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On a beach strewn with plastic and fish waste on the eastern side of the Senegalese capital Dakar, a lorry is being loaded up with small fish that have just been brought ashore in colourful wooden canoes. For generations, the daily catch in Dakar has been sold directly on the beach to women traders who […]

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Blackstone, a U.S. private equity firm run by a Trump-donating billionaire, is building a gargantuan £10 billion AI-ready data centre in the UK with a fleet of backup diesel generators so big that it could produce enough electricity to power three million UK homes. The “hyperscaler” supercomputer campus in Blyth, Northumberland – a crown jewel of the […]

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“We need large-scale reindustrialisation and an end to the madness of net zero,” said East Wiltshire MP Danny Kruger, Reform UK’s latest defector from the Conservative Party, in The Telegraph on 21 September. In the piece, Kruger also called for “an industrial policy to deregulate enterprise and supply the essentials – affordable energy, most of […]

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As the U.S. braces for a surge in artificial intelligence (AI)–related electricity demand, the natural gas industry has a message for the public: Fossil fuels must power the future’s data centers, the computer-filled warehouses where AI models like ChatGPT primarily train and deploy.  A range of oil and gas industry groups and industry-friendly nonprofits are making the case that AI’s growing hunger for […]

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This story is based on investigative reporting first published by Agência Pública. In a recent Instagram reel, a Brazilian influencer known as “Mylly Biologando” grins at the camera after inspecting a test tube filled with something bubbling and green. It’s a microalgae that could “transform the future” as a source of less-polluting biodiesel fuel, explains Biologando, […]

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As the Trump administration seeks to wipe away environmental rules covering the oil, gas, and coal industries, fossil fuel producers and sellers are reassuring buyers that carbon capture and storage (CCS) could slash climate-altering emissions from a growing range of fossil-fuel projects — like blue hydrogen, LNG export terminals, and data centers. “That’s right: data […]

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New York-based communications company Omnicom’s acquisition of rival IPG will create a new global leader in fossil fuel advertising, overtaking London-based WPP for the first time, according to a new report. Under the $13.7 billion deal, announced in late 2024, the merged entity’s subsidiary agencies will hold a total of 120 fossil fuel contracts, the […]

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A conservative political activist recently appointed to be Meta’s new artificial intelligence anti-bias advisor is a well-known climate change denier, DeSmog has learned. Robby Starbuck — best known for opposing corporate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, particularly among brands popular with conservatives — has a track record of denying the science of climate change. These […]

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DeSmog has won two awards for its work exposing the role of the advertising and public relations industry in delaying climate action at the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. Investigative reporter TJ Jordan was named an Emerging Journalist of the Year for coverage including his story revealing how a British-owned PR firm hired social […]

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Members of the European Parliament flew 5,000 miles to Florida this summer to meet with the head of a U.S. climate denial group, DeSmog can reveal. Freedom Party of Austria’s Harald Vilimsky and Alternative for Germany (AfD) MEP Markus Buchheit, vocal critics of EU climate policy in their respective far-right parties, met with James Taylor, […]

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The U.S. meat industry has engaged in intrusive surveillance of animal rights groups, including monitoring relationships between activists and tracking employees of leading charities. The industry-funded Animal Agriculture Alliance (AAA) shared information with livestock companies about the romantic partners and even biological ties of those in animal rights organisations. Documents seen by DeSmog show that […]

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President Donald Trump’s UK ambassador holds investments in the companies set to develop flagship tech projects across the country. U.S. financial records show that Warren Stephens’ family-owned investment firm owns shares worth at least $800 million in tech companies, including $169 million in Microsoft, $118 million in Nvidia, and $114 million in Alphabet (Google’s parent […]

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