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Debates on degrowth: What drives us to keep growing?
3+ hour, 59+ min ago (1006+ words) By Margarita Mediavilla, originally published by Degrowth UK In recent months, a fruitful debate has been taking place within the Degrowth movement that seeks to go beyond the arguments regarding the need for a (good) degrowth (which has already been…...
Small modular nuclear reactors are a dead end
3+ hour, 59+ min ago (636+ words) In short, it looks like a great moment for the nuclear industry. Yet Indigenous peoples, technology critics, and old-school environmentalists still oppose nukes'even in new, highly touted forms. I agree with their critiques. In this article, we'll look at the…...
Traditional models still "outperform AI" for extreme weather forecasts
3+ hour, 59+ min ago (1414+ words) By Ayesha Tandon, originally published by Carbon Brief The authors tested how well both AI and traditional weather models could simulate thousands of record-breaking hot, cold and windy events that were recorded in 2018 and 2020. They find that AI models underestimate…...
Congress is about to legalize the liquidation of america's national forests
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (1193+ words) By Jim Pattiz, originally published by The Climate According to Life She did this unilaterally, using an authority buried in the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act " an authority Congress wrote for discrete wildfire emergencies. She applied it to more than…...
Inside the battle between Chile's salmon industry and its Indigenous peoples
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (1491+ words) By Elena Basso, originally published by Open Democracy Punta Arenas, Chile. For more than a hundred years, fishermen on Capit'n Aracena, an island in Chile's southernmost territory, have told a local legend about one of the island's caves. Anybody who…...
A realistic "energy transition" is to get better at using less of it
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (362+ words) By Richard Heinberg, originally published by Independent Media Institute In 2022, I authored'two articles [1, 2] expressing doubts about society's transition from fossil fuels to renewable solar and wind power. In this final article in the series, I'll explain why my conclusions are…...
Real economic change requires more than reform, we must build a solidarity economy
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (903+ words) By Pamela Boyce Simms, originally published by Pamela Boyce Simms Substack How prepared are we to design and anchor a regenerative political economy on the other side of this surreal authoritarian nightmare? What's already in place? Coherence that's structurally baked…...
How a different kind of education built the world's most equal democracies - resilience
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (207+ words) By Sandra Ericson, originally published by The Observatory It cultivates what might be called ecological citizenship: the understanding that personal well-being and collective well-being are not competing values, but deeply entwined. This article was produced by Earth | Food | Life, a…...
Q&A: Why does gas set the price of electricity " and is there an alternative?
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (1691+ words) By Simon Evans, originally published by Carbon Brief A surge in gas prices triggered by the'Iran war'has caused a knock-on'spike'in the price of electricity in the UK, Italy and many other European markets. This is because gas almost always sets…...
Wars destroy lives and the climate. Why aren't we counting military emissions?
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (1156+ words) By Tamara Krawchenko, originally published by The Conversation When delegates gathered for COP30 in Bel'm, Brazil in November 2025, they scrutinized various sectors of the global economy for their contributions to rising greenhouse gases. Agriculture, aviation, steel, cement " all were on the…...