Good storytelling from Carbon Brief: How extreme weather is destroying crops around the world. The article has been updated two days ago adding 40 extreme events for 2025.

The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change will host a public webinar this Friday on their new report "Climate adaptation and mitigation in the agri-food system – Recommendations for coherent EU policies" climate-advisory-board.europa.eu/news/eus-agr...

Factcheck: North Sea gas is not ‘four times cleaner’ than LNG imports | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive Read here: buff.ly/IoMIeUt

I am happy that the SMR by TerraPower got the green light to be built in Wyoming. But let's focus on the "here and now". This article gives a possible example of the current bring-your-own-capacity mentality to power data centres in the US: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I created this visualisation using 15-minute CAISO data from January 2023 to December 2025 to explore how batteries operate in relation to wind & solar generation and overall grid demand.

Don't tell me. Sycophantic AI serves as a personal echo chamber that can actually keep you from finding good ideas. arxiv.org/abs/2602.14270

Very very nice. Apache Parquet has officially introduced native GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY logical types. parquet.apache.org/blog/2026/02...

From The Verge: "One of the humblest and most ubiquitous file formats is stumping the world’s most advanced models" 👉 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Google found a way to connect get its 850MW data center online in Texas in less than two years rather than five. The answer: co-located wind and solar. www.distilled.earth/p/google-is-...

South Korean farmers sue utility giant KEPCO over climate damage to crops: www.upi.com/Top_News/Wor...

EU’s climate advisory board (ESABCC) urges countries to prepare for a catastrophic 3C of global heating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate change is not "projected to happen" or "on the horizon", it is not even a news any more. www.ft.com/content/8504...

Britain’s first new nuclear plant in a generation at the Hinkley Point C site will face further delay, it will begin operations in 2030, a year later than planned: almost 13 years after construction work began www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I keep coming back to this IPCC chart, and I'm surprised it hasn't become the go-to reference for precipitation extremes. I think it works for two reasons: 1. Clarity and simplicity 2. Honesty about uncertainty: Regions with limited data or low agreement get equal visibility

Ethiopia: In the two years since the ban on internal combustion engine vehicles, EV adoption has grown from less than 1% to nearly 6% of all of the vehicles on the road in the country : www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Kenya launches a carbon registry to boost climate finance and credibility: apnews.com/article/carb...

We tend to think of batteries as the ones in our phones. But the real shift is happening at grid scale. Utility-scale “mega batteries” now have hundreds of millions of times the capacity of a smartphone battery. Costs are down ~40% since 2024, and capacity in 2024 was 12x higher than in 2020.

World Weather Attributions finds that the extreme heat, drought and winds behind the deadly Patagonia wildfires were made up to 3x more likely by human‑driven climate change, showing how rising temperatures are rapidly escalating wildfire risk. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

Anthropic says it’ll support efforts to get new power sources online to meet growing electricity demand from AI: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Hyperscalers are spending a lot of money.

The world’s largest compressed-air power storage plant started operating in China, an important step in the country’s efforts to expand energy storage to support its green transition. The 600MW plant has 4 hours of capacity (2.4GWh): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Argentinian government claims that a "human-made climate crisis does not exist" but the wildfires don't agree with that. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

"Credit fund Enosis Capital has sealed an agreement with AXA XL for the insurance giant to provide crucial cover for a new $3 billion wave of 'debt-for-nature' deals, the first of which is expected in the next six to nine months": www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Data centres in the US: it takes too much time to be connected to the power grid (for example, it's 7 years in Virginia right now) and thus companies build their own behind-the-meter power plants to secure the energy in a reasonable time. And the most common technology will be natural gas.

Ben Affleck says that AI won't replace writers. Nice reading. storytellingedge.substack.com/p/ben-afflec...

Ben Affleck says that AI won't replace writers. Nice reading. storytellingedge.substack.com/p/ben-afflec...

Rijksbouwmeester Francesco Veenstra: ‘Eigenlijk is het een wonder dat we jaarlijks 80.000 nieuwe woningen bouwen’: fd.nl/samenleving/...

There are stories able to capture the zeitgeist of our times, this is one: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...

I love this title from MIT Review, technology is more and more divisive and polarising topic: www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/14/1...

A new interesting open license on US water reservoirs with daily inflow data: www.hydroshare.org/resource/529...

Data centres consume 4.6 percent of the Netherlands’ electricity. www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2...

It seems that the demand for AI video-generation apps has been a bit overestimated. Sora, the OpenAI app, shows very low retention numbers... www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

The FT says that energy traders aren’t fully convinced that data centres will drive a big surge in electricity demand. Forward prices reflect this skepticism. Two reasons: 1. Future data centre growth might be overestimated. 2. Computing is getting more energy-efficient www.ft.com/content/959f...

China’s energy story is full of contrasts: CO₂ emissions are likely to stay flat but at the same time new coal is built AND massive amounts of clean electricity is added. The China’s Climate Transition: Outlook 2025 seems to be a way to understand all of this: energyandcleanair.org/publication/...

Next time you hear one of the many AI evangelists preaching about data centers in space, make sure you’re ready: taranis.ie/datacenters-...

Maybe we won't need so many data centres, maybe. The pipeline of near-term power projects in Georgia (USA) decreased this quarter again: www.utilitydive.com/news/georgia...

An interesting article: could electricity become the currency of the future? electrek.co/2025/11/21/e...

I learn something new every day (lucky me!). Today’s discovery? There are "zombie fires" in the Arctic. Honestly, that’s one thing I wish I hadn’t learned: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You might have missed this: the Iranian president has warned that, if the drought continues, they may need to evacuate Tehran (a city of 15 million people): www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

@nytimes.com style guide: "When people we like kill people we don't like so much, the headline shall use the passive voice. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/w...

A map showing the difference in global emissions between 2024 and 2023, based on EDGAR 2025 data. The data with the methodology is here: edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu

Analysis reveals that that plug-in hybrid electric vehicles burn five times more CO2 than their manufacturers claim: eciu.net/media/press-...

Lloyds bank offers free heat pumps with mortgages in the UK: www.telegraph.co.uk/money/proper...

"Millions more homes in England, Scotland and Wales face devastating floods, and some towns may have to be abandoned as climate breakdown makes many areas uninsurable" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Independent: "England sees second worst harvest on record, analysis shows" www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

"One year’s worth of bread has been lost in the UK since 2020 due to extreme weather destroying harvests, a report has found." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

CRAN, the R's central package manager is different from other package managers: when developers update their package, the system re-run tests also on all the packages depending on it. It's an interesting design choice: jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the...

"Climate change kills, Spanish PM tells deniers at launch of plan to tackle crisis" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Fact-checking from CarbonBrief: "North Sea gas is not ‘four times cleaner’ than LNG imports" www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-no...

A new (exascale) supercomputer is born in Europe, its name is JUPITER and it's currently the most powerful in Europe, the 4th worldwide, and it's the most energy-efficient in the world. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/factpages...