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In 1944, German war planners apparently dismissed reports about the staggering scale of U.S. wartime production. The newly constructed Willow Run plant operated by the Ford Motor Company in Michigan eventually produced a B-24 bomber every hour, 24 hours a day. This mile-long factory consumed 16 million pounds of aluminum each month and employed 42,000 workers. The four-engine B-24 could carry four […]

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Jason Huang, the CEO of supercomputer chip-maker Nvidia, has for years claimed that his company’s artificial intelligence products, as some of the most advanced scientific tools in history, will help the world solve climate change, warning last year that “climate disasters are now normal.”   Yet Huang is now loudly cozying up to U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, even […]

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Have you registered for the Climate Consciousness Summit 2025? The Climate Consciousness Summit 2025 is a transformative seven-day online event that brings together leading voices in climate action, trauma-informed care, and regenerative solutions to explore new ways of responding to the climate crisis. Staged by the Pocket Project in partnership with DeSmog, and co-hosted by Matthew Green, […]

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In the city of Belém at the mouth of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil has kicked off the COP30 climate conference, a summit framed as a pivotal moment to reduce emissions and keep the Paris Agreement alive. More than 50,000 people are expected to attend, from heads of state to civil society groups. But as attention […]

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The sponsors of the sustainable agriculture pavilion at this year’s COP30 climate summit in Brazil will include the pesticides and seeds giant Bayer, which South American campaigners allege has promoted an industrial agricultural model that is driving “massive deforestation” on the continent. Bayer will pay at least R$1mn (£142,000) for “diamond” sponsorship of the “Agrizone” […]

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The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend after a critical review of the broadcaster’s coverage was leaked to The Telegraph. The Telegraph has used this opportunity to slam the BBC […]

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The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend after a critical review of the broadcaster’s coverage was leaked to The Telegraph. The Telegraph has used this opportunity to slam the BBC […]

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Trade associations representing some of the largest dairy companies in the world have coordinated efforts to weaken international standards for how corporations measure their carbon emissions.  Experts say these changes would lead to double-counting of the dairy sector’s emissions cuts, allowing the industry to sell carbon credits to polluting companies for reductions that they are also counting against internal targets. Consultation documents and position papers reviewed by […]

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Trade associations representing some of the largest dairy companies in the world have coordinated efforts to weaken international standards for how corporations measure their carbon emissions.  Experts say these changes would lead to double-counting of the dairy sector’s emissions cuts, allowing the industry to sell carbon credits to polluting companies for reductions that they are also counting against internal targets. Consultation documents and position papers reviewed by […]

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British national newspapers devoted more than triple the space to advertising polluting industries such as oil, airlines, and sports utility vehicles than they did to covering last year’s United Nations climate talks, according to a new study. Total high-carbon advertising — including for fossil fuel companies, cruises, and banks financing oil and gas – amounted to […]

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This story has been published in partnership with Intercept Brasil. Oil giant Shell tapped into Brazil’s love of the soap opera to sell more fossil fuels, hiring famous actors to appear in adverts designed to lure customers to its petrol stations by associating the company with clean energy. The “Caminhos do Amanhã” (“Paths of Tomorrow”) campaign originally featured Sophia Abrahão […]

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Lord David Frost has been announced as the new director-general of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), the influential anti-government lobby group. The IEA’s press release hailed the former Brexit negotiator and Conservative minister for his “clarity of thought, strategic leadership, and ability to deliver institutional change”. The statement did not mention Lord Frost’s role as […]

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