A new 2-part listening experience! From me! 1️⃣ On community resistance to a data center campus in Europe's densest data center hub, Frankfurt. Ft. CLIFFHANGER. 2️⃣ Inside the contested CLOUD (data center) to see how they work from the inside, the industry story & what they demand from the outside.

It’s hard to tell art from reality these days.

Dangerous and potentially historic extreme heat is forecast to impact parts of western Europe this week. We already know that these temperatures are made at least 5x more likely due to human-caused climate change. Stay safe! Explore the attribution data at csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

Another for instance! Down in Queensland, Australia, fossil gas used to provide all the peak power. Then batteries start nibbling at it. Then chomping on it. And now they've basically eaten it all up. No more gas. Look at this graphic! Glorious. reneweconomy.com.au/big-batterie...

Grid-scale batteries are going in an absolutely wild pace. Every whingey objection to renewables you've ever heard is basically solved by batteries. This is happening whether any of the hopeless dipshits running the US want it or not.

The world is installing grid batteries at a blistering pace

A total of 112 gigawatts of batteries were deployed around the world in 2025 — 10 times the amount added just four years prior.

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Yeah Oil BOMBS in Middle East sends an extremely subtle message... "Solar panel sales have risen sharply since the start of the Iran war... Sales were up 54% so far this month compared with same period last" Put together examples in thread: buttondown.com/polycrisisdi... bsky.app/profile/70sb...

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

4/ Do you get whats coming? #SolarHockeyStickOfHope bsky.app/profile/70sb...

Abdelrahman Mohammed, 24, a Syrian living in Beirut, reacts after he lost 5 members of his family after an Israeli strike on Wednesday, at Rafik Hariri University Hospital, in Beirut, Lebanon, April 9, 2026. 📸 Emilie Madi

after a break, my latest long-form audio feature ft rainforest soundscapes & leech chat. i spent a sweaty day exploring rainforest research plots in northeast Australia with a botanist, learning what troubling change decades of measuring the forests tree by tree is revealing 🎧👉 tinyurl.com/ys5pmvhx

Climate mitigation costs money. But it ends up avoiding way more costs in the future.

the switch - a new 3-parter from me. now renewables are the cheapest form of energy in history, what's stopping the energy transition from moving faster? stop 1: morocco - to explore why some of the sunniest places are struggling to tap into solar. Pt. 1 🎧👉 podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/d...

Was just thinking how weird that it’s called that and to see it aggressively plastered everywhere. Preach

Dr. Frisky Whisky McThicky, Ball Knower@professorpash.blacksky.app · 8mo ago

We ain’t buying shit! This Friday ain’t “Black” ‘cuz we got each others’ back.

BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"

For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project

The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.

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This isn’t just about lights and electricity. It’s about control. If you own your power, you control your future, says Nathan McIvor talking, CEO of Djarindjin Aboriginal Corporation in Western Australia. www.ngaardamedia.com.au/news/the-dja... #auspol

The Djarindjin Way: A New Model for Indigenous Empowerment — Ngaarda Media

By Marli Ryan For decades, the phrase “Closing the Gap” has been plastered across policy documents, media headlines, and political speeches in Australia. It’s a slogan that was supposed to repres...

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Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study Story by @dharna.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study

Study analyzed health impacts of fossil fuels from exploration to end use, and found communities of color bear brunt of harm

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About 1500 of the approx. 2300 people that will have lost their lives across 12 European cities last week would still live, if it wasn't for our burning of oil, coal and gas. If we care about the right to life, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

"To our untrained eye, a corn field looks more 'natural' than an array of solar panels. But a corn field is a biological desert ... Put up some solar panels, and add some plants that only need to be mowed once a year or so (sometimes with sheep) and you see an explosion of life."

Buzzzzzzzzz

Something to actually do about insect decline

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Asian LNG trade body pays for report saying Aus gas displaces coal in Asia and analysts say case closed; on the other side is the CSIRO saying no evidence and US Department of Energy work finding gas displaces renewables at twice the rate of coal.

Gas giants say they can get Asia off coal – and reduce emissions

New research suggests replacing coal power with Australian gas could deliver cost-effective emissions reductions in Asia.

