"The Pyrocene is his fullest elucidation yet of how humanity has entered a new age of fire, one that redefines the human-altered era of the Anthropocene. And Pyne . . . is certainly the best writer to make this argument." — Nature

What you find when you follow the money to its source: "DeSmog’s analysis reveals that 67 percent of Reform’s funding to date has come from donors with financial interests in fossil fuels, totalling more than £24 million" www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...

Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests

Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal. Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea o...

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In her latest #EnergyFutures column, @acantle.bsky.social debunks the myth that solar isn't feasible in N.L. and identifies barriers to developing a solar economy. theindependent.ca/commentary/e...

Throwing shade on solar myths – The Independent

‘Someday the sun will shine and have-not will be no more,’ Brian Peckford famously said. Solar ‘someday’ can’t come soon enough, writes Angela Antle

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Shhh... UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds More than a million jobs, higher wages, nearly half a trillion pounds in investment in the pipeline. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds

Net zero industry accounts for more than a million jobs and benefits whole country, according to CBI Economics

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An astonishing 71% of UK news media coverage of net zero takes a stance in opposition to it, yet the public remain largely supportive Great to see that, as a nation, we're somewhat able to resist the endless propaganda persuasionuk.org/research/apa...

🗞️ Nouvelle ligne d’Hydro-Québec vers New York : « Vert », vous dites ? La lettre ouverte de notre directrice académique, Kathryn Furlong et @acantle.bsky.social. À lire : www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...

Nouvelle ligne d’Hydro-Québec vers New York | « Vert », vous dites ?

Un projet peut-il vraiment être « propre et renouvelable » s’il n’est pas équitable ? C’est la question que posent les autrices, qui dénoncent ce qu’elles nomment la face cachée de la ligne d’intercon...

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Here’s an idea: Windfall tax from current price spike earmarked for cleanup of orphan and likely to be orphaned wells.

Arn Keeling@arnkeeling.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The O+G sector is a deadbeat industry. ‘Largest single transfer in history’: 4,000 oil and gas wells just became orphans — nearly doubling Alberta’s total: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-orph...

Register now for the IPBES online dialogue on the landmark Business and Biodiversity Assessment Report. Discover how IPBES products are being used in decision-making for nature and business. 🗓️ Save the date: 21 April 2026, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. CEST Register here: www.ipbes.net/node/97637

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net)@besnet.world · 4mo ago

Join @ipbes.net for an online global dialogue on the Business and Biodiversity Assessment report and the use of IPBES products in policymaking. 🗓️ 21 April 2026 ⏰ 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. CEST 🔗 Register here to participate: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/buqUL-S8RBaApRGE80nl0A

Costs from #wildfires in #Canada are rising and outpacing other weather related disasters. There's also disproportionately less reporting of disaster costs from rural and Indigenous communities. Congratulations to Mazen El-Baba and team for this important research: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

BIG, EXCITING NEWS! Dr. Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social -- world-leading climate scientist and author -- is coming to Project Drawdown after leaving NASA. She will be a Senior Scientist, leading an exciting new initiative on "Emergency Brake" climate solutions. drawdown.org/news/world-r...

World-renowned climate scientist and author Kate Marvel, Ph.D., returns to Project Drawdown

Marvel to lead new initiative focused on advancing critical climate solutions. “I’m unbelievably excited to return to Project Drawdown."

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Yesterday, the EDF and @ucsclimate.bsky.social made publicly available the entire set of more than 100,153 pages of government records from the Trump Administration's 'Climate Working Group' that were released under a federal court order. Check it out here: www.edf.org/climate-work...

Climate Working Group Records

These records released under a federal court order reveal that many of the Trump administration’s unlawful climate actions stem from a secretly formed “Climate Working Group” that targeted the Endange...

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What the fuck. We spent millions in 2012 specifically to make the transmission network more robust FOR wind and solar. But this is all just rules. Rules by bigots and fascists.

Jared Wesley@jaredwesley.ca · 5mo ago

"policy changes to the transmission network have forced the company to heavily curtail the output of its major wind turbine project in southeast Alberta — and adds that a looming overhaul of transmission rules stands to harm that and other renewable projects even more." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/....

