GENI — Linking Renewable Energy Resources Around the World
Bezos-backed renewables alliance targets $7.5 billion for developing countries
Military spending eats into Africa’s climate finance
https://www.context.news/climate-justice/military-spending-eats-into-africas-climate-finance
Putting the right plants in the right place boosts restoration (commentary)
‘Resilience is what we need’: How restoring native forests could future-proof New Zealand.
Sam The Trap Man: How ambitious plan to ‘recloak Papatūānuku’, restoring native forests
We create stories that evolve human consciousness
We believe there is a common root to the major problems that afflict society. Climate change, inequality, addiction, racism, extinction – all of these issues stem from the same root source – a faulty story about ourselves and the world.
https://sustainablehuman.org/
Scientists Create Clear Coating To Invisibly Turn Windows Into Solar Panels
Germany to host world’s first industrial AirBattery in massive salt cavern
Augwind’s hydraulic compressed air tech aims to solve Europe’s “Dunkelflaute” problem by storing renewable power for months.
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/germany-airbattery-renewable-energy-storage-augwind
China has device 5 times larger than New York City that helps it dominate critical minerals exploration
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/china-device-5-times-larger-083212529.html
China plans to build enormous solar array in space — and it could collect more energy in a year than ‘all the oil on Earth’
China has announced plans to build a giant solar power space station, which will be lifted into orbit piece by piece using the nation’s brand-new heavy lift rockets.
Supporting Farmers Is Key to Combating the Climate Crisis
https://foodtank.com/news/2025/09/supporting-farmers-is-key-to-combating-the-climate-crisis/
Innovators, disruptors & transformers
Uniting companies to accelerate climate action, exponentially scale climate solutions and halve emissions by 2030.
https://exponentialroadmap.org/
Working on sustainability solutions has always been about people—about the communities we belong to and the connections we forge. Imagine trying to save the world in isolation, hunched over your laptop, driven by a solitary determination to fix what’s broken.
https://www.solutionshouse.net/blog/blog-post-title-two-laf8k
A revolution is sweeping Europe’s farms: can it save agriculture?
Momentum is building for regenerative agriculture, a set of approaches that could help farms to weather the changing climate and make them more profitable.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02812-3
Why I Became a Birdwatcher
Learning to look past indifference and into the mystery of life
https://nautil.us/why-i-became-a-birdwatcher-1236848/
California’s climate world is taking its cues from this Washingtonian
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-climate
A steady ocean pattern just failed for the first time ever observed
The failure of the Gulf of Panama’s seasonal upwelling system has left scientists wondering what happens next.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2025/09/14/ocean-current-fails/85992978007/
Climate change IS in fact bad and IS getting worse! Who knew!?
US energy department cracks down on workers’ use of climate crisis language
Efficiency employees reportedly told to avoid ‘climate change’ and similar terms in their work in latest clampdown
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/30/energy-department-climate-change-crisis-language
The Secret Lives of Dead Trees
Forest ecologist Mark Harmon has been exhaustively examining dead logs for 40 years, and he’s found a complex world few people see
Antarctica’s tourism boom accelerates melting of ‘white continent’
While the number of tourists has skyrocketed over the past decade, the pristine continent, which is attracting growing interest among researchers, is gradually deteriorating.
Beavers restored to tribal lands in California benefit ecosystems
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/beavers-restored-to-tribal-lands-in-california-benefit-ecosystems/
Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/02/nx-s1-5521384/energy-report-scientists-climate-change
National Academy of Sciences rebuffs Trump EPA’s effort to undo regulations fighting climate change
Is the green hydrogen dream over?
