Questions raised over AI growth as ChatGPT maker forecasts this year’s revenue at $50bn, way below the $70bn signalled before OpenAI has revealed that it is making about $20bn less in projected revenue than it had recently indicated to investors, raising questions about the break-neck growth rate in demand for AI. The ChatGPT-maker company has told investors that its revenues for this year would reach $50bn (£37bn), a projection based on sales up to the end of September. Continue reading...

The company searching for private funding as IPO gets pulled just a day after it closed its books to investors. 

Plans involving Drax Group, local authorities and a university in North Yorkshire are no longer progressing, Land and Climate Review can reveal.

Collaborating with funders and mainstream media titles across Europe and the US, our current investigative projects focus on raw materials extraction, and the international forest biomass industry.

New UNFCCC Military Emissions Gap data paints a grim picture of obstructive under reporting from countries ramping up their military spending.

FOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear

Alasdair talks to Dr Rob Ralston about the impacts of plastic industry lobbying.

Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year Drax’s planned datacentre could produce nearly double the emissions of all flights out of Gatwick airport each year by burning 4.9m tonnes of wood annually, an analysis has shown. Campaigners say this would make it “one of the dirtiest datacentres out there”. Continue reading...

Brazil is fertile ground for authoritarian politics, no matter who wins this election.

Heidenau council has halted the laying of Stolpersteine installed to remember individual victims of the Nazis

A new tool called Carbon Impacts Tracer can be used to estimate climate impact from emissions across eight metrics, including lost food production

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

Claiming that AI will be a ‘great equalizer’ is yet another example of global powers distorting reality and disregarding African lives, says Alison Gillwald.

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Alasdair speaks to British journalist Alex Perry about his new book, 'Blood Will Flow: The Murderous Business of Oil and Gas'.

Returning guest Gökçe Günel joins Bertie to discuss her new book, “Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations”.

Bertie talks to political economist Ann Pettifor for a special episode recorded with a live audience in London.

Alasdair talks to Oliver Broad about research that found UK energy demand could be reduced by 52%.

Alasdair and Bertie listen to highlights from past interviews on plastic pollution.

With the UK experiencing the hottest and driest summer on record, we look at how the weather is affecting the pitches and courses across the country

Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified

First responders, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops

Europe’s forests are losing more biomass than previously thought, with disturbances such as drought and pests causing increasingly large losses from some of the oldest forests in Europe. This situatio...

A wildfire can be explained by today’s barbecue, yesterday’s wind direction, a dry spring, four decades of land use change, or a century of emissions.

The UK government subsidised TotalEnergies and billionaire Daniel Křetínský to run a woodburning power plant that repeatedly exceeds standard limits on harmful pollutants.

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Outdated rules protect fossil fuel interests, and the UK and Netherlands appear hypocritical on the world stage, says Tom Wills.

A company is suing the UK for up to £300m after a coal project was denied a mining licence - now the lawsuit is its primary asset.