Lucas do Rio Verde in Mato Grosso, birthplace of Brazil’s first 100% corn ethanol plant, claims to be sustainable while its population suffers from pesticide contamination, high temperatures, food shortages, and extreme weather shifts exacerbated by climate change.
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Selling Seaweed: An Australian Green Startup’s Chemical Insurance Policy
Sea Forest embodied the promise of green capitalism: grow seaweed, solve climate, get rich. It appears the company was playing with a stacked deck.
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COP-tastrophe: How the COP of Implementation, Truth, Forests, and Indigenous Peoples Failed on All Counts
COP30 began full of promise but ended as yet another reminder that the mechanism for global climate governance is broken.
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Why Is Brazil’s Climate Fund Giving Hundreds of Millions to Big Ag?
Almost $500 million has flowed from the Climate Fund to corn ethanol projects from companies with environmental violations.
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In Attempt to Spam Climate Information Integrity Investigation, Australia’s Climate Skeptics Score an Own Goal
In attempting to thwart the investigation, anti-climate and anti-renewables groups revealed important information about themselves and why such an inquiry was necessary in the first place.
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The Crown Prince, The Climate, and Us
Karen Elliott House, author of ‘The Man Who Would Be King,’ discusses the power and the contradictions of Saudi Arabia under Mohammed bin Salman
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Gunshots, Burned Vans and Cozy Meetings with the Resource Minister: The Fight Against Coal in New Zealand
Coal had been on the decline in New Zealand. A new right-wing government is determined to bring it back.
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The Black Thread
A mini-series on Norway’s conflicted identity as both a progressive global leader and one of the world’s dominant oil states.
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75,000 Endangered and Exotic Animals, SLAPP Suits, and Zero Oversight
How oil and coal billionaires with close ties to the Modi government escape judicial and media scrutiny in India.
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Uganda’s Crude Oil Pipeline Faces Fresh Hurdles from Campaigners
After clearing its many financing hurdles, now EACOP is facing various legal claims that could slow its progress.