Green Mission News – September 2025
Florida’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
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
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
Gina Rinehart apocalyptic climate science denier’s visions for Australian bush summits just the latest in climate science denialism
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?
EPA removal of vehicle emissions limits won’t stop the shift to electric vehicles, but will make it harder, slower and more expensive
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
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
As the Colorado River slowly dries up, states angle for influence over future water rights
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Survivors’ voices 80 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki sound a warning and a call to action
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
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.
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.
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
Chemicals in plastics are literally killing us. Here’s how we can break free
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.
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
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.
Indigenous Peoples Day highlights AI’s risks and opportunities
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/08/1165613