Greenpeace UK volunteers at the Kite Festival in Portsmouth © David Mirzoeff / Greenpeace Thanks to people like you standing up and backing this work over many years, the Global…
Day: January 29, 2026
Can I Ask Someone if They’re on Ozempic?
Weight loss now comes with a silent asterisk. When bodies change quickly or noticeably, assumptions often follow—and so does the desire to ask one potentially fraught question: Did medication play…
Tesla launches its own solar panel as its EV business falters
Tesla is rededicating itself to rooftop solar, a decade after it bought the then-leading company in that sector, SolarCity. The pioneering electric car maker has continued to sell rooftop solar…
After Trump’s clean-energy clawback, tribes ‘turn and face the storm’
Donica Brady has worked as a security guard, a school bus driver, and a fabricator of corrugated metal and bridge girders. But her favorite job has been helping to bring…
Is solar really overrunning farmland? Data in North Carolina says no.
Clean energy foes, from the Trump administration to state legislators to some community members, have long complained that large solar installations are threatening farmland and rural America’s pastoral way of…
Startup unveils heat battery it says can decarbonize almost any factory
Factories that make essential materials like steel and cement need scorching-hot air and steam to transform raw ingredients into finished products. Traditionally, they get that heat by burning fossil fuels.…
European nations are jointly plotting a massive offshore wind buildout
In the United States, the Trump administration is waging a relentless war on offshore wind, taking an all-of-government approach to thwarting construction of turbines at sea. On the other side…
Shifting Sands Part 3
By GEORGE BEAUREGARD Fifteen months ago, I wrote in The Health Care Blog about the “incoming tide” of early-onset cancer. At that time, the global rise in the incidence of early-onset cancer…