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Conductor, cellist, founder of Wild Arts Opera
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Albert Pinto
1 day ago
1500km charge in 6 minutes!! “The boundaries of electrochemistry are still far from being reached, and the possibilities of materials science are still far from being exhausted" - Robin Zeng, CATL founder Still think its all subsidies & copycat & no science or innovation?
www.ft.com/content/1773...
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CATL claims 6-minute charge and 1,500km range for new electric vehicle batteries
Chinese group also slashes charging time in race against BYD for electric vehicle battery supremacy
https://www.ft.com/content/1773de37-2595-4d9f-9536-dbe03ff1f8d3?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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Leana Hosea
3 days ago
Many people in coastal communities in + near the Strait rely on the fish + shellfish the mangroves, reefs, seagrass meadows in the region to survive. Oil + war, + wars for oil: devastating to people, devastating to wildlife.
www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/s...
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The stunning underwater world that’s at risk as the Iran war drags on | CNN
Not far from the vessels stuck in the Persian Gulf is a one-of-a-kind marine ecosystem that’s home to dolphins, sea turtles and coral. How do oil slicks affect them?
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/science/strait-of-hormuz-marine-animals
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UN Environment Programme
8 days ago
Transitioning to a net-zero world is one of humanity's greatest challenges. Here are some ways we can reduce carbon emissions and achieve net-zero:
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Zack Polanski
13 days ago
🚨🎉 The Green Party BEATS Reform!!! 😮 Greens came fourth here last year. 💚 Proving once again that Greens can win anywhere. 🙌🏽 Labour tanking and Greens beating Reform! 👉🏽
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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The amount of glyphosate applied annually to UK crops has risen by 1,000% between 1990 and 2024, according to new analysis. Research indicates that glyphosate “has the potential to cause irreversible harms to both human health and the environment”.
www.endsreport.com/article/1954...
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Glyphosate use on UK crops ‘up 1,000% since 1990’, say campaigners
The amount of glyphosate applied annually to UK crops has risen by 1,000% between 1990 and 2024, according to an analysis by campaign group Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK).
https://www.endsreport.com/article/1954075/glyphosate-use-uk-crops-up-1000-1990-say-campaigners
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Dr Charlie Gardner
14 days ago
It's not hard to catch fish sustainably - if you don't catch them all, and don't destroy their habitat, they reproduce Yet industrial fisheries seem determined to destroy themselves, and governments keen to let them This shouldn't be left to consumers
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Consumers urged to ‘completely avoid’ UK-caught cod as population plunges
Marine Conservation Society warns that fish numbers have reached dangerous point of decline
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/09/consumers-urged-to-completely-avoid-uk-caught-cod-as-population-plunges?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Leana Hosea
15 days ago
Oil from an Iranian ship struck near the Strait of Hormuz threatens to poison one of the region's most important wetlands. Local fishing communities depend on the mangrove forest for food. If oil reaches them, it's likely to kill the fish they need to survive.
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Oil slick from bombed Iranian ship threatens protected wetland
Shahid Bagheri leaking fuel towards Hara mangrove forest, home to migrating birds and endangered turtles
https://share.google/hpVAKkuAVy9JcagCt
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UN Environment Programme
16 days ago
#WorldHealthDay
reminder: a healthy planet is the foundation of our health. Forests clean the air we breathe. Oceans provide food and regulate the climate. Soils grow what we eat. Freshwater sustains life. Protecting ecosystems means protecting people.
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Abilu Tangwa.
17 days ago
A forest that took centuries to build, destroyed in days. For profit. This isn't development. It's the liquidation of our planet's natural capital.
