Wired
Users frustrated with Elon Musk’s handling of X and closeness to president-elect Donald Trump are fleeing to Bluesky—an easier migration than leaving the US. more…
NPR
Burgum ran in the 2024 Republican presidential primary. He then became a vocal supporter of Preesident-elect Donald Trump and was shortlisted for the GOP vice presidential nomination. more…
Slashdot.org
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels than it did last year. T… more…
Hackaday
To a casual observer of public discourse here in 2024 it seem extremely odd that the issue of replacing coal fired power stations with wind turbines is a matter of controversy, whether in America o… more…
Hackaday
To tackle the growing electrification of devices, we’ll need to deploy more generation to the grid. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has unveiled a new target to triple nuclear generating ca… more…
Yahoo Entertainment
In the wake of a "red sweep" in the U.S. elections, global markets have seen significant shifts, with major indices like the S&P 500 reaching record highs... more…
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"It was also a way to convince people of my generation, my peers, to take on difficult projects, outside of their comfort zones." more…
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The Welsh Government has pledged to change the “beliefs and behaviour of the white majority” in Wales. more…
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A little-known consequence of this event and others like it is the cost to business owners and their employees. more…
ABC News
The United States has seen a significant increase in the use of clean energy over the last few years; however, Chris Wright has claimed otherwise. more…
ABC News
As President-elect Donald Trump names his cabinet picks, environmental groups are concerned over who he's chosen to regulate environmental and energy policies. more…
The New Yorker
Since the Civil War, the Erben organ has imbued St. Patrick’s Basilica with “a tinge of sadness,” Ben McGrath writes. more…
BBC News
India's capital Delhi is experiencing one of its most polluted days this year. more…
Experimental-history.com
How to get a good heart unstuck more…
Scientific American
The fossil-fuel industry argues that we can’t live without its deadly products. It is wrong more…
Scientific American
Trumps retreat from climate agreements and tech funding will help China dominate global clean energy markets more…
Thekitchn.com
No lumps of coal this year. READ MORE... more…
New Scientist
Governments and companies almost never take action when satellites alert them about large methane leaks coming from oil and gas infrastructure more…
Pitchfork
Support comes from the Hold Steady, Deer Tick, Wynonna, S.G. Goodman, and others on dates including two nights at New York’s Forest Hills Stadium more…
NPR
Peatlands, formed by ancient wetlands, store more carbon than the world's forests. But when they're drained for farming, they vent heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air. more…
Vox
As more than 66,000 world leaders, negotiators, delegates, and observers meet this week in Baku, Azerbaijan at the COP29 climate summit in what’s shaping up to be the hottest year on record, they’re facing a one-two-punch of grim news: greenhouse gas emission… more…
Phys.Org
US president-elect Donald Trump's expected climate rollbacks will likely have a "small" impact on global warming, as long as other countries resist the temptation to slacken their own carbon-cutting efforts, new research found Thursday. more…
Phys.Org
Human-caused climate change made Atlantic hurricanes about 18 miles per hour (29 kilometers per hour) stronger in the last six years, a new scientific study found Wednesday. more…
The New York Review of Books
Almost three years after the beginning of Russia's invasion, Ukraine is not defeated, but Russia is not victorious, either. more…
The New York Review of Books
The Supreme Court’s deference to FDR during World War II resulted in unjustifiable ethical breaches, but its new code of conduct has not resolved the question of when a justice should be disqualified from a case. more…
Al Jazeera English
Oil giants commit $500m for sustainable energy, but campaigners say lobbyists have seized control of climate talks. more…
Al Jazeera English
The pollution in New Delhi is likely to stay 'severe' on Friday, after which it will improve to 'very poor'. more…
Al Jazeera English
Up to 72 percent of coral found dead on 12 of 19 surveyed reefs in the north of the world's largest living structure. more…
Al Jazeera English
State authorities tout an experimental plan that involves stimulating clouds for rain, but scientists are sceptical. more…
Phys.Org
Coal ash—the chalky remnants of coal that has been burned for fuel—has been piling up across the United States for decades. But new research led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that the national coal ash supply contains enough rare earth elemen… more…
The Intercept
Democrats are in disarray. It’s time to name our enemies and assert our demands to build a party that can win. The post Take Out the Trash: A Proposal to Clean Up the Democratic Party appeared first on The Intercept. more…
Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: An award-winning documentary about the woman known as “the Russian Erin Brockovich” is getting support from… the real Erin Brockovich. The environmental activist famously portrayed by Julia Roberts on screen has signed on as an executive producer o… more…
New Atlas
In Kentucky, bourbon demand is expected to double in the next five years, while the state's cattle population has now reached its lowest point since 1951. Here's how these two facts could combine to turn bourbon distilleries into a new source of biofuels.Cont… more…
Gothamist
The Greenidge Generation gas-fired power plant is home to a large bitcoin mining operation. State regulators are trying to close the Finger Lakes facility, which uses a natural gas plant to run a massive Bitcoin operation. [ more › ] more…
Nakedcapitalism.com
On how the shame resulting from the loss of seen-as-meaningful and well-paid work led many to reject the rule of their PMC betters. more…
Forbes
Wright is an oil and gas executive who must be more in tune with the green energy transition. more…
Forbes
Ethereum has broken an eight-year support trend against Bitcoin, raising questions about the second-largest cryptocurrency’s future. more…
Forbes
Saks has canceled its holiday light show in a decision that it will regret. It will also miss making the most of Fifth Avenue Association's 200th anniversary. more…
Forbes
The most powerful tool for improving your website’s CRO is one you probably already have. more…
Forbes
Trump DOE nominee Chris Wright is an innovative, unconventional thinker in the oil industry. He plans to bring that same approach to his new job. more…
Forbes
Liberty Energy CEO Wright is an MIT and Berkeley trained engineer. He's not a fan of solar and wind power, but has invested in next-gen nuclear and geothermal startups. more…
Forbes
Our 1.5°C climate goal is slipping out of reach. Record emissions and rising risks demand urgent action. What does this mean for our planet—and what must we do next? more…
"Removing dams from the Klamath River in Northern California seems like a clear win for fish and rivers. Why do some locals hate it?" more…
Democracy Now!