Clean, green hydrogen energy has long been hyped as the key to decarbonizing big industries like steel. But as projects are cancelled and investments dry up, what went wrong?
https://www.dw.com/en/h2-alternative-to-fossil-fuel-large-scale-infrastructure-deals-over/a-73923773
Clean hydrogen is facing a big reality check
Forecasts aren’t looking quite as rosy for the green fuel, though China is still a bright spot.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/18/1123818/hydrogen-reality-check-china/
Solving the world’s microplastics problem: 4 solutions cities and states are trying after global treaty talks collapsed
Your kitchen is full of microplastics. Here’s how to eat less of them
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250919-how-to-eat-less-plastic
Restoring the Páramo: How Ecuador healed its degraded high-Andean ecosystem
Trump administration spending $625m to revive dying coal industry
White House allocating 13.1m acres of public land to coal mining, which has been on rapid decline over past 30 years
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/trump-spending-coal-industry
Public and Planet to ‘Pay the Price’ as Trump Props Up Coal With $625 Million Bailout
One campaigner called it “nothing more than a wealth transfer from the American people to Trump’s billionaire friends sitting atop a failing industry.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-news-coal
Dutch leave €139 million unclaimed in plastic bottle deposits
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/09/dutch-leave-e139-million-unclaimed-in-plastic-bottle-deposits/
One of California’s most famous surf towns could suffer a major financial hit, study shows
The coastal community could lose up to $34.5M annually
Island windfarms ‘could power millions of homes’
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5jdlzjv8do
Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation
Plastic bag bans work, new study shows
Fees and restrictions on single-use grocery bags mean less trash enters the ecosystem
https://www.popsci.com/environment/plastic-bag-bans-working/
Fossil-fuel firms receive US subsidies worth $31bn each year, study finds
Figure calculated by Oil Change International has more than doubled since 2017 but is likely a vast understatement
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/09/fossil-fuels-subisidies-study
[On Ecological Literary Censorship]: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
https://katelynwrites.medium.com/on-literary-censorship-aldous-huxleys-brave-new-world-0928267f12db
Permaculture gardening – how to garden organically
Permaculture gardening mimics nature so that you can garden organically, encourage wildlife and have a low-maintenance yard all in one hit
https://www.homesandgardens.com/advice/permaculture-gardening
First came the wildfire. Then came the scams.
As extreme weather becomes more frequent, so too have post-disaster contractor scams like excessive billing and shoddy repairs.
https://grist.org/extreme-weather/first-came-the-wildfire-then-came-the-scams/
New Zealand’s bold plan to save endangered animals: kill millions of invasive animals
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/08/nx-s1-5507110/new-zealand-conservation-experiment
America’s Big Agriculture Problem Is Getting Worse (video)
Nitrate from fertilizer and manure befouls countless waterways and kitchen taps across the US. But unlike other big polluters, from petroleum to plastics, Big Agriculture has largely avoided responsibility for its dirty footprint
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KXOO3gK5wo
‘Astounding:’ Alaska researchers make alarming discovery in Arctic rivers
‘No place is spared’
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/pristine-arctic-rivers-orange-scientists-worried-21039210.php
Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09450-9
Jump in US greenhouse gas pollution pushed global emissions higher – report
‘Abrupt shift’ in policy since Trump took office will have major consequences for climate crisis, forecast says
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/10/us-greenhouse-gas-emissions
The Past Three Summers Were the Three Hottest on Record
Climate-fueled heat has caused thousands of excess deaths over the past three summers, which were the three hottest on record
Malnutrition spreads across North Korea as food prices surge over 50 percent
As food prices continue climbing, the regime has attempted to intervene through price caps and market restrictions, but these measures have proven largely ineffective
How Ireland’s forests are undergoing a revolution to boost biodiversity
Era of being a treeless country with little forest culture now changing, with restoration of forests across a wide variety of landscapes
Climate change caused more than two thirds of heat deaths in European cities this summer, study says
Global warming brought on by humans was responsible for around 16,500 deaths across European cities this summer, according to a preliminary study released by climate scientists and health researchers, who say the death toll could be even higher. This year was the continent’s fourth hottest summer on record.