#Ecocide
#Deforestation
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Leana Hosea
17 days ago
The government is seeking to speed up launch of its Warm Homes Plan to help cut people's energy bills in response to the Iran war. Under it, lower income families could receive fully funded installations of solar panels + battery up to a cost of £12,000.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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£12,000 solar panel grants to be fast-tracked for households
Ministers are speeding up the roll-out of solar grants and loans to shield households from rising energy costs
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/12000-solar-panel-grants-fast-tracked-households-4327891?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bluesky_social_posts&utm_source=bluesky
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Leana Hosea
22 days ago
Bottom trawling harvests immense numbers of fish. It tears up the seabed habitat the next generation of fish + shellfish need, so populations cannot recover quickly. With cod, herring & mackerel numbers at critical lows, we need to end this destructive practice:
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‘A national scandal’: trawlers scour seabeds of supposedly protected UK waters
‘Precious ocean life is being pushed to the brink’ say campaigners, arguing that overfished marine areas are ‘protected only on paper’
https://share.google/4tYqGHpuFQQl7cgq5
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Looking forward to Tuesday with the wonderful
#wildarts
Ensemble and two gorgeous singers Marta Fontanals-Simmonds and Xavier Hetherington on Mahler’s beautiful meditation on life and death
www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/das-li...
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Mahler Das Lied von der Erde - Sinfonia Smith Square
https://www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/das-lied-von-der-erde/
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Prem Sikka
25 days ago
Hundreds of North Sea licences granted by UK Tory Govt between 2010 and 2024 produced only 36 days of gas. Tories, Reform selling fantasy of endless gas reserves. Energy security needs more investment in renewables, nuclear, better insulated homes, better public transport.
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Hundreds of North Sea licences granted by Conservatives have ‘so far produced only 36 days worth of gas’
Exclusive: Findings cast doubt on claims new drilling would help cut bills and boost energy security, researchers say
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/28/north-sea-oil-gas-licences-conservatives
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Abilu Tangwa.
25 days ago
Deforestation is not “development.” It is ecocide, turning mighty carbon sinks into carbon bombs, wiping out gorillas, elephants, and thousands of irreplaceable species, while triggering droughts that devastate farmers the hardest. Real progress protects forests, not destroys them.
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Justin Gerdes
26 days ago
"Britain's wind farms produced enough electricity to power over 23 million homes yesterday, setting a new maximum generation record that helped squeeze reliance on gas generation at a time when fossil gas prices are continuing to climb."
www.businessgreen.com/news/4527607...
via Michael Holder 🔌💡
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'A crucial buffer against expensive gas': Britain's wind farms set 'world leading' generation record
Offshore and onshore wind now the UK's largest source of electricity, helping to curb the nation's exposure to expensive and volatile fossil fuel imports
https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4527607/crucial-buffer-expensive-gas-britains-wind-farms-set-world-leading-generation-record
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Election Maps UK
26 days ago
Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 25% (-2) GRN: 20% (+7) CON: 18% (-3) LAB: 15% (-3) LDM: 14% (+1) SNP: 2% (-1) Via
@veriangroup.com
, 20-23 Mar. Changes w/ 12-15 Dec.
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Robert Reich
about 1 month ago
The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120% from 2017 to 2025. The top 1% now control $55.8 trillion in assets — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined. Meanwhile, millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Still wondering if inequality is out of control?
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Senator Bernie Sanders
about 1 month ago
The war in Iran has already cost $22.8 billion. For $22.8 billion, we could: • Provide Medicaid to 6.8 million kids • Build 2.6 million public housing units • Fund Head Start for 1.3 million • Hire 240,000 teachers • Cancel $20,000 in student debt for 1 million borrowers
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Election Maps UK
about 1 month ago
Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 25% (+2) GRN: 19% (=) CON: 17% (-2) LAB: 17% (=) LDM: 14% (=) Via YouGov, 15-16 Mar. Changes w/ 9-10 Mar.
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Farrukh
about 1 month ago
Finnish President Alexander Stubb, "Brexit was a colossal mistake" "I'm too diplomatic to express exactly what I think about those who promoted Brexit" "It's not only like shooting yourself in the foot" "It's like amputating your leg without a medical reason for doing it"
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Abilu Tangwa.
about 1 month ago
Every explosion on an oil site is a double crime: against people caught in the crossfire and against the entire living planet. Accelerated warming + poisoned ecosystems + toxic legacy for children yet unborn. No justification. Perpetrators: utterly disgraceful. 💨🌡️
#NoWinningWhenPlanetLoses
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George Monbiot
about 1 month ago
The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one.
#NoBrainer
www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...