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Every day that this horror continues, I think of Omar El Akkad's tweet: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says

Albo's majority Labor govt says WE DON'T CARE to Murujuga Traditional Custodians #NationalReconciliationWeek, Australia's Pacific neighbours, science & people who want a liveable climate Stand by for approval of Woodside's Browse-to-NorthWestShelf gas project #LaborValues #LaborClimateAction

Breaking: Australia's largest gas project approved for operation to 2070 by Environment Minister Murray Watt

The life of Australia's largest oil and gas project will be extended to 2070, with Environment Minister Murray Watt giving the long-awaited environmental approval for Woodside's North West Shelf proje...

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Here’s the latest ep in our series from me - what our economy gets wrong about nature, ft. underwater forests in Tasmania, ocean heatwaves, insatiable urchins, a plan to revive them, and the big fails of our economic system. Tysm to Mick Baron & Sophus zu Ermgassen. Listen 👉 pod.link/livingplanet...

"Industrial fishing is sweeping up unprecedented levels of bycatch, including nearly half a million threatened blue sharks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean alone, new analysis shows, as the world finalises a new ocean treaty." www.smh.com.au/environment/...

Underwater footage reveals the terrible cost of industrial fishing

Industrial fishing methods such as long lining and bottom trawling are responsible for horrifying levels of bycatch, including nearly half a million threatened blue sharks.

smh.com.au

Here it is, finally. The truth. In a landmark #greenwashing legal case brought by @parentsforclimate.bsky.social, #EnergyAustralia has publicly acknowledged that offsets do not undo the harms of burning fossil fuels & apologised to more than 400,000 customers of its carbon #offsetting product

An episode I reported & produced about the economics of saying ✌️ to fossil fuels ft. an accidental clean energy ally from outback Queensland. E2 in our cost of climate series. Thanks to Brent Finlay, @kingsmillbond.bsky.social & @gwagner.com for their brilliant insights. 🎧👉 pod.link/livingplanet...

“when the full range of other harms are factored in – such as drought, flood, fire, smoke and sea level rise – the total liability presents a nightmare for fossil fuel producers that have long-feared tobacco-style lawsuits” 💀 drilled.media/news/heat-at...

“Numbers in the Trillions”: Fossil Fuel Producers on Hook for Climate Harms

New research suggests a way to link oil, gas and coal companies to specific climate harms.

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Hadn’t realised until i read @omarsakr.bsky.social’s always-excellent Substack just how much $$ was poured into the anti-Greens campaign 😳 Absolutely wild. sakr.substack.com/p/election-i...

election in the genocide

We are 60 days into the total starvation of Gaza, a trapped civilian population that is being relentlessly bombed, murdered by snipers and drones, and rounded up into torture camps.

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“The scale & intensity of coral bleaching has never before been witnessed in Western Australia waters” “Widespread bleaching has been observed for the 1st time on reefs throughout the Kimberley, which are considered to be among the most heat tolerant in the world.” www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...

Unprecedented heatwave causes mass bleaching of Ningaloo, Kimberley reefs

Environment Minister Matthew Swinbourn raised the issue in parliament, stating the scale and duration of a marine heatwave had led to mass bleaching.

watoday.com.au

Terry Hughes@profterryhughes.bsky.social · last yr.

After months of official silence, mass mortality of corals in Western Australia - since January - is finally getting attention. www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...

Australia's gas lobby (the country's biggest fossil fuel lobby group by a good margin) welcomes Albanese's election “We look forward to working with the Albanese Government on advancing the shared goal of boosting Australian gas supply" archive.ph/wip/xHmnV

our history podcast episode on WHERE prisons came from and WHO they're really serving (?!) was nominated for a European Digital Media Award, which calls for a little pic of us recording in the Netherlands, and a little link to listen! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Big Oil is successfully using "misleading" ads disguised as reporting to “manipulate mass public opinion,” a new study from @commscholar.bsky.social, others at @bostonu.bsky.social and @uniofcam.bsky.social found. www.exxonknews.org/p/study-news...

Study: News outlets can’t run ‘native’ Exxon ads without misleading the public

A first-of-its-kind study found news outlets can reduce, but not eliminate the deceptive influence of fossil fuel industry ads designed to look like reporting.

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