As Democracy Now! continues to broadcast from the U.N. climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, we speak with Colombia’s Environment Minister Susana Muhamad, who chairs Colombia’s delegation here at COP29. She calls the return of Donald Trump to the White House “a… more…
Democracy Now!
We are broadcasting live from COP29, the United Nations climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, where countries are shaping the world’s response to the climate crisis. Despite pledges at last year’s summit in Dubai to cut global emissions, the burning of coal, oi… more…
Rogerebert.com
A dispatch from this year's Tokyo International Film Festival. more…
Rogerebert.com
On a Japanese film that you're going to want to watch for. more…
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Sciencebasedmedicine.org
Perhaps the neck manipulation was a bit too aggressive. The post A New DC Degree. What the World Needs Now. first appeared on Science-Based Medicine. more…
Consequence.net
The Grammy-nominated artist will be joined by a number of special guests, including Wynonna Judd, Charley Crockett, Robert Earl Keen, and The Hold Steady. Tyler Childers Announces Lengthy 2025 “On the Road” Tour Mary Siroky more…
Yahoo Entertainment
The U.S. military is facing a major shortage of antimony, a little-known metal that is critical not just to U.S. national security, but its broader economy. more…
BBC News
With its rich resources, uranium mining companies want Canada to play a key role in fuelling nuclear reactors worldwide. more…
The Cut
‘While silicone face-scrubbing tools are less abrasive than loofahs and gritty scrubs, I counsel patients against them,’ said dermatologist Whitney Bowe. more…
Todayifoundout.com
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a massive Allied invasion force comprising some 5,000 ships, 1,200 aircraft, and 160,000 troops steamed across the English Channel towards the beaches of Normandy. It was the opening act of Operation Overlord, the l… more…
Todayifoundout.com
Pretty much as long as Santa has been Santaing, kids have been trying to send him messages through various means, including, of course, in written form. But when these written messages are mailed, what do the post offices’ the world over actually do with the … more…
CleanTechnica
The path to a clean energy future is in our hands. All it takes is saying no to fossil fuels and taking control of our personal space. The post Demand, Not Supply, Is The Key To The Clean Energy Transition appeared first on CleanTechnica. more…
Juancole.com
By Debra Benita Shaw, University of East London | - (The Conversation) - Samantha Harvey’s Orbital has won the 2024 Booker prize. What it so skilfully and ambitiously exposes is the human cost of space flight set against the urgency of the climate crisis. Whi… more…
RT
Reopening the Vladivostok-Chennai route will drastically reduce shipping time between the two countries and boost trade Read Full Article at RT.com more…
Americanthinker.com
From running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination himself, former North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum has proven himself a Trump loyalist who commands the president-elect’s trust. Announcing Burgum’s appointment at his Mar-... more…
Matadornetwork.com
Small cities in Kentucky teach you a lot about the state's history and community. Here's where to play, eat, and stay in five special cities. more…
Bleeding Cool News
Organizers for The Indie Game Awards have revealed most of their nominees for the 2024 ceremony, set to take place a week before Christmas this year. We say most because there are a couple of categories, such as Best Industry Impact and Best Storyteller, wher… more…
Theness.com
It’s interesting that there isn’t much discussion about this in the mainstream media, but the Biden administration recently pledged to triple US nuclear power capacity by 2050. At COP28 last year the US was among 25 signatories who also pledged to triple worl… more…
The American Conservative
Increasing American energy production is the single most significant step the incoming administration can take toward delivering on its mandate. The post Trump’s Silver Bullet appeared first on The American Conservative. more…
The Diplomat
“The energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables is a crucial part of the cure for climate change. But it’s a cure with brutal side effects.” more…
Thenation.com
Carol Schaeffer COP29 in Baku reveals the contradictions of having climate negotiations in a petro-state. The post The “Dark Joke” of Having a Climate Summit in Azerbaijan appeared first on The Nation. more…
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Hyperallergic
Her figures are in a state of unrelenting grief about what it means to be human and to feel powerless about so much that happens to ourselves and others. more…
CBS News
Parts of the Great Barrer Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record, Australian researchers say, and they fear the rest of it has suffered a similar fate. more…
CBS News
The following is a transcript of an interview with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that aired on Nov. 17, 2024. more…