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Cost of Net Zero by 2050 less than a single fossil fuel price shock – CCC - Climate Change Committee
The independent, statutory body tested its cost and energy security conclusions against different scenarios. It found that the total additional cost of a single fossil fuel price spike of 2022 magnitu...
https://www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/cost-of-net-zero-by-2050-less-than-a-single-fossil-fuel-price-shock-ccc/
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Abilu Tangwa.
about 1 month ago
A forest that took centuries to build, destroyed in days. For profit. This isn't development. It's the liquidation of our planet's natural capital.
#Ecocide
#Deforestation
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Abilu Tangwa.
about 1 month ago
Trees are more than carbon sinks. They are Earth's shield, protecting the ozone layer & stabilizing our climate. Deforestation weakens this shield. Planting & restoring forests is urgent planetary healthcare.
#ForestRestoration
#SaveNature
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Guy Shrubsole
about 1 month ago
Right. Time to get Beavers, Wild Cats and Lynx put on banknotes:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Wildlife to replace historical figures on banknotes
The public will help choose which animals and birds will appear on the Bank of England's new notes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4geyyg9en6o
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CCC: UK’s net-zero transition can cost less than managing one energy price crisis.
www.edie.net/ccc-uks-net-...
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CCC: UK’s net-zero transition can cost less than managing one energy price crisis - edie
The UK Government can deliver its long-term net-zero target for less than it spent responding to the energy price crisis resulting from the Russia-Ukraine war, its official climate advisors have concl...
https://www.edie.net/ccc-uks-net-zero-transition-can-cost-less-than-managing-one-energy-price-crisis/
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WATERSHED Investigations
about 1 month ago
Methane venting is not some avoidable mistake. It's a baked in part of gas extraction + processing. If we continue to extract gas & oil, no way round it, we will be releasing vast amounts of this incredibly potent greenhouse gas. We have to stop extracting fossil fuels, now.
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British Dragonfly Society
about 1 month ago
A new report from wildlife charity Buglife reveals that pesticides from common flea and tick treatments are now widespread in rivers across Britain and may be contributing to major declines in freshwater invertebrates
bit.ly/4b1Pu50
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Buglife News: Love Your Pet, Not Pesticides: New Report Warns of Flea and Tick Treatment Threat to Rivers
Read more of our latest news related to invertebrates, insects and bugs.
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WATERSHED Investigations
about 1 month ago
Fracking waste has a mix of chemicals from fracking fluid + others leached from underground. Arsenic, lead, cancer-causing benzenes, radioactive radium can all be present. It's being dumped in Pennsylvania landfills. Mounting evidence says it's getting into rivers:
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The ‘Toxic Cocktail’ Brewing in Pennsylvania’s Waterways - Inside Climate News
Pennsylvania is still cleaning up decades’ worth of coal mining pollution. Now it must also contend with millions of tons of fracking waste, some of it radioactive.
https://share.google/p7PRFqzizPVZGKqjz
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Whoever is behind Watershed Investigations is brilliant. Excellent investigative journalism that is sorely needed. Highly recommend following them.
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about 1 month ago
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Have we not learned from the disastrous privatisation of our water companies?!
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about 1 month ago
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139 police officers over four decades were asked to infiltrate left-wing and anti-fascist groups by the met.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Undercover officer deceived women with ‘grotesque and cruel’ lies, spycops inquiry told
Carlo Soracchi admits exploiting empathy of woman who had abusive father by claiming his father abused his sister
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/08/undercover-officer-deceived-women-grotesque-cruel-lies-spycops-inquiry?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
about 1 month ago
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Dr Paul Dorfman
about 2 months ago
Solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels.
www.positive.news/environment/...
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Could solar panels help strengthen global food security? - Positive News
A Canadian study suggests solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels
https://www.positive.news/environment/agriculture/could-solar-panels-help-strengthen-global-food-security/
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
about 2 months ago
Great!! Sheep are a *top* cause of nature loss.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Sheep are disappearing from our hills and our dinner plates
Have we have passed "peak sheep" in the UK?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrzd72wp5zo
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Election Maps UK
about 2 months ago
Thrupp (Stroud) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 67.5% (+3.1) ➡️ RFM: 16.5% (New) 🌳 CON: 7.3% (-10.3) 🌹 LAB: 5.8% (-12.3) 🔶 LDM: 2.8% (New) 💷 UKIP: 0.3% (New) Green HOLD. Changes w/ 2024.
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Nits the nail on th head
www.opendemocracy.net/en/the-green...
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After Green victory, the establishment will be out for blood
After a stunning victory in the Gorton and Denton byelection, Green activists are preparing for a major establishment backlash
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/the-greens-real-fight-has-begun-and-the-establishment-will-be-out-for-blood/
about 2 months ago
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Go Green
about 2 months ago
Ban them The 218 cruise ships operating in Europe in 2022 emitted more sulphur oxides (SOx) than one billion cars, or 4.4 times more than all the continent's cars
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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Are 'green' cruise ships good for the climate?
Many cruise companies are touting their green credentials. But can cruise ships ever be sustainable?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240627-are-green-cruise-ships-good-for-the-climate
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Oceana UK
about 2 months ago
“We're working to reveal the bloody fingerprints Big Oil are leaving on our ocean wildlife” Big Oil’s rampant pollution is well documented. We want to know how much of this poison is ending up in marine animals. We cannot turn a blind eye. Act now:
https://bit.ly/490ZLPq
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Go Green
about 2 months ago
Noise pollution is affecting birds’ reproduction, stress levels and more. The good news is we can fix it. Since 1970, bird populations have declined at a staggering rate, with 3 billion breeding adults lost in North America alone.
news.umich.edu/noise-pollut...
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Noise pollution is affecting birds' reproduction, stress levels and more. The good news is we can fix it.
New research led by the University of Michigan is painting a more comprehensive picture of how noise pollution is impacting birds around the world.
https://news.umich.edu/noise-pollution-is-affecting-birds-reproduction-stress-levels-and-more-the-good-news-is-we-can-fix-it/
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Robert Reich
about 2 months ago
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Saganism
about 2 months ago
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Great interview
youtu.be/vRvGz2Ebpp8
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Labour Just Lost One of Their Safest Seats — And The Greens Did It | Zack Polanski Interview
YouTube video by Novara Media
https://youtu.be/vRvGz2Ebpp8
about 2 months ago
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Dr Paul Dorfman
about 2 months ago
China brings online 300 MW/1,200 MWh grid-forming energy storage facility in Inner Mongolia, integrating lithium-ion and vanadium flow battery technologies.
www.pv-magazine.com/2026/02/27/v...
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Vanadium flow and lithium-ion combine in world’s largest grid-forming hybrid storage plant in China
China brings online 300 MW/1,200 MWh grid-forming energy storage facility in Inner Mongolia, integrating lithium-ion and vanadium flow battery technologies.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/02/27/vanadium-flow-and-lithium-ion-combine-in-worlds-largest-grid-forming-hybrid-storage-plant-in-china/
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“Examples across the world show nationalised water systems running more efficiently. In Paris, France, water is 100% municipally owned and the customer satisfaction rate of the publicly owned Eau de Paris ranges from 90-96%.” Privatisation is pure ideology.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Dirty water, death and decline: the inside story of a privatisation scandal
There is no end in sight to the pollution caused by a ‘broken’ system. Experts say it could even be getting worse
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/feb/28/dirty-water-death-and-decline-the-inside-story-of-a-privatisation-scandal?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
about 2 months ago
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We are an island of neighbours.
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Leana Hosea
about 2 months ago
A lot of UK oil extraction is done out at sea, out of sight, out of mind.
@oceanauk.bsky.social
works to raise awareness of the harm oil pollution is causing to wildlife in our waters.
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Oil pollution in UK waters far worse than reported, says conservation group
‘Opaque’ recording system means recorded volume of everyday oil pollution over the past decade should be increased by 43%, according to Oceana report
https://share.google/YUtRuZNar5Bvqax2Q
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Tamar Haspel
about 2 months ago
Can't say this often enough! An acre of solar produces 50-300 times more energy than an acre of biofuels. Stop using food for fuel.
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China Starts Sea Trials for Largest Electric-Powered Containership
China’s first 10,000-ton electric containership is beginning sea trials. The shipyard is billing the ship as the largest of its kind and a further bre...
https://maritime-executive.com/article/china-starts-sea-trials-for-largest-electric-powered-containership
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Yonah Freemark
2 months ago
Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated. The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer
publicola.com/2026/02/11/t...
(Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)
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Simon Evans
2 months ago
NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far…
www.carbonbrief.org/...
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