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Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Climate Denier Bjørn Lomborg’s Think Tank

Rei Takver / DeSmog Nov 7, 2025 Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Economic Justice

Rising Energy Bills Are Rewiring American Politics

Tik Root / Grist Nov 6, 2025 Resounding wins at the polls for efficiency advocates and backlash against plans to kill the Energy Star program give Democrats an opening. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Environment

‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South

Geoff Dembicki / DeSmog Nov 4, 2025 With Brazil about to host COP30, evidence emerges of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

Environment

Scientists Have a Dire New Warning About the State of the Planet

Matt Simon / Grist Oct 30, 2025 Recent climatic developments "mark the beginning of a grim new chapter for life on Earth," but it's not too late for radical action. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

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Letter from Des Moines: Cary Fowler, the World Food Prize and the Ghost of Norman Borlaug

Alexander Zaitchik / Truthdig Oct 30, 2025 At an annual corporate food powwow, Biotech and the State Department hungrily eye “opportunity crops” in Africa. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

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Conservationists Endorse the Age of Synthetic Biology

Lital Khaikin / Truthdig Oct 28, 2025 Delegates at the World Conservation Congress debated the wisdom of releasing GMOs into the wild, but rejected calls for a moratorium. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Environment

Methane Emissions From Big Meat Exceed Those From Big Oil and Gas

Georgina Gustin / Inside Climate News Oct 28, 2025 Ahead of the next U.N. climate summit, advocacy groups are urging companies and governments to tackle emissions from livestock. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Environment

Trump Jeopardizes Plan to Reduce Global Shipping Emissions

Naveena Sadasivam / Grist Oct 24, 2025 After the Trump administration threatened countries with tariffs and visa restrictions, a first-ever global carbon tax is left to an uncertain future. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Health & Wellness

The Farm-to-School Model Is Under Threat

Stacie Stukin / Capital & Main Oct 23, 2025 Federal rollbacks are leaving farmers and schools struggling, but local investment is helping Tucson’s program endure. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Opinion

‘Newspeak’ Comes to the Department of Energy

Kurt Cobb / Resource Insights Oct 21, 2025 The latest internal guidelines from the DOE are straight out of Orwell's 1984. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Business & Economy

America’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Will Be Online in Six Months

Clare Fieseler / Canary Media Oct 20, 2025 Dominion Energy’s 2.6 gigawatt project off Virginia’s coast is progressing fast. The utility has a new, more definitive target to plug into the grid: March 2026. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Health & Wellness

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chemtrail?

Stephanie Armour / KFF Health News Oct 16, 2025 A fringe conspiracy theory warning of menace from above takes wing at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s HHS. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )