EU’s energy crisis response is broader than expected: remote work mandates, heat pump subsidies, EV leasing schemes — plus electrification targets and new laws to tax electricity below fossil fuels.
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UK £1bn investment in community energy to create opportunities for communities to take “a direct stake in a clean, green, more affordable energy future,” to deliver 8GW of locally owned clean energy by 2030. www.positive.news/environment/...
What does the new £1bn investment in community energy really mean?
It’s the largest public investment in community-owned green power in the UK to date. But what exactly is being promised, and how can communities get involved?
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Stunning growth of battery storage puts it at centre of global energy security needs, for cars and for grids reneweconomy.com.au/stunning-gro...
Stunning growth of battery storage puts it at centre of global energy security needs, for cars and for grids
The demand for batteries - for EVs and grid - has surged in the last year and is getting a further boost from the global fuel crisis as countries think energy security.
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Pakistan went from <5% to 25%+ solar in 4 years. Remarkable. I was cited in Pakistan's Express Tribune on exactly this — but also on what the Hormuz crisis revealed: electricity resilience ≠ energy security. tribune.com.pk/story/2602438/ending-oil-dependency-cycle
Ending oil dependency cycle | The Express Tribune
Ending oil dependency cycle
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Fully renewable electricity supply. German Federal Network Agency confirm this is fundamentally possible. www.elektroauto-news.net/news/100-pro...
100 Prozent erneuerbare Energien günstiger als gedacht
Eine Simulationsstudie zeigt: 100 Prozent erneuerbarer Strom in Deutschland könnte günstiger und machbarer sein als gedacht.
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2026 Oil/Gas Price Spike is different! Why? Cheap EVs, cheap home solar, cheap batteries and better heat pumps are available to substitute for oil and gas burners. China's low-cost, high quality EVs are also available in UK. www.theguardian.com/business/202... #energysky
Record number of homes in Great Britain turn to green energy as fuel prices soar
Iran war drives demand for solar panels, heat pumps and EVs, with energy bills expected to rise 18% from July
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Good morning with good news: Cheap EVs arrive in UK with 2026 Oil Price Spike & UK solar/heat pump sales surge. 1. EVs cost less to buy for the first time! 2. Solar home system sales skyrocket ~80% in March. 3. Heat pump installations double in March. www.publicnow.com/view/5B62B1A... #energysky
Can paying people to photograph wildlife save species? KehatiKu, a program in Indonesian Borneo, is testing this model by paying citizens to log sightings. While the app has collected 175,000 records in its first year, experts question if financial incentives can sustain long-term conservation.
See an orangutan, take a photo, earn some money: A viable conservation model?
In Kapuas Hulu district in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province, a pilot program is attempting to change how people living in Borneo perceive and engage with wildlife and wildlife conservation.…
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HUGE! China will DOUBLE its non-fossil fuel energy (not just power) supply by 2035! China's 2025 electricity was ~42% non-fossil fuel or about 4,000TWh. Given demand growth, doubling clean generation output would raise its share to ~66% by 2035. HUGE! www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #energysky
China Lifts Green Push With Plan to Double Clean Energy by 2035
China will seek to double its supply of non-fossil fuel energy by 2035, in a plan that analysts see as a boost to Beijing’s green targets.
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The golden-headed lion tamarin’s range has shrunk by 42% since 1992. To combat a 60% population decline, a new Brazilian center is rehabilitating tamarins displaced by urban sprawl. The goal: move them from dangerous city streets back into the native forests they need to survive. Learn more! 👇️
Rehab center opens for Brazil’s golden-headed lion tamarins amid urban sprawl threat
Brazil has opened its first rehabilitation center for golden-headed lion tamarins, an endangered monkey species threatened by urban expansion and the loss of agroforestry farms to monocrop…
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Blue-and-yellow #macaws 🦜 are flying over #Rio again after about 200 years, thanks to a project that’s bringing back animals lost from the forest 🌳. They disappeared mainly because of #deforestation and wildlife trade, but scientists are slowly reintroducing them to rebuild the #ecosystem 🌎
‘A dream come true’: Brazil’s blue-and-yellow macaws return to Rio after 200 years
An ambitious ‘refaunation’ project is bringing the much-loved birds and other lost species back to the city’s national park
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Waterway experts connect in Paris, bringing together project partners, ecosystem stakeholders, and key representatives from across Europe for a multi-day exchange on the future of resilient waterways. www.linkedin.com/posts/connec...
#waterways #eufunding #interreg #interregnorthsea | Connected River Project
Waterway experts connect on the Seine in Paris 🌐 On Tuesday, the Connected River partner meeting kicked off in Paris, bringing together project partners, ecosystem stakeholders, and key representati...
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The latest public deliverables from REWET are now live, bringing together research, methodologies, and practical insights to support wetland restoration across Europe. www.rewet-he.eu/deliverables
Public deliverables | Rewet
Download the publicly available documents prepared by REWET project partners
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Lisbon to Host Global Bike Bus Summit as Movement Continues to Grow. momentummag.com/bike-bus-sum...
Planting trees to remove carbon can harm the environment – or protect it: study highlights trade‑offs The takeaway: it’s not just more trees - it’s the right trees, in the right places. theconversation.com/planting-tre...
Planting trees to remove carbon can harm the environment – or protect it: study highlights trade-offs
Carbon removal strategies may conflict with biodiversity conservation, but careful choices could bring benefits.
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Sales of Full Electric Vehicles in New Zealand skyrocket 278% during March 2026, compared to March 2025. Full-electric autos were 16.5% of sales. Plug-in-hybrid (PHEV) were about another 8% plus of sales. ~25% of autos sold in New Zealand during March had a plug. evdb.nz/ev-stats #energysky
Installing a heat pump can be costly and complicated. Enter Merino Energy’s new single-room system, which it says a contractor can get running in an hour.
Bay Area startup introduces flat-rate, single-room heat pumps
Merino Energy says its through-the-wall heat pumps are faster to install than ductless systems. They’ll be available for $3,800 — installation included.
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Five “missing” bird species were rediscovered in 2025, including one not documented in 94 years. These finds in Southeast Asia and Oceania offer hope for conservation as the Lost Birds List drops to 120 species, down from 163 in 2022. @spoorthyraman.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.
Once lost, now found: Five “missing” bird species rediscovered in 2025, offering hope
Five “missing” bird species — not seen, heard or documented in the wild for a decade or more — were “found” in 2025, according to the 2026 annual update to the Lost Birds List. It’s a tally of…
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The ocean has reached a 10% protection milestone, but hitting the global 30% target by 2030 requires protecting an area the size of the Indian Ocean in just four years. Experts warn that progress must accelerate to secure our marine future. @elizabethalberts.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.
10% of the ocean is protected. Now just 20% more to go
More than 10% of the world’s ocean is now protected to some degree, marking significant progress in global ocean conservation efforts, according to an Apr. 1. annoucement from the U.N. Environment…
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Dr. Larry Stevens of Springs Stewardship Institute joins the Rewilding Earth #podcast to discuss how springs are largely unmapped, misunderstood, & managed as mere “hydrologic commodities”—despite being keystone ecosystems that support a massive array of biodiversity and the world’s major rivers.
Microplastics create macro problems. Nurdles are tiny pellets made from fossil fuels and are raw materials for plastic goods. Chemical companies spill 1 billion pounds of these nurdles every year, polluting the communities they operate in and floating out into the ocean.
The Bay She Loves Is Choked with Microplastics. She’s Taking the Polluter to Court.
Earthjustice is representing Diane Wilson as she joins a legal challenge to a massive plastics facility owned by Dow and Union Carbide.
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Great Redwood Trail Master Plan Approved, Advancing 300-Mile Northern California Route. momentummag.com/great-redwoo...
#Mongabay has launched a dedicated Solutions Desk to report on how people and institutions respond to environmental challenges. By tracking what works for the planet through rigorous, evidence-based journalism, we aim to support more informed decision-making globally. Learn more! 👇️
Mongabay launches Solutions Desk to track what works for the planet
Think environmental news, and the headlines tend to be bleak: extinctions, habitat loss, unrelenting emissions. And often what gets lost in all the doom and gloom is the potential for solutions to…
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The Amazon’s ecosystem connectivity is under threat from dams, mining and deforestation. Experts say Indigenous territories and conservation units suffer less disruption, proving that supporting Indigenous governance is vital to protecting the basin’s future. @constancemalleret.bsky.social reports.
Indigenous governance key to protecting Amazon Basin connectivity, experts say
In the southern tip of Colombia’s Cauca department, known as the “boot” for its shoe-like shape, volunteer members of an Indigenous guard patrol their territories in the Andean foothills to protect…
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We’re only a few weeks into spring, but renewable power generation is already soaring.
This spring has been a record season for renewables
Wind, solar, and batteries are more critical than ever as the world faces a fossil fuel crisis, and spring is when these resources hit their stride.
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How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under outgoing mayor Anne Hidalgo, the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
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Renewables are on the rise in the EU. Will war in the Middle East push them to new heights?
Iran war could spur Europe to double down on renewables — again
The Mideast conflict is plunging the European Union into yet another energy crisis. EU officials are once again embracing solar and wind as a result.
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