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Climate: The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
UNRIC summarises UNEP's Emissions Gap Report 2026, which finds overshooting 1.5°C is now inevitable, sets out the emissions cuts needed to stay below 2°C and return to 1.5°C by 2100, and lists the UN Secretary-General's levers for action.
3 min · 674 words
New open-source method shows the same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO₂ in Texas than in Sweden
Berget AI releases an open-source, MIT-licensed method for calculating the carbon emissions of each individual AI request, developed with Stockholm Environment Institute, WattTime and Klimatkollen, showing grid location can change per-request emissions by a factor of 8.5.
5 min · 1,168 words
The Land Within Us: How People Shape the Earth—and Are Shaped in Return
Gayil Nalls, founder of the World Sensorium / Conservancy, draws on the Amazon documentary Yanuni and new Nature research on the forest of knowledge to argue that biological and cultural diversity sustain each other, and that regenerating land also means regenerating Indigenous knowledge, attention and responsibility.
10 min · 2,196 words
Here’s What California Is Learning From Solar Panels Built Over Irrigation CanalsProject Nexus in Turlock tests canal-top solar for water savings, clean power, and water quality.
KQED’s report on California’s Project Nexus pilot: building solar arrays over working irrigation canals to generate power, cut evaporation, and study water-quality effects—early lessons from Turlock Irrigation District’s canal-top panels.
7 min · 1,680 words
The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind
For more than a century, commercial shipping steadily moved away from sails. Now they are coming back. Across the global fleet, shipowners are installing towering rotor sails, rigid wings and...
6 min · 1,285 words
What is the Karakoram Anomaly?
NSIDC's Michon Scott explains the Karakoram Anomaly, the unusual stability and modest gains of glaciers in the Karakoram Range while most mountain glaciers outside the polar regions lose ice, the weather-pattern explanations glaciologists favour, the challenges of studying the region and whether the anomaly can outlast continued warming.
8 min · 1,731 words