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Next week the last coal-fired power station in the UK will close, bringing the 142-year era of coal to a close. Clear political signals, protests, surging renewable generation and more have all combined for this historic moment. See full story by me and Simon Evans ⬇️

How did the US invent solar power and dominate it for 60 years, before giving it up to China over the past decade? The answer is, IMO, quite different to the stories we have told ourselves in recent years. And it has important lessons for the future.🧵 bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

What made two young people throw soup on van Gogh's Sunflowers? Read the funny, weird, sad story of Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer. You can love or hate Just Stop Oil. But to dismiss them is just lazy. politico.eu/article/van-go…

Our DW عربية colleague Adonis Alkhaled was attacked following an interview with a Syrian musician on the sidelines of a concert in the western German city of Düsseldorf. dw.com/en/dw-condemns…

Aviation accounts for 3.5% of climate change impact, and it's one of the sectors where emissions are increasingly most rapidly. But where do aviation emissions come from? The answer is in this new paper led by Frédéric Dobruszkes - THREAD doi.org/10.1016/j.jtra…

A wind power crisis is holding back the world’s green energy goal. A decade ago solar and wind growth were neck and neck. Then solar soared far ahead while the wind industry stumbled. To reach climate goals, wind will need to start catching up bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Ember's first ever piece of scrollytelling: why coal is dirtier than you think (spoiler alert - it's a major source of methane, as well as carbon dioxide). ember-energy.org/latest-insight…

Floods affected 2 million people in southern Brazil. I visited the area months later to see how people were coping and what scientists were learning about the mental health burden of a climate disaster. The story was supported by Pulitzer Center nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

Day 6 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Raster. I made this animation showing the excessive rainfall from Storm Boris last month in Europe, using precipitation data from Nasa

🧵A lot of folks seem to misuse Jevons' Paradox. Some seem to suggest that the Paradox says that technological innovations will result in greater environmental damage. But that's not really what the Paradox said!

last summer i spent a week living in an old army barracks-turned-eco-bunker, deep in the east german forest. i was there for the Collapse Laboratory, a retreat that brought people together to think about how to prepare for the end of the world.

NEW: Fossil fuel nations to see value of their economies shrink under new UN-agreed measure Changes to how economies are measured will reflect the depletion of oil, gas and coal reserves, affecting big players like Saudi Arabia, Russia and Norway climatechangenews.com/2025/04/01/fos…

Introducing the "tree ring plot": a new way to visualize global surface temperatures. Each ring is a year, and each colored cell represents a day in global average temperatures (compared to a 1850-1900 preindustrial baseline).