A rare desert plant is flourishing at a solar farm near Las Vegas, new research finds. The study is the latest to show how, under the right circumstances, solar arrays can be a boon to nature. via @grist.org

Amid the doom & crazy coming from the other side of the Atlantic, last year I suggested that #Trump's excesses would help catalyse a #GreatGlobalRebalancing away from the #US One year on, LISTEN to how this has accelerated & why this is wonderful news 4 RoW podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/t...

PSA: Here's how the anti-net zero sausage gets made: 1. Oil companies fund climate denial groups 2. which incubate fake experts 3. who write policy papers for 'think tanks' 4. which get blurbed by politicians 5. & reported uncritically by right-wing media. Voila! www.desmog.com/2026/01/28/c...

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

This will get massively overshadowed today and as ever the devil is in the detail, but is should be one of the best things Labour has done. It has the potential to improve the lives and finances of millions of people. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524489...

☀️ The solar sector is ready to power the UK's £15bn Warm Homes Plan. With 1.6m households already solar-powered and record installations last year, the industry can deliver upgrades to 5m homes by 2030. Solar + batteries + heat pumps = massive bill savings and energy security 🔋🏠💷 Let's go! 🚀

Must read. I’ve spent much of the past year visiting Big Locals, and have never been more certain that its model would deliver significant results if backed at scale (as the government is doing with Pride in Place) It is remarkable what some places have done given just a little money and time.

What explains the divergence between consumer confidence of the over- and under-50s? @faisalislam.bsky.social for BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Solar grazing: ‘triple-win’ for sheep farmers, renewables and society or just a PR exercise for energy companies?

www.theguardian.com/environment/... More evidence of how solar is helping British farming.

The world dedicates a Poland-sized area of land to producing liquid biofuels such as bioethanol & biodiesel. Is there a more efficient way to generate energy? Putting solar panels on the land used for biofuels, e.g., would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks worldwide to go electric.

Ending Scotland’s solar loans was ‘a big mistake’ says Solar Energy Scotland www.renewableenergymagazine.com/pv_solar/end...

How can solar support farming? More certainty and diversity of income, particularly given the tough farming conditions of recent years.

Solar didn’t just shine in 2025 — it shutdown all of the naysayers. Costs collapsed. Deployment exploded. Markets shifted gears. That’s not a trend — that’s transformation. Years of progress. Years of scale. No shortcuts. No flash. While others exposed their shortcomings, solar forged ahead.

‘A silent majority’: Politicians strongly underestimate support for green policies, study reveals - From solar subsidies to meat taxes, minority rightwing voices appear to drown out the consensus Research by Lisa-Maria Tanase et al Story by me #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A picture is worth 1000 words... This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK. Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect. Chapeau!

Renewables produced a record amount of electricity in Britain in 2025. Solar rose by nearly a third on 2024 levels, helped by UK's sunniest year on record and the expansion of solar panels around the country: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New record year for renewable electricity in Britain - thanks especially to strong solar output. Read our analysis of 2025 here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Renewable energy project approvals hit record high in GB in 2025, data shows

Offshore wind farms are helping marine life www.semafor.com/article/12/1...

🎄☀️ Electrify Britain’s Power-Up to Christmas - Day 18 ☀️✨ Solar power isn’t just for homeowners and businesses - some of Britain’s biggest names are leading the charge too. Clean energy looks good on everyone. 👇

“Reform is much more vulnerable than it appears… Its astonishingly speedy growth disguises what now look like shallow roots; its success, meanwhile, has brought a level of scrutiny for which it simply isn’t ready.” Great @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Therapia Lane has become TfL’s first depot to remove fossil fuel gas usage by upgrading its heating system and installing hundreds of solar panels. It’s the biggest upgrade in its 27-year history and another way we're making London's transport greener.

Most Brits want climate action but think their neighbours don't. Most Brits support renewable energy but think their neighbours don't. This is the work of relentless misinformation by our right-wing press and the oiligarchy.

Because it’s not getting reported on enough: Muslim fruit shop owner Ahmed al Ahmed, father of two, was the hero who bravely tackled one of the Bondi Beach shooters and took away his gun. He saved lives during a major terror attack. Say his name, and honor the lives of the victims of the shooters

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

‘acoustic recorders on ecovoltqic sites & nearby agricultural fields…Bird/bat activities monitored…grassland bird species nearly 2X ecovoltaic sites…230 bird nests at solar sites (American Robin, Barn Swallow and Mourning Dove)…Big Brown Bat and Haory Bat noticeably more active on ecovoltaic sites’

🔴I wrote about far-right attacks against refugee charities and why some are choosing to leave the sector to protect themselves. It's awful but understandable. open.substack.com/pub/nicolake...

We need renewable energy to take a bite out of the climate crisis but also the authoritarianism crisis Right now we’re just doing oil piracy open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Why Venezuela? Why Now? The Answer is Dark. thinc.blog/2025/12/11/w...

New figures confirm renewables met 49.3% of power demand in the EU in the third quarter. In Denmark, renewables delivered 95.9% of electricity. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

In Germany solar panels are helping protect vines from climate breakdown and giving small winemakers clean energy thanks to the growing world of vitivoltaics 🍇☀️ Link in the comments 👇🔗

Seeding wildflowers and native plants under solar panels showed that after five years, populations of native bees had risen to 20 times their initial levels www.thecooldown.com/green-busine...

Solar panel areas can be designed to be better for bird diversity than cropland: Ecovoltaic solar energy development can promote grassland bird communities besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #solarpanels #birds #energy #greenenergy #jernmarker

‘It’s the shape of story across all ages and human cultures. You’re in a hole. Then you get out.’ The climate crisis hole is hot, dark and we’re still in it. But Prof Jules Pretty describes how we’re beginning to get out. There is good news…

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

Solar powered Reisling could not only become a thing, but actually save it fro climate change! www.dw.com/en/solar-ene...

"Look outside, hear the thunder, feel the rain: in the real world, change is happening" @fionaharvey.bsky.social in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...

40MW floating solar farm approved - set to be the UK's largest such solar farm. www.solarpowerportal.co.uk/solar-projec...

Despite worries about solar under Trump, the sector has not collapsed & prospects look good - hence surge in solar share prices A lot of tax credits have been maintained, datacentres need power and solar is cheap &fast to deploy, rooftop promising as power prices rise www.ft.com/content/af1f...

Solar is once again seeing RECORD growth, generating more in the first three quarters of 2025 than in all of 2024. ☀️ has become the biggest driver of change in the global power sector, with growth three times larger than any other source of electricity. #COP30 https://loom.ly/AK3Fn3I

Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests.

Reform UK energy plans crumble under scrutiny …evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy. For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy. The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.

In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...

And another story in the spirit of making hope normal www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Uplifting evidence that society is inherently humane, despite what we are being told by the far right. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...