St. John’s! Join me on March 16 for an evening with friends & special guests NDP MHA Sheilagh O’Leary, singer-songwriters Kelly McMichael and Valmy, & former NDP MHA Gene Long. The NDP comeback is here. Come see the momentum for yourself! RSVP: https://avilewis.link/stjohns

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

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VIA naleybynature "Billionaires are NOT going to save us and they should have no part in governing us and the systems in place to protect us. We need massive movement to push billionaires out of these industries especially the ones that govern us."

This is shocking reporting. We are led to believe that data centres building their own massive, fossil fuelled energy plants is a positive step. How is increasing dependency on gas, higher emissions and privately owned energy infrastructure positive? www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Off-grid Dublin data centre fuelled by own power plant

Work has been completed on a data centre in Dublin that is not connected to the national electricity grid and instead runs off its own on-site power plant.

rte.ie

One hundred and sixty-five children were killed in a U.S.-Israeli strike on their elementary school. This is an aerial image of the graves being prepared for their bodies. I defy anyone to justify this.

Every time you hear these reassuringly small or modest energy or water use per AI query numbers, you should understand that they can only be arrived at because of the GARGANTUAN underlying scale of Big Tech's AI infrastructure (often fossil fuel-powered & out-competing communities who need water)

Why Saying “AI Uses the Energy of Nine Seconds of Television” is Like Spraying Dispersant Over an…

TLDR: the smaller the number, the more you should be worried

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Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 5mo ago

A few months back, Google, Mistral and OpenAI simultaneously disclosed a narrow, careful number around per-query energy consumption. As Zeke touches on but doesn't follow through, this creates a wildly under-stated vision of energy consumption I wrote about that here: ketanjoshi.co/2025/08/23/b...

A new report, DepaveLA, finds that 44% of Los Angeles County’s 312k acres of pavement may not be essential for roads, sidewalks and parking, and could be converted to greener cooler cover and habitat. www.latimes.com/environment/... acceleratela.org/depavela/

Nearly half of L.A. County’s pavement may be unnecessary, new map finds

Researchers have released the first parcel-level analysis to map all paved surfaces across L.A. County. In particular, large parking lots are ripe for change, they say.

latimes.com

This is a great read.

Who could have seen this coming? Carbon capture was never the plan, it was the comfort blanket: “Don’t worry, we’ll fix it later". A story to delay real cuts while drilling rolls on. When the industry feels powerful & secure, the fairy tale goes back on the shelf.

Equinor pulling back CCS spending until market improves

Norwegian company is a CCS pioneer but markets are developing slower than expected

upstreamonline.com

Up to £1 billion (!) of new funding for local energy projects to be made available through the Local Power Plan...

Community energy investment to build community wealth and power

Biggest ever public investment in community energy will cut bills and create revenue for community centres, social clubs and places of worship.

gov.uk

"The news stories you consume...are increasingly controlled by technocrat Trump loyalists, and algorithmically skewed to the right to foment hatred...you’d do better getting all your news from Neil Young press releases." Stewart Lee's brilliant weekly column. 🔗⬇️

Some 10,000 people demonstrated in Milan on Saturday, on the first full day of the Winter Olympics, to protest against the environmental, economic and social impact of the Games. A hardcore splinter group later attempted to reach the Santagiulia Olympic ice hockey rink, resulting in clashes.

#Fermeuse, NL, left out of the picture when it comes to a mega LNG project on its doorstep: Mayor Jerome Kenny says “while Hanwha and Fermeuse Energy may have entered into some MOU, Council has not seen, or have been made aware of, the contents of the MOU." www.theenergymix.com/local-econom...

Local Economies Pushed Aside as Newfoundland LNG Megaproject Presses Ahead

The arrival of a deep-pocketed industrial conglomerate from South Korea may be improving the odds for a $10- to $15-billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) megaproject off the Newfoundland coast that was ...

theenergymix.com

New Political Science Research: local press coverage enhances the quality of U.S. state-level democracy, and serves as a moderating force when it comes to ideological extremism in state legislative politics: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

You’re invited to the Playwrights Canada Press Winter 2026 Book Launch, an evening celebrating the newest works from some of the country’s most acclaimed and influential playwrights. RSVP here: www.playwrightscanada.com/Blog/2026/Pl...