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L.A. Kicks Coal As It Fires Up The World's Largest Green Hydrogen Power Plant
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announces the end of the city getting electricity from coal. Los Angeles has officially stopped using electricity generated from coal and is about to fire up the first large-scale plant making power from both green…
Russia's Coal Industry Spirals Into Deepening Crisis
Russia's coal sector is experiencing a historic downturn as financial losses continue to mount in 2025. For the first eight months of the year, net losses among coal producers reached roughly 4 billion USD, a sharp increase from about 1.2 billion…
30 policemen injured in stone pelting by villagers protesting coal mining
MORE THAN 30 policemen suffered injuries after villagers, protesting against coal mining by South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL), pelted the security cover provided to the mining team with stones in Chhattisgarh's Surguja district Wednesday…
Climate Catastrophe Is Absent in West Virginia
West Virginia is one of the few states that broadly rejects much of the kabuki theater surrounding the climate catastrophe narrative. For the past several years, state legislators—including Democrats—have pushed back on calls to…
Inside the climate group working everywhere but DC: 'You can still have huge wins'
With a president who has called climate change a “ hoax ”, refused to send a delegation to international climate talks, and packed the federal government with former fossil fuel industry employees, this can feel like a dark moment for…
China's CO2 Emissions Might Have Finally Peaked
China has rapidly become the world leader in renewable energy, but continued coal use means it could take longer for its emissions to decline Join Our Community of Science Lovers! I agree my information will be processed in accordance with the…
Fossil fuel interests and petrostates dash hopes at COP30
It's been 37 years since climate scientist James Hansen warned the United States Senate that human activity was warming the planet, which would lead to unstable weather. Thirty years of international “ conference of the parties ”…
Montek Singh Ahluwalia & Utkarsh Patel write: A seven-point plan to scale up our climate ambition
First, we should set a higher target for reducing the emissions intensity of GDP. We will achieve the earlier target of reducing the emissions intensity of GDP in 2030 by 45 per cent compared to the 2005 level. The target for 2035 should aim to…
AI Data Centers Are Making RAM Crushingly Expensive, Which Is Going to Skyrocket the Cost of Laptops, Tablets, and Gaming PCs
Budget-wise, there have certainly been better times to be a PC gamer in search of higher framerates. For the past few months, RAM prices have been shooting through the roof, as the rapid buildout of AI datacenters causes an ever tightening shortage…
Key Economic And Business Announcements to Look Out for in India-Russia Summit Ahead of Putin's Visit
As New Delhi prepares to host Russian President Vladimir Putin for the annual India–Russia bilateral Summit, all eyes are on the economic and business outcomes likely to shape the next phase of the partnership. The visit comes at a time when…
Sara Cox breaks silence on 'exciting' new BBC hosting role
Sara Cox opened up about her 'exciting' new BBC venture during Thursday's Morning Live broadcast. The 50-year-old presenter joined forces with Greg Rutherford to front Thursday's show, where conversation turned to her latest project alongside her…
Australian-backed bid gathers pace to restart Tahmoor mine
A local consortium led by mining contractor RStar is rapidly preparing a bid to take over the mothballed Tahmoor mine. It follows a creditors' report revealing the financial mismanagement and a failed billion-dollar furnace project that contributed…
Is Earth really getting too hot for people to survive? A scientist explains extreme heat and the role of climate change
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send it to. My parents said…
Too many promises; too few future physical goods
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Today's financial system allows many promises of future goods and services. These include debts, pensions, and even prices of shares of stock. However, the quantity of actual physical goods and services…
We all pay the price for Amazon's AI push
Amazon has announced the layoff of 14,000 corporate employees ; it is anticipated that there will be another round of cuts in January. Most media coverage breathlessly echoes comments from Beth Galetti, senior vice president of people experience…
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