Unless you’re studying for a high school science exam, lithium, nickel, copper, and cobalt probably won’t carry much meaning beyond being elements on the periodic table. But if there is…
Month: March 2026
How can we make the energy transition fair and sustainable?
The extraction of minerals needed for the clean energy transition is projected to expand globally in coming years, presenting multiple risks to ecosystems and Indigenous Peoples, necessitating strong global guidelines.…
Australia must not follow dystopian US-style data centre path of Big Tech overreach and emissions blow out
SYDNEY, Monday 23 March 2026 — Greenpeace Australia Pacific has labelled the Federal government’s new expectations for data centres and AI infrastructure released today as seriously inadequate, failing to address the…
Preeti Bhargava, Arintra
Preeti Bhargava is CTO of Arintra. She is the living embodiment of my crack that the smartest people in the world spent the 2010s convincing people to click on ads…
Trump’s latest attempt to derail EV-charger construction
This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The Trump administration has left no stone unturned and no fund…
Haldane Prize 2025 | Marion Boisseaux: Shifting trait coordination along a soil-moisture-nutrient gradient in tropical forests
2025 HALDANE PRIZE SHORTLIST: Marion Boisseaux, discusses her paper ‘Shifting trait coordination along a soil-moisture-nutrient gradient in tropical forests’, which has been shortlisted for Functional Ecology’s 2025 Haldane Prize for…
Haldane Prize 2025 | Jiangnan Li: Linking rock outcrop size and distance to soil multifunctionality in mountain ecosystems
2025 HALDANE PRIZE SHORTLIST: Haldane Prize 2025 | Jiangnan Li discusses the paper “Linking rock outcrop size and distance to soil multifunctionality in mountain ecosystems“, which has been shortlisted for…
Next-gen nuclear has a chicken-and-egg problem
Nuclear energy developers have historically operated by a simple principle: Go big. Reactors cost a lot of money to build, so the logic has been that it’s easier to recoup…
Where in the world is clean energy technology made?
See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the Week” column . Clean energy is on a tear. In China and India, it’s growing so fast it’s starting to unseat king…
“Bleeding our country dry and burning it at the same time”: Albanese Government greenlights 1,695 new Queensland gas wells until 2081
SYDNEY, 20 March 2026 — Greenpeace Australia Pacific has slammed the Federal Government’s decision to approve a massive gas expansion in Queensland, saying the decision prioritises corporate superprofits over our communities…