BELÉM, BRAZIL, Tuesday 18 November 2025 — In response to the COP30 ministerial level press conference on a ‘Mutirão Call for a Fossil Fuel Roadmap’ Dr Simon Bradshaw, COP31 Lead…
Day: November 18, 2025
How People Feel About Vaccines Is Now Largely Political
Not long ago, vaccines had largely bipartisan support. But they have become a divisive issue in the U.S., fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic and political policies that are increasingly questioning…
Struggling UnitedHealth Group is a Huge Smoking Black Box
By JEFF GOLDSMITH In mid-April 2025, UnitedHealth Group (UNH) reported its 1Q25 operating results, including a modest shortfall in expected earnings and lowered its 2025 earnings forecast by 12%. The…
This Small Amount of Plastic Is Enough to Kill a Sea Turtle
The ocean is awash with plastic—more than 171 trillion pieces, scientists have estimated, and growing all the time. Animals get tangled in plastics or swallow them, the chemicals released by…
We Aren’t Ready for the Next Pandemic. This Game Proves It
On a Friday morning in October, about 100 high school and college students gathered in a Utah ballroom to play a game. Some students were assigned specific roles and given…
Data-center power forecasts climb to unreachable heights
Surging power demand from new data centers is reaching unprecedented — and potentially unrealizable — heights. Over the next five years, U.S. utilities expect to see new electricity demand equal…
This Ohio county banned wind and solar. Now, residents are pushing back.
Restrictions on solar and wind farms are proliferating around the country, with scores of local governments going as far as to forbid large-scale clean-energy developments. Now, residents of an Ohio…
Deeply disappointing: WA EPA will not assess risky carbon dumping in Browse Basin
PERTH, Tuesday 18 November 2025 — Two of Australia’s leading environmental organisations have said it’s “deeply disappointing” that the WA Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) will not assess Woodside’s high-risk, high-cost…