisis-journey

North Korean farms lose half their livestock to deadly heat wave

“Farmers have to save their remaining livestock if they want to rebuild their stock. Everyone is doing everything they can to keep their animals alive,” a source told Daily NK

https://www.dailynk.com/english/north-korean-farms-lose-half-their-livestock-to-deadly-heat-wave/

A Bermuda stalagmite reveals how the Gulf Stream shifted – and what it might do as the climate changes further

https://theconversation.com/a-bermuda-stalagmite-reveals-how-the-gulf-stream-shifted-and-what-it-might-do-as-the-climate-changes-further-261614

Chemicals in plastics are literally killing us. Here’s how we can break free

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/chemicals-plastics-are-literally-killing-us-heres-how-we-can-break-free-2025-07-31/

My quest for a climate-friendly family diet

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250813-my-quest-for-a-climate-friendly-family-diet

 

Plastics ‘crisis’ is costing $1.5tn in global deaths and injuries, report says

Plastic production is set to triple by 2060, fueled by petrochemical-producing countries pivoting away from declining fossil fuel use — and toward plastic.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/plastic-crisis-lancet-trillions-global-treaty-death-disability-health-rcna222827

The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01447-3/abstract

Oil producer pressure, Trump rollbacks threaten global treaty on plastics pollution

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/oil-producer-pressure-trump-rollbacks-threaten-global-treaty-plastics-pollution-2025-08-04/

The one change that worked: I grew my own vegetables – and suddenly stopped wasting food

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/aug/04/the-one-change-that-worked-i-grew-my-own-vegetables-and-suddenly-stopped-wasting-food

ESG Today: 21 states warn BlackRock, JPMorgan against considering sustainability as a long-term risk factor in investments, and more…

https://us10.campaign-archive.com/?e=49057e3e68&u=f89d68518db6e2585b0808206&id=104d4d2c5c

Toxicity:
The Invisible Tsunami

How pervasive toxicity threatens
human and planetary survival

https://www.deepscienceventures.com/toxicity

‘We clean the city’

Ghana’s waste pickers brave mountains of plastic – and big industry.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2025/8/7/ghanas-waste-pickers-brave-mountains-of-plastic-and-big-industry

Indigenous Peoples Day highlights AI’s risks and opportunities 

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/08/1165613



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Climate change driving sea turtles towards busy shipping lanes, researchers warn

https://www.brusselstimes.com/environment/1647657/climate-change-driving-sea-turtles-towards-busy-shipping-lanes-researchers-warn

Incredibly ‘confusing and chaotic’ situation for climate science in the US

The Trump administration’s attacks on environmental protections and climate science, though contested and sometimes overturned by the courts, have been continuing, jeopardizing data collection and storage. 

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2025/03/29/incredibly-confusing-and-chaotic-situation-for-climate-science-in-the-us_6739638_114.html

The Herds, a climate change art project — Life-sized animal puppets,

 by The Walk Productions — has completed its 20,000km journey from the Congo rainforest to Norway’s Arctic Circle. 

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/08/09/the-herds-life-sized-animal-puppets-complete-epic-20000km-climate-crisis-journey

North Korean farms lose half their livestock to deadly heat wave

“Farmers have to save their remaining livestock if they want to rebuild their stock. Everyone is doing everything they can to keep their animals alive,” a source told Daily NK

https://www.dailynk.com/english/north-korean-farms-lose-half-their-livestock-to-deadly-heat-wave/

A Bermuda stalagmite reveals how the Gulf Stream shifted – and what it might do as the climate changes further

https://theconversation.com/a-bermuda-stalagmite-reveals-how-the-gulf-stream-shifted-and-what-it-might-do-as-the-climate-changes-further-261614

Chemicals in plastics are literally killing us. Here’s how we can break free

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/chemicals-plastics-are-literally-killing-us-heres-how-we-can-break-free-2025-07-31/

My quest for a climate-friendly family diet

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250813-my-quest-for-a-climate-friendly-family-diet

 

Plastics ‘crisis’ is costing $1.5tn in global deaths and injuries, report says

Plastic production is set to triple by 2060, fueled by petrochemical-producing countries pivoting away from declining fossil fuel use — and toward plastic.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/plastic-crisis-lancet-trillions-global-treaty-death-disability-health-rcna222827

The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01447-3/abstract

Oil producer pressure, Trump rollbacks threaten global treaty on plastics pollution

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/oil-producer-pressure-trump-rollbacks-threaten-global-treaty-plastics-pollution-2025-08-04/

The one change that worked: I grew my own vegetables – and suddenly stopped wasting food

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/aug/04/the-one-change-that-worked-i-grew-my-own-vegetables-and-suddenly-stopped-wasting-food

ESG Today: 21 states warn BlackRock, JPMorgan against considering sustainability as a long-term risk factor in investments, and more…

https://us10.campaign-archive.com/?e=49057e3e68&u=f89d68518db6e2585b0808206&id=104d4d2c5c

Toxicity:
The Invisible Tsunami

How pervasive toxicity threatens
human and planetary survival

https://www.deepscienceventures.com/toxicity

‘We clean the city’

Ghana’s waste pickers brave mountains of plastic – and big industry.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2025/8/7/ghanas-waste-pickers-brave-mountains-of-plastic-and-big-industry

Indigenous Peoples Day highlights AI’s risks and opportunities 

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/08/1165613

 

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