The world quietly passed 3 terawatts (TW) of installed #solar power in 2026. This is a huge milestone considering it took about 10 yrs to reach the 1st TW, less than 3 yrs to reach the 2nd and under 2 more yrs to hit the 3rd. That rapid growth has been driven by China, Pakistan and the Philippines.

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

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@euronews.com The #Amazon had its fewest forest fires on record in 2025 🌿 After a rough 2024, fewer fires and less deforestation were a big step in the right direction, even though experts say an #ElNiño could make things tougher again.

Good news for Brazil as Amazon forest fires fall to lowest level ever

"There is no climate security for the world without a protected Amazon".

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🇨🇳 China's first attempt to stop the Gobi Desert was kind of a mess. They planted the wrong trees, learned from the mistakes, changed the strategy, and over time restored an area about the size of Italy 🌱 Pretty cool reminder that big wins usually come after a lot of trial and error.

@nytimes.com The owner of a major boat manufacturer turned down $400 million to give the company to charity. After his sole heir died, #Grady-White owner Eddie Smith was inspired by #Patagonia and handed control of Grady-White to a “purpose trust.”

Sell the Company for $400 Million? He’s Giving It Away Instead. (Gift Article)

After his sole heir died, Eddie Smith, the owner of Grady-White Boats, looked for a way to pass on his legacy. He was inspired by Patagonia to pledge future profits to charity.

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Today, more people believe that their community is “a good place” for #minorities than 20 years ago. According to a new Gallup poll from 120 countries in 2025, a median of 74% reported that their community is accepting of racial and ethnic minorities. That's 66% for immigrants and 40% for LGBTQ+.🌈

More People Say Their Communities Are Good for Minorities

More adults worldwide say their community is a good place for minority groups than they did 20 years ago, and these perceptions are linked to people's broader outlook on life.

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The world's biggest digital camera is basically making a 10-year #time-lapse of the #universe from a mountaintop in 🇨🇱 Chile It snaps the southern sky every few nights, already found thousands of new asteroids, and by the end we'll get an incredible movie of #space plus a massive public dataset.

Data | Rubin Observatory

Rubin Observatory will generate more data in ten years than everything humans have ever written. Learn how scientists will manage the deluge of data.

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@mongabay.com California #condors are nesting in the Pacific Northwest for the first time in a century. A pair reintroduced by the #YurokTribe, to whom the bird is sacred, appears to be incubating an egg in an old-growth redwood. The species crashed to 22 birds in 1982 and now numbers 607.

California condors nesting in Pacific Northwest for first time in a century, on Yurok territory

A pair of California condors reintroduced to the Pacific Northwest by the Yurok Tribe appears to have established the species’ first nest in the region in more than 100 years, program officials announ...

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@ecoportal.bsky.social 🇨🇱 A Chilean #salmon farm now draws about 57% of its power from #panels laid over the water, cutting roughly 136,000 litres of diesel a year and silencing the generators. With the noise gone, thousands of salmon have gathered in the shade beneath the arrays.🐟

An island in Chile covered its waters with floating solar farm and soon, thousands of salmon had turned them into their home

An island in Chile covered its waters with floating solar panels. Soon, thousands of salmon had turned them into their home and were all thriving.

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The French government is banning all advertising for imported #FossilFuels. It plans to issue a decree, by year’s end, banning all advertising for imported oil and gas, activating a 2021 climate law that has sat unused for five years. It's part of a 22-point plan to cut dependence on fossil fuels.

France to ban advertising for fossil fuels

Advertising for petroleum products and natural gas has already almost disappeared. Now, campaigns for biomethane could also be forbidden.

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Switzerland has bolted 5,000 #solar panels to an Alpine dam, where they work best in winter. The #AlpinSolar plant on the Muttsee dam, sits at 2,500m (8200 ft). It generates roughly half its power in the winter, around x3 what a lowland solar farm manages, when the rest of the country runs short.

Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm do...

High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought

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🇺🇸 California is offering first-time #EV buyers a rebate of up to $3,500. The program follows research showing that once people start driving electric vehicles, they don’t typically go back.

