Billions spent on mining for rare elements for lithium batteries but sorry mate we no longer need your batteries

New supercapacitor tech that may store enough energy to replace batteries Supercapacitors a class of energy storage device that store charge electrostatically, rather than through chemical reactions such as those found in traditional batteries reneweconomy.com.au/australian-e...

Too hot to handle: Burning wood for heat emits more CO₂ than coal Insane that climate summit will support billions for burning wood as a climate solution when it is worse than coal www.birdlife.org/news/2025/07...

The World Is Our Battery Batteries don't have to be small or even portable. Here are five ambitious technologies that store energy in the rocks, water, and air all around us. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2023/11/the-...

You can buy and pay for these movies but you do not own them and they can be taken away at any time DVR files are stored in the cloud, giving companies the ability to rip them away at any time. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Yikes!

This shows that humans are not compatible with a living planet but very compatible with a dead planet Sharks a species that has existed on Earth for over 450 million years is heading for extinction as humans pulverize over 100 million every year

5 things you didn’t know sharks do for you keep the food web in check. may be key to fighting cancer. help capture carbon Sharks have existed for 450 million years, but may soon be gone with a 71% drop in last 100 years Humans kill 100 million a year www.conservation.org/news/5-thing...

Ration flying now True impact of your flying several times higher than commonly used CO₂ calculators suggest For example current calculations for first class from Singapore to Zurich on B777 plane, say it emits 5000 kg when in fact its 14,000 kg #climate www.newscientist.com/article/2502...

Roughly 75 percent of the drop in rainfall can be directly linked to deforestation And a drier Amazon is burning like never before They have killed the Amazon - one of the lungs of the Earth www.conservation.org/news/news-sp...

Trump is outraged and promises to kill Solar and wind which together accounted for 88% of new US electrical generating capacity added in the first eight months of 2025 electrek.co/2025/11/03/f...

Australia has so much solar that it’s offering everyone free electricity Trump and MAGA would be outraged - they want you to pay more and more to make Big Oil billionaires even richer electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Incredibly worrying.

Putin orders nuclear weapons test preparations after Trump threat in new escalation Wonderful Trump will not spend a cent on climate action but is willing to spend billions on a new nuclear arms race enough to wipe out multiple Earths www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

I think it will hit people hard when stores stop stocking staples like raisins, or coffee and chocolate taste different because they are sourced from new locations. These are luxuries, but also essential.

Also mass death, but it's going to be even harder to cope with the death without wine and coffee.

A warming Earth could accidentally trigger a deep freeze in the long run but not fast enough to save us Biological and oceanic feedback loops—especially involving algae, phosphorus, and oxygen—can swing the planet’s temperature far more dramatically. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Even the most advanced climate intervention methods may not be able to protect wine grapes, coffee, and cacao from a changing planet www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Satellite Data Reveal Changing Lakes Under Antarctic Ice Water flowing from subglacial lakes can have a significant effect on glaciers in the vicinity “It can lubricate the bed of the glacier and potentially make it flow faster” “That contributes to sea level rise” eos.org/articles/sat...

Fire, Not Deforestation, Is Now the Amazon’s Biggest Carbon Emitter Forest degradation in the Amazon increased by 400% in 2024 They have destroyed so much of Amazon that its now self combusting 3.3 million hectares of forest— were affected by fires last year. eos.org/articles/fir...

Some big polluters were allowed to estimate their emissions using methods the government knew were often unreliable. The EPA finally required air monitors—but the Trump administration is side-stepping that. insideclimatenews.org/news/0411202...

Canada new blitzkrieg against nature puts them on the same side as Trump ricochet.media/climate/doug...

Rare earth mining expands into Laos, threatening entire Mekong River At least 27 new rare earth mines have opened across Laos since 2022, mostly in protected areas news.mongabay.com/2025/10/rare...

With an alarming rise in the international trade of African hornbills, wild populations are plummeting. As key seed dispersers, their demise also threatens the survival of the forests they inhabit. USA is a major market for African hornbills news.mongabay.com/2025/10/with...

Trump MAGA and GOP are not invincible No amount of money in the world can save them when their shaky foundations begin to crumble

Clouds over Northeastern Pacific and Atlantic oceans, became nearly 3% less reflective per decade. The cooling effect from particulate pollution masked warming from greenhouse gases for decades. Accelerated warming was a potential consequence of improving air quality phys.org/news/2025-11...

