‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed

YouTube video by Prof Gio | Giordano Scarciotti

  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...

The energy addition framing has a point. But it draws the wrong conclusions.

Interactive global map showing areas threatened by sea level rise and coastal flooding.

The hidden costs of electricity, and the good news about counting them

A study the media largely ignored suggests that suicide rates may increase as the planet's temperature does.

Temperatures are on the rise in the capital, with experts warning that 72% of trees could be at risk because of global warming

After June’s hottest ever temperature was recorded, new analysis reveals tree planting performance diverging significantly across the UK's four nations

For the first time in the UK, more new electric vehicles (EVs) have been sold over a 12-month period than petrol cars, according to Carbon Brief analysis.

YouTube video by Project Drawdown

Efficiency has already saved Europe a third of its energy since 2000. Treating it as one system with electrification and clean power is how the rest gets done.

In September 2022, six months after Russia invaded Ukraine and with oil and gas prices around the world soaring, I wrote a piece entitled After Ukraine - the Great Clean Energy Acceleration, predictin...

The UK has avoided the need for gas imports worth £1.7bn since the start of the Iran war, as a result of record electricity generation from wind and solar

YouTube video by Hank Green

New research from the University of Cambridge has found that some birds species are making a triumphant return to the area around solar panels in England.

Generation from wind power in Great Britain reach record levels for the first quarter of 2026, with almost 30 Terrawatt-hours (TWh) produced.