California to offer a novel $3,500 rebate for first-time EV buyers

Research shows that once drivers try an EV, they stick with them. That's why these incentives target those who’ve never owned one to maximize the bang for…

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🇧🇷 Rio’s #humpbacks are rebounding in South America now that they’re no longer faced with harpoons. Since commercial whaling paused in the 1980s, the South Atlantic humpback population has resurged from around 2K to 35k near pre-whaling levels, with the giants surfacing in Guanabara Bay each winter.

Sightings of humpback whales surge in Rio de Janeiro, fueling demand for whale-watching trips

Humpback whales are increasingly spotted off Rio de Janeiro as their population recovers from past commercial whaling.

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@ember-energy.org #Solar has become the 🇪🇺 EU’s single biggest source of electricity. It generated 1/4 of the bloc’s electricity in June 2026, more than #wind, #fossil gas, #coal or #nuclear, while heat waves drove up AC demand. In June, Spain pulled 34% of its electricity. Germany even more, at 36%.

A quarter of EU power came from solar for the first time in June | Ember

The EU saw a record share of power from solar in June 2026, making it the EU's largest single source of power for only the third month ever.

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@goodgoodgoodco.bsky.social More women are running for governor across the 🇺🇸 US than ever before. 🗳️ It’s also shaping up to be one of the biggest years yet for women running for #Congress, which is pretty exciting to see.

There are more women running for governor across the US than ever before

There are 85 women major-party candidates running for governor across 36 states this year.

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@theguardian.com 🇺🇸 A new 3,000-panel #solar power farm in Colorado is cooling the land and turning a profit as local farmers raise #crops and #livestock. The microclimates of the solar array also keep fresh berries and vegetables from scalding in the summer heat.

On a Colorado farm, solar panels bring shade for plants, power – and cash: in pictures

More than 3,000 solar panels power Jack’s Solar Garden, cool the land and help it turn a profit

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@euronews.com People’s photos are helping scientists record #MarineLife in real-time in the 🇮🇨 Canary Islands. Through the citizen science project, more than 5,000 species of living organisms have been identified.

People’s photos are helping scientists record marine life in real-time in the Canary Islands

Photographing marine flora and fauna to gauge the ocean’s condition on a day-to-day basis. This is the aim of RedPROMAR, an EU project, which invites members of the public to upload photos to its plat...

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New England’s #rooftop #solar really came through during the recent heat wave. It helped keep electricity costs way down and even beat nuclear for power one afternoon. Pretty cool proof that solar can make a big difference. ⚡

New England invested in solar. It saved residents millions in electricity costs during a heat wave this month

A new report found that solar arrays saved $39 million to $54 million in a single day of a recent heat wave.

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@iea.org Between 2010 and 2024, the percentage of humanity with access to #electricity grew from 84% to 92%, even as the world population increased by more than a billion. The number of people without electricity fell from around 1.1 billion to 655 million. Now, that's a remarkable achievement.

Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report, 2026 – Analysis - IEA

Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report, 2026 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

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@reuters.com 🇵🇱 Poland’s first Baltic Sea #WindFarm officially tested its onshore power route to an inland substation. The Baltic Power project is expected to generate approximately 4 terawatt-hours of electricity annually, enough to power more than 1.5 million ‌Polish households.🍃

Poland's first Baltic sea wind farm tests onshore power route

Poland's nearly completed offshore wind farm is testing the power ​lines to a new substation inland, ‌a milestone in the country's effort to cut reliance on coal-fired electricity sources.

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@newatlas.bsky.social An international team of scientists invented a #FloatingCapsule that disinfects #water without chemicals or batteries. The breakthrough device costs less than $25 to produce and could prove vital in #disaster zones.

Floating capsule auto-disinfects water without chemicals or battery

An international team of scientists has created a portable water purifier that works simply by shaking it for three seconds and setting it to float in wild water. It could be a breakthrough device for...