CBS News
On this "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" broadcast, Sue Gordon and Dr. Deborah Birx join Margaret Brennan. more…
Yahoo Entertainment
The cold corridors of South Africa's once-mighty Komati coal-fired power plant have been quiet since its shutdown in 2022 in what was trumpeted as a... more…
Mining company Coronado Curragh has been charged with breaching health and safety obligations that allegedly resulted in the death of 54-year-old Clark Peadon. more…
As Australia surges past a solar-powered milestone, questions turn to how much is too much, and can we hope to store it all? more…
The company says it will use some of the funds to fix the Whyalla steelwork's blast furnace which has been offline since August. more…
Air quality in Lahore reached hazardous levels this week, while other cities in South Asia also battle toxic pollution. more…
The federal government has announced the first recipient of taxpayer investment under the National Reconstruction Fund, with "a dozen" more announcements promised before the election. more…
An exclusion zone has been issued ahead of next weekend's Rising Tide protest and festival. Anyone caught in the water faces an $1,100 fine. more…
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek's struggling reforms have been offered a last-minute reprieve, provided she scraps an exemption for native logging. more…
Measures to curb pollution such as installing more pollution monitors and pushing for a switch to cleaner fuels are yet to yield significant results. more…
Yale.edu
Donald Trump has promised to halt federal climate action and repeal the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act, which provides unprecedented spending for clean energy. The market momentum for renewables and efforts by states and cities may be the only hope for U.S… more…
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Its research will include using a unique cluster of high-intensity, high-repetition lasers focused on a single target aiming to achieve fusion. more…
Paul Tan's Automotive News
The Sarawak government may be leading the charge when it comes to hydrogen power, Peninsular Malaysia isn’t too far behind. The ministry of science, technology and innovation (MOSTI) will also be bringing in three units […] The post Gov’t to trial Toyota Mira… more…
CNET
The movie sees Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans set out to protect Saint Nick, but the villains may be the most interesting part. more…
CNA
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has released its latest interim report on transition credits to assist such coal-fired power stations shift towards more climate-friendly sources of energy. more…
RT
Air quality in New Delhi has reached hazardous levels, forcing the authorities to close primary schools and ban construction work Read Full Article at RT.com more…
NPR
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Tressie McMillan Cottom about Vice President Kamala Harris' defeat in the presidential election. more…
Survivalblog.com
Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. In this column, JWR also covers hedges, derivatives, and various obscura. This column emphasizes JWR’s “t… more…
NPR
Fossil fuel emissions have increased steadily for almost two centuries. Now, the world may soon reach an important turning point for climate change. more…
The Quietus
As it receives a 20th anniversary reissue, Zachary Lipez re-examines TV On The Radio's formative debut as the shape of indie yet to come If there’s a band that makes me regret the ruination of the good and noble word “hipster,” it’s TV On The Radio. The term … more…
Hotnews.ro
O fetiță nou-născută din Anglia va trebui să își trăiască toată viața avân în certificatul de naștere sexul greșit, după o eroare a unui angajat al Biroului de evidența persoanelor din Marea Britanie, relatează The… more…
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Mii de studenți protestează vineri în cel puțin 35 de orașe din Italia, nemulțumiți de Guvernul condus de Giorgia Meloni. Manifestațiile – care au loc cu ocazia grevei naționale organizate de Uniunea Studenților – sunt… more…
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Opt persoane au fost ucise şi alte 17 rănite într-un atac cu cuţitul comis sâmbătă de un student de 21 de ani într-o şcoală din oraşul Wuxi din estul Chinei, au anunţat autorităţile, precizând că… more…
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Site-ul Școala 9 a analizat programele celor 14 candidați la președinție la alegerile din 24 noiembrie pentru a afla ce promit aceștia că vor face pentru școala românească. Salarii ca de medici pentru profesori, burse… more…
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Elena Lasconi este SINGURUL candidat DIN AFARA sistemului corupt. La aceste alegeri, românii au ocazia să respingă cei 35 de ani de eșec prin lăsarea deoparte a tuturor acestor „lideri roșii”, corupți, în favoarea unui… more…
Hotnews.ro
Site-ul de fact-checking Factual a descoperit câte trei minciuni spuse de Elena Lasconi (USR) și Mircea Geoană (independent) în timpul dezbaterii prezidențiale de la Digi24 de luni. În cazul lui George Simion (AUR) au fost… more…