SRM has been proposed as a potential way to reduce global temperatures by reflecting some sunlight back into space. These techniques could only mask, not fix, the effects of warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions phys.org/news/2025-11...

Southern Ocean releases substantially more carbon dioxide (CO2) during the dark austral winter than previously thought. In fact outgassing underestimated by 40%, study reveals Which means global carbon budget is even less than IPPC say it is phys.org/news/2025-11...

Too hot to handle: Burning wood for heat emits more CO₂ than coal Insane that climate summit will support billions for burning wood as a climate solution when it is worse than coal www.birdlife.org/news/2025/07...

This is a gimmick With increasing storms and fallen trees people will not tolerate trees beside homes Leave the forests alone As soon as these towns are built, they will want to build more as population keeps on rising www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is a gimmick With increasing storms and fallen trees people will not tolerate trees beside homes Leave the forests alone As soon as these towns are built, they will want to build more as population keeps on rising www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ireland's wealthiest households create significantly more carbon emissions than lower-earners, according to a new report from Oxfam Ireland. jrnl.ie/6859962

Only two years ago the European Court of Justice ruled that Ireland hadn't implemented the EU Habitats Directive while a number of other cases are outstanding. It's hilarious to think that there's anything 'gold plated' about our environmental regulations! www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

Bill Gates is deeply misguided on climate. My Newsweek commentary debunking his downplaying of the need for rapid decarbonization is nearly 5 years old, but it is evergreen: www.newsweek.com/right-path-f...

Hey @billgates.bsky.social: Thought you might want to read our new study:

“While the records from this ice are not continuous, the antiquity is remarkable, providing a “library of climate snapshots” roughly six times older than any previously reported ice core data.”

US scientists uncover oldest directly dated ice, preserved for 6 million years The ice holds tiny air bubbles that act as “time machines,” granting a look into the planet’s past climate interestingengineering.com/science/olde...

Bird flu is being painted as a problem wild birds are inflicting on the poultry industry, but it's precisely the reverse. Where do they think it developed in the first place, if not in the disease incubators that are mass battery farms? share.google/K4FBGkiuuUdc...

Really pleased to get a great plug for THE LIE OF THE LAND when on the @tonightvmtv.bsky.social Show earlier this week.

Swift populations in Britain slumped by 66% between 1995 and 2022 and have continued a rapid downward trend. They travel over 7,000 miles (11,000km) every year to get to UK only to find there is nowhere for them to nest and left to perish outside A mere £35 for developers would have saved them

A proposal to require rich developers to include at least one “swift brick” in every new home built in England to save swifts, house martins, sparrows, and starlings, all in rapid decline at a mere cost of £35 rejected by UK Labor Labor are evil naturalworldfund.com/labour-block...

Ration flying now True impact of your flying several times higher than commonly used CO₂ calculators suggest For example current calculations for first class from Singapore to Zurich on B777 plane, say it emits 5000 kg when in fact its 14,000 kg #climate www.newscientist.com/article/2502...

Fungi could replace silicon: Study shows mushrooms can store digital data Fungal electronics are an ideal, sustainable option for computing systems. interestingengineering.com/science/mush...

Imagining a Terminator movie scenario but all the androids are made of mushrooms.

1.5-million-year-old human ancestor hand bones reveal dexterity, gorilla-like strength The ancient cousins “had human-like dexterity with gorilla-like gripping strength.” They did not have time to make up or believe in fairy tales interestingengineering.com/science/mill...

At rick Ice Core Facility Lakewood, Colorado, holds more than 13 miles—of tubes of ice collected from Antarctica, Greenland, and other parts of North America, allowing researchers to research past climate, predict future climate Now Trump wants all funding cut www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Deniers will be happy they are always talking about EV waste Used EV batteries can be turned into fertilizers with US researchers’ new method The method could help transform the EV waste management. interestingengineering.com/science/used...

Fungi could replace silicon: Study shows mushrooms can store digital data Fungal electronics are an ideal, sustainable option for computing systems. interestingengineering.com/science/mush...

At rick Ice Core Facility Lakewood, Colorado, holds more than 13 miles—of tubes of ice collected from Antarctica, Greenland, and other parts of North America, allowing researchers to research past climate, predict future climate Now Trump wants all funding cut www.motherjones.com/politics/202...