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@goodgoodgoodco.bsky.social A visual artist’s latest work protests #OffshoreDrilling on the same 🇬🇷 Greek isle that inspired ‘The #Odyssey’, visual artist #TheKrank created a large-scale public artwork installation called “The Hunt”, about six miles from the proposed drilling site.

PHOTOS: Giant 'cave drawing' protests offshore drilling on Greek isle that inspired 'The Odyssey'

The goal of the public art display is to “connect humanity’s earliest forms of survival with contemporary resource extraction.”

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An international study found that zoo #elephant survival has substantially improved over six decades. In the most recent decades, their survival now exceeds or matches that of the wild and semi-wild elephant populations included in the study.

Zoo elephant survival has improved substantially over 6 decades, international study finds

Elephants living in modern zoos are living significantly longer than they did half a century ago, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports. The research—led by ZSL (the Zoologi...

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Volunteers are harvesting seagrass seeds to boost underwater meadows in the south of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England. Just like trees and plants, seagrass can absorb massive amounts of #CarbonDioxide. The same area of seagrass can absorb 35 times the amount a tropical rainforest can.

How picking seagrass seeds can help to combat climate change

Volunteers harvest seagrass seeds in a bid to boost underwater meadows in the south of England.

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@nytimes.com 🇫🇷 France became the first European Union country to ban children under 15 from accessing #SocialMedia accounts. It plans to implement it before school starts in the fall.

France Joins a Global Move Toward Restricting Social Media for Children (Gift Article)

Its new law, the first of its kind enacted by a European country, will ban access to some accounts for anyone under 15.

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@unitednations1945.bsky.social #CleanEnergy needs minerals like #lithium and #cobalt, but the 🇺🇳 UN is helping countries make sure that mining creates local jobs, protects nature and benefits communities too, not just big companies. It's pretty cool that they're pushing for cleaner, fairer mining.

From lithium to nickel: How the UN is helping countries make the most of critical minerals

The world's shift to clean energy is driving huge demand for critical minerals such as lithium, nickel, cobalt and copper.

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@sciencex.bsky.social #Deforestation in 🇧🇷 Brazil’s #Amazon rainforest reached its lowest level in a decade in the first half of 2026 Around 500 square miles total were deforested, an area almost twice the size of New York City. That's a decrease of 38% compared to the same period in 2025.

Brazil deforestation hits new low in Amazon

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell to its lowest level in a decade in the first half of the year, according to official figures released Friday.

phys.org

🇰🇪 A nonprofit in Kenya is breaking barriers and training women to join the #construction industry. Since its inception in 2019, it has trained more than 1,000 #women, with graduates increasing their average daily earnings roughly five- to six-fold within a year of training, from $1.50 to about $12.

Construction is a man's game. These women are demolishing the barriers

Women make up a miniscule 3% of construction workers in Kenya. But a nonprofit group is offering them a way to get into the game ... and to get ahead.

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🇪🇺 The EU just banned #fashion companies from destroying unsold clothes. Companies must find ways to sell the product via discounts, alternative markets and charity donations. Unsold product can only be destroyed if it is counterfeit, irreparably damaged, deemed unsafe, or rejected by charities.

EU ban on destroying unsold clothes takes effect

Under new rules to reduce waste, large companies across the European Union can no longer dispose of unsold clothes, accessories and footwear.

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@goodgoodgoodco.bsky.social While North America is among the epicenters of global #WildlifeCrossing construction, the movement is global. In Croatia 🇭🇷, for example, roughly a quarter of a new highway in the country is crossable for #wildlife, making it among the most permeable highways on Earth.

Highway overpasses see a global boom: 'It's like the whole world is open to wildlife now'

Decades of research have proved that wildlife crossings, combined with roadside fences, prevent deadly collisions, protecting both animals and people.

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@economist.com The number of elderly Americans with #dementia is actually rapidly declining A newly published research shows that while 40 years ago 3 in every 10 Americans aged 85-89 had dementia, by 2024 just 1 in 10 did.

How dementia is being defeated

Incidence among the elderly is falling fast

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