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GENI — Linking Renewable Energy Resources Around the World

https://geni.org/

Bezos-backed renewables alliance targets $7.5 billion for developing countries

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/bezos-backed-renewables-alliance-targets-75-bln-developing-countries-2025-09-22/

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)

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/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 

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/lifestyle/sam-the-trap-man-how-ambitious-plan-to-recloak-papat%C5%AB%C4%81nuku-restoring-native-forests-could-future-proof-nz/

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

https://www.sciencealert.com/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. 

https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/china-plans-to-build-enormous-solar-array-in-space-and-it-could-collect-more-energy-in-a-year-than-all-the-oil-on-earth

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!? 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/sep/15/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

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dead-trees-hide-a-complex-world-crucial-to-forest-ecology-and-climate/

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. 

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2025/09/17/antarctica-s-tourism-boom-accelerates-melting-of-white-continent_6745468_114.html

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

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-public-health-epa-endangerment-02539335c8316dd1d430e4411d5d6cb0

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

https://theconversation.com/solving-the-worlds-microplastics-problem-4-solutions-cities-and-states-are-trying-after-global-treaty-talks-collapsed-263782

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

https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/restoring-the-paramo-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

https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/california-surfing-generates-200-million-annually-21053348.php

 

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

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/09/science-under-siege-weaponised-disinformation-michael-mann-peter-hotez

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

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-fuels-record-summer-heat-killing-thousands/

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

https://www.dailynk.com/english/malnutrition-spreads-across-north-korea-food-prices-surge-over-50-percent/

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 

https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/2025/09/04/forests-benefiting-from-restoration-with-30-of-coilltes-estate-managed-for-nature/

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. 

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250917-estimated-16-500-climate-change-deaths-during-europe-summer-study

 

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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

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-fuels-record-summer-heat-killing-thousands/

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

https://www.dailynk.com/english/malnutrition-spreads-across-north-korea-food-prices-surge-over-50-percent/

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 

https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/2025/09/04/forests-benefiting-from-restoration-with-30-of-coilltes-estate-managed-for-nature/

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. 

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250917-estimated-16-500-climate-change-deaths-during-europe-summer-study

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