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In 2024, Summer of Heat became one of the most sustained civil disobedience campaigns Wall Street has faced.

In 2025, we leveled up: urging Costco & cities to challenge dirty banks, backing bank unionization + pushing states to rein in insurers funding fossil fuels

Help fuel 2026: stmp.link/donate
December 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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To end the fossil fuel industry within a generation, we need a powerful movement to challenge Wall St.

That’s why Stop the Money Pipeline exists:
🌎 230+ organizations
⚡ A coalition nimble enough to meet the moment

But we can only win this fight with your support

Join us today: stmp.link/donate
December 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"The accelerated rates of mortality will have major implications for the integrity of ecosystems, levels of carbon storage, and suitability of ecosystems for many elements of biodiversity," Professor Lindenmayer said.
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
As the world warms, more trees are dying in Australian forests
From Tasmania to the Top End, Australia's forest trees are dying at higher rates due to climate change, according to new research.
www.abc.net.au
January 6, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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Trump’s tariffs destroyed over a million jobs in 2025 and pushed 700 companies into bankruptcy.

The only people winning? Trump and his rich friends.
We deserve leaders who put people over profits. #PutPeopleFirst
January 6, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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New year, old lessons that can make electricity cheap(er). Here are three resolutions that can help utilities and policymakers build a more affordable and reliable electricity system that supports America’s growing economy and communities: https://ow.ly/9LNS50XSrYb
January 6, 2026 at 6:05 PM
“The mismatch just grows every day, with every new project cancellation and every new data center,” said Jesse Lee, a senior adviser at Climate Power. ​“When you mismatch supply and demand that way, you get prices going through the roof.”
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
Is the US headed toward an electricity crisis of its own making?
Trump administration policies and AI needs are fueling a growing mismatch between energy supply and demand. That’s a huge problem, but there may be a way…
www.canarymedia.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:23 PM
In this report, we outline how climate change played an instrumental role in supercharging the main factors that underpinned the Californian catastrophe, and compare those conditions across Australia’s capital cities.
www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/wh...
When Cities Burn: Could the Los Angeles fires happen here? | Climate Council
The uncomfortable truth is that many of the factors that led to the LA disaster are already present in Australia — and getting worse.
www.climatecouncil.org.au
January 6, 2026 at 6:05 PM
For decades, María Corina Machado has shown support for markets, has long defended property rights, and talked of increasing foreign direct investment.
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Americas Quarterly
Politics, Business & Culture in the Americas.
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January 5, 2026 at 11:22 PM
The 9.1-megawatt Yeoman Solar Project, which went online last month, can provide energy for about 1,000 households, as well as the Waukegan school district, which owns the land.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
How community solar turned a Superfund site into savings in Illinois
A new 9.1-MW solar array will help residents of Waukegan, Illinois, reduce energy bills. State incentives for low-income solar made the project possible.
www.canarymedia.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:23 PM
🟡Nigeria implemented a radical overhaul of its tax system, ushering in measures President Bola Tinubu has called a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity to build a strong fiscal foundation in Africa’s most populous country.
www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...
🟡 Semafor Africa: ‘Grave concern’ | Semafor
In this edition: Nigeria’s new tax regime, Botswana courts Russia, and a Mozambican graphic novel.
www.semafor.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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Up to 250 days in the year Scotland’s renewables could have powered 100% of our electricity needs so TWICE the UK figure talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/01/03/u...
Up to 250 days in the year Scotland’s renewables could have powered 100% of our electricity needs so TWICE the UK figure
Image ChatGPT Professor John Robertson OBA From BBC Climate yesterday: Renewables can generate significant amounts of electricity when conditions are right. On roughly a third of days in 2025, at l…
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January 4, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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Biodiversity is vital for our survival — yet human activity continues to threaten it.

Discover how the #VanishingTreasures initiative is helping protect snow leopards, Bengal tigers, and mountain gorillas from #climatechange impacts, while supporting mountain communities.

vanishingtreasures.org
January 5, 2026 at 5:08 AM
After discovering the particles in testicles, kidneys, the liver, placenta, and even a baby’s first poop, scientists turned their attention to the brain. 🧠
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
What we learned about microplastics in 2025
The year has been full of scary details about the tiny particles. Here’s what we know now.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 4, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Compute Is the New Oil.

Nearly a decade ago, long before ChatGPT burst into the public’s consciousness, young, tech-savvy leaders in Abu Dhabi and Riyadh made a bet that AI could help Gulf economies diversify away from oil.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... via @ForeignAffairs
Compute Is the New Oil
America and the Gulf must work together on artificial intelligence.
www.foreignaffairs.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Russia’s Descent Into Tyranny

To visit Russia over the past four years has been to observe the consolidation of a dictatorship in real time—to answer the question readers confront in 1984.
www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/russi... via @ForeignAffairs
Russia’s Descent Into Tyranny
How four years of war have remade society.
www.foreignaffairs.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:58 PM
The New Arteries of Power www.foreignaffairs.com/new-arteries... via @ForeignAffairs
The New Arteries of Power
Subsea Cables Are This Century’s Hidden Battleground
www.foreignaffairs.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Coffee pods generate thousands of tonnes of waste in Australia. Here's what is being done about it.

Planet Ark aims to create a circular economy, ensuring products have minimal waste and somewhere to go at the "end of life".
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Millions of coffee pods go to landfill. Here's what is being done about it
Between 10 and 20 per cent of the 3 million coffee pods Australians consume daily are actually recycled. Here's what's being done to change that.
www.abc.net.au
January 2, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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Cutting methane is one of the fastest ways to slow warming.

UNEP’s Eye on Methane shows the data is here, but action isn’t.

Governments must turn measurement into real cuts: www.unep.org/resources/ey...

#CutMethane #YearInReview
January 2, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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The #Louisiana v. Callais case at the Supreme Court threatens to further gut the 1964 #VotingRightsAct and unravel minority representation.

This first story in our “Crossing the Line” series highlights how the case could bring a tsunami of gerrymandering: https://bit.ly/4q71s3w

#VotingRights
January 2, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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For the Center, 2025 was fast, furious, and successful — so much so that Trump and far-right members of the House of Representatives hit us with multiple “investigations” and attacks to intimidate us and slow us down.

It didn’t work.

There will be more hard-fought battles and victories in 2026.
December 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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December 13, 2024 at 7:50 PM
For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet poets.org/poem/calling...
For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet
Put down that bag of potato chips, that white bread, that bottle of pop.
poets.org
December 31, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Cheap solar is transforming lives and economies across Africa. Thanks to swiftly falling prices of Chinese made solar panels and batteries, they now draw their power from the sun.

Green Finance and Green Transition for Africa. CL🌎
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/c...
Setting Off for Antarctica
